Month: June 2023
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Pakistan’s anti-terrorism laws are now to be used against those accused of blasphemy
BOWING to pressure from an extremist Islamic party— Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP)—the Pakistan government has agreed to prosecute blasphemy suspects under terrorism charges, in addition to the other sections of the country’s penal code. According to The Times of India Federal Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah said the government has accepted “all legitimate” demands of the TLP,…
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Recent study shows that atheists are more politically influential than evangelicals
THE section of people in American society most likely to be highly engaged in political action are not evangelicals, as we’ve been led to believe. They are in fact atheists, according to political scientist Ryan Burge, above. Burge’s May article, based on findings by the Cooperative Election Study, was seized upon today (Thursday) by The…
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‘Favoured by God’ pastor shot his wife and and himself in a Mississippi hotel
IN the aftermath of the shooting last week, in which pastor Danny Prenell Jr and his wife Gabrielle (above) were injured, it’s been revealed that Prenell had a history of violence against his wife. Investigators say Prenell shot his wife twice at the Hampton Inn & Suites McComb before shooting himself once. The Christian Post…
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Welsh Mayor ousted after questioning religious genital mutilation in a 2008 blog
BACK in 2008, Andew Lye (inset) questioned why religious circumcision of children was necessary if God “made man in his own image”. In a short piece he wrote he said: For the record, I am uncut. I was born with it and cannot understand why any religion should require its removal (I can understand it…
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Preacher arrested at a Pride event says UK’s ‘biggest problem’ is homosexuality
THANKS to an utterly incompetent Conservative Party, Britain is suffering a cost-of-living crisis, a fast-disintegrating health service, rampant inflation and major post-Brexit damage to the economy. But its biggest problem is homosexuality among teenagers and young adults, claims street US preacher Ryan Schiavo, above. Schiavo, who made the claim in a YouTube video last year,…
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Starving for Jesus: Kenyan cult leader’s prison hunger strike ends with his death
JOSEPH Buyuka, accused of being one of the leaders of a death cult led by pastor Paul Mackenzie (inset above), has died in custody while awaiting trial. He had been arrested in connection with the deaths of 337 members of Mackenzie’s Good News International Church, and had been on a 10-day hunger strike. Buyuka, according…
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U.S. Catholic’s macabre plan to have Thomas More’s head put on public display rebuffed
MORE’S head, separated from his body in 1535 after he got on the wrong side of King Henry VIII, was parboiled, put on a stake for a month, retrieved by his daughter and wound up hidden in a vault in an Anglican church. Its absence from public view at St Dunstan’s in Canterbury. apparently irked…
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Vatican cardinal says homosexuality has nothing to do with clerical abuse. The Catholic League freaks out.
FOR years, Bill Donohue, above, head of the League, has insisted that there are very few paedophile priests within the Catholic Church, and that the abuse crisis within the RCC was all down to gay “psychosexually stunted” clerics targeting teens. So is comes as no surprise that Donohue blew a fuse when he learned that…
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A ‘Holy Spirit’ intervention will make the US more ‘moral’, says CEO of a multi-billion dollar food company
AMERICA is facing a “spiritual” disaster, and only “divine intervention” can save it, the CEO of Goya Foods—Bob Unanue, above—claimed in Fox Business video this week. Back in 2021, according to Wiki, his adoration of Trump almost got him ousted from the company when Goya’s board of directors voted to censure him following his his…
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Members of a Jewish cult, headed by a sex offender and fraudster, attempted to invade a Catholic monastery in Haifa
POLICE were called earlier this month by angry Catholics who who claimed that members of a cult, headed by Rabbi Eliezer Berland, inset above, were about to invade the Stela Maris Monastery on Mount Carmel. The reason followers of Berland gave for attempting to enter the the monastery was that the site is where the…
Barry Duke, the Angry Atheist 