Category: Christianity
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Godless and godly: a tale of two cities named Norwich
UNTIL 2011, Norwich in Norfolk proudly held the title of the least religious city in England, and today it boast the 3rd-highest number of LGBT+ people outside London. But Norwich in Ontario presents a very different picture. And it’s not pretty! Here municipal matters are deeply influenced by The Netherlands Reformed Congregation (NRC), and it…
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PETA re-writes the creation myth in a vegan Bible; calls objectors ‘wrong-headed’
ANIMAL sacrifice runs rampant throughout Scripture because “without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.” All this bloodshed is totally unacceptable, according People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), which has taken liberties with the Bible in a new publication entitled The Book: PETA’s Version of the Creation Story. Produced as a digital…
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The US was ‘built with the King James Bible and a gun’ says NY Baptist preacher
BACK in 2014 Pastor John Koletas, of Grace Baptist Church in Troy, NY, got grilled over his decision to hold a gun give-away in his church. His answer was he thought his church was “the best place” for prize of an AR-15 rifle because it teaches people to arm and defend themselves in accordance with…
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The ghost of Benedict XVI is on tour, claiming he was ousted as Pope and was the victim of ‘slow euthanasia’
SHORTLY after his death in December, 2022, Joseph Ratzinger appeared before Sister Benedicta of the Holy Cross in Colombia on February 2, 2023, and warned of “impending doom.” During his lengthy discourse with the nun, Ratzinger, who died aged 95, revealed that his death was a case of “slow euthanasia.” Not only did Ratzinger identify…
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King Charles’ s coronation ‘is first and foremost an act of Christian worship’ says Archbishop of Canterbury
WHEN Charles is crowned king on May 6 at a service at Westminster Abbey, the entire country will be asked to swear a religious oath of allegiance to the monarch. Those watching the crowning have been asked to say: I swear that I will pay true allegiance to your majesty, and to your heirs and…
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Florida’s wacky Governor set out recently to woo young evangelicals. Now he’s in the UK, but to what end?
EARLIER this month Ron “Don’t Say Gay” DeSantis told 10,000 ecstatic Christian students at Liberty University in Virginia that his state—a “refuge of sanity” and a “citadel of freedom”—was where “woke goes to die.” DeSantis, who positions himself as a defender of “God-fearing” people, often refers to putting on “the full armor of God”—a biblical…
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Christian teacher, sacked over her objection to an utterly inoffensive kid’s book, is awarded $181,000
ALL Are Welcome is an innocuous New York Times bestselling picture book about a school where diversity and inclusion are celebrated. But diversity and inclusion are alien concepts to Lindsey Barr, above. In her hateful world all are assuredly unwelcome! After expressing concern over some the images in the book, claiming they depicted same-sex couples,…
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Solved! The mystery of the disappearing Bibles at Arizona’s State Capitol
PUZZLED over the disappearance of Bibles from the members-only lounge at the House of Representatives—one was discovered secreted in a fridge—officials set up a video camera in a bid to find the culprit. It was only then that the miscreant was unmasked. It turned out to be Arizona State Representative Stephanie Stahl Hamilton, above, a…
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‘Don’t link death cult with religion,’ says Kenya’s evangelical President
LATEST reports from Kenya, where police are combing a forest occupied by a Christian cult led by pastor Paul Mackenzie Nthenge, above, indicate that 73 bodies have now been recovered, with more expected. The death toll, which has continued to rise as exhumations of shallow graves are carried out, could rise further. The Kenyan Red…
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What’s the point of proselytising to prisoners when the vast majority are already Christians?
I POSE the question because I just learned that Virginia’s Republican Governor Glenn Youngkin, above, had recently donated $43,750 of his annual salary of $750,00 salary to an outfit called the Good News Jail & Prison Ministry. This struck me as being an exercise in futility because Christians make up a disproportionate number of the…
Barry Duke, the Angry Atheist 