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October 2017

October 09, 2017

Answers in Genesis plans to boost creationism in Canada

Meet Calvin Smith, a man with a mission to stupidify Canada. Smith, according to creationist...

October 07, 2017

Georgia judge rules that's it's OK to flip a bird at a pastor

Back in 2014, David Justin Freeman, above, was found guilty of disorderly conduct after he...

October 05, 2017

South African charlatan claims success in banishing gay spirits

'Bishop' Hamilton Nala, whose beliefs are as outlandish as his choice of clothes, is being...

September 2017

September 24, 2017

Women, having only half the brains of men, shouldn't drive

If you're reading this, the world did not, as predicted, end this weekend. Nor, alas,...

September 20, 2017

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 ...

September 17, 2017

Jewish and gay: Texas disaster volunteer 'sacked' by church

Carmen Hix, pictured above left with her partner Christia Fiddmont-Norfleet, got the bum's rush from...

September 15, 2017

Portland, Tennessee, to be targeted by angry drag queens

Back in 2014, Portland – a city of about 12,000 with 42 churches – found...

September 08, 2017

Christians angry over removal of cross from food packets

Food chain Lidl has been forced to apologise for removing a cross from a church...

September 07, 2017

Jewish woman, 'poisoned' by bacon, sues Detroit restaurant

An omelet served to Angela Montgomery was supposed to be vegetarian. But when the 30-year-old...

September 05, 2017

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...

September 01, 2017

'Abominable' lesbian couple awarded cash and an apology

When Amanda Abramovich, right, and Samantha Brookover went to to their county clerk’s office in...

August 2017

August 31, 2017

Australian anti-gay marriage adverts dismissed as 'rubbish'

Seeing as I am now in Gibraltar just days away from my wedding to my...

August 28, 2017

Malta church ceiling collapses. Same-sex marriage is blamed.

Part of the ceiling of the Ta’ Giezu church in Rabat collapsed last week, and...

August 26, 2017

Pakistan: blasphemy fear gets Lennon's 'Imagine' dumped

Pakistani pupils at the Karachi Grammar School (KGS) were due to sing the John Lennon 'Imagine' last night...

August 24, 2017

Malaysian hotel tells mum that her breast milk is not halal

A five-star hotel in Malacca has been forced to apologise to a woman who was...

August 19, 2017

Woman weds Jesus but the groom was otherwise tied up

Catholics do stoopid on a scale few other religions can match. This was most recently...

August 19, 2017

Jesus and the Antichrist are black & God wants apartheid

As the solar eclipse of 2017 draws closer, those of a religious bent appear to...

August 17, 2017

'Godless' UN will be preached at by mad Michelle Bachmann

A megachurch operated out of California by pastor Jim Garlow has unveiled a new ministry...

August 03, 2017

'Burqas on a bus' photo sows panic among right-wing loons

A bunch of right-wing, xenophobic Norwegians were made to look like idiots when a picture...

August 02, 2017

Pastor's Sunday tweet sends titters though the blogosphere

When Tennessee pastor Greg Locke posted the picture above on Twitter at the weekend the...

July 2017

July 09, 2017

Bishops reminded that 'magic crackers' can't be gluten-free

Back in 2012 the US Conference of Catholic Bishops said in a statement that 'it...

July 04, 2017

Another Christian nut says that the rainbow belongs to God

A while back I posted a piece about American evangelist Bryan Fischer, who claimed that...

June 2017

June 28, 2017

'Jesus freak' destroys another 10 Commandment monument

Michael Tate Reed, above, the man accused of ramming a car into the newly erected...

June 23, 2017

Is a fascist Christian theocracy REALLY the stuff of paranoia?

When Hulu launched its highly-acclaimed dramatisation of Margaret Atwood’s 1985 novel The Handmaid's Tale earlier...

June 20, 2017

Crazy Russian cleric: 'men with beards are less likely to be gay'

Metropolitan Kornily Titov, above, Primate of the Russian Orthodox Old-Rite Church, said men should stop...

June 14, 2017

Sick Missouri lawmaker kills chicken in abortion protest

Republican State Representative Mike Moon decapitated a chicken then ripped out it heart in a...

June 08, 2017

Tacky 'Jesus is my life' tattoo proved deadly for Texas man

Just months after getting a religious tattoo, a 31-year-old man from Texas died after he...

June 04, 2017

Jesus Christ tells preacher not to help save a Ghanaian soldier

Controversial Ghanaian cleric 'Bishop' Daniel Obinim, above right, claims that he could have prevented a soldier...

June 03, 2017

Governor's 'pray away crime' idea disgusts Kentucky pastor

Reverent Clay Calloway, above right, of the West Louisville Ministers Coalition, said he wanted to...

June 01, 2017

Muslim convert flees Scotland after Manchester bombing rant

Street preacher Hamza Siddiq – Andrew Calladine, before he went mad and converted to Islam...