2006 was a long, strange year, which yielded a bumper crop of important, ground-breaking minority religion stories. We're going to ignore all of those for now, and go straight for the sensational stuff. On the whole, a lot of very weird stuff happened this year...here are the fifty weirdest.*
I'll go right to the best of the lot, the freaks and zealots who made last year so much more interesting, like the recent
would-be self-immolator, remarkable for a number of reasons. First, as the first bonafide casualty of the "war on Christmas"- this unnamed man set himself on fire over the use of religious names for holiday breaks at a Bakersfield High School. The real irony is, he was protesting a change from secular names to religious ones ('winter' and 'spring' to 'Christmas' and 'Easter.')
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