Truth Better Than Satire: eU2charist

WARNING: Some serious NON-Satire to follow:

eU2charist
A U2Charist (also spelled eU2charist) is a communion service, or Eucharist, accompanied by U2 songs in lieu of traditional hymns and sometimes as part or all of the service music. The music can be played from a CD or, in less common cases, performed by a live band. See also: Wikipedia

Romanian Convict Sues God For Breaking Baptismal Contract
A Romanian convict doing time for murder tried to sue God for breaking the contract they allegedly concluded at his baptism and not doing enough to protect him from Satan. The public prosecutor turned down the case -- because God does not have a home address.

Bookmark these for later if you have anything else to do today:

Nobody Goes to Hell: Minister Labeled a Heretic

Beer Glass Jesus to Lead Christmas Campaign

Our Lady of the Underpass

The Alligator's Skin that Spells God

Religion off the Agenda in "church of laughter"

*** SATIRE ACTUALLY BEGINS HERE ***

Since you've gotten this far in the post, you no doubt are wondering what is going on. Well, last week I successfully installed the Satire Sniffer. I was relieved when I realized I could now laugh at so many things that once appalled me when I thought them true. The Satire Sniffer attempts to continuously indicate whether the current webpage is satire or truth as I cruise the web. It does a fine job. I did, however, encounter a few glitches.

Before I go any further, I must say that the Satire Sniffer has properly indicated "truth" 100% of the time when I am reading actual truth. I fully recommend the Satire Sniffer for elimination of all Type I errors, where the null hypothesis is: Current Website = Truth. Satire Sniffer never returns a false positive. In other words, in every incidence that Satire Sniffer recognizes a website as "truth," the website is actually truth.

I have, however, discovered Type II errors. In such cases, the Satire Sniffer returns a false negative. Those stories were given above at the beginning of this post. Each of the true stories above is an instance where Satire Sniffer indicated "satire," while upon further investigation, the stories were found to be true.

What I think is fun... is to read the articles as if they are TBNN satire web pages. As I read them, I'm thinking, "Those guys are jeanuses!" Then I realize, "Wait a second, this is for real!"

*** SATIRE ENDS HERE***

I know this may be confusing, but again... the above stories are really true stories (unless I need Satire Sniffer 2.0). Thanks to my friend Doug (a faithful reader of TBNN) for sending these to me.