Month: February 2023
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Probe into child sexual abuse by Jehovah’s Witnesses leads to indictments against five
The suspects ‘used their faith communities or their own families to gain access to victims,’ Pennsylvania’s acting Attorney General, Michelle Henry, above, announced. FOR several years the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s office has been investigating whether the Jehovah’s Witnesses repeatedly failed to report child sexual abuse allegations to authorities. On Monday Henry announced at a press…
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Florida’s crackpot Christian Governor targets venue that staged a Xmas drag show
Ron DeSantis, inset above, is accused of furthering his ‘cultural war agenda’ by threatening to revoke the liquor licence of The Orlando Philharmonic Plaza Foundation which staged ‘A Drag Queen Christmas‘ last year. DESANTIS, whose far-right Christian agenda began in earnest with his “Don’t Say Gay” bill in 2022, has used his office to target…
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Amid Jewish protests over Israel’s far-right government, a US rabbi uses ‘F’ word to describe the coalition
Last week Labour MP Kim Johnson offered an apology for calling the new coalition, led by Benjamin Netanyahu, above, ‘fascist’. It’s now reported that a New York rabbi used the same word in reference to a cabinet that he claimed was made up of ‘Jewish supremacists, fascists and racists’. RABBI Jeremy Kalmanofsky, of New York’s…
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Petition to remove bishops from the House of Lords launched by UK writer, comedian and broadcaster Sandi Toksvig
The move comes as MPs consider bringing the Church of England into line with the law of the land with regard to same-sex marriage. IN her petition the popular British-Danish personality insists that “whatever goes on inside religious organisations, the Church should not be allowed to hold sway in the Houses of Parliament. “ It…
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Boy, 11, shared a bed with a convicted child molester at a creationist theme park
A VISITOR to evangelist Kent Hovind’s Dinosaur Adventure Land (DAL) in Alabama brought a young Black kid to the tacky attraction and ended up sleeping with the boy in a bed provided by the man known as “Dr Dino.“ In a lengthy report about criminal activities and other dodgy goings-on at the “Darwin-free” DAL, Kelly…
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Reviving G W Foote’s legacy helped me shed a burden of despair
Reflections on the first month of The Angry Atheist Latest comments FEBRUARY 1 marked my 76th birthday. Unlike my miserable 75th, which came a fortnight before I was sacked from my post of Freethinker editor, it was a day to celebrate the positive new turn my life had taken. After spending almost a year in…
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Women should have no say in how many kids they have. That choice lies with their husbands.
Image via YouTube Recent comments HATE preacher Jonathan Shelley, above, of the Stedfast Baptist Church in Watauga, Texas, briefly turned his attention away from attacking LGBT+ people to excoriate “effeminate” men who allow women bodily autonomy. In a video that has so far been viewed more than 70,000 times, the sexist imbecile said: How effeminate…
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Why is worship in schools still mandatory when religious belief among the young in the UK is plummeting?
Images via Pexels LUDICROUS as it may seem, each pupil attending a community, foundation or voluntary school in England is required to take part in an act of collective worship each school day. This, despite the fact that more than 50 percent of young people—the baby boomers, the millennials and generation Z—are all turning away…
Barry Duke, the Angry Atheist 