THE ONION isn’t the only webzine that refuses to take the news seriously. A

reader has just introduced me to the Canadian site Iconoclast, which carries stories like

this one:

ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY DENOUNCES GIBSON FILM AS PRO-CHRISTIAN
(London)-In his homily yesterday during a memorial service for Palestinian
suicide bombers, the Right Reverend Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of
Canterbury, denounced Mel Gibson’s film “The Passion of the Christ” as being
“overtly pro-Christian.”
“This film is going to have a devastating effect on Anglicanism worldwide,”
said Reverend Williams. “Impressionable persons may be unduly influenced and
actually begin attending church. And it would be a great tragedy if the
Church had to divert its precious resources away from protesting against
capitalism and democracy and use them instead for religious purposes”….