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May 2017

May 30, 2017

Protests force Sisters of Mercy to withdraw from new hospital

An 'obscene' Irish plan to allow the Sisters of Charity Catholic order to have a...

May 26, 2017

Islamists demand the removal of ALL statues in Bangladesh

In April this year a writ was filed with the High Court demanding removal of...

May 25, 2017

Idiots of the week: Matt Archbold and Andy Burnham

Archbold, a Catholic commentator, and Burnham, the Mayor of Manchester, qualify for this spot for...

May 21, 2017

'Hello central! Give me heaven'

That cheesy old song immediately sprang to mind when I read today that Zimbabwean pastor...

May 20, 2017

Dagbladet's anti-circumcision cartoon attacked by rabbi

Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt, President of the Conference of European Rabbis, has called on Norwegian authorities...

May 16, 2017

Trump's pick for Vatican ambassador is a Catholic loon

The White House is planning announce that a religious zealot – Callista Gingrich, wife of...

May 15, 2017

School teacher disappears after saying gays deserve to die

Californian teacher Michael Stack, above, has reportedly vanished after row erupted over a letter he...

May 14, 2017

Homeschooling will fill America with God-besotted millionaires

The last piece I posted about American evangelist Dave Daubenmire exposed his misogyny. Back in...

May 10, 2017

Police halt Stephen Fry blasphemy investigation

An Irish police investigation into allegedly blasphemous comments made by Stephen Fry during a TV...

May 07, 2017

OMG! Poundland's promotional sticker upsets devout Christian

Committed Christian Lizette Franklin, inset above, went into a state of shock when she clapped...

May 05, 2017

'Government health care draws sick people away from God'

That's the view of Dr Mark Green, above, a God-besotted state senator in Tennessee who...

May 04, 2017

Trump rewards evangelicals with religious freedom order

US President Donald Trump today made good on a promise to allow faith-heads – particularly...

April 2017

April 25, 2017

Ireland's Sisters of Mercy hospital row takes a fresh turn

Following our report last Thursday that Ireland's National Maternity Hospital (NMH) was to be handed...

April 25, 2017

Texas Mayor Ivy R Taylor needs to learn more about atheism

Earlier this month, the Mayor of San Antonio sparked outrage when she linked systemic poverty...

April 18, 2017

'Jesus' takes a tumble on a narrow Hastings sidewalk

It ain't easy being Jesus for crowds of gawkers who get a buzz out seeing...

April 18, 2017

London school kids get to meet an 'extremist' Muslim preacher

Outrage has been expressed over visits by state school students, aged eight and nine, to Lewisham...

April 13, 2017

Easter idiocy: London are buses displaying the words of Jesus

Deranged evangelical, Howard Conder, inset above, wants buses throughout the UK to display the words...

April 11, 2017

Preacher warns Muslim men not urinate in public toilets

Abdulghani Albaf, above, an Islamist preacher in Sydney, has become an international laughing stock after...

April 06, 2017

C of E punctures 'blasphemous' plan to stage mock crucifixions

For a mere £750.00, Christian masochists could have bought themselves a place on a cross...

March 2017

March 30, 2017

Kindergarten resists Muslims' demand to sack gay teacher

Muslim parents in Germany who want a a gay teacher removed from a kindergarten have...

March 30, 2017

Christian education is needed to put the fear of God into kids

Two Christian zealots – retired military chaplain Lt Col E Ray Moore, above left, and...

March 27, 2017

Officials tell couple that they can't name their child 'Allah'

The American Civil Liberties Union of Georgia has filed a lawsuit against two state officials...

March 26, 2017

Right-wing Mormons yearn for a return to the cult's racist past

Back in December last year, Mormon Ayla 'Purpose', above, announced on her Nordic Sunrise blog...

March 21, 2017

Deranged politicians: Jesus will head a new, 'virtuous America'

South Carolina State Representative Josiah Magnuson, above, has a bold new vision for America in...

March 20, 2017

Pakistan wants help to silence 'blasphemers' worldwide

Satirists have jumped at the opportunity to point and laugh at Pakistan's plan to to...

March 16, 2017

Christian senator caught in motel room with underage boy

Oklahoma police have recommended three prostitution charges against a 'crazy/stupid' Christian conservative and Republican State...

March 14, 2017

Mayor dismisses family's 'God owns the land' argument

Tasmania's Meander Valley Mayor Craig Perkins, above, has made it clear that being a devout...

March 08, 2017

Christian blogger 'shocked' by hostile reaction to anti-gay post

Last December 'a small town mama' who operates This Modest Mom blog, enjoyed a family...

March 04, 2017

Beauty and the Beast banned by Alabama drive-in theatre

American actor, Josh Gad, above left in this still from Beauty and the Beast, plays...

February 2017

February 28, 2017

Ark Encounter is proving to be Kentucky's white mammoth

Officials in Grant County, Kentucky were so convinced that creationist Ken Ham's $92-million Ark Encounter...