Author: Barry Duke
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Texas gets a huge statute of the Hindu deity Hanuman. Christians go ballistic.
Please click this link to help me keep The Angry Atheist active with a donation. CHRISTIAN zealots are constantly on the look-out for things that will set their blood aboil, so when in mid-August a 90ft statue of Hanuman appeared at Sugar Land’s Sri Ashtalakshmi Temple all hell broke loose on social media. The half-human,…
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Conservative Amish groups eschew safety lights on their buggies, and are refusing to pay fines being imposed
Please click this link to help me keep The Angry Atheist active with a donation. IN rural Ohio the Swartzentrubers and other conservative Amish groups are claiming that a law that requires them to put flashing amber LED lights on their buggies unfairly infringes on their right to freedom of religion and are refusing to…
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Pope urges Ugandan LGBT+ activist to continue fighting against discrimination
Please click this link to help me keep The Angry Atheist active with an donation. HOMOPHOBES within the Catholic Church—expecially those in Uganda who enthusiastically support the country’s draconian Anti-Homosexuality Act of 2023—are spitting tacks after it was revealed last week that Francis had met with activist Clare Byarugaba, above, and urged her to continue…
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Evangelical supporters of Kamala Harris accused of forsaking their Christian faith
Please click this link to help me keep The Angry Atheist active with an donation. AMONG those pissed off by the recently-formed Evangelicals for Harris is the egregious fool Franklin Graham, above, who lashed out at the group for using footage of his late father in a “brutal” attack advertisement against former President Trump. Fox…
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UK priest, assessed as a potential risk to children, awarded a substantial pay-off by the Church of England
Please click this link to help me keep The Angry Atheist active with an donation. DESPITE having been subjected to FIVE police investigations, including into allegations of sexual assault, Canon Andrew Hindley, above, who worked in Blackburn diocese from 1991 to 2021 was never charged. However, it was reported by the BBC yesterday (Tuesday) that…
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US man wins discrimation case against a faith-based Tennessee company that opposed Covid-19 protection measures
Please click this link to help me keep The Angry Atheist active with an donation. IN downplaying the risk of spreading COVID-19 during the pandemic, Dave Ramsey, above, a Christian “finance guru”, referred to those who wear masks as “wusses,” barred employees from working at home and said his company—Ramsey Solultions—would be guided by “faith…
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Bigoted lecturer ‘very surprised’ after losing a discrimination case supported by religious hate group Christian Concern
Please click this link to help me keep The Angry Atheist active with an donation. IN a fresh blow to the anti-LGBT+ group, Dr Aaron Edwards—a father of six—has lost a discrimination case he brought against Cliff College, a Methodist training centre in Derbyshire. An Emploment Tribunal unanimously dismissed all claims made by Edwards, a Christian…
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London-based rabbi charged this week with carrying out an illegal circumcision in Ireland. He has been refused bail
Please click this link to help me keep The Angry Atheist active with an donation. Jonathan Abraham (47) was arrested on Tuesday and appeared before judge Michael Connellan at Dublin District Court on Thursday charged with carrying out a surgical procedure— circumcision of an infant— at an address in Dublin without being a registered medical…
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Parodies of da Vinci’s ‘Last Supper’ have ouraged many over the years. The latest row erupted at the Olympics in France.
Please click this link to help me keep The Angry Atheist active with an donation. FOLLOWING the opening of Olympic Games last Friday organisers reportedly said they are “sorry” that scenes at the ceremony had caused offence. The BBC revealed that a banquet sequence featuring drag artists in particular came in for criticism from Christian…
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‘Firebrand’ Muslim cleric’s plan to buy a Scottish island for his followers deemed ‘unsuitable’ for the local community
Please click this link to help me keep The Angry Atheist active with an donation. VARIOUS reports over the weekend revealed that Sheikh Yasser Al-Habib, 45, above, and his supporters have been in advanced talks to buy Torsa, off the west coast of Scotland. His scheme is to build a school, hospital and mosque. But…
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