Author: Barry Duke
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Predatory Jesuit priest who may have drugged and sexually abused more than 50 men is jailed for 25 years
STEPHEN Sauer, above, was handed the sentence in Lousiana on July 7 after he pleaded guilty to multiple charges involving 17 adult victims. His crimes, according to this report, were centred around the French Quarter neighborhood of New Orleans. Detectives believe that there are more than 50 victims who remain unidentified. The former Catholic priest…
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Pastor’s recent call for the execution of parents of trans people is an extension of religious moral panics
WHEN I learned this week that Edinburgh had acquired a Museum of Magic, Fortune-telling and Witchcraft, created to cast light light on a grisly period in Scottish history when nearly 4,000 people were accused and 2,500 executed for witchcraft, I immediately made a connection between past religious moral panics and recent reports centred on hysterical…
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Jewish baker who refused a rabbi’s order for Pride Month confectionery claims he’s a ‘victim of intolerance’
YITZY Mittel, co-owner of the West Orange Bake Shop in New Jersey, is being accused of bigotry and is facing a a boycott by local Jews after a regular customer—rabbi Julie Schwarzwald—was refused an order for kosher desserts she wanted for Pride Month. The Jewish Telegraphic Agency reports that Mittel’s understanding of Jewish law is…
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British Virgin Islanders told to ‘obey God’ when voting in a referendum on same-sex marriage
THE advice came earlier this year from Vice President of the BVI Christian Council, Rosemarie Flax, inset above, as the BVI—a British Overseas Territory—prepares to hold a vote to decide whether or not to legalise same-sex marriage. She said: It is always better to obey God over man. The Christian Council supports whoever God chooses…
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Grim Reaper shows up at a Texas church; gets doused with virgin olive oil and destroyed
STRIPPED down to it’s bare bones, Christianity is nothing more than a dangerous little death cult. For Christians, Dying From COVID (Or Anything Else) Is A Good Thing Joy Pullman, writing for The Federalist I’m guessing that this fact may well have been the motivation for the placing of a “demonic” statuette of the Grim…
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Afghan women ‘have all the rights afforded to them by Islam.’ Attending Beauty salons is not one of them.
IN an interview last year, Afganistan’s Foreign Affairs Ministry spokesman Abdul Quaha Balkhi, above, insisted that women, under Taliban rule, enjoy full rights in accordance “with Islamic law.“ Which means that they practically have no rights at all. Now its reported that beauty salons in the Islamic state have been banned, because beautification, apparently, is…
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America warned by loony Christian ‘pro-lifer’ against copying UK buffer zones around abortion clinics
EARLIER this year safe access zones—also known as abortion clinic “buffer zones”—were signed into law in England and Wales, protecting clinics and ensuring that those accessing or providing essential abortion care will soon be able to do so free from anti-choice harassment and intimidation. Now the head of Christian Concern, the utterly deranged Andrea Minichiello…
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A b**ch of a row erupts around the Pope’s new head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
ARCHBISHOP Víctor Manuel Fernández, above right, the newly-appointed head of the CDF—once called the Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Roman and Universal Inquisition—has accused those unhappy with his new role of deliberately mistranslating the Spanish word “bruja” (witch) into the “b” word. Looking for reasons to attack the prelate, seen by traditionalists as holding “heterodox…
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Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders unrepentent over cross outside her mansion: ‘I’m a Christian’
RESPONDING to a challenge from Americans United For Separation of Church and State the Christian Republican, above, told the organisation to take a hike, and that the cross, created by her kids is staying just where it is. According to Faithwire the organisation rightly pointed out that this was a violation of church/state separation. It…
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Christian ‘gay cure’ outfit wins compensation from a UK bank that closed its account
NORTHERN Ireland-based Core Issue Trust, headed by “ex-gay” Mike Davidson, above, has been awarded £20,000 in compensation plus legal costs by Barclays Bank, which closed CIT’s account in a 2020. But the bank has not reinstated the account, Davidson told Tory toff and leading Brexiteer Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg in an interview broadcast by right-wing GB…
Barry Duke, the Angry Atheist 