Category: Idiocy
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Priest who destroyed African idols says ‘it’s about the coolest thing I’ve ever done’
MISSIONARY priest Fr William Ryan, above, who is based in Togo, recently invited his brother Peter, also a priest, to participate in engage in an act of Catholic vandalism. He then gleefully boasted that his sibling, who was visiting him at a mission in the east African country, had used a sledgehammer to reduce, “with…
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Mass hysteria breaks out in US cinemas screening ‘Come Out in Jesus Name’
DEMONS by the numbers, demons by the score were cast out in around 2,000 cinemas across America this month where Come Out “dropped a spiritual bomb on the forces of Satan.” One person who watched this inexorable garbage attested on this review site: I manifested 4500 demons and people were throwing up green goop; we…
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US Catholic bishops rail against ‘aquamation’, an eco-friendly alternative to burial
CONCERNED that members of their cult might be drawn to what what they wrongly believe is a newfangled method of disposing of human remains—alkaline hydrolysis, or “aquamation”—the US Conference of Catholic Bishops have issued a statement condemning the process. The statement says: In recent years, newer methods and technologies for disposition of the bodies of…
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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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Yorkshire police drawn into a row over ‘disrespect’ for a Quran at a Wakefield school
POLICE in the UK, like so many other services under the control of an utterly in competent Conservative government, are overworked and under-resourced, so my question today is why the hell did coppers get themselves involved in an incident involving “disrsepect” of a copy of a Quran at Wakefield’s Kettlethorpe High School? According to the…
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Catholics lavish $50-million on a Blessed Stanley Rother shrine and gift shop in Oklahoma City
IN a bid to spread the “cult” of America’s first martyr—an Oklahoma priest assassinated in Guatemala in 1981, a $50 million shrine was dedicated yesterday. ARCHBISHOP Paul Coakley of Oklahoma City said in this report: To spread his cult, as we call it in the church, to increase devotion to him shouldn’t be hard. If…
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Pastor tries to reenact Jesus’ 40-day fast, dies on 38th day
The Bible claims that Jesus went onto the wilderness where he was tempted by the Devil. Francisco Barajah, inset, a pastor in Mozambique, tried to reenact the myth, but the stunt went horribly wrong. BARAJAH, who founded the Santa Trindade Evangelical Church in the central province of Manica, was unable to stand, bathe, or walk…
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‘Blasphemous’ Darwin: Bangladesh joins other Islamic countries in a war against evolutionary teaching
Religious institutions in Qatar, Oman, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Egypt and Turkey have issued fatwas against the theory of evolution. Now we learn that in Bangladesh has bowed to Islamist pressure and has excluded Darwin from classrooms. REPORTING on the row for Eurasia Review, P. K. Balachandran, wrote that the two parties had described the Darwinian…
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Row erupts over a pig’s ‘penis’ at a Michigan school
Back in 2010 all hell broke loose at an Oklahoma Catholic Church—St. Charles Borromeo—over a crucifix that many claimed was obscene. Now something similar has occurred in Michigan where a schoolgirl, aged 11, was traumatised after being accused by an art teacher of drawing a pig with ‘boy parts’. JUST when I a thought I’d…
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Jesus ads at the Super Bowl will target millions who are are ‘spiritually open, but skeptical.’
A staggering sum of $20-million will spent to market Jesus worldwide at the event on February 12. How will non-religious football fans react to the ‘He Gets Us‘ campaign? MY guess is that they will yawn, dismiss it as a monumental waste of money and simply get on with their lives. One thing is certain:…
Barry Duke, the Angry Atheist 