Tag: Spain
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Water pistols used against pilgrims in Spain’s Santiago de Compostela
Please subscribe and get a FREE copy of Atheist Limericks & Cartoons! Click this link to help me keep The Angry Atheist active with a donation. THE city in northwestern Spain, where remains of the apostle James is alleged to have been found, is attracting more and more Catholic pilgrims, and turning the city into…
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Archbishop blasts the mockery of a Catholic saint in a Spanish poster
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. IN September Barcelona will host one of the largest festivals in Spain — the La Mercè Festival —named after Maria de la Mercè (Our Lady…
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Spanish Archbishop accused of covering up the systematic abuse of a teenage boy
Please click this link to help me keep The Angry Atheist active with an donation. COMPLAINTS by a teenage boy that he had been forced to perform fellatio on a seminary priest, and that he had also been groped and raped, fell of deaf ears among church officials. Instead the incumbent Archbishop Francisco Cerro, above,…
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‘Greasy’ Jesus Lent poster upsets Spanish Christians
Please click this link to help me keep The Angry Atheist active with an donation. AN image of Jesus created with grease on paper by Spanish sculptor Gonzalo Quesada, above, for Lent has come mired in controversy. What the Spanish are calling the “fish wrap” poster, bears the Spanish word for Lent. It features some…
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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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Euthanasia law passed in Portugal despite strong religious opposition and a presidential veto
BACK in March of this year, Portugal’s Catholic bishops got a bit ahead of themselves when they congratulated the country’s President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, above, for vetoing a proposed euthanasia bill. De Sousa is a “devout churchgoer.” Their joy was short-lived. Despite the veto, the lawmakers yesterday (Friday) passed a law that will enable…
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Coming soon to a church near you: Jesus’ dead body, naked and circumcised
EXTRAPOLATED from the Shroud of Turin by a group of Spanish artists, a recreation of the Jesus‘ corpse, wounds and all, was unveiled in time for Easter in Gaudix Cathedral in Granada, Spain. The world’s first “hyper-realistic” recreation of “The Mystery Man” will remain in Spain until June 30, and will then be exhibited at…
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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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