Month: August 2023
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Fury erupts over Barbie Mary and Jesus Ken dolls. The creators insist that no offence is intended.
BACK in 2014 Argentinian artists local Emiliano Pool Paolini and Marianela Perelli received death threats when they staged an exhibition entitled “Barbie: The Plastic Religion” which was later taken to centres outside the country—including the Vatican! In addition to featuring Barbie Mary and Jesus Ken, the exhibition included religious figures from Catholicism, Judaism, Hinduism and…
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Baptist seminary is in the red to the tune of $140-million, partly because lavish of spending by its ex-President
EVEN before Adam Greenway, above, became President of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Texas in 2019, the school had an enormous deficit that worsened after $1.5-million was spent on renovations and decorations for his official residence on campus. Religion News Service reports that Green, whose tenure lasted less than three years before he resigned last…
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If this Ohio lawmaker gets his way proselytizing Christian bullies in the US military will get a free pass
IN “an almost inconceivable” move, Ohio Republican congressman Mike Turner of Ohio, above, introduced legislation earlier this year to make it illegal for members of the U.S. military to communicate in any way with the Military Religious Freedom Foundation. Turner’s determination to completely neuter the MMRF —established to oppose the spread of religious intimidation by…
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Atheism is a ‘state sponsored religion’ claims Oklahoma’s education top gun, a ‘Christian nationalist’
RECENTLY branded as a “Christian nationalist” by the Freedom from Religion Foundation, Ryan Walters, above, was reacting to a lawsuit launched by the FFRF, ACLU and others who are dead set against Oklahoma’s sponsorship and funding of a Catholic school. The 38-year-old State Superintendent of Public Instruction—an increasingly controversial figure in Oklahoma politics with his…
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Belfast street preacher who said gays are ‘out to rape our children and country’ complains of being ‘vilified’
HATE preacher Ryan Williamson, who received a “cease and desist” notice from Northern Ireland authorities last year for his persistent and noisy rants in the town of Larne, is now reportedly under investigation after targeting a Pride event in Belfast at the weekend. Williamson was videoed saying: Homosexuals have become so brazen that they wanted…
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‘These are truly last days’: In a first, a drag artist hits No 1 spot on iTunes’ Christian & Gospel music chart
FAR-RIGHT MAGA pastor Sean (Goldilocks) Feught, inset above, is clearly unfamiliar with the Steisand Effect. After he recently blasted a song called “Boys Will Be Girls”—a collaboration between Flamy Grant and Christian musician Derek Webb—the unthinkable happened. An album called “Bible Belt Baby”—which contains the hilarious song, “What Did You Drag Me Into“—shot to the…
Barry Duke, the Angry Atheist 