Category: Christianity
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Police remove protesters from a Lisbon church that hosted an LGBT+ Mass during World Youth Day
GIVEN the rampant misogyny, homophobia and emotional and physical abuse that characterises the Roman Catholic Church it beggars belief that people—especially members of LGBT+ communities—would want to be associated in any way with this toxic, multinational corporation. But the sad truth is that suckers for punishment exist in all walks of life, none more so…
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Baptist seminary is in the red to the tune of $140-million, partly because lavish of spending by its ex-President
EVEN before Adam Greenway, above, became President of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Texas in 2019, the school had an enormous deficit that worsened after $1.5-million was spent on renovations and decorations for his official residence on campus. Religion News Service reports that Green, whose tenure lasted less than three years before he resigned last…
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If this Ohio lawmaker gets his way proselytizing Christian bullies in the US military will get a free pass
IN “an almost inconceivable” move, Ohio Republican congressman Mike Turner of Ohio, above, introduced legislation earlier this year to make it illegal for members of the U.S. military to communicate in any way with the Military Religious Freedom Foundation. Turner’s determination to completely neuter the MMRF —established to oppose the spread of religious intimidation by…
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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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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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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…
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Christians warned against seeing Barbie: ‘It’s hardcore propaganda’
WHEN a friend jokingly asked me at the weekend whether I intended seeing Mattel and Warner Bros’ Barbie my reply was “I’d sooner rub acid in my eyes!” But now, having read an attack on the film by Christian reviewer Dr Ted Baehr, inset above, I’m having second throughts. Baehr, who runs faith-based Movieguide, told…
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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…
Barry Duke, the Angry Atheist 