THE appearance of rainbow flags bearing the National Health Service (NHS) logo has been welcomed by Christians who have taken to social media to claim that this could well the first step in wresting the rainbow symbol away from the LGBT movement. Their joy was short-lived as they hadn’t bargained for gay ingenuity and humour. Suddenly social media sites were flooded with suggestions that NHS stands for … National Homosexual Service – and that those who think the symbol has… Read more
May 26, 2020
Christians reclaim the rainbow but gays have the last laugh
May 26, 2020 By Barry Duke
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May 25, 2020
Moldova: church frightening people with mad conspiracy theories
May 25, 2020 By Barry Duke
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THE Moldovan Orthodox Church (MOC), headed by Metropolitan Vladimir of Chisinau and all Moldova, above, stands accused by the the country’s national Ombudsman of threatening social order and denigrating medical services by spreading ‘meaningless fantasies’. The Ombudsman, according to a report today in Moldova.org, issued a statement after the church railed against any moves that would make vaccinations for COVID-19 mandatory, should such a vaccine ever be produced. In a letter to the government the MOC said: Public opinion in… Read more
May 24, 2020
Frankfurt learns that opening places of worship was a very bad idea
May 24, 2020 By Barry Duke
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Donald Trump, take note! On May 1, the German city of Frankfurt lifted restrictions on church services – and at the weekend it was reported that at least 107 people have tested positive for the coronavirus after attending a service at the Bethaus Baptist prayer hall. The affected worshippers were residents of Frankfurt and three districts in the surrounding central state of Hesse. Yesterday (Saturday) Rene Gottschalk, above, head of Frankfurt’s health department, said: Most of them are not particularly… Read more
May 24, 2020
Texas clown-turned-mayor in a pickle over Bible-based misogyny
May 24, 2020 By Barry Duke
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COUNCIL meetings in the city of Wylie, Texas, begin with prayers. Nothing unusual in that as many council annoyingly do the same, but the reason that Wylie is in the news this weekend is because its mayor, Eric Hogue, above – a former clown and active pastor – hates the idea of having women leading prayer. His Bible-based misogyny, according to The Dallas Morning News, came to light after he expressed support for an invocation by a Christian missionary group, but… Read more
May 23, 2020
Atheist limerick contest: we have a winner!
May 23, 2020 By Barry Duke
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THE launch of our contest on May 17 to raise funds for the Humanist Global Charity (HGC) has proved so popular that we’ve been inundated with entries. In fact so many were received that an e-book featuring the limericks submitted, and images provided by the Freethinker’s resident illustrator Shell Fisher, was published sooner than planned and is now available to download. The winner of the contest is UK entrant Martin Stubbs, above. Here’s his limerick: The eight other top entries… Read more
May 23, 2020
Hocus POTUS, let places of worship open!
May 23, 2020 By Barry Duke
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DESPITE the fact that churches have been hot spots of COVID-19 infections in America and other parts of the world, President Donald Trump yesterday (Friday) declared places of worship ‘essential’ and threatened to ‘override’ state governors if they demurred. Said Trump Some governors have deemed liquor stores and abortion clinics essential, but have left out churches and houses of worship. It’s not right. So I’m correcting this injustice and calling houses of worship essential … these are places that hold… Read more
May 22, 2020
God unleashed COVID-19 because he hates phone use in synagogues
May 22, 2020 By Barry Duke
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THE closure of synagogues during the pandemic lockdown in Israel is God’s way of punishing Jews for using their cell phones during prayer. So says Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky, above, “the most senior non-hassidic, ultra-Orthodox rabbi in the world.” The rabbi, 92, made the claim in a letter to the daily ultra-Orthodox Yated Neeman. In it he suggested that Jews have been “banished” from synagogues by a god pissed off with people chattering on their phones instead of praying. He wrote:… Read more
May 22, 2020
A Christian no more. Musician Jonathan Steingard is now an atheist.
May 22, 2020 By Barry Duke
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JUST three years after he traveled from the US to Canada to take part in the country’s 52nd Annual Canadian National Prayer Breakfast, Jonathan Steingard, above – lead vocalist and lead guitarist for the Christian pop-punk band, Hawk Nelson – yesterday announced on Instagram that he no longer believes in God. In an interview a while back the Canadian-born Steingard was asked where he finds his inspiration to write and where he likes to be when writing. He described the circumstances… Read more
May 21, 2020
COVID-19 is God’s way saying ‘worship me or I’ll smite you’
May 21, 2020 By Barry Duke
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PRIESTS who claim that pandemics such as COVID 19 are not a manifestation of God’s wrath are ‘immersed in atheism.’ That’s the view of Roberto de Mattei, above. In a talk today (Thursday) at the virtual Rome Life Forum, de Mattei said that Catholic “shepherds” who reject the idea of God inflicting scourges on humankind are inviting the Almighty to go apeshit. In his talk entitled “The Judgment of God in History”, the simpleton said: When it is the very… Read more
May 21, 2020
‘Jane Roe’ bribed by Christians to lie about being an anti-abortionist
May 21, 2020 By Barry Duke
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A DOCUMENTARY due to be aired in the US tomorrow (Friday) reveals that Norma McCorvey, famous for being the plaintiff ‘Jane Roe’ in the 1973 landmark Supreme Court case that led to abortion becoming legal in America, admitted shortly before her death in 2017 that she had been bribed to pretend she’d found Jesus and had become a rabid anti-abortionist. In the FX Networks documentary – AKA Jane Roe – McCorvey, above, who died from heart failure at the age… Read more
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