Category: Idiocy
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Doctor who believes ‘faith massively benefits health’ overstepped the mark by praying with a patient
KENT GP Richard Scott, above, who claims to have seen “cancers stop and regress” through the “scientic” application of prayer, overstepped the mark when he began discussing religion to vulnerable patient. According to this report a fitness to practise tribunal of the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) found that, although Scott told the 19-year-old patient…
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Judge orders airline lawyers to take ‘religious liberty’ lessons from hate group Alliance Defending Freedom
TRUMP-appointed Texas District Judge Brantley Starr this week ordered three attorneys for Southwest Airlines to receive “religious-liberty” training from the ADF in the wake of a case involving a “persecuted” Christian flight attendant Charlene Carter, inset above. CNN explained that last year a jury found that both Southwest and Transport Union Workers discriminated against Carter…
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Teacher who failed to ‘walk in a godly manner’ fired by Christian school
A BAPTIST school in Houston, Texas, sacked long-serving physical education instructor Kristi Maris, ringed above, after it got wind of the fact that she posed for a picture with three drag queens earlier this month and shared it on social media. The senior pastor at First Baptist Academy in Baytown justified the decision to fire…
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England is to get a £10-m ‘Eternal Wall of Answered Prayers’ thanks to the efforts of a crackpot Christian
ON learning that the ridiculous project—the result of a “vision” received from God by Richard Gamble, inset above— I was reminded of an observation on prayer by atheist writer David G. McAfee. Prayer doesn’t work. Perhaps it makes the believer feel better (in the same way that meditation or deep thought would), but prayer doesn’t…
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A b**ch of a row erupts around the Pope’s new head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
ARCHBISHOP Víctor Manuel Fernández, above right, the newly-appointed head of the CDF—once called the Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Roman and Universal Inquisition—has accused those unhappy with his new role of deliberately mistranslating the Spanish word “bruja” (witch) into the “b” word. Looking for reasons to attack the prelate, seen by traditionalists as holding “heterodox…
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A ‘Holy Spirit’ intervention will make the US more ‘moral’, says CEO of a multi-billion dollar food company
AMERICA is facing a “spiritual” disaster, and only “divine intervention” can save it, the CEO of Goya Foods—Bob Unanue, above—claimed in Fox Business video this week. Back in 2021, according to Wiki, his adoration of Trump almost got him ousted from the company when Goya’s board of directors voted to censure him following his his…
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Ghana has spent $58-million on a national cathedral. All it has to show for it is a bloody great hole in the ground
DESPITE being burdened with crippling debt and economic woes, Ghana began constructing the multi-million dollar cathedral in 2020 to fulfill a promise made to God by President, Nana Akufo-Addo, above. Akufo-Addo, according to Al Jazeera promised God that, if The Almighty would make him President in 2016, he would help build a cathedral “to his…
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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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Jesus was the ‘ultimate shaman’ who may have eaten magic mushrooms says loopy Capitol insurrectionist
SHORTLY after his release last month from prison for his part in the January 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection, Jacob Chansley, aka Jake Angeli, 36, tried to explain his potpourri of religious beliefs to a crowd of Christian nationalists at a “welcome home” gathering in Phoenix, Arizona. But the “QAnon shaman”, who served roughly a year…
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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…
Barry Duke, the Angry Atheist 