RIGHT now the UK is in an unholy mess due to Brexit and the Covid epidemic. People can’t get their hands on gasoline, supermarket shelves are all but bare, and there is a chronic shortage of HGV drivers. In short, the country is in crisis. So the very last thing on the minds of sceptical Brits is the state of their crumbling churches. Yet, according to Premier Christian News, a devout Christian Conservative Party MP and ardent Brexiteer, Andrew Selous,… Read more
WHEN the father of the boy, aged nine, caught Michael Coghill, above, touching his son and and other minors at a bus station in Oklahoma, he rushed to “tackle” him. According to LGBTQ Nation, Coghhill, 33, had been the Youth, Family and Involvement Minister at Choctaw Church of Christ in Oklahoma City. He preached there from as early as 2014 to as late as 2019, with several of his sermons currently still available on the Choctaw Church YouTube page. He… Read more
WHEN Catholics got wind of the fact that provocative film director Paul Verhoeven’s latest film, Benedetta, contains scenes in which a statue of the Virgin Mary is used as a dildo, Catholic reacted with outrage, and the Catholic League, a one-trick pony headed by Bill Donohue, above, expressed horror over the glowing reviews the movie was garnering. At the weekend the movie premiered at the 59th New York Film Festival, and those attending it had to run the gauntlet of… Read more
BACK in 2019, Cornerstone (North East) Adoption and Fostering Service, which works exclusively with evangelical Christian carers, was downgraded from ‘Good’ to ‘requires Improvement’ by UK education watchdog Ofsted. Ofsted demanded that the agency abandon its religious ethos and accused Cornerstone, headed by Pam Birtle, above, of unlawful discrimination for only recruiting evangelical Christian carers and requiring carers to abide by its code of conduct on living consistently with the charity’s Christian beliefs about marriage between a man and a… Read more
A US WOMAN, said to have been inspired by photos of emaciated Jews in Nazi death camps to start a weight loss ministry, will shortly be featured in an HBO Max documentary, The Way Down: God, Greed and the Cult of Gwen Shamblin. You can see the trailer here. After millionaire Shamblin, above, died in a plane crash earlier this year, along with six others, The Friendly Atheist revealed that: Shamblin may have been best known for her admission that… Read more
HEAVEN – the domain where Jesus is reportedly being held hostage by God until a sufficient ransom is paid – truly exists according to a new Fox series based on the testimonies of people who have been allegedly been there and lived to tell the tale. Fox’s latest offering of inexorable manure is being presented by the über-godly Ainsley Earhardt, above, who’s been yammering on about her Christian delusions on Fox for years. She’s described here as: A follower of… Read more
AFTER “devout Christian” and less-than-faithful husband Herman Cain, above, succumbed to Covid last year, Reddit – a huge site where people share news or comment on other people’s posts – launched a forum featuring items about mainly religious anti-vaxxers who died of the virus. The Herman Cain Award section, launched last September, quickly grew into one of the biggest forums on Reddit. Today it has 315,000 members – something that has deeply unsettled journalist Lili Loofbourow. Writing for Slate, she… Read more
EVANGELICAL pastor Jesse Duplantis (net worth $20-million) told viewers during a recent four-day live TV event that God was “withholding” Jesus because people weren’t giving enough money to churches. He said on a “Victorython” broadcast: I honestly believe this – the reason why Jesus hasn’t come is because people are not giving the way God told them to give. When you understand this, you can speed up the time. According to The Independent, which published a bunch of snarky tweets,… Read more
A SIKH employee at an exclusive dining venue in the City of London is suing his boss for prohibiting him from wearing a kara at work, alleging religious discrimination. According to this report, Niranjit Moorah Singh is suing Michelin-starred Herbert Berger, above, who heads Innholders Hall, for telling him to remove a traditional Sikh bangle. He alleges that Berger kept referring to it as a “bracelet” that could get “stuck in a ladle.” Writing for Quora, Simon Glass, Ph.D, of… Read more
THAT’S the bad news. The “good” news is that the Taliban, which had promised “a moderate” implementation of sharia law when it seized power, won’t outlaw items such as television and mobile phones because these will help spread their message. According to this Yahoo! News report, mullah Nooruddin Turabi, one of the founders of the Taliban and the chief enforcer of its harsh interpretation of Islamic law when it last ruled Afghanistan, said: Now we know instead of reaching just… Read more
