Category: Evangelists
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Hate preacher Franklin Graham invites people he despises—gays and Muslims—to be ‘saved’ at his UK gigs
GRAHAM, left, recently pictured with god-besotted former U.S. Vice President Mike Pence, was left spitting tacks in 2020 after various UK venues banned him from preaching, labelling his abhorrent views on homosexuality and Islam as homophobic. The Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA) subsequently took legal action on the grounds of freedom of speech and freedom…
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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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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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Fundraiser launched for funeral of devout Christian wrestler and millionaire Superstar Billy Graham
VARIOUS sites, including this one, estimate Graham’s net worth as $5-million at the time of his death aged 79 on May 17. Despite this, $25,000 is being solicited for his funeral and hospital expenses via GoFundMe. An update to the appeal posted yesterday (Monday) says: 25 thousand is needed by Friday for funeral related expenses,…
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Disruptive Christian postman sues USPS for not allowing him to ‘glorify God’ on Sundays
ANOTHER day, another “persecuted” Christian …. this time an evangelical Christian missionary—Gerald Groff, above—who claims he was bullied into resigning from the US Postal Service in 2019 because he refused to work on the Sabbath. That refusal imposed a significant cost on operations at the small rural Pennsylvanian depot at which he worked. Furthermore his…
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US Christian hatemongers spawned Uganda’s latest anti-LGBT+ bill, says lawmaker
FOX Odoi-Oywelowo, above, is one of only two Ugandan MPs who voted against the country’s controversial and draconian Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2023 that was passed by Parliament this week. It punishes homosexuality by life in prison—and advocates for the death penalty in certain cases. In an interview published by Open Democracy, Odoi-Oywelowo, a longtime member of…
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Claiming that ‘homosexuals are invading the Church’ is not homophobic, bleats sacked evangelical lecturer
Dr Aaron Edwards, above, a father of five, was dismissed for misconduct by Cliff College, a Methodist college in Derbyshire, after he was accused of bringing the college into disrepute on Twitter. He now making suing noises. EDWARDS, 37, is “considering his legal options” and believes the college has discriminated against him by breaching its…
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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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‘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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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…
Barry Duke, the Angry Atheist 