Month: January 2023
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Praise for Pell overshadowed by revelations that he considered Pope Francis ‘a catastrophe’
Images via YouTube MEDIA outlets across the globe are today reporting that a secret memo castigating Pope Francis and written under the pseudonym “Demos” was in fact penned by George Pell, who died suddenly aged 81 this week. Reports under heading such as ‘Pell wrote secret memo calling Francis’ papacy ‘catastrophe’, journalist says, have effectively…
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Cardinal George Pell is dead. Jubilation expressed on social media.
Images via YouTube and Twitter Reacting to the news that Pell had snuffed it today following a routine hip operation, Sky News host Andrew Bolt expressed his horror over the “vile celebrations” of Pell’s death, saying that the cardinal was an innocent man who was the victim of “one of the most grotesque miscarriages of…
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Acclaimed novel prompted Florida teacher to start a campaign against ‘objectionable’ school books
Screenshot of Vicki Baggett via Facebook/Studio 850 When meddling Vicki Baggett, an English teacher at Northview High School in Florida, began whining about the acclaimed The Perks of Being a Wallflower, little did she realise there would be a blowback that includes allegations that she’s a racist who opposes interracial marriage for biblical reasons. Last…
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Trump and his crazy Christian cohorts wanted a more godly nation. Their plan crashed and burned.
Photo by Jon Tyson via Unsplash A recent study conducted by American author Brandon Flanery shows that churches in the US are facing a crisis of abandonment. Rampant homophobia and Donald Trump hastened the trend. Flanery, who is due to publish a “sassy” memoir, Stumbling, later this year, parted company with evangelicals and learned to…
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Mad Marjorie Taylor Green is flogging ‘Proud Christian Nationalist’ T-Shirts
JUST how crazy is Marjorie Taylor Greene, the far-right Christian Trumpista and Republican Congresswoman? A trawl through her social media posts and reports of her antics certainly indicate that she’s long-overdue confinement in a padded cell. Last month, for example, she bragged that if she and the former Trump White House strategist Steve Bannon—jailed for…
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Kinky Jesuit priest and renowned artist alleged to have had ‘threesomes’ with nuns
A mosaic designed by Fr Marko Rupnik, inset, depicts Christ’s descent into hell and resurrection. Credit: Giovanna60/wikimedia. CC BY SA 3.0 THERE’S a great deal to dislike about the far-right LifeSite News: its homophobia, transphobia and its shameless peddling of conspiracy theories, to name just a few. But, despite its constant railing against pornography, it…
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Minnesota university art history instructor sacked over a 14th century painting of the ‘prophet’ Mohammed
Image courtesy of Edinburgh University Library, Scotland (Wikipedia CC ***This piece has been updated to include the name of the instructor*** A depiction of Mohammed receiving his first revelation from the angel Gabriel has led to the sacking of the Hamline University instructor after a student, who is also president of the Muslim Student Association,…
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Was Ratzinger hit on the head with an ornate hammer to make sure he was dead and not just asleep?
The Vatican today planted emeritus Pope Benedict XVI in three coffins because he was dead. We know he was beyond feeling pain because he didn’t cry “ouch” when he was hit on the head three times with a fancy ceremonial hammer. But do we? Catholism is so full of grisly ceremonies and bloody imagery that…
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Please make your views known regarding assisted suicide
Christian Concern, a UK based hate-group notorious for pumping out anti-gay, anti-trans propaganda, now has bodily autonomy in its sights. It vehemently opposes assisted suicide, and is urging its brainless supporters to tell the government that Human life is sacred and should be allowed to end naturally, not artificially ended. Image via YouTube Headed by…
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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…
Barry Duke, the Angry Atheist 