USING the same tone of revulsion it normally reserves for occasional reports of deadly exotic spiders emerging from store-bought hands of bananas, the media last week subjected those 11-toed freaks from the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas, to levels of scrutiny they rarely get the UK. All this attention put British evangelicals in a [...]
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IT DOESN’T take much to raise the fury of Koranimals, as this story emerging from Pakistan indicates. Trouble, it appears, began earlier this month at Fatima Memorial Hospital College of Medicine and Dentistry in the Punjab when two female Christian students: Hung a picture of Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ who they deeply love in [...]
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WITH the words “I don’t want the Bible. I don’t like the Bible” comedy star David Walliams, 37, today joined a tiny band of guests on BBC Radio 4′s Desert Island Discs who have refused to be marooned with the “holy” book. His choice of a gun as “a luxury” item also came as a [...]
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BRINGING excommunicated Holocaust-denier Bishop Richard Williamson back into the Catholic fold last month did not earn the Pope many brownie-points in Israel. It was a stupid move – even by Vatican standards – and the well-known Jewish comedian Lior Shlein retaliated by taking the piss out of core Christian beliefs. Mary, he told a Channel [...]
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OH man, I was so looking forward to receiving a review copy of the four-volume Encyclopedia of Christian Civilization (list price £375). But it just ain’t gonna happen, because the publisher -Wiley-Blackwell – has pulled the plug on what Waterstones describes as: A thoughtfully conceived Encyclopedia [that] does a fine job with its authoritative articles, [...]
HOME Secretary Jacqui Smith – mistress of manipulation when it comes to public finances, but utterly useless as a defender of free speech – has just been further shamed by the Italians. Just days after Smith had Geert Wilders slung out of the UK, the Dutch politician was invited to Rome, where he was granted [...]
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