Month: July 2023
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Teacher who failed to ‘walk in a godly manner’ fired by Christian school
A BAPTIST school in Houston, Texas, sacked long-serving physical education instructor Kristi Maris, ringed above, after it got wind of the fact that she posed for a picture with three drag queens earlier this month and shared it on social media. The senior pastor at First Baptist Academy in Baytown justified the decision to fire…
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Iranian chastity enforcer Reza Tsaghati is out of a job following his alleged appearance in a gay sex tape
TSAGHATI, above, was the hardline Director of Islamic guidance and culture in the northern Gilan province of Iran until a video appearing to show him having sex with a “much younger man” went viral last week. The Publica reports that that Tsaghati, “a staunch advocate” for mandatory hijab-wearing by Irianian women, has been dismissed from…
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Street artist protests the €161-million cost of World Youth Day in Lisbon with an enormous banknote carpet
PORTUGAL’S famed street artist, Bordalo II, broke into the grounds of an altar/stage created for WYD 2023, saying in a Facebook post “in a secular state, at a time when many people are fighting to keep their homes, their work and their dignity, millions of public funds have been invested to sponsor the tour of…
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Catholic bishops prayed for a massive swing to the right in Spain’s general election. Mercifully, it didn’t happen.
FOR one horrible moment last week I thought that the highly progressive country I chose to settle in almost 14 years ago would lurch to the right, giving greater power to the misogynistic and deeply homophobic Vox Party, led by Santiago Abascal, above. I had every reason to be apprehensive. Polls ahead of last Sunday’s…
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The gulf between Hungary’s ‘illiberal’ Christian democracy and the ‘anti-family’ European Union widens
UNDER the leadership of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, above, a pro-Russian member of the Calvinist Hungarian Reformed Church, the country has increasingly found itself at loggerheads with the values of the E.U. The latest manifestation of Orbán’s hostility to the E.U. took place in Transylvania, Romania, last week where he accused the the E.U. of…
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Restaurant company that employed a bogus priest to hear workers’ confessions labeled ‘shameless’
WAGE and hour investigators in California have dealt with numerous cases of a “corrupt” employees stiffing staff, but were taken aback when they learned that one company—Che Garibaldi—had used a fake priest to take “confessions” from workers. The U.S. Department of Labor said in a statement that Che Garibaldi’s attempt to use the “priest” to…
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England is to get a £10-m ‘Eternal Wall of Answered Prayers’ thanks to the efforts of a crackpot Christian
ON learning that the ridiculous project—the result of a “vision” received from God by Richard Gamble, inset above— I was reminded of an observation on prayer by atheist writer David G. McAfee. Prayer doesn’t work. Perhaps it makes the believer feel better (in the same way that meditation or deep thought would), but prayer doesn’t…
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Christians warned against seeing Barbie: ‘It’s hardcore propaganda’
WHEN a friend jokingly asked me at the weekend whether I intended seeing Mattel and Warner Bros’ Barbie my reply was “I’d sooner rub acid in my eyes!” But now, having read an attack on the film by Christian reviewer Dr Ted Baehr, inset above, I’m having second throughts. Baehr, who runs faith-based Movieguide, told…
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Ultra-Orthodox Jewish media continues erasing images of women, but this feminist is fighting back
FOR more than a decade, Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll, above, an Orthodox Jewish feminist, has been chronicling the gradual disappearance of women from magazines, advertisements and other media in Israel. In reporting on her activities, Religion News Service provided a recent example: The front page of ultra-Orthodox Shacharit newspaper, inset above. When it covered Israeli President…
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Rabbi arrested and sentenced for stealing a Palestinian rights banner from Cleveland State University
BACK in February, a banner belonging to a campus Palestinian rights group was stolen, leaving students and police puzzled as who would do such a thing. Days later the anwer was provided by the culprit himself: Orthodox rabbi Alexander Popivker, above, who used Instagram to confess. He wrote: As an act of civil disobedience I…
Barry Duke, the Angry Atheist 