Category: Christianity
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Boy, 11, shared a bed with a convicted child molester at a creationist theme park
A VISITOR to evangelist Kent Hovind’s Dinosaur Adventure Land (DAL) in Alabama brought a young Black kid to the tacky attraction and ended up sleeping with the boy in a bed provided by the man known as “Dr Dino.“ In a lengthy report about criminal activities and other dodgy goings-on at the “Darwin-free” DAL, Kelly…
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Why is worship in schools still mandatory when religious belief among the young in the UK is plummeting?
Images via Pexels LUDICROUS as it may seem, each pupil attending a community, foundation or voluntary school in England is required to take part in an act of collective worship each school day. This, despite the fact that more than 50 percent of young people—the baby boomers, the millennials and generation Z—are all turning away…
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UK Islamic group accuses Church of England of a ‘witchhunt’ against banned priest Dr Stephen Sizer
The action against Sizer, a conservative evangelical, received the full support of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, but has been slammed by the Islamic Human Rights Commission (IHRC), which accused the C of E of a “witchhunt.” According to the BBC in December Sizer—vicar of Christ Church, Virginia Water, Surrey, for 20 years, until…
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Brace yourselves for another execrable ‘Left behind’ movie
FEW movies are so abysmal that they score 0% on Rotten Tomatoes, but that’s what happened when Left Behind, featuring Nicholas Cage hit cinema screens in 2014. Despite being universally panned by critics—with the exception of those who lavished praise on it in Christian publications—it did manage to gross $27-million against its $16 million production…
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Christian cake creator loses Colorado Court of Appeals case
Image via YouTube JACK PHILLIPS, above, gained international notoriety more than a decade ago when he refused to make a wedding cake for a gay couple. What followed was a series of court hearings that went all the way up to the US Supreme court where the devout owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop in suburban Denver…
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Catholic school careers counselor sacked over Wiccans’ crystal gifts to pupils
Image by EPro via Pexels AFTER complaints were lodged by some pupils at North Catholic High School in the Diocese of Pittsburgh, administrators decided that crystals did not fit in with approved Catholic tchotchkes. So they decided to ask the counselor, who has asked not to be been identified, to resign. The ridiculous saga began…
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Maltese poster boy for ‘ex-gay’ outfits faces trial
Image via YouTube MATTHEW Grech, above, who found Jesus and claims he’s now ‘ex-gay’, is accused of violating Malta’s conversion therapy ban. Image via YouTube What happens in Malta should be of no concern to the Christian Legal Centre, headed by the deranged Andrea Minichiello Williams, above. However the CLC has announced that it is…
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After 15 die in South African river baptism, blame is shifted to climate change
Stock baptism image via Pexels. IN a piece that appears to partially deflect blame for the tragedy that occurred last month, Christianity Daily yesterday carried a report that suggested that South Africans as a whole have not come to terms with climate change. The Christian news outlet quoted Retief Müller, a South African theologian and…
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UK human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell says Christianity is not about discrimination. He’s profoundly wrong.
Image via YouTube I LIKE Peter Tatchell … a lot! He and I have met up on a number of occasions at various LGBT+ rights rallies in London over half-a-century, and I was dead chuffed when he came to congratulate me on winning a lifetime achievement award in 2017 at a ceremony organised by the…
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Trump’s got the hump with evangelical leaders; accuses them of ‘disloyalty’.
Image via YouTube RATED one of the worst Presidents in US history, Trump luxuriated in all the prayers and adoration showered on him by some of America’s looniest evangelical leaders, who regularly strode into the White House during his term as if they owned the damn place. But now his relationship with these god-besotted morons…
Barry Duke, the Angry Atheist 