Author: Barry Duke
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Behold, another inappropriate Christian sign—and probably the costliest ever!
Image via He Gets Us HOP across to Buzzfeed’s “50 Hilarious Church Signs That’ll Keep You Sinfully Laughing For Hours” and you’ll see a lot of rib-ticklers. My favourite? “A 4-inch tongue can bring a 6-foot man to his knees.” That sign was spotted outside Mt Olive Baptist Church somewhere in the US. I’m guessing…
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Spray away the gay: Mexican woman launches a holy water attack on loving couple
Screen shots and main image via Pixabay (Jeff Jacobs.) LEONARDO Hernández, inset, and his partner Thomas were doing just what millions of couples do when they are love. They were relaxing with their arms around each other when a mad, unidentified woman appeared out of nowhere. Brandishing a plastic bottle reportedly containing holy water, she…
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Shariah-style law promoted by a devout Christian stops women from displaying bare arms in the Missouri Capitol
REPUBLICAN state representative Ann Kelley pictured on YouTube. She is a Methodist and a member of the National Rifle Association. Image via YouTube When Kelly proposed the ban, Oakland based journalist and a member of The Coalition For Women In Journalism, Imani Gandy (aka Angry Black Lady) above, asked on Twitter: What the cinnamon toast…
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Christians aren’t assertive enough. They need to take a lesson from the vocal LGBT+ lobby.
Image via YouTube UK hate group Christian Concern is dismayed that more people in England and Wales are identifying as LGBT+ according to the recently published 2021 census. Tim Dieppe, above, CCs Head of Public Policy, blames pushy gay and transgender people for undermining Christian influence. The census also revealed that 112,000 people described themselves…
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Praise for Pell overshadowed by revelations that he considered Pope Francis ‘a catastrophe’
Images via YouTube MEDIA outlets across the globe are today reporting that a secret memo castigating Pope Francis and written under the pseudonym “Demos” was in fact penned by George Pell, who died suddenly aged 81 this week. Reports under heading such as ‘Pell wrote secret memo calling Francis’ papacy ‘catastrophe’, journalist says, have effectively…
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Cardinal George Pell is dead. Jubilation expressed on social media.
Images via YouTube and Twitter Reacting to the news that Pell had snuffed it today following a routine hip operation, Sky News host Andrew Bolt expressed his horror over the “vile celebrations” of Pell’s death, saying that the cardinal was an innocent man who was the victim of “one of the most grotesque miscarriages of…
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Acclaimed novel prompted Florida teacher to start a campaign against ‘objectionable’ school books
Screenshot of Vicki Baggett via Facebook/Studio 850 When meddling Vicki Baggett, an English teacher at Northview High School in Florida, began whining about the acclaimed The Perks of Being a Wallflower, little did she realise there would be a blowback that includes allegations that she’s a racist who opposes interracial marriage for biblical reasons. Last…
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Trump and his crazy Christian cohorts wanted a more godly nation. Their plan crashed and burned.
Photo by Jon Tyson via Unsplash A recent study conducted by American author Brandon Flanery shows that churches in the US are facing a crisis of abandonment. Rampant homophobia and Donald Trump hastened the trend. Flanery, who is due to publish a “sassy” memoir, Stumbling, later this year, parted company with evangelicals and learned to…
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Mad Marjorie Taylor Green is flogging ‘Proud Christian Nationalist’ T-Shirts
JUST how crazy is Marjorie Taylor Greene, the far-right Christian Trumpista and Republican Congresswoman? A trawl through her social media posts and reports of her antics certainly indicate that she’s long-overdue confinement in a padded cell. Last month, for example, she bragged that if she and the former Trump White House strategist Steve Bannon—jailed for…
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Kinky Jesuit priest and renowned artist alleged to have had ‘threesomes’ with nuns
A mosaic designed by Fr Marko Rupnik, inset, depicts Christ’s descent into hell and resurrection. Credit: Giovanna60/wikimedia. CC BY SA 3.0 THERE’S a great deal to dislike about the far-right LifeSite News: its homophobia, transphobia and its shameless peddling of conspiracy theories, to name just a few. But, despite its constant railing against pornography, it…
Barry Duke, the Angry Atheist 