Author: Barry Duke
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‘Flipping the bird’ is not a crime. It is ‘a God-given right,’ Quebec judge rules.
Photo by Engin Akyurt via Unsplash OVER the years I have had many a run-in with Christian street preachers, but only once was I admonished by a police officer for giving the finger to a loon brandishing a silly sign that said “anal penetration leads to eternal damnation!” This occurred at a Pride rally in…
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Pastor floored and arrested for aggressively protesting a drag queen story event
AFTER languishing in a Calgary jail cell for a week, pastor Derek Reimer, of Mission7 street ministry, agreed to bail conditions that prevent him having any contact with members of the LGBT+ community. One far-right Christian site—LifeSiteNews— reported that he agreed to the conditions in order to receive medical treatment for an unspecified “health condition.”…
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Cop joins ranks of ‘persecuted’ Christians after posting a dumb homophobic message on social media
Images via YouTube and Facebook CIVIC leaders in Port Wentworth, Georgia, are to receive a petition on Friday calling on the mayor and city council to apologise for their “discriminative” treatment of former Officer Jacob Kersey, 20, above. Kersey, a turbo-charged Christian bigot, quit the police department in January after he was placed on paid…
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Claiming Jesus was a ‘military leader’ is ‘absolutely not religious’, said some fool in the US army
Image via YouTube/Paradise P.D. (Spanish) A TRAINING programme titled “Leadership Lessons of the Lord Jesus Christ” at an unnamed US military unit was stopped in its tracks after a group of basic recruits said “fuck this for a game of soldiers.” The group, comprising 112 personnel and a senior non-commissioned officer (NCO) who represented them,…
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NY Mayor Eric Adams ‘can’t separate his Christian beliefs from his government duties.’
Image via YouTube ADAMS—hosting a recent “interfaith prayer breakfast”— appeared to trash America’s long-established policy of separation between church and state in what sounded more of a sermon than a speech. The Democrat and former police officer who claimed last year that he was “chosen by God” to become the Big Apple’s Mayor, said: Don’t…
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Detroit priest who sodomised an boy aged 11, jailed for three to 15 years
Fr Joseph (Jack) Baker. Image via the Archdiocese of Detroit. WHEN I was editing the now all-but-defunct Freethinker I frequently received emails from angry Catholics, accusing me of trawling the media with the sole aim of discrediting the RCC by focusing on its world-wide paedophilia crisis. These communications invariably made the point that the RCC…
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‘Holy’ oil, specially prepared in Jerusalem, will be used in King Charles’ hugely expensive coronation
A splash of this and a dollop of that. Images of King Charles III and the Patriarchate of Jerusalem via YouTube. THE “slimmed down” coronation of King Charles III in May, costing more than £120,000 million, will feature a concoction of sesame, rose, jasmine, cinnamon, neroli, benzoin, and orange blossom—and a massive dose of superstitious…
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Irish Pastafarian, rejected as a Defence Forces chaplain, wins religious discrimination case
Images via YouTube & Etsy AN ordained minister for the Congergational Church of the Flying Monster, “pasta” John Hamill, above, suffered discrimination at the hands of the Irish Defence Forces, the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) ruled this week. Hammill, who said in an Atheist Ireland lecture delivered at Manooth University in Co Kildare that his…
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An anti-abortion Christian judge, nominated by Trump, is to rule on an abortion pill
Image via Wikimedia CC Matthew Kacsmaryk, 45, is a federal judge for the Amarillo division of the Northern District of Texas and is soon expected to rule on a lawsuit seeking to ban an FDA-approved abortion pill—a decision that could have nationwide implications for the drug’s availability. According to Business Insider, the suit, filed by…
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‘Call me a Nazi’, says pastor who vows to rid Texas of all ‘immoral’ books
IN 2014, blowhard Baptist preacher Rick Scarborough, above, said God would be justified to nuke America for having gay ambassadors. A year later the self-declared “Christocrat” vowed to set himself on fire if same-sex marriage was legalised – and he urged like-minded pastors to shoot themselves if such a horror were ever to befall the…
Barry Duke, the Angry Atheist 