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Finland’s ‘Bible trial’ enters a new phase as prosecutors appeal the acquittal of a Lutheran homophobe
FINNISH authorities stand accused of waging war on Christianity by Christian lawmaker Dr. Päivi Räsänen, above, who has been ordered to attend an appeal court hearing later this year. Premier Christian News reported that Räsänen’s run-in with Finnish anti-hate speech laws began in 2019 when she took to Twitter to express concern that her church…
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Court sides with a Catholic school that ordered a guidance instructor to dissolve her marriage or resign
FIVE years ago Shelly Fitzgerald, co-director of guidance at Roncalli High School in Indianapolis, was stunned when the President of the school confronted her with a copy of her marriage certificate and demanded to know why it bore the names of two women. When Fitzgerald explained that she had married her long-term partner Victoria—the couple…
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Volodymyr Zelensky is a Jew, ‘but not a good one’, opines Roseanne Barr
A FEW months back Barr, above, promised later-to-be sacked Fox News presenter Tucker Carlson that, in the midst of “cancel culture”, she, and other comedians would be “more offensive that they have ever been before.” The famous and very wealthy comedian made true on that promise in June with a “sarcastic” remark about the Holocaust.…
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U.N. votes to criminalise the desecration ‘holy books’ in a move slammed as imposing ‘blasphemy laws by stealth’
MEMBERS of the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) this week voted in favour of a resolution for the “deliberately and publicly” burning of the Quran or “any other holy book” to be prohibited by law. The UK-based National Secular Society (NSS)—which, along with Humanists UK, played a key role in the abolition of blasphemy laws…
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Predatory Jesuit priest who may have drugged and sexually abused more than 50 men is jailed for 25 years
STEPHEN Sauer, above, was handed the sentence in Lousiana on July 7 after he pleaded guilty to multiple charges involving 17 adult victims. His crimes, according to this report, were centred around the French Quarter neighborhood of New Orleans. Detectives believe that there are more than 50 victims who remain unidentified. The former Catholic priest…
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Pastor’s recent call for the execution of parents of trans people is an extension of religious moral panics
WHEN I learned this week that Edinburgh had acquired a Museum of Magic, Fortune-telling and Witchcraft, created to cast light light on a grisly period in Scottish history when nearly 4,000 people were accused and 2,500 executed for witchcraft, I immediately made a connection between past religious moral panics and recent reports centred on hysterical…
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Jewish baker who refused a rabbi’s order for Pride Month confectionery claims he’s a ‘victim of intolerance’
YITZY Mittel, co-owner of the West Orange Bake Shop in New Jersey, is being accused of bigotry and is facing a a boycott by local Jews after a regular customer—rabbi Julie Schwarzwald—was refused an order for kosher desserts she wanted for Pride Month. The Jewish Telegraphic Agency reports that Mittel’s understanding of Jewish law is…
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British Virgin Islanders told to ‘obey God’ when voting in a referendum on same-sex marriage
THE advice came earlier this year from Vice President of the BVI Christian Council, Rosemarie Flax, inset above, as the BVI—a British Overseas Territory—prepares to hold a vote to decide whether or not to legalise same-sex marriage. She said: It is always better to obey God over man. The Christian Council supports whoever God chooses…
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Grim Reaper shows up at a Texas church; gets doused with virgin olive oil and destroyed
STRIPPED down to it’s bare bones, Christianity is nothing more than a dangerous little death cult. For Christians, Dying From COVID (Or Anything Else) Is A Good Thing Joy Pullman, writing for The Federalist I’m guessing that this fact may well have been the motivation for the placing of a “demonic” statuette of the Grim…
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Afghan women ‘have all the rights afforded to them by Islam.’ Attending Beauty salons is not one of them.
IN an interview last year, Afganistan’s Foreign Affairs Ministry spokesman Abdul Quaha Balkhi, above, insisted that women, under Taliban rule, enjoy full rights in accordance “with Islamic law.“ Which means that they practically have no rights at all. Now its reported that beauty salons in the Islamic state have been banned, because beautification, apparently, is…
Barry Duke, the Angry Atheist
Pointing and laughing at religious lunacy for more than half-a-century
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- 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.
- 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…