Author: Barry Duke
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Catholic League’s Bill Donohue brands Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence ‘an anti-Catholic hate group’
HOW many queers hate Catholics? Catholic League President Bill Donohue, inset above, posed this question after it was announced that the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, would after all, perform at a Los Angeles Dodgers game on June 16. He answered his own question: It’s hard to say, but it is clear beyond a shadow of…
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Three key figures in Texas’ Chaplains Bill stand out as far-right Christian extremists
A CO-AUTHOR of the Bill—passed this week to allow public schools to replace professional counselors with unlicensed chaplains—is Senator Mayes Middleton. In a recent statement, Middleton—widely described as a Christian nationalist—declared: Our founders certainly never intended separation of God from government or schools, despite the lefts’ attempts to mislead people on this fact. The statement…
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Founder of Florida’s Christian Coalition Family Church faces multiple abuse charges
FOLLOWING his his arrest this week Crawford was described by Clovis Watson, Jr, head of the Alachua Sheriff’s Office as “one of the most heinous and vile human beings he has ever seen.” On Tuesday Crawford was initially arrested after an investigation was launched into reports of sexual abuse of a child at the Christian…
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Evangelical teacher who espouses abhorrent biblical views is banned indefinitely from classrooms
JOSHUA Sutcliffe, above, who believes that homosexuality and Islam are “abominations” and that people who sin should be put to death, has been banned from teaching. Labelled “intolerant” by the Teaching Regulation Agency (TRA), the bigoted street preacher was this week found guilty of unprofessional conduct and banned from teaching in any capacity indefinitely. The…
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Fundraiser launched for funeral of devout Christian wrestler and millionaire Superstar Billy Graham
VARIOUS sites, including this one, estimate Graham’s net worth as $5-million at the time of his death aged 79 on May 17. Despite this, $25,000 is being solicited for his funeral and hospital expenses via GoFundMe. An update to the appeal posted yesterday (Monday) says: 25 thousand is needed by Friday for funeral related expenses,…
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When Poland was under communist rule paedophile priests who cooperated with the regime were rewarded
RESPONDING to an investigation by two journalists who sought to uncover clerical abuse in the Catholic Church when Poland was under communist rule, Archbishop Wojciech Polak of Gniezno, above, has admitted that, “for decades we have been blind to the suffering of those harmed.” The investigation was carried out by Tomasz Krzyzak and Piotr Litka…
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Money-laundering probe launched against a pastor who ‘disrespected’ Lord Buddha
Bling’s the thing in “The Miracle Dome” in Sri Lanka, and authorities now want to know where self-styled prophet Jerome Fernando, above right, got the dosh to pay for it all. Fernando hurriedly left the Buddhist country on May 16, ahead of an overseas travel ban placed on him by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID)…
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Whoops! Vatican forced to withdraw a ‘terribly bad taste’ World Youth Day stamp
TWO days was all it took for the Vatican to realise it had made a massive blunder by issuing a stamp created to celebrate World Youth Day in Portugal in August, 2023. After its release this week, the stamp was scrapped in the face of outrage over what many, including Catholics, saw as a celebration…
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US church that lost almost $800,000 to a scammer started a fundraiser to recoup its losses. Response is dismal.
IN a heartfelt plea for $793,848, pastor Johnny Blevins, above, of North Carolina’s Elkin Valley Baptist Church, relates in a GoFundMe video how the church had “prayerfully saved toward a new worship center for over ten years”, then lost more than half of its savings. But the appeal, launched after the church fell victim to…
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RCC must do more to oppose a bill that would decriminalise homosexuality in Sri Lanka
INTERFERING with progressive legislative processes in countries across the world is something the Roman Catholic Church and evangelical organisations are particularly adept at. But in Buddhist Sri Lanka the Catholic church, led by Archbishop of Colombo—His Eminence Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith, above—stands accused of failing to adequately oppose a bill that that would do away with…
Barry Duke, the Angry Atheist 