Author: Barry Duke
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Off the hook. Serial evangelical abuser Jonathan Fletcher won’t stand trial.

IN 30 years as vicar of Emmanuel Church Wimbledon, London, the Rev. Jonathan Fletcher, above, is alleged to have engaged in naked beatings, nude swimming and massages, as well as other sexual misconduct, and bullying and “spiritual abuse.” Then, in July 2024 he was charged with eight counts of indecent assault and one of grievous…
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Well, ain’t that a kick in the head? Stupid camel stunt in a Texas megachurch puts woman in hospital

CAMELS are known to deliver vicious kicks that sometimes can be fatal, but this fact didn’t deter a the organisers of a Christmas spectacular at the multi-campus Champion Forest Baptist Church to bring bring one of the beasts into a narrow aisle, where it lashed out with a hind leg that connected with the face…
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‘It’s blasphemous!’ Christian university students in York furious over gay Jesus and Three Wise Men drag queens

Tonight, Thursday, St John’s University in York is due to stage a a nativity play featuring drag queens performing as the Three Wise Men, much to the disgust of some Jesus-afflicted students. “A Gay in The Manger” is the Yuletide brainchild of the LGBTQ network at the university, and also features a gay Jesus, Mary…
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‘Churches are full of bandits,’ says Rwandan President Paul Kagame

FOLLOWING the closure of around 10,000 churches in Rwanda in a move that sparked international fury, President Kagame reportedly said at a press conference yesterday ago “the church is a place full of bandits. I have no mercy for any church. You have been deceived by the colonisers and you let yourself be deceived!” While…
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Iridophobic Catholic claims damages from bank over its Pride-related paraphernalia. Case dismissed — twice!

IRIDIPHOBIA is a fear of rainbows, but that’s just one of a number of mental health issues suffered by Mark Jennings, who claims to have Autism Spectrum Disorder, Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), and Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). So, when Jennings, who lives in Scotland, visited a Natwest branch in Herne Bay, Kent, in August this…
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UK’s Crown Prosecution Service accused of attempting to introduce ‘back-door blasphemy’ in Quran-burning case

THE National Secular Society (NSS) has reacted angrily to news the the CPS is to appeal a Crown Court decision to overturn the conviction of a Hamit Coskun, above, who burned a Quran during a protest against radical Islam. In February Coskun, a Turkish national of Armenian and Kurdish heritage, burned a Quran outside the…
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UK Supreme Court ruling on collective worship and religious education in Northern Ireland infuriates Christians

Please subscribe and get a FREE copy of Atheist Limericks & Cartoons! Click this link to help me keep The Angry Atheist active with a donation. THE National Secular Society welcomed this week’s ruling that found collective worship and religious education in Northern Ireland breach human rights. But Jim Allister, above, leader of Traditional Unionist…
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Racist and misogynistic MAGA pastor claims Trump opponents are ‘traitors’ and urges the President to jail them

Please subscribe and get a FREE copy of Atheist Limericks & Cartoons! Click this link to help me keep The Angry Atheist active with a donation. JOEL Webbon, above, described by Right Wing Watch as a “fascist Christian nationalist”, has called on Trump to round up and jail people who disagree with his deportation policies.…
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Christians swing South Carolina pumpkin carving contest vote. Outrage follows.

Please subscribe and get a FREE copy of Atheist Limericks & Cartoons! Click this link to help me keep The Angry Atheist active with a donation. 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…
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NY man sues company that forced him to commit ‘an act of evil’ by having him work with a female colleague

Please subscribe and get a FREE copy of Atheist Limericks & Cartoons! Click this link to help me keep The Angry Atheist active with a donation. PAUL Ostapa’s New York lawsuit against air-conditioning giant Trane U.S. Inc claims that his presence alone with a woman “carries with it the appearance of evil from which he…

