Barry Duke, the Angry Atheist

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A GREAT deal of creativity was shown by those who entered a Pumpkin Palooza contest organised by Tega Bay city in South Carolina. Not so much, though, by an entrant who submitted the one featured, inset above.

So when it won first prize after people voted for the best of fifty entries, all hell broke loose on social media, according to The Friendly Atheist. Here are just two of many:

In publicising the contest, the city said the winner would be chosen by popular vote, so it’s pretty obvious that Christians piled in to vote for a pumpkin featuring an instrument of torture, thereby turning the event into a mini culture war.

As you can see from the some of the entries below, religion most definitely trumped talent in the case of this particular contest.

1. 

   The human species seems en route for species suicide or, at least, causing dramatic damage to itself. And, amongst other…

2. 

   If non-religious employees of religious employers may not have employer-provided healthcare coverage that includes birth control, then religious employees of…

3. 

   My hubs was a teacher and also a non-stipendary baptist minister in the 1980s. We lived in a village that…

4. 

   Christians make a big deal of being “made in God’s image”. Total and utter meaningless bollocks. What is not bollocks…

5. 

   Another day, another homophobic Christain jailed for kiddie-fiddling…

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