Month: February 2024
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Scottish Baptist church that promotes sexism should not enjoy charitable status says National Secular Society
Please click this link to help me keep The Angry Atheist active with an donation. THE NSS has lodged a complaint with the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator (OSCR), claiming a sermon delivered by Reverend Chris Demetriou, pictured above with his wife, is “misogynistic, discriminatory against women and perpetuates sexist tropes”. Demetriou heads Rosyth…
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UK mother accused of murdering her son, aged three, says that the Bible allows caning of kids
Please click this link to help me keep The Angry Atheist active with an donation. NEWCASTLE Crown Court this week heard evidence that the toddler—Dwelaniyah Robinson—died after his mother, Christina Robinson, had laid into him with a bamboo came and violently shook him. According to this report, Christina Robinson, 30, stands accused of murdering the…
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Woman wearing a ‘blasphemous’ dress in Pakistan rescued by a brave female police officer
Please click this link to help me keep The Angry Atheist active with an donation. AN unnamed woman in Lahore, Pakistan, had to be rescued from a vicious, ignorant mob who wrongly claimed that that a dress she was wearing bore words from the Koran and was therefore “blasphemous.“ The terrified woman might well have…
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Hardline Hindus go ape over the ‘disrespectful’ names of two lions
Please click this link to help me keep The Angry Atheist active with an donation. THE High Court in Calcutta, India, has asked a wildlife park in West Bengal state to change the names of two lions after a hardline Hindu group—Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP)—complained that the monikers were disrespectful of their faith. According to…
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The reaction by churches to Dame Esther Rantzen’s call for assisted dying is an insult to all non-believers
Please click this link to help me keep The Angry Atheist active with an donation. BRITISH journalist and TV presenter Esther Rantzen,, above, diagnosed with terminal lung cancer last year, reignited the debate on assisted dying by recently calling for a free vote in parliament for the legalisation of assisted suicide. In doing do she…
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Greece has just approved same-sex marriage. Orthodox church is beside itself with fury.
Please click this link to help me keep The Angry Atheist active with an donation. IOANNIS FOTOPOULOS, above, is a hoary old priest in the Greek Orthodox Church, and like fellow clerics he is outraged that Greece had voted to legalise same-sex marriage in the face of strong religious opposition. Fotopoulos expressed his horror in…
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US Pastor filmed telling anti-LGBT+ outfit about honesty in marriage is sacked over indecent texts to men
Please click this link to help me keep The Angry Atheist active with an donation. A COUPLE of years ago evangelical pastor Aaron Ivey, above, of the Austin Stone Church in Texas, visited Focus on the Family, one of the most well funded anti-LGBT organisations in America, where he was filmed discussing the necessity of…
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Seville’s Easter poster ‘too gay’ say conservative Spanish Catholics
Please click this link to help me keep The Angry Atheist active with an donation. A ROW has broken over the Spanish city’s unveiling of an Easter poster, created by internationally famous Seville artist Salustiano García Cruz who used his son Horatio as the model. Spanish news outlet, LaSexta reports that the artist, reacting to homophobic…
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US book-banning hate group, Moms for Liberty, appears to befalling apart
Please click this link to help me keep The Angry Atheist active with an donation. CO-FOUNDED by Bridget Ziegler, above, Moms for Liberty was branded a hate group for promoting a white Christian nationalist agenda by disrupting school board meetings and demanding that books, particularly those with a LGBT+ themes, be removed from school libraries.…
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Christian vandal charged with a hate crime for destroying a ‘blasphemous’ Satanic Temple statue in Ohio
Please click this link to help me keep The Angry Atheist active with an donation. MICHAEL Cassidy, inset above, a “Christian conservative” who destroyed a statue of Baphomet at a altar set up by the Satanic Temple at Ohio’s Capitol last December, has been charged with third-degree criminal mischief, effectively a hate crime in the state.…
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