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Reviving G W Foote’s legacy helped me shed a burden of despair
Reflections on the first month of The Angry Atheist Latest comments FEBRUARY 1 marked my 76th birthday. Unlike my miserable 75th, which came a fortnight before I was sacked from my post of Freethinker editor, it was a day to celebrate the positive new turn my life had taken. After spending almost a year in…
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Women should have no say in how many kids they have. That choice lies with their husbands.
Image via YouTube Recent comments HATE preacher Jonathan Shelley, above, of the Stedfast Baptist Church in Watauga, Texas, briefly turned his attention away from attacking LGBT+ people to excoriate “effeminate” men who allow women bodily autonomy. In a video that has so far been viewed more than 70,000 times, the sexist imbecile said: How effeminate…
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Why is worship in schools still mandatory when religious belief among the young in the UK is plummeting?
Images via Pexels LUDICROUS as it may seem, each pupil attending a community, foundation or voluntary school in England is required to take part in an act of collective worship each school day. This, despite the fact that more than 50 percent of young people—the baby boomers, the millennials and generation Z—are all turning away…
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UK Islamic group accuses Church of England of a ‘witchhunt’ against banned priest Dr Stephen Sizer
The action against Sizer, a conservative evangelical, received the full support of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, but has been slammed by the Islamic Human Rights Commission (IHRC), which accused the C of E of a “witchhunt.” According to the BBC in December Sizer—vicar of Christ Church, Virginia Water, Surrey, for 20 years, until…
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If Florida Gov. DeSantis runs for President Catholic racists, anti-semites and homophobes will rally behind behind him
Image via YouTube RON DeSantis has so far refused to say whether he will run for President, but if he does he might well find a strong following among right-wing, Jew-hating Catholics, as well as white Protestant nationalists. Writing for The New Republic at the weekend, Audrey Clare Farley pointed out that DeSantis “quite masterfully…
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Brace yourselves for another execrable ‘Left behind’ movie
FEW movies are so abysmal that they score 0% on Rotten Tomatoes, but that’s what happened when Left Behind, featuring Nicholas Cage hit cinema screens in 2014. Despite being universally panned by critics—with the exception of those who lavished praise on it in Christian publications—it did manage to gross $27-million against its $16 million production…
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Christian cake creator loses Colorado Court of Appeals case
Image via YouTube JACK PHILLIPS, above, gained international notoriety more than a decade ago when he refused to make a wedding cake for a gay couple. What followed was a series of court hearings that went all the way up to the US Supreme court where the devout owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop in suburban Denver…
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Catholic school careers counselor sacked over Wiccans’ crystal gifts to pupils
Image by EPro via Pexels AFTER complaints were lodged by some pupils at North Catholic High School in the Diocese of Pittsburgh, administrators decided that crystals did not fit in with approved Catholic tchotchkes. So they decided to ask the counselor, who has asked not to be been identified, to resign. The ridiculous saga began…
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Maltese poster boy for ‘ex-gay’ outfits faces trial
Image via YouTube MATTHEW Grech, above, who found Jesus and claims he’s now ‘ex-gay’, is accused of violating Malta’s conversion therapy ban. Image via YouTube What happens in Malta should be of no concern to the Christian Legal Centre, headed by the deranged Andrea Minichiello Williams, above. However the CLC has announced that it is…
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Fiery response to Danish fascist’s Quran burning stunt
Photo by Tobias Hellsten/ToHell via Wikimedia CC. LET me make it crystal clear at the outset: I disapprove of the destruction of books—any books—especially when such provocative acts are committed by the likes of Rasmus Paludan, above, the extremist leader of the far-right Danish political party Stram Kurs. Paludan’s latest stunt—the burning outside the Turkish…
Barry Duke, the Angry Atheist
Pointing and laughing at religious lunacy for more than half-a-century
- 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.
- 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…