UK bishop bashed over Brighton Pride New Year’s message

January 19, 2021 By Barry Duke

ON January 1, The Argus – published in Brighton, Britain’s gayest and most godless city and my old home town – carried a New Year’s message from Michael Warner, the Bishop of Chichester. It did not go down well with deranged Christian foghorn and frothing homophobe Andrea Minichiello Williams, inset, who has accused the bishop of being “anti-Gospel.” What sent the head of Christian Concern’s blood pressure into the stratosphere was Warner’s observation that, in 2020: Almost every big event… Read more

Evangelical who helped incite the Capitol riot is running a UK business

January 18, 2021 By Barry Duke

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MIKE Lindell, above, is a far-right zealot who sponsored a bus tour supporting Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election and to encourage attendance at the January 6 rally that was followed by the storming of the US Capitol by Trump’s supporters. So I almost burst a blood vessel when I learned via an ad on London-based radio station LBC that Lindell’s MyPillow now has a presence in the UK. So great was my fury that I immediately launched… Read more

Ex-Mormon missionary ‘sorry’ for breaching the Capitol and calling Nancy Pelosi a ‘traitor’ and a ‘bitch’

January 18, 2021 By Barry Duke

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FOLLOWING the exposure of the racist, misogynistic and homophobic characteristics of God and Trump-loving domestic terrorist, Derrick Evans, who breached the Capitol, media attention is now focusing on a former Mormon missionary who boasted that he’d occupied the chair of the ‘bitch’ Nancy Pelosi. (It was actually VP Mike Pence’s seat). Josiah Colt, above, one of many Christian insurrections who got arrested after the riot, is now in full-one apology mode and is begging for forgiveness. This is in sharp… Read more

featherbrained rabbi says COVID-19 vaccines turn folk gay

January 17, 2021 By Barry Duke

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DANIEL Asor, above, is a conspiracy theory imbecile – and one of the latest in the World of Religious Idiocy to use his his position as a ‘popular’ Israeli rabbi to blather on about the ‘dangers’ of coronovirus vaccines. But hey, he adds what I believe is a new twist: such vaccines can turn people gay. Aleph Melbourne, a Jewish LGBT+ advocacy group, said that the rabbi’s statement was “alarming” for the harm it propagates. Michael Barnett, co-convenor of Aleph… Read more

Capitol rioter was a racist lawmaker who targeted an abortion clinic

January 17, 2021 By Barry Duke

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FROM lawmaker to law breaker: Derrick Evans, forced to resign from West Virginia’s House of Delegates after he stormed the Capitol with other insurrectionists, has been exposed as an anti-abortion fanatic who regularly harassed women outside WV’s Women’s Health Centre, the only abortion clinic left in the state. Evans now knows how it feels to be stalked. The Christian imbecile, who resigned just weeks after he was sworn into office, is being besieged by camera crews and is skulking behind… Read more

Fake news broadcast by evangelists should never be censored

January 16, 2021 By Barry Duke

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AFTER LoveWorld TV, headed by Christian conspiracy theorist and Grade A charlatan Rev Chris Oyakhilome, above, was warned earlier this year by UK broadcasting watchdog Ofcom to cease and desist from spreading false information a Nigerian journalist argued that religious broadcasters should not be held to the same standards as secular media. An outraged Ifeanyi Izeze, of Nigeria’s National Daily wrote: Ofcom either by omission or deliberate commission ignored the fact that the overall context in the news report was… Read more

US Christian group rounds on ‘blasphemous’ Franklin Graham

January 16, 2021 By Barry Duke

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AFTER Trump’s second impeachment this week, one of his most vocal devotees – evangelist Franklin Graham, above – compared Captain Chaos’s treatment to that that of Jesus. This has so infuriated left-leaning Faithful America (motto: Love thy neighbour. No exceptions) that it’s launched a petition calling on board members of Samaritan’s Purse and the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association to sack him. FF’s website says: Franklin Graham is still doing everything he can to support Trump’s deadly presidency, recently tweeting, ‘When… Read more

Creationist & conspiracy theorist jailed for more than 1,000 years

January 15, 2021 By Barry Duke

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A MUSLIM loon who created a large and lavishly illustrated 12lb tome entitled the Atlas of Creation which he distributed internationally to centres of learning, has been sentenced by a Turkish court to a total of 1,075 years and three months in prison. When I learned of Adnan Oktar’s jailing I assumed that it for elaborately twisting the truth, disseminating conspiracy theories and breaking sharia law – and that the sentence imposed on the playboy, above – who relishes dancing… Read more

Hit them where it hurts: Ireland warns of seizing RCC assets

January 15, 2021 By Barry Duke

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IN THE wake of the publication of a horrifying report detailing the extent of cruelty meted out to babies and women at Catholic Church-run homes, Ireland’s Labour Party leader Alan Kelly has warned that, if the church fails to make reparations to victims, its assets should be seized. The Irish Independent this week reported that almost 20 years ago former Fianna Fáil Minister Michael Woods agreed a €120-m settlement from the church, but most of the commitment was reneged upon…. Read more

Pastor jailed for selling elderly parishioners worthless Chinese bonds

January 15, 2021 By Barry Duke

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WOULD you buy Chinese bonds, or anything else for that matter, from this dodgy-looking geezer? Well, a lot of followers of Kirbyjon Caldwell, 67, former pastor of Windsor Village United Methodist Church in Texas did just that – splashing out millions of dollars to buy worthless bonds issued by the Republic of China before the Communist takeover in 1949. Caldwell, who had close relationships with past US presidents, notably George W Bush – but surprisingly not with the impeached huckster… Read more

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