Author: Barry Duke
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‘Bible was ‘ahead of its time in its progressive attitude to women,’ says church warden
Photo by Sarah Noltner on Unsplash THIS preposterous statement comes from Carol Carruthers, warden at St Fimbarrus Parish Church in Fowey, Cornwall, after the church got branded as “sexist” for refusing to to allow a woman to be its next vicar. St Fimbarrus has not had a vicar for four years and is now casting…
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The FBI partnered with white evangelicals in a bid create a Christian nationalist nation
Images via YouTube & Princeton University Press EDGAR Hoover, who served as the first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation from 1935 to 1972, was a thoroughly nasty piece of work who masterminded a programme to identify gays working for federal agencies in order to have them fired. His animosity towards homosexuals most likely…
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NZ Christian school will shut down because it can’t offer ‘cures’ for homosexuality
1 News screenshot IVY Tan, above, a spokesperson for Kaitaia Abundant Life School in New Zealand described as “horrendous” a law that prevents it from offering conversion therapy to pupils who identify as gay. At the beginning of 2023 NZ became the latest country to outlaw cruel and discredited interventions aimed at turning gays “straight”,…
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Catholic Church fears ‘persecution’ as Michigan moves to strengthen LGBT+ protections.
Governor Gretchen Whitmer. Image via YouTube ACROSS America fanatical anti-LGBT+ and anti-transgender religious groups are waging a coordinated campaign to restrict LGBTQI+ rights and are targeting transgender youth in particular. But Michigan is bucking this disturbing trend. Democrat Governor Gretchen Whitmer says she will sign an amendment to the state’s Civil Rights Act that includes protections…
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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…
Barry Duke, the Angry Atheist 