Category: Christianity
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Church’s financial director stole $350,000 to buy sex toys and other personal items
CHURCHES are notorious for their inability to safeguard children and the vulnerable. Oh, and money, as a new report about the arrest of Sara Ann Mock-Butler, inset above, indicates. The Colorado Springs woman, who was employed at Pikes Peak Christian Church, is accused of nicking about $350,000 in church funds to purchase items for her…
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With an abuse case pending against dead Pope Ratzinger, relatives say no to his money
IN January this year it was reported that a court case in Germany against the late Pope Benedict XVI will continue in spite of his death. He was accused of covering up sexual abuse committed by a priest during his time as Archbishop of Munich and Freising. The case, according to Religion News Service, raises…
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The LGBT+ agenda ‘has done more for the cause of U.S. Christian nationalism than anyone or anything else’
THAT’S the view of Shane Schaetzel, above, a Catholic commentator who took to Twitter this week to predict that the number of Christian nationalists in America “will only get higher the more the Alphabet People keep pushing their agenda. So by all means, keep pushing that ‘Pride.’” Schaetzel was reacting to a Gallup poll that…
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Pat Robertson dead at 93: Here are some of his most ludicrous pronouncements.
OVER many decades Robertson, above, founder of The 700 Club TV show, proved gift to secular news outlets, atheist bloggers and satirists for dishing out hare-brained statements. The wackiest of these centred on God’s wrath and the punishments he brought down upon the heads of “sinners.” Example: he claimed that the terrorist attacks that killed…
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Church goes to pot: pastor & son turned South Side Baptist into a drugs outlet after it allegedly shut due to Covid
WHEN police recently raided North Carolina’s South Side Baptist Church, operated by pastor Josh Price, 50, and his son Matthew, 28, inset above, they found cannabis plants, “magic mushrooms” and other substances. In a Facebook post, Davidson County Sheriff’s Office announced: On Sunday May 28th 2023, Deputies with the Davidson County Sheriff’s Office Patrol Division…
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Catholic cleric who railed against ‘psychosexually dysfunctional’ priests faces child pornography charges
FOLLOWING his arrest in October, 2021, for possessing child porn, Father James W. Jackson, a Rhode Island priest, was detained for the second time last year in Kansas for allegedly violating the conditions of his release. His trial is about to commence shortly. And here’s the kicker: Just weeks before his first arrest, Jackson wrote…
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AI may be the greatest threat to Christianity since Darwin’s ‘On the Origin of Species’
Around 60 years ago I became enthused by the idea of artificial intelligence (AI), mainly through the writings of futurist Ray Bradbury, and I can still vividly recall his short story “I Sing the Body Electric!” published in 1969. In it, he presents an AI robot called “Grandma” who serves as a caregiver for children.…
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At the root of Uganda’s draconian anti-gay law is the belief that it would make it ‘a more Christian nation’
WHETHER or not Uganda will become even more god-besotted than it already is is debatable, but what is certain is that the country could become a whole lot poorer as a result of President Yoweri Museveni, above, signing into law a revised version of an earlier anti-homosexuality bill. This was made clear when President Biden…
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Baptist leader and wife charged with poisoning neighbours’ three dogs
NORTH Carolina Baptist leader James David “Jim” Goldston III was, until recently, a board member of an animal rescue organisation. But he promptly quit when he and his wife Agnes were charged with poisoning three dogs belonging to their neighbours . The arrest of the pair led to Goldston’s resignation from Saving Grace Animals for…
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Catholic League’s Bill Donohue brands Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence ‘an anti-Catholic hate group’
HOW many queers hate Catholics? Catholic League President Bill Donohue, inset above, posed this question after it was announced that the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, would after all, perform at a Los Angeles Dodgers game on June 16. He answered his own question: It’s hard to say, but it is clear beyond a shadow of…
Barry Duke, the Angry Atheist 