Month: April 2023
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King Charles’ s coronation ‘is first and foremost an act of Christian worship’ says Archbishop of Canterbury
WHEN Charles is crowned king on May 6 at a service at Westminster Abbey, the entire country will be asked to swear a religious oath of allegiance to the monarch. Those watching the crowning have been asked to say: I swear that I will pay true allegiance to your majesty, and to your heirs and…
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Florida’s wacky Governor set out recently to woo young evangelicals. Now he’s in the UK, but to what end?
EARLIER this month Ron “Don’t Say Gay” DeSantis told 10,000 ecstatic Christian students at Liberty University in Virginia that his state—a “refuge of sanity” and a “citadel of freedom”—was where “woke goes to die.” DeSantis, who positions himself as a defender of “God-fearing” people, often refers to putting on “the full armor of God”—a biblical…
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After conducting a funeral, a predatory Michigan Catholic priest abused a boy aged five
WHEN paedophile Vincent DeLorenzo, above, comes up for sentencing on June 13, the 84-year-old is expected to sent to prison for a year. DeLorenzo pleaded guilty this week to a charge of sexual assault on the youngster following a family funeral in 1987. The priest, who served for many years in the Roman Catholic Diocese…
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Christian teacher, sacked over her objection to an utterly inoffensive kid’s book, is awarded $181,000
ALL Are Welcome is an innocuous New York Times bestselling picture book about a school where diversity and inclusion are celebrated. But diversity and inclusion are alien concepts to Lindsey Barr, above. In her hateful world all are assuredly unwelcome! After expressing concern over some the images in the book, claiming they depicted same-sex couples,…
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Solved! The mystery of the disappearing Bibles at Arizona’s State Capitol
PUZZLED over the disappearance of Bibles from the members-only lounge at the House of Representatives—one was discovered secreted in a fridge—officials set up a video camera in a bid to find the culprit. It was only then that the miscreant was unmasked. It turned out to be Arizona State Representative Stephanie Stahl Hamilton, above, a…
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‘Don’t link death cult with religion,’ says Kenya’s evangelical President
LATEST reports from Kenya, where police are combing a forest occupied by a Christian cult led by pastor Paul Mackenzie Nthenge, above, indicate that 73 bodies have now been recovered, with more expected. The death toll, which has continued to rise as exhumations of shallow graves are carried out, could rise further. The Kenyan Red…
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What’s the point of proselytising to prisoners when the vast majority are already Christians?
I POSE the question because I just learned that Virginia’s Republican Governor Glenn Youngkin, above, had recently donated $43,750 of his annual salary of $750,00 salary to an outfit called the Good News Jail & Prison Ministry. This struck me as being an exercise in futility because Christians make up a disproportionate number of the…
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Cult leader, accused of exhorting his followers to starve to death for Jesus, embarks on a hunger strike
KENYAN pastor Paul Mackenzie, above, of the Good News International Church—accused of encouraging followers to fast until they die—is himself refusing food and water. Mackenzie surrendered himself to police after a number of shallow graves were found on land believed to be owned by the church. According to this report, 8 more bodies were found…
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Evangelical Christian Mike Lindell, who lied about voter fraud, is ordered to pay $5m
FORMER crackhead Lindell—who claims he was saved by Jesus from his addiction and then went on to create the My Pillow company—stupidly offered to pay $5m to anyone who could prove that his claim that the Chinese rigged voting machines was wrong. In 2021 Lindell launched his “Prove Mike Wrong” challenge, and not long after…
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Hate preacher Martin Ssempa advocates ‘gay cure’ centres for LGBT+ Ugandans
SSEMPA, who has been pushing unsuccessfully for years to have death sentences imposed for homosexuality in his country, is now suggesting that “that “rehabilitation” centres be set up for “to “cure” LGBT+ people. Ssempa, a sufferer of Christian-induced chronic imbecility, was reacting to news that a draconian anti-gay bill had been rejected by Ugandan President…
Barry Duke, the Angry Atheist 