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Poles apart: religion and the real world
When I was growing up in a religious Polish family I found myself really close to the church. I spend years helping with all all the ceremonies, and watching people who were attending them. I could not...
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Sense at last: C of E agrees that ‘gay cures’ are wrong
A Private Member’s Motion proposed by Jayne Ozanne, above, saying that conversion therapy had ‘no place in the modern world’ has been backed by the Church of England. According to the Guardian, Ozanne...
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Sounding a very sour note at London’s St Sepulchre Church
St Sepulchre-without-Newgate in Holborn, central London, has been known as the National Musicians’ church for more than 70 years. The ashes of Sir Henry Wood, founder of the Proms, lie in its north...
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Evangelicals don’t want to be seen as a blight on Keswick
Back in August we reported that evangelicals who converge on Keswick annually for a convention do nothing for the picturesque Lake District town except throttle tourism and insult the locals by calling...
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In Brazil a mad judge rules that homosexuality is a ‘disease’
The cartoon above was widely circulated this week after a judge in Brazil – a country apparently suffering a ‘plague’ of evangelists – ruled in favor of a ‘gay cure’ evangelical Christian therapist....
View ArticleBreast-loving pastor, 84, under investigation for sexual assault
Pastor Ralph Gordon Stair, above, is being investigated for sexually assaulting a 16-year-old girl and touching the breast of a 12-year-old girl in his church while the congregation watched. According...
View ArticleFailed doomsday predictions turn people off Christianity
Russell Moore, President of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, has had enough of evangelists making end-of-the-world predictions. According to this...
View ArticleCreationism and other idiotic beliefs trashed by Julie Payette
Oh, how I wish we had more politicians like Julie Payette, Canada’s Governor General, who have the courage to stand up in public for plain common sense. In a week that saw Rick Perry, America’s godly...
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Bigoted artists to appeal Phoenix gay wedding ruling
Artists Joanna Duka, left, and Breanna Koski run a company called Brush & Nib. But because they are evangelical Christians they won’t create invitations for gay weddings. This put them at odds with...
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Roy Moore: ‘Liberals are out to silence conservative Christians’
Hop across to Reddit Atheism and you will find no fewer than seven links on its front page to reports about Roy Moore, the Alabama Republican nominee for the US Senate who was recently exposed as a...
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Roy Moore’s week has just taken a turn for the worse
The tearful woman pictured above is Beverly Young Nelson, and yesterday she accused Judge Roy Moore of attempted rape when she was just 16. Her testimony, at a press conference in New York, came as...
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Women arrested for procuring young girls for S African pastor
Two women were arrested this week in South Africa for allegedly procuring sex partners, some as young 13, for Nigerian-born pastor Timothy Omotoso, above. According to this report, the televangelist...
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Partial Sunday shopping ban displeases Polish Catholics
Last Friday Polish lawmakers voted to ban shopping on Sundays twice a month – but Catholics aren’t pleased because they want Sunday trading outlawed completely, and they want it now. Instead, the poor...
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Religion left out in the cold as Oz debates same-sex marriage
Opponents of gay marriage in Australia suffered defeat after defeat yesterday when religious exemptions were systematically kicked into the long grass as the equality bill was debated. According to...
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Why are bears appearing on a school’s Facebook page?
Because Stanton Elementary School in Powell County, Kentucky, is apparently teaching kids that atheists will be eaten by bears. Pranksters targeted the school’s Facebook page this week after it was...
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Street preacher and gun nut beats hate speech conviction
Daniel Courney, 33, a deranged evangelist who was convicted earlier this year of using “threatening and discriminatory language” during an anti-Islamic rant in Lincoln, had his conviction overturned...
View ArticleKilljoy preacher tells kids Santa is fantasy, but Jesus is for real
There is more historic evidence for the existence of Santa Claus (aka St Nicholas) than there is for Jesus Christ, but pastor David Grisham, above, doesn’t want children to know that – and he’s more...
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Charges against ‘Islamophobic’ UK street preacher dropped
Christian Concern is crowing over a decision to drop charges against street preacher Pastor Oluwole Ilesanmi, 62, who was arrested for using threatening and abusive language in a rant against Islam....
View ArticleFranklin Graham is warned not to incite hatred in the UK
Despite the fact that almost 7,500 people have signed a petition calling for Graham to be barred from entering the UK, he will be in the country in September to lead a ‘Festival of Hope’ evangelical...
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James Dobson: fast to prevent the President’s impeachment
Certainly some – like the fella above – could do with shedding a stone or two, but it remains to be seen how many of Trump’s supporters will put down their forks in support of a national day of fasting...
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