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‘Good times and bum times, I’ve seen’ em all. And, my dear, I’m still here’
Several notable performers have sung I‘m Still Here but to my mind none have vocalised it better than the late, great entertainer and human rights campaigner Eartha Kitt. Eartha Kitt at 75. She died in 2008 aged 81. Image via YouTube. It was her version, and other songs of defiance such as Elton John’s I’m […]
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Brace yourselves for another execrable ‘Left behind’ movie
FEW movies are so abysmal that they score 0% on Rotten Tomatoes, but that’s what happened when Left Behind, featuring Nicholas Cage hit cinema screens in 2014. Despite being universally panned by critics—with the exception of those who lavished praise on it in Christian publications—it did manage to gross $27-million against its $16 million production […]
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Christian cake creator loses Colorado Court of Appeals case
Image via YouTube JACK PHILLIPS, above, gained international notoriety more than a decade ago when he refused to make a wedding cake for a gay couple. What followed was a series of court hearings that went all the way up to the US Supreme court where the devout owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop in suburban Denver […]
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Catholic school careers counselor sacked over Wiccans’ crystal gifts to pupils
Image by EPro via Pexels AFTER complaints were lodged by some pupils at North Catholic High School in the Diocese of Pittsburgh, administrators decided that crystals did not fit in with approved Catholic tchotchkes. So they decided to ask the counselor, who has asked not to be been identified, to resign. The ridiculous saga began […]
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Maltese poster boy for ‘ex-gay’ outfits faces trial
Image via YouTube MATTHEW Grech, above, who found Jesus and claims he’s now ‘ex-gay’, is accused of violating Malta’s conversion therapy ban. Image via YouTube What happens in Malta should be of no concern to the Christian Legal Centre, headed by the deranged Andrea Minichiello Williams, above. However the CLC has announced that it is […]
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Fiery response to Danish fascist’s Quran burning stunt
Photo by Tobias Hellsten/ToHell via Wikimedia CC. LET me make it crystal clear at the outset: I disapprove of the destruction of books—any books—especially when such provocative acts are committed by the likes of Rasmus Paludan, above, the extremist leader of the far-right Danish political party Stram Kurs. Paludan’s latest stunt—the burning outside the Turkish […]
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After 15 die in South African river baptism, blame is shifted to climate change
Stock baptism image via Pexels. IN a piece that appears to partially deflect blame for the tragedy that occurred last month, Christianity Daily yesterday carried a report that suggested that South Africans as a whole have not come to terms with climate change. The Christian news outlet quoted Retief Müller, a South African theologian and […]
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Death threats against ‘pro-life’ Kansas lawmaker Jake LaTurner ‘came directly from God’
Jake LaTurner and Chase Neill (inset). Images via YouTube and Shawnee County Kansas jail. THERE’S a lot to dislike about LaTurner. The Republican regularly trumpets his Catholic faith and rejoiced when Roe v Wade was overturned. That, of course, does not justify him getting death threats—something that happened last June when he received threatening voicemails […]
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UK human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell says Christianity is not about discrimination. He’s profoundly wrong.
Image via YouTube I LIKE Peter Tatchell … a lot! He and I have met up on a number of occasions at various LGBT+ rights rallies in London over half-a-century, and I was dead chuffed when he came to congratulate me on winning a lifetime achievement award in 2017 at a ceremony organised by the […]
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Trump’s got the hump with evangelical leaders; accuses them of ‘disloyalty’.
Image via YouTube RATED one of the worst Presidents in US history, Trump luxuriated in all the prayers and adoration showered on him by some of America’s looniest evangelical leaders, who regularly strode into the White House during his term as if they owned the damn place. But now his relationship with these god-besotted morons […]
I do not take pleasure in destroying books; however, I make an exception for the ‘holy’ tomes, such as the…