Month: January 2023
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UK Islamic group accuses Church of England of a ‘witchhunt’ against banned priest Dr Stephen Sizer
The action against Sizer, a conservative evangelical, received the full support of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, but has been slammed by the Islamic Human Rights Commission (IHRC), which accused the C of E of a “witchhunt.” According to the BBC in December Sizer—vicar of Christ Church, Virginia Water, Surrey, for 20 years, until…
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If Florida Gov. DeSantis runs for President Catholic racists, anti-semites and homophobes will rally behind behind him
Image via YouTube RON DeSantis has so far refused to say whether he will run for President, but if he does he might well find a strong following among right-wing, Jew-hating Catholics, as well as white Protestant nationalists. Writing for The New Republic at the weekend, Audrey Clare Farley pointed out that DeSantis “quite masterfully…
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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…
Barry Duke, the Angry Atheist 