BIBLICAL literalist, homophobe and Free Presbyterian Church member Edward Poots, in a ‘smash and grab’ manoeuvre, seized control of the Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist Party last Friday, leaving many in the province in a state of shock. In reporting on the bigot’s big win, BBC’s Newsnight described Edward Poots as: A creationist from the party’s Free Presbyterian roots, who once banned donations of blood from gay men. This deeply upset Ian Paisley Jr, above, a long-time ally of Poots, who… Read more
May 17, 2021
BBC denies mocking the faith of N Ireland bigot Edward Poots
May 17, 2021 By Barry Duke
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May 16, 2021
New Orleans seminarian arrested for possessing child porn
May 16, 2021 By Barry Duke
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ANOTHER day, another Christian pervert exposed. This time the spotlight falls on Andrew Shiira, above, who was planning to become a Baptist preacher … until he was arrested on Thursday on ten counts of child pornography. According to this report, Shiira is the son of Ron Shiira, President of Hawaii Baptist Academy. He was due to graduate from New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary (NOBTS) and then get married but instead wound up in the Orleans Parish Prison. He is no… Read more
May 15, 2021
What the world needs are more trashy ‘God-glorifying’ movies
May 15, 2021 By Barry Duke
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IN what critics agree is one of the ten worst movies ever made – C Me Dance (2009) – Christina DeMarco, above, plays Sheri, a young dancer who is given the power by God to transform folk into Christians with a simple touch or a look. According to Cracked: Like a Jehovah’s Witness version of King Midas, Sheri converts everyone she comes into contact with. One errant sweep of her wrist, and the target is given a vision of the… Read more
May 14, 2021
Anti-vaccination cards show evangelicals at their most stupid
May 14, 2021 By Barry Duke
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CARDS reportedly being circulated in vast numbers by anti-vaccine, COVID-denying evangelists are being held up to ridicule on social media, with one Twitter user saying ‘evangelicals always portray God supporting either the dumbest or the most sociopathic choice when faced with options …’ Another tweeted: If the Lord has vaccinated me, why in the hell have I had 5 bouts of pneumonia? He also pointed out: I’d love for these vax-idiots to come to me. I’d love to remind them… Read more
May 13, 2021
Godless in Quintana Roo: Atheism soars in this Mexican paradise
May 13, 2021 By Barry Duke
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CREATED as a Mexican state in 1902, heavenly Quintana Roo is a haven where youngsters are growing up without fear of hell or concerns about what happens to them in a mythical ‘after-life.’ According to a recent National Survey of Believers and Non-Believers in Mexico, Quintana Roo has highest percentage of atheists in the country: almost 37 percent, followed by Baja California, with 20 percent, and Mexico City, with 16 percent. A report (in Spanish) quotes psychologist Graciela Alvarado Estrella… Read more
May 12, 2021
‘Inappropriate’ sermon sparks another Christian Legal Centre lawsuit
May 12, 2021 By Barry Duke
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ITS last big frivolous lawsuit – involving ‘persecuted’ actor Seya Omooba – ended up a complete train wreck. As did a number of high-profile cases before it. But the Christian Legal Centre, headed by Andrea Minichiello Williams, appears blind to its failings and has now taken up cudgels on behalf of a school chaplain – Rev Dr Bernard Randall, above – sacked from Trent College near Nottingham. Randall, 48, and Trent eventually parted company after he delivered a homophobic sermon… Read more
May 11, 2021
‘Rev Ernest Angry’ is ‘in heaven with his Lord and Master’
May 11, 2021 By Barry Duke
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TELEVANGELIST Ernest Angley, above, the butt of many jokes because of his grotesque wig and comical way of speaking – (‘must watch’ video) – has fallen off the perch aged 99. Dubbed ‘The Rev Ernest Angry’ by the late actor and comedian Robin Williams, Angley (net worth $15-m) shared the traits of all evangelical preachers. He was a liar, a crook, a charlatan and a hypocrite. According to USA Today, his “sometimes-outrageous” faith-healing claims drew sharp criticism from many, including… Read more
May 10, 2021
NY summer camp will bar people vaccinated against COVID-19
May 10, 2021 By Barry Duke
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ANYONE wanting to attend a new summer camp organised by Brooklyn-based ‘health coach’ Naftali Schwartz, above, must show they’ve rejected COVID-19 vaccinations. The Times of Israel reports that radio show host Schwartz, who has no formal training in medicine or public health, claimed that vaccinated people pose a real threat to those who have not had the vaccine. Camp Hikon aims to prepare boys attending yeshivas (religious schools) for what it calls “political, environmental and economic” changes to come. Despite… Read more
May 9, 2021
‘No gratuitous violence in the Bible,’ says Christian actor
May 9, 2021 By Barry Duke
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‘Uh-oh, Catholics gonna hate this,’ said I to my husband Marcus as we watched Moira Rose, dressed like a Pope, perform a marriage ceremony for her son David and his lover Patrick in ‘Happy Ending’, the final episode of the award-winning Canadian sitcom Schitt’s Creek. There are a few other digs at religion in a TV series one Christian writer suggested was “best suited for the thick-skinned (perhaps the desensitized) Christian viewer.” In one scene, as the family does a… Read more
May 8, 2021
Veteran LGBT Humanist activist, George Broadhead, dies aged 87
May 8, 2021 By Barry Duke
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IN the late 1970s, self-appointed Christian Morality Supremo Mary Whitehouse suffered a backlash after she successfully brought a private prosecution for blasphemous libel against Gay News. Stung by hostile reaction to the prosecution, Whitehouse began screeching that “everything good and true” in Britain was being undermined by “the humanist gay lobby”. Of course, no such lobby existed except in the deranged woman’s fevered brain, but in 1979 George Broadhead, then a member of the Campaign for Homosexual Equality (CHE), said… Read more
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