Month: October 2023
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U.K. academic adds to the growing weight of evidence against religious belief in a newly-published book
Please click on this link to help me keep The Angry Atheist active with an donation BEFORE the world’s second oldest atheist magazine, The Freethinker, collapsed into soft-centred, vacuous mess just over a year ago when it abandoned its raison d’etre—aggressively ripping religion to shreds—Professor John Radford was one of its most erudite and respected…
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‘Prayer cards’ removed from Mississippi school; teacher warned cease proselytizing in classrooms
Please click on this link to help me keep The Angry Atheist active with an donation THANKS to swift action taken by America’s Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) an unnamed teacher who placed “prayer cards” beneath the desks of children at East Central Middle School has been reprimanded, and the school—part of Jackson Country School…
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Oklahoma’s Attorney General sues to stop America’s first religious public school, saying it’s unconstitutional
Please click on this link to help me keep The Angry Atheist active with an donation OKLAHOMA’S Republican Attorney General Gentner Drummond, above, stands accused of failing to respect Catholics’ wishes to establish the nation’s first religious public charter school after he sued to stop the plan. The accusation, according to this Religion News report,…
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Czech priest vandalises ‘satanic’ pumpkins placed near ‘sacred grounds’ near his village church
CATHOLIC priest Jaromir Smejkal went on a two-day pumpkin-smashing rampage in the the village of Kurdejov after discovering the Halloween symbols near his Church. The BBC reports that he later apologised in an open letter to the mayor, saying he would have acted differently had he known they were carved by children. The Church of…
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‘Even Satan wasn’t gay.’ Religious fanatics in Kenya unite to protest the legal registration of an LGBT+ group
FOLLOWING our report that Christians and Muslims recently found common ground in Canada—their hatred of LGBT+ communities—comes news from Kenya that protests have taken place over a Supreme Court decision to allowed the registration of the National Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (NGLHR). The Nation reports that religious leaders called for the review of…
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Man who united Christians and Muslims against LGBT+ communities plans to do so again
LAST month devout Muslim Kamel El-Cheikh, inset above, organised a “Million Person March” to protest “the indoctrination” and “compulsion” that he alleged goes on in Canadian schools with regard to sexual orientation and gender. Nowhere near a million ralllied to his cause, but the rabble-rouser did succeed in uniting thousands of Muslim and Christian bigots…
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Kenyan publisher forced to withdraw a school textbook containing an image said to be that of Mohammed
THE Mentor Publishing Co Ltd has admitted to “sacriledge” for including a cartoon which it “mistakenly identified” as Islam’s prophet. According to this Nation report, among enraged Muslim parents was Mrs Amina Mohammed who asked: Who checks the publishers? Do they have proof readers? How could this pass? In the Grade 2 Mentor Encyclopaedia book,…
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Ugandan ‘saved by the Lord from homosexuality’ is now in prison awaiting trial for being gay
ELISHA Mukisa, above, who became a poster-boy for the mainly Christian “ex-gay” movement in Uganda, is behind bars, ironically awaiting trial on charges of engaging in homosexuality. Last October, in a video posted to YouTube by Family TV, Mukisa told of being “saved by Jesus from homosexuality”, but this cut no ice with the authorities.…
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Pakistani pastor shot himself then claimed he was the victim of an Islamic terrorist attack
LAST month it widely reported in Pakistan that Protestant pastor Eleazar Sidhu, 35, had been hospitalised with a gunshot wound after being attacked by a “bearded person” after Sunday prayers, and police were called in to investigate. According to this report, Sidhu, pastor of a Presbyterian church in Kukranwala village in the Khanuwana area of…
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