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Catholic bishops prayed for a massive swing to the right in Spain’s general election. Mercifully, it didn’t happen.
FOR one horrible moment last week I thought that the highly progressive country I chose to settle in almost 14 years ago would lurch to the right, giving greater power to the misogynistic and deeply homophobic Vox Party, led by Santiago Abascal, above. I had every reason to be apprehensive. Polls ahead of last Sunday’s…
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The gulf between Hungary’s ‘illiberal’ Christian democracy and the ‘anti-family’ European Union widens
UNDER the leadership of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, above, a pro-Russian member of the Calvinist Hungarian Reformed Church, the country has increasingly found itself at loggerheads with the values of the E.U. The latest manifestation of Orbán’s hostility to the E.U. took place in Transylvania, Romania, last week where he accused the the E.U. of…
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Restaurant company that employed a bogus priest to hear workers’ confessions labeled ‘shameless’
WAGE and hour investigators in California have dealt with numerous cases of a “corrupt” employees stiffing staff, but were taken aback when they learned that one company—Che Garibaldi—had used a fake priest to take “confessions” from workers. The U.S. Department of Labor said in a statement that Che Garibaldi’s attempt to use the “priest” to…
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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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Christians warned against seeing Barbie: ‘It’s hardcore propaganda’
WHEN a friend jokingly asked me at the weekend whether I intended seeing Mattel and Warner Bros’ Barbie my reply was “I’d sooner rub acid in my eyes!” But now, having read an attack on the film by Christian reviewer Dr Ted Baehr, inset above, I’m having second throughts. Baehr, who runs faith-based Movieguide, told…
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Ultra-Orthodox Jewish media continues erasing images of women, but this feminist is fighting back
FOR more than a decade, Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll, above, an Orthodox Jewish feminist, has been chronicling the gradual disappearance of women from magazines, advertisements and other media in Israel. In reporting on her activities, Religion News Service provided a recent example: The front page of ultra-Orthodox Shacharit newspaper, inset above. When it covered Israeli President…
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Rabbi arrested and sentenced for stealing a Palestinian rights banner from Cleveland State University
BACK in February, a banner belonging to a campus Palestinian rights group was stolen, leaving students and police puzzled as who would do such a thing. Days later the anwer was provided by the culprit himself: Orthodox rabbi Alexander Popivker, above, who used Instagram to confess. He wrote: As an act of civil disobedience I…
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Exposed: The Christian Nationalist challenging books in S. Carolina. A Holocaust novel is on her hit list.
ELIZABETH Ivie Szalai—affiliated with designated White Christian Nationalist hate group Moms for Liberty—appears to be avoiding questions from the Jewish Telegraphic Agency after it revealed this week that the 1966 novel The Fixer is on a list of around 100 books she wants removed from school libraries in Beaufort County, South Carolina. JTA reported that…
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Fort Worth sued for denying an atheist group permission to display anti-Christian nationalism banners
ANNOUNCING this week that Metroplex Atheists have launched a lawsuit against the Texas city, Geoffrey Blackwell, above—litigation counsel for American Atheists—declared that “free speech is free speech, whether or not the government likes that speech or certain members of the community object to it.” According to American Atheists, the lawsuit comes on the heels of…
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‘Bible-believing’ councillor ‘cancelled’ by UK’s Conservative Party & others for labeling Pride event ‘sinful’
AFTER learning via social media that nudity had been observed during a Pride event, King Lawal, above, tweeted his displeasure over “sinful” and “illegal” activity. As a consequence the 31-year-old got himself suspended earlier this month from his role of Conservative party councillor in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, and is now making suing noises, claiming his “life…
Barry Duke, the Angry Atheist
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- Off the hook. Serial evangelical abuser Jonathan Fletcher won’t stand trial.
- American Christian nationalism v theocratic Iran: a recipe for utter disaster
- Christian nutjob, ‘who thinks The Wizard of Oz was a documentary,’ axed by South Australian Liberal Party
- Money-grubbing US preacher Sean (‘Goldilocks’) Feucht sued over misused $250,00 donation
- Religious book-burners awarded $1.5-m by US Supreme Court over two LGBTQ school books
- Off the hook. Serial evangelical abuser Jonathan Fletcher won’t stand trial.
As someone who produced dozens of nativity plays as a teacher and a Sunday School leader, that title ‘A Gay…
The defence of a Christian view never seems to be settled by debate: exchange of facts, reference to historical events.…
But …… Rwanda is a safe place: Parliament says so.https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2024/8/contentsSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Act 2024 S 2 Safety…
Religion can survive only on the most unquestionable assumptions. The statements made on Sundays on the BBC as if they…
“The curriculum had already drawn tensions among the county’s religious parents, with some worrying about appropriateness and arguing the material…
As someone who produced dozens of nativity plays as a teacher and a Sunday School leader, that title ‘A Gay…
The defence of a Christian view never seems to be settled by debate: exchange of facts, reference to historical events.…
But …… Rwanda is a safe place: Parliament says so.https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2024/8/contentsSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Act 2024 S 2 Safety…
Religion can survive only on the most unquestionable assumptions. The statements made on Sundays on the BBC as if they…
“The curriculum had already drawn tensions among the county’s religious parents, with some worrying about appropriateness and arguing the material…
As someone who produced dozens of nativity plays as a teacher and a Sunday School leader, that title ‘A Gay…
The defence of a Christian view never seems to be settled by debate: exchange of facts, reference to historical events.…
But …… Rwanda is a safe place: Parliament says so.https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2024/8/contentsSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Act 2024 S 2 Safety…
Religion can survive only on the most unquestionable assumptions. The statements made on Sundays on the BBC as if they…
“The curriculum had already drawn tensions among the county’s religious parents, with some worrying about appropriateness and arguing the material…
As someone who produced dozens of nativity plays as a teacher and a Sunday School leader, that title ‘A Gay…
The defence of a Christian view never seems to be settled by debate: exchange of facts, reference to historical events.…
But …… Rwanda is a safe place: Parliament says so.https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2024/8/contentsSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Act 2024 S 2 Safety…
Religion can survive only on the most unquestionable assumptions. The statements made on Sundays on the BBC as if they…
“The curriculum had already drawn tensions among the county’s religious parents, with some worrying about appropriateness and arguing the material…
As someone who produced dozens of nativity plays as a teacher and a Sunday School leader, that title ‘A Gay…
The defence of a Christian view never seems to be settled by debate: exchange of facts, reference to historical events.…
But …… Rwanda is a safe place: Parliament says so.https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2024/8/contentsSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Act 2024 S 2 Safety…
Religion can survive only on the most unquestionable assumptions. The statements made on Sundays on the BBC as if they…
“The curriculum had already drawn tensions among the county’s religious parents, with some worrying about appropriateness and arguing the material…
As someone who produced dozens of nativity plays as a teacher and a Sunday School leader, that title ‘A Gay…
The defence of a Christian view never seems to be settled by debate: exchange of facts, reference to historical events.…
But …… Rwanda is a safe place: Parliament says so.https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2024/8/contentsSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Act 2024 S 2 Safety…
Religion can survive only on the most unquestionable assumptions. The statements made on Sundays on the BBC as if they…
“The curriculum had already drawn tensions among the county’s religious parents, with some worrying about appropriateness and arguing the material…
As someone who produced dozens of nativity plays as a teacher and a Sunday School leader, that title ‘A Gay…
The defence of a Christian view never seems to be settled by debate: exchange of facts, reference to historical events.…
But …… Rwanda is a safe place: Parliament says so.https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2024/8/contentsSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Act 2024 S 2 Safety…
Religion can survive only on the most unquestionable assumptions. The statements made on Sundays on the BBC as if they…
Barry Duke, the Angry Atheist 
“The curriculum had already drawn tensions among the county’s religious parents, with some worrying about appropriateness and arguing the material…