Author: Barry Duke
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Atheism is a ‘state sponsored religion’ claims Oklahoma’s education top gun, a ‘Christian nationalist’
RECENTLY branded as a “Christian nationalist” by the Freedom from Religion Foundation, Ryan Walters, above, was reacting to a lawsuit launched by the FFRF, ACLU and others who are dead set against Oklahoma’s sponsorship and funding of a Catholic school. The 38-year-old State Superintendent of Public Instruction—an increasingly controversial figure in Oklahoma politics with his…
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Belfast street preacher who said gays are ‘out to rape our children and country’ complains of being ‘vilified’
HATE preacher Ryan Williamson, who received a “cease and desist” notice from Northern Ireland authorities last year for his persistent and noisy rants in the town of Larne, is now reportedly under investigation after targeting a Pride event in Belfast at the weekend. Williamson was videoed saying: Homosexuals have become so brazen that they wanted…
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‘These are truly last days’: In a first, a drag artist hits No 1 spot on iTunes’ Christian & Gospel music chart
FAR-RIGHT MAGA pastor Sean (Goldilocks) Feught, inset above, is clearly unfamiliar with the Steisand Effect. After he recently blasted a song called “Boys Will Be Girls”—a collaboration between Flamy Grant and Christian musician Derek Webb—the unthinkable happened. An album called “Bible Belt Baby”—which contains the hilarious song, “What Did You Drag Me Into“—shot to the…
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Teacher who failed to ‘walk in a godly manner’ fired by Christian school
A BAPTIST school in Houston, Texas, sacked long-serving physical education instructor Kristi Maris, ringed above, after it got wind of the fact that she posed for a picture with three drag queens earlier this month and shared it on social media. The senior pastor at First Baptist Academy in Baytown justified the decision to fire…
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Iranian chastity enforcer Reza Tsaghati is out of a job following his alleged appearance in a gay sex tape
TSAGHATI, above, was the hardline Director of Islamic guidance and culture in the northern Gilan province of Iran until a video appearing to show him having sex with a “much younger man” went viral last week. The Publica reports that that Tsaghati, “a staunch advocate” for mandatory hijab-wearing by Irianian women, has been dismissed from…
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Street artist protests the €161-million cost of World Youth Day in Lisbon with an enormous banknote carpet
PORTUGAL’S famed street artist, Bordalo II, broke into the grounds of an altar/stage created for WYD 2023, saying in a Facebook post “in a secular state, at a time when many people are fighting to keep their homes, their work and their dignity, millions of public funds have been invested to sponsor the tour of…
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Catholic bishops prayed for a massive swing to the right in Spain’s general election. Mercifully, it didn’t happen.
FOR one horrible moment last week I thought that the highly progressive country I chose to settle in almost 14 years ago would lurch to the right, giving greater power to the misogynistic and deeply homophobic Vox Party, led by Santiago Abascal, above. I had every reason to be apprehensive. Polls ahead of last Sunday’s…
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The gulf between Hungary’s ‘illiberal’ Christian democracy and the ‘anti-family’ European Union widens
UNDER the leadership of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, above, a pro-Russian member of the Calvinist Hungarian Reformed Church, the country has increasingly found itself at loggerheads with the values of the E.U. The latest manifestation of Orbán’s hostility to the E.U. took place in Transylvania, Romania, last week where he accused the the E.U. of…
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Restaurant company that employed a bogus priest to hear workers’ confessions labeled ‘shameless’
WAGE and hour investigators in California have dealt with numerous cases of a “corrupt” employees stiffing staff, but were taken aback when they learned that one company—Che Garibaldi—had used a fake priest to take “confessions” from workers. The U.S. Department of Labor said in a statement that Che Garibaldi’s attempt to use the “priest” to…
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England is to get a £10-m ‘Eternal Wall of Answered Prayers’ thanks to the efforts of a crackpot Christian
ON learning that the ridiculous project—the result of a “vision” received from God by Richard Gamble, inset above— I was reminded of an observation on prayer by atheist writer David G. McAfee. Prayer doesn’t work. Perhaps it makes the believer feel better (in the same way that meditation or deep thought would), but prayer doesn’t…
Barry Duke, the Angry Atheist 