Martin van Miële was a renowned French illustrator of bizarre erotic drawings, often with religious (or should be sacrilegious themes). He did a lot of illustrations for the noted British erotica publisher Charles Carrington, but found more widely acclaimed fame as the illustrator of H.G. Wells's First Men On The Moon in 1901 (Les Premiers Hommes dans la Lune), which was turned in to the early silent-era classic movie by Georges Méliès, Le Voyage Dans La Lune in 1902. Miële also illustrated for the French translation versions of the Sherlock Holmes series, but it's his strange satirical erotic illustrations that he has become most well known for.

Pastor Pete Peters was an evangelical Bible-thumping right-wing racist, who described himself as a "has-been cowboy wannabe preacher".  He became the pastor of LaPorte Church of Christ in LaPorte, Colorado and established the Scriptures for America, which was an outreach ministry that operated through short-wave radio, and mail order. Pastor Pete wrote a number of books and pamphlets. Through which he promoted his wacko white supremacist Christian Identity theology.

One of the most well known pieces of perverted propaganda that Pastor Pete produced was the short 12 page pamphlet, entitled The Bible: Handbook For Survivalists, Racists (used in his twisted mind as a positive term), Tax Protestors, Militants And Right-Wing Extremists. He claims in the pamphlet that of those aforementioned people, who he saw as being much maligned by the establishment, were actually supported and condoned by his reading of The Bible.

He writes in the pamphlet, "This writing is to present the truth of God's word and to expose a false and evil humanistic, Judeo-Christian, dangerous theology which attempts to malign and destroy Godly Survivalists, Racists, Tax Protestors, Militants And Right-Wing Extremists." Yup, old Pastor Pete was as crazy a Christian as they come. He proclaimed that Europeans comprise the twelve lost tribes of Israel and that contemporary Jews are satanic impostors. And he'd often tell listeners on his radio shows that, "the Bible says it's okay to kill homosexuals." Luckily Pastor Pete died and went to Hell in 2011.

Back in 1980s and 90s, there was a rise in paranoia from the right-wing Christian fundamentalists, that kids TV shows were the work of Satan. That characters like the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, He-Man and the Care Bears were brainwashing kids to fall under Satan's command. 

And one the top crazies peddling this utter nonsense was an author called Phil Philips. Who claimed after he "studied over a thousand hours of cartoons", that they were full of occult messages and satanic practices. His book Saturday Morning Mind Control, published in 1991, was just one of fanatic Phil's works of raving religious lunacy. He had previously published Turmoil In The Toybox in 1986, which argued that the Smurfs, He-Man, Care Bears, My Little Pony, Cabbage Patch Kids, Mighty Mouse and Rainbow Bright are all the devil’s toys concocted in the deepest layers of hell to lead our children to doom. (Actually he may have a had point with Cabbage Patch Dolls.)

He followed that up with Halloween And Satanism (1987), then Saturday Morning Mind Control (1991), and finally Dinosaurs: The Bible, Barney, and Beyond (1994). An indictment of the evil nature of the big purple singing and dancing demonic dinosaur. 

Turmoil In The Toybox attempts to claim that toy makers purposely use pagan symbolism in toy design. My Little Pony unicorn? Pagan! He-Man? Totally pagan, no question! Yoda and Darth Vader? Big bad pagans! Barbie? A godless pagan worshipping slut! Now rational people can laugh and poke fun at Phil's crazy Christian ravings, but there must be plenty of brainwashed fundamentalists out there who fell for his idiocy. Chucked out all the plastic, turned off the TV and shoved a copy of the Bible in little Johnny's hand. As later copies of Turmoil claimed it had sold over 135,000 copies. 

A board game for those Roman Catholics to good old days of the church, when it was much more strict, filled with rules and utterly out of touch with the modern world. Is The Pop Catholic!?! Sub-titled the Catholic Nostalgia Game, was the brainchild of two brothers from Boston, who wanted to make a tongue-in-cheek take on the church before the Vatican II.

The introduction to the game reads, "This game is dedicated to the "survivors" of the Catholic Church and the Catholic educational system which existed prior to and shortly after Vatican II. This game offers practicing Catholics, "fallen away Catholics," and those Catholics somwehere in between, the opportunity to re-experience those "golden years" of pagan babies, May Crowining processions, sin, Saturday afternoon confessions, meatless Fridays, sin, Baltimore Catechisms, ruler-battered knuckles, and sin... all of which led us to become "soldiers of Christ and heirs of heaven." Although the stated goal of this game is to become the "Pope," the underlying purpose is to look back, resurrect a memory or two, and perhaps find some humor and healing for that period in our lives." The brothers spent four years and $50,000 developing the game with the priests from Indiana advising them. Despite enlisting church help, as the brothers, "wanted to come across as basically respectful of the church", the game caused controversy among conservative church members, on its release.

If you scanned the shelves of most video game stores, you wouldn't think that video gaming and Christianity were two things that go together. Most games are filled with all manner of unholy horrors, with their themes of death and destruction, just look at the Sodom and Gomorrah that is the Grand Theft Auto series of games for example.

However there have been a few small game makers that have dipped into scripture and released righteous video games for kids. One such example is Captain Bible in Dome Of Darkness, produced by Bridgestone Multimedia Group in 1994, for PC platforms.

Just what ever child wants, to play a superhero that defeats evil right? Whether driven by the "good book" or not, kids will still want to play it right? Wrong! As Captain Bible is simply dumb, and that's got nothing to do with its theme. Really it says it all at the top of the box, "Educational Adventure", two words that should never grace the from of a video game box. As it's the kiss of death for any piece of software.

The Jesus action figure has been around a while. I've had a wind-up Jesus for years. But however out there, there are a few zombie Jesus action figures. Spawned for the hellfire of factory manufacturing mistake, back in 2007. The makers of the Jesus action figure wanted to produce a "Miracle Edition" of the toy, replete with loves, fishes and jugs of water to wine. And importantly, glow-in-the-dark "miracle" hands.

Unfortunately due to an error in production, what arrived from the factory were figures with creepy translucent glow-in-the-dark hands and freaky red demonic eyes. How many of these were actually made, and got out to customers, is unknown.

Though if you can't get yourself one of the rare factory mistake "zombie" Jesus action figures, there is always the Fist Of Jesus action figure, that comes in both glow-in-the dark and special edition blood-splattered versions.

Crazy Christian Comic: There's A New World Coming - Published in 1974, the infamous comic book from the Christian publishers Spire Comics. Beware The Great Snatch is coming!

Begotten: Once Seen Never Forgotten - Often described as one of the most disturbing films ever made, Begotten is an utterly stunning piece of film-making. A must see for any cult film fan.

Captain Bible in Dome of Darkness - Fighting evil robots with passages from scripture. Just what every kids wants in their gaming experience. It ain't no Grand Theft Auto, that's for sure.