Category: Christianity
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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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‘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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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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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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Faith-based health care company scammed millions from Christians, says FBI
MISSOURI-based Medical Cost Sharing Ministry, headed by CE0 Craig Reynolds, inset, targeted Christians wanting an alternative to ObamaCare. Medical Cost Sharing Inc, according to the FBI, attempted to lower payouts, failed to negotiate prices down with healthcare providers and, in some cases, entirely avoided covering members’ medical costs by using “specious” excuses. Among those who…
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Christian fundamentalist Kate Forbes’ ambition to be the next leader of the Scottish National Party falters badly
FORBES’ campaign to replace Nicola Sturgeon, who announced she was standing down as SNP leader, pretty much hit the rocks after her primitive views on same-sex marriage and having children out of wedlock were widely exposed this week. Forbes, currently Scotland’s Finance Minister, is a member of the evangelical Free Church of Scotland, known as…
Barry Duke, the Angry Atheist 