Month: August 2023
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Halal certification industry turns it attention to … nail polish! Most products are not ‘wudu-friendly’.
ISLAM has more dumb rules than a procupine has fleas, and those charged with the task of deciding what is permissible (halal) or forbidden (haram) within the “religion of peace” are now having get their heads around the “problem” of nail polish. The issue, in a nutshell, is that the overwhelming number of lacquers are…
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‘Biden is giving $500,000 grants to spread atheism overseas’ claims former Republican House Speaker
NEWT Gingrich, above, a twice-divorced Republican Roman Catholic and staunch Trump ally, claimed in a tweet last month that “Biden is giving $500,000 grants to spread atheism overseas. Have the Democrats literally lost their minds and become the anti-religious party?“ This prompted Newsweek to fact-check his claim. It concluded that Gingrich, “who has a track…
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U.K. hospital chaplain cosied up to an Afghan Taliban extremist. National Secular Society voices its concern.
AFTER photographs emerged of a meeting between Muslim chaplain Suliman Gani, above, and Afghanistan’s Taliban Minister of Foreign Affairs Amir Khan Muttaqi, inset above, the NSS raised questions over Gani’s suitability to remain in the employ of the National Health Service. In a letter to St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust the NSS—Britain’s leading…
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Catholic dioceses of Illinois publicly listed 103 substantiated child sex abusers. The actual number was 451!
BEFORE an investigation began in 2018 into child sex abuse allegations and the public disclosure of substantiated child sex abusers, six Catholic dioceses listed only 103 substantiated abusers. But a report just released by Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul, above, reveals that 451 Catholic clerics and religious brothers abused at least 1,997 children across all…
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As church attendances slump in the US more are favouring cremations and ‘reductions’ over burials
LAST year California incurred the wrath of the state’s Catholic Conference of Bishops (CCC) when it passed a law that will allow for the composting of human remains. The CCC, according to the Christian Post, was among several groups that opposed to the law, saying the process “reduces the human body to simply a disposable…
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Former Florida pastor arrested for allegedly stealing goods worth $1.4-million from Home Depot outlets
ROBERT Dell, inset above was arrested earlier this month along with several cronies who stand accused of stealing merchandise from Home Depot stores and selling them on eBay. The Florida Attorney General’s Office identified Dell as “a pastor of The Rock Church and the founder of a halfway house serving those recovering from drug addiction…
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Judge orders airline lawyers to take ‘religious liberty’ lessons from hate group Alliance Defending Freedom
TRUMP-appointed Texas District Judge Brantley Starr this week ordered three attorneys for Southwest Airlines to receive “religious-liberty” training from the ADF in the wake of a case involving a “persecuted” Christian flight attendant Charlene Carter, inset above. CNN explained that last year a jury found that both Southwest and Transport Union Workers discriminated against Carter…
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Newly-appointed principal of a Catholic school sacked for removing ‘spiritually dangerous books’
WITHIN weeks of being appointed head of a “lovely little Catholic school” in Tennessee, father of 15 Doug Darnowski, pictured above with his wife Adele, incurred the wrath of parents by removing “pornographic” and “spiritually dangerous” books from the library. These included Harry Potter and 1001 Arabian Nights. Such was the anger over his arbitary…
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Police remove protesters from a Lisbon church that hosted an LGBT+ Mass during World Youth Day
GIVEN the rampant misogyny, homophobia and emotional and physical abuse that characterises the Roman Catholic Church it beggars belief that people—especially members of LGBT+ communities—would want to be associated in any way with this toxic, multinational corporation. But the sad truth is that suckers for punishment exist in all walks of life, none more so…
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Pure provocation: Anti-LGBT+ café opens in Denver’s VERY gay arts district. Protesters vow to close it.
THOSE protesting the recent appearance of Drip Café in the heart of a gay area are claiming that its opening was a deliberate act of “political” provocation,” and are holding weekly protests in a bid to have it closed. The Christian Post reports that owner Jamie Sanchez believes the Denver Communists and LGBT+ protesters were…
Barry Duke, the Angry Atheist 