Religious Satire

Because you know it's nonsense, but were never sure why.

The Complete Mercury Series By Robert Kroese When a wisecracking angel with a checkered past gets put on divine probation, Earth becomes his proving ground—and humanity his unwitting straight man. This complete collection brings together all five books in Robert Kroese’s riotously irreverent Mercury series, a satirical blend of theology, action, and cosmic bureaucracy. Follow Mercury, a fallen (but technically not that fallen) angel with a penchant for bending the rules, as he stumbles through apocalyptic prophecies, celestial politics, and really bad ideas involving flamethrowers. ...

In the Garden of Adam and Steve This irreverent comedy inspired by Paradise Lost asks a few delicious questions: What if Adam and Eve didn’t actually like each other? What if free will actually worked? What happens when the characters decide to follow their own path? It all begins with a bet. Lucifer, bored out of his skull, wagers God that free will is a cosmic joke and that anyone, given a real choice, will sabotage their own life within a week. God, in a moment of weakness, takes the wager. The script is drafted. Adam is paired with Eve. The serpent slithers into the spotlight. The ...

Sanity is a relative concept in a universe gone mad. Jaymes Shore’s latest anthology of science fiction, speculative fiction, horror, and satire features thirty-three tales set in our uncertain and rather unpleasant future. They are not for the squeamish or easily offended. Hostile business takeovers become a literal concept in our post-apocalyptic future as employees are drafted into military service for the price war. It’s time to die for your company or face termination. Revitalized seeded clone colonies spread humanity across the stars. A programming error transforms one of these ...

Welcome to Heaven, Inc., the grossly mismanaged corporation in the sky. For as long as anyone can remember, the founder and CEO (known in some circles as "God") has been phoning it in. Lately, he's been spending most of his time on the golf course. And when he does show up at work, it's not to...

Jesus Inc. – A Divine Comedy/Tragedy of Faith, Power, and the Business of Belief Behind the dazzling lights, powerful sermons, and awe-inspiring worship of Old Rugged Cross Church lies something far more complex—a system. One that lifts people up, but also lets them down. That inspires, but sometimes exploits. That seeks to serve, but struggles with its own soul. Jack thought he was answering the call to ministry. Instead, he stepped into the inner workings of a multimillion-dollar megachurch—where faith meets franchise, leadership is performance art, and success is measured in ...

Upon the end of days, Lucifer, the Fallen One, that Infernal of Infernals and Murderer of Hope, wonders if his Father will bother to raise another race after Armageddon. After all, he'll only have to tempt them - again - to certain death. Their choice, not his. On God's behalf, Archangel Michael responds. So begins a series of letters between two brothers, at once cordial and combative, about their purpose, their fears, their familial estrangement, and their Father's great folly: the human race. 

Care to sell your soul? Imagine all that money! Fear not 'tis but a metaphor. Simply look inside this book and see for yourself! it's a sort of "how to manual" with many insiders definitions... And the salesman is handsome, vaguely foreign, & possessed of obvious...Intelligence. He has an air of sophistication for he is "a man of wealth and taste". A witty look at the strange world of inter-dimensional diplomatic missions , . . The Devil's Diplomatic Dictionary brings a light-hearted laugh to the world of diplomacy, providing funny definitions of the most common terms and phrases of ...

Everything is all Doug’s fault. The Horn of Destiny is missing from the Seraphim Symphonic practice room and the Apocalypse is set to begin prematurely. He always was a clumsy GA-1 (Guardian Angel First Degree). No wonder he never got promoted. Now the fate of the world rests in the hands of his human client, a mentally unstable trumpet player named Steve who takes all his advice from his pet cat Smokey. Oh, and someone on earth had the bright idea to run the dreaded Horn of Destiny through a 3-D printer and sell copies on eBay. God help us all!

What if God was just a man with enough money? Earth, 2785. The planet is a curated paradise ruled by five corporate houses, while billions scrape out short, brutal lives on Mars. Abraham Goldstein — 250 years old, the richest man alive, and dying — has exhausted everything medicine can sell him. Then his secret quantum project breaches the Divine Dimension, and what he finds there changes everything: God is dead. And he left blueprints. Armed with mind-control technology reverse-engineered from a dead deity, Abraham builds Eden: an artificial world of abducted Martian refugees who ...

🔥 Welcome to Hell: Handbook for the Damned 🔥 A crude survival guide for your eternal stay in the underworld. Congratulations, sinner. You’re dead—and you didn’t make the cut upstairs. Now you’re stuck in Hell for all eternity. Don’t panic (yet). This handbook, written by one of Satan’s most overworked and underpaid demons, is your only shot at making sense of eternal damnation. Inside, you’ll find: Practical tips for surviving the flames, the screams, and the bureaucracy. A brutally honest FAQ for the newly damned (spoiler: yes, the toilets are on fire). A behind-the-...

*This Special Edition contains two previously unpublished stories* A little faith may help some people through the long dark night, and into the light. Sometimes, faith leads people into the darkest places imaginable (depending on how dark your imagination is). Any sinister action can be justified in the name of God. It doesn’t matter if your God is real, imaginary, or something in-between. Prepare to be offended by sixteen tales of belief gone amiss. These are failings in both God and Country. In all cases, blind faith has led to tragic results or at least the unpleasant ones. Many of ...

Known to historians as "the First American," Benjamin Franklin is without a doubt the most accessible of America's founding fathers. His writings have inspired millions of Americans, and even now, more than 200 years after his death, his wit and humor still brighten lives all across the world. But what was this great man's view on faith? Was he really a Deist as so many historians have proposed? Was he a humanist like so many of his French friends? Is there any possibility that he could have been a Christian? In this unique volume, Bill Fortenberry has collected everything that Franklin ...

~ Sometimes all it takes is the right person in our…AfterLife. ~ In this romance with comedy, a man purchases an abandoned farmhouse in a tax sale unaware it’s haunted by the woman…ahhhhh…ghost that will become the love of his life and he the love of her AfterLife and together bring the man who murdered her to justice as only a Trans Spectral, TSP, couple can.

Jack Holland never meant to become a priest. An Irish teenager with no religion and even less restraint, he sought refuge in a seminary to dodge family pressure—just until he figured things out. But procrastination has a way of rewriting destinies. Years later, Jack finds himself in California, wearing the collar and preaching to the faithful, all while wrestling with shattered vows, unexpected success, and a God who seems more wrathful than forgiving. His journey is equal parts absurd and profound—a spiritual misadventure laced with dark humor, biting satire, and the ache of a man ...

In a short rom-com, the Devil finds Hell’s in jeopardy when unknown to him a man with a good heart sells his soul to him in exchange for lottery tickets, so he can go to Hell and do good deeds.

**The universe might end again — and Mercury is missing.** After narrowly saving existence once before, Mercury—the wisecracking, ping-pong-obsessed angel—has vanished. That’s a problem, because Lucifer is back—and this time, he’s aiming not just for Earth but for Heaven itself. With the apocalypse ticking closer, humanity’s last hope falls to two unlikely heroes who’d rather be anywhere else: Christine Temetri, a jaded religion reporter tired of false alarms, and Jacob Slater, a forensic analyst who’s suddenly got a very good reason to panic. Together, they must track ...

This is the almost-forgotten story of Victorian Britain's strangest religious sect and its wealthy, mostly female, followers who believed they could ascend directly to heaven. Henry James Prince was a rogue Anglican Priest with a flare for the dramatic, and the founder of the Agapemone, or...

In this riotous, globetrotting sequel to The Story of God, the universe’s premier antihero, God, returns, as lonely, misguided, angry, and troubled as ever. Regretting many of the decisions he made in his debut book, and wrestling with his continued ambivalence to both his son(s) Jesus and his frenemy Satan, God decides to set things right with creation - again. But this time, he asks, why stick around the dusty Land of Israel or a decaying heaven when there’s a much bigger world to explore - and countless others out there just waiting to love and praise him?

A disgraced ghostwriter hides in a roadside motel and finds a Bible that writes back the truth. Ethan Turner made his living turning famous sinners into bestselling redemption stories. Actors, pastors, chefs, recovery icons, men with lawyers and publicists and beautiful explanations for the damage they left behind. Ethan knew what to cut: names, dates, receipts, witnesses, women who made the narrative inconvenient. Then his career collapses, and he runs to the Mercy Motor Lodge off I-40. Room 14 has stained carpet, bad lighting, a dead pool outside, and a blank motel Bible in the nightstand...