Posts Tagged ‘Worship’


We hit 100,000 views last week, and we’re using that as an excuse to list the best posts we’ve published, divided by category. Part 1 covered Addictions, Anarchism, Atheism, Baseball, and Capitalism; Part 2 covered Civil Liberties, Economics, Gardening, Interviews, and Journalism; and Part 3 covered jokes. Since there are well over 500 posts in the Humor category (out of 1,500 total), we’ll be doing at least one or two more best-of Humor lists. Here are the best 70 or so posts mocking religion:

Religious Humor/Mockery


WORSHIP, n. 1) In the United States, a term incomplete unless preceded by the word “military”; 2) The attitude of a dog to a man, a man to a god, and the media to the military.

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(with apologies to Ambrose Bierce and his definition of Reverence: “The spiritual attitude of a man to a god and a dog to a man”)

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–from the revised and expanded edition of The American Heretic’s Dictionary, the 21st-century successor to Bierce’s Devil’s Dictionary

American Heretic's Dictionary revised and expanded by Chaz Bufe, front cover


WORSHIP, n. … A popular form of abjection having an element of pride.

–Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary