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May 2017

May 06, 2017

Religious freedom Order 'sabotaged' by Ivanka Trump

When Bryan Fischer, above, of the American Family Association, realised that a religious freedom order...

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 28, 2017

UK PM criticised for holding a snap election during Ramadan

Some British Muslims aren't happy that UK voters are being asked to go to the...

April 27, 2017

Mandatory suggestions

Last Saturday, April 22, people around the world took part in the March for Science...

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 23, 2017

There's always one imbecile …

Yesterday saw people take to the streets in their thousands across the world for a...

April 22, 2017

Kadyrov wants to rid Chechnya of gays before Ramadan

The Muslim President of Chechnya – the gun-toting lunatic Ramzan Kadyrov, above – has publicly...

April 22, 2017

Bigot teaches Trump cabinet officials how to 'think biblically'

Meet pastor Ralph Drollinger, a man whose mission in life is to to 'take the...

March 2017

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 12, 2017

Marginalising religious minorities harms society

Between a rock and a jihad place If a secular and pluralistic society wishes to...

March 05, 2017

Row erupts after MP appears at Westminster with ash cross

Glasgow MP Carol Monaghan was attacked for 'promoting sectarianism' after she appeared at a Westminster...

March 01, 2017

Doors slamming shut in the US

Trump’s war on free everything is raging right along over here. (I apologize for his...

February 2017

February 26, 2017

O Hitchens, where art thou?

Bill Maher’s lazy comparison between Milo Yiannopoulos and Christopher Hitchens shows just how much we...

February 23, 2017

Reality is preferable to 'foolish' religion, says NH Republican

Responding to an article lamenting the rise of secularism in New Hampshire, State Representative Brandon...

February 19, 2017

Common humanity should be at the core of our politics

I was born in Iran; I am a migrant, a refugee. But I am not...

February 17, 2017

Muslims voters told to support Labour or risk Allah's wrath

Muslim voters in Stoke-on-Trent have been urged to vote Labour in an upcoming byelection in...

February 09, 2017

Warning sounded by man who helped bring Trump to power

Terry Heaton, above, once a key figure in televangelist Pat Robertson's The 700 Club, recently...

February 01, 2017

A Clash of the Uncivilised

Trump, Muslim Profiling and the Far-Right's Assault Donald Trump's suspension of new refugee admissions for...

January 2017

January 29, 2017

Australian group need cash to fight halal food legal case

A while back, the man pictured above, Mohamed El-Mouelhy, initiated court proceedings against members of...

January 28, 2017

Orthodox Church says family violence is a Russian tradition

The Russian Orthodox Church was incensed last summer when lawmakers – acting upon a recommendation...

January 27, 2017

'Keep your mouth shut!'

On Wednesday The New York Times talked to Donald Trump’s chief White House strategist, Steve...

January 27, 2017

Queen's former chaplain tells Christians to leave the C of E

The Rev Dr Gavin Ashenden, above, has lashed out at the The Church of England,...

January 23, 2017

Pastor slams evangelical Christians for voting for Trump

Jomo K Johnson, a founding member of the Black Lives Matter branch in Savannah, Georgia...

January 21, 2017

Day 1 of Trump: gold curtains in, gays & climate change out

Within hours of Trump's inauguration, which for all the world looked like the first steps...

January 20, 2017

Donald Trump indicted by the Order of Perpetual Indulgence

On the eve of Trump's inauguration, the Order of Perpetual Indulgence Convent of Dunn Eideann...

January 15, 2017

'Notorious Islamophobe' will pray at Trump's inauguration

Reports that Franklin Graham, left, will be praying alongside Donald Trump on Friday when the...

January 12, 2017

Religious jackass is Donald Trump's choice to head the CIA

In Trump's new administration, Mike Pompeo, above, a Kansas congressman, will feel right at home...

January 08, 2017

Lawmaker admits dodgy dealings with a Bible college

Micah Neal, above, an outgoing Arkansas state lawmaker, pleaded guilty this week to conspiring with...