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Barry Duke on November 30th, 2008

THERE’S this geezer over in Italy, who was a Muslim, recognised Islam as defective and absurd, then turned  to Catholicism, which is … Oh never mind! Anyway Magdi Cristiano Allam, the Egyptian-born writer who was recently baptised by Pope Ratzinger after renouncing Islam, announced today that he has formed a political party that would enter [...]

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Barry Duke on November 30th, 2008

WE in the West must be grateful to Muslims for bombing … er, bringing God back into the public sphere. So says dhimmi Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, head of the Catholic Church’s department for interfaith contacts. Dummy, more like! According to this report, he claims that religion is now talked and written about more than ever [...]

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MERCY Ministries, according to Wikipedia: Is an international Christian charitable organisation that offers a long-term Christian residential treatment programme for young women  …  who struggle with various issues, including mental illnesses such as eating disorders, mood disorders, self-harm, and substance addiction and the affects of abuse. And how does this treatment work? Why, by exorcising [...]

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IT was widely reported this week that the Vatican had forgiven the late John Lennon for declaring, almost half-a-century ago: Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue with that; I’m right and I will be proved right. We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first – [...]

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Barry Duke on November 28th, 2008

LET’S get the bad news out the way first, with a collective raspberry blown in the direction of APN Outdoor, the company responsible for public transport advertising in major Australian cities . According to this report, these craven idiots have just rejected a completely inoffensive bus ad proposed by the Atheist Foundation of Australia Inc [...]

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Barry Duke on November 27th, 2008

WHILST doing an image search for a project a few days ago, Freethinker reader Robert Stovold stumbled across this rather startling depiction of the Raising of Lazarus. Oddly enough, it wasn’t on a site flogging erection stimulants, but a biblical clip art resource site containing images that appear to be aimed at the young. Jeez, [...]

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