Author: Barry Duke
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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…
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God is hate. Elderly woman threatened with hell for painting steps of a church in rainbow colours.
PITT Street Uniting Church in Syney, Australia, has been at the forefront of the fight for LGBT+ equality since the 1980s. So it certainly would have had no quarrel with a woman—part of a small group—who decided to paint its stairs in rainbow colours to coincide with World Pride currently being held in the city.…
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Attendance at religious classes in Victoria slumps by a stupendous 99 percent
A WHILE back the state did a very smart thing. It scrapped religious education from schol classes. Now the non-mandatory classes, called Special Religious Instruction (SRI)— are held during lunchtime and before and after school. The move, according The Age, has seen attendances at these classes plummet by 99 percent in a decade. This is…
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Yorkshire police drawn into a row over ‘disrespect’ for a Quran at a Wakefield school
POLICE in the UK, like so many other services under the control of an utterly in competent Conservative government, are overworked and under-resourced, so my question today is why the hell did coppers get themselves involved in an incident involving “disrsepect” of a copy of a Quran at Wakefield’s Kettlethorpe High School? According to the…
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Angry Glasgow medic confronts supporters of a Texas-based anti-abortion group outside a hospital
40 Days for Life, which cruelly harasses women outside abortion facilities in the US and beyond, has a very far reach. Supporters of this aggressive outfit, led by Rose Docherty, above, showed up outside a maternity ward at Glasgow’s Queen Elizabeth University Hospital this week to hold a vigil. There they were confronted by Dr…
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Christian lawmaker tables a bill to protect religious hatemongers from being branded bigots
FLORIDA’S Repubican State Representative Alex Andrade, above, a buddy of Florida’s unhinged Governor Ron (“Don’t Say Gay”) DeSantis, wants to make it easier for zealots to sue media outlets and individuals who brand them bigots. Acting on a suggestion from DeSantis—notorious for hate speech and actions aimed at members of LGBT+ communities—Andrade this week introduced…
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Two Republican imbeciles want ‘sexually explicit’ books excluded from classrooms. Does that include the Bible?
THE two members of Congress—serial liar George Santos (New York) and far-right secessionist Marjorie Taylor Greene (Georgia), above—have co-sponsored a bill designed to prohibit publishers from “furnishing sexually explicit material” to public schools or educational agencies. Bill HR 863 played right into the hands of the Freedom From Religion Foundation, which warned the two “Comstockians”:…
Barry Duke, the Angry Atheist 