Tag: Politics
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Christian morality crusader faces a jail term for possessing child porn
Subscribe to The Angry Atheist and get a FREE copy of Atheist Limericks & Cartoons! Please click this link to help me keep The Angry Atheist active with a donation. LATER this year Jason Yates, above, former leader My Faith Votes, an outfit that urges American Christians to vote for conservative values, has pleaded guilty…
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Trump’s attempt to import white Christian nationalists from South Africa badly backfires
Please click this link to help me keep The Angry Atheist active with an donation. IN what was clearly an attempt to boost his already enormous following of deranged white Christian supremacists in the US, the Orange Horror offered South Africa’s Afrikaner population an escape from Black rule. Trump said of the Afrikaners, who viciously…
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Franklin Graham joins Trump’s inauguration charade, saying ‘look what God has done’
Please click this link to help me keep The Angry Atheist active with a donation. FIVE minutes was all I could take of Trump’s toe-curlingly awful inauguration on Monday, replete with Nazi salutes by Elon Musk. A day earlier I had completed a Cat & Mouse, a novel by acclaimed crime writer, James Patterson. In…
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‘A black Friday!’ Christian Voice’s CEO reacts to the passing of an assisted dying bill in England and Wales
Please click this link to help me keep The Angry Atheist active with a donation. WILLIAMS, inset above, was quoted by LBC Radio earlier today as saying that MPs who took a historic step toward legalising assisted dying in England and Wales was a “black Friday” for those who oppose people’s right to die with…
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Supermarket chain urged to ditch Sunday opening plan on the Scottish Isle of Lewis
Please click this link to help me keep The Angry Atheist active with a donation. MORE than 1,700 people have signed a “keep the Sabbath sacred” petition, launched by the Rev Alasdair J Macleod, above, of the Free Church (Continuing), who wants to stop Tesco from extending its trading days. Macleod’s petition says: By signing…
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Scottish council votes to strip religious reps, who allegedly ‘provide a moral compass,’ of voting rights
Please click this link to help me keep The Angry Atheist active with an donation. THE UK’s National Secular Society (NSS) today welcomed a decision by East Lothian Council to act on the findings of a public consultation that showed that 84 per cent of respondents believed religious representatives should not be allowed to vote…
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National Secular Society challenges Scotland’s religious representation education law of 1973
AN foolish and undemocratic law in Scotland requires councils to appoint unelected religious representatives to their education committees. Appointees are usually the only unelected members who receive voting privileges, and the NSS is currently running a campaign to remove automatic places on education committees for religious representatives. The Local Government (Scotland) Act of 1973 requires…
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Hindu nationalist who wants to be America’s next Republican President is out to woo far-right Christians
IN a recent campaign video billionaire enterpreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, above, laments the loss of “faith, patriotism and hard work” in America, asserting that “wokeism, gender ideology and the climate cult” have taken their place. Later, in a presidential primary debate staged this week, the ultra-conservative Ramaswamy, 38, who claims to fully support “Judeo-Christian values,” came…
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God & government: new report says ‘anomalous’ bishops should be removed from the House of Lords
A SWEEPING review of the relationship between faith and the state is due to be published within weeks, and, according to The Guardian those involved say much of the final report will talk about the “positive impact” of religion and worship on UK society. Details of the review coincide with a report by the Commission…
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NY Mayor Eric Adams ‘can’t separate his Christian beliefs from his government duties.’
Image via YouTube ADAMS—hosting a recent “interfaith prayer breakfast”— appeared to trash America’s long-established policy of separation between church and state in what sounded more of a sermon than a speech. The Democrat and former police officer who claimed last year that he was “chosen by God” to become the Big Apple’s Mayor, said: Don’t…
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