IN what appears to be a bizarre attempt to mix Marmite with marshmallows, an optimistic group of Christians and Muslims yesterday unveiled a set of guidelines aimed at removing hostility between the two mutually incompatible religions. The ten-point plan was launched at Islamic Relief’s Headquarters in London. According to this report, it was concocted by [...]
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OH dear, we appear to have upset the Rev Michael Bresciani. Yesterday, I put up a piece about this “American Prophet” and his attack in Christian Voice on Barack Obama regarding LGBT month in the US. This morning I selected several comments left by readers of this blog, and posted them on the Christian Voice [...]
THE Atheist Bus Campaign, which was launched in the UK then spread to many other countries, is about to hit Finland – despite opposition from a group of drivers with a religious bent. Leader of the group of dissenting bus drivers is Tapani Mäkinen, who conceded that there were few legal ways for Christian and [...]
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THE election of a gay-friendly President was bound to set US fundies on edge. But what really sent them into swivel-eyed, foam-flecked fury was Barack Obama’s proclamation that June should be designated LGBT Month to celebrate America’s lesbian, bi-sexual, gay and transgendered community. Among the many Christian fundamentalists who regard this as nothing short of [...]
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FRENCH President Nicolas Sarkozy yesterday lashed out at the burqa, labelling the all-encompassing Islamic form of dress: A sign of subservience, a sign of debasement. It will not be welcome on the territory of the French Republic. In a high-profile speech to lawmakers in the historic chateau at Versailles, Sarkozy said the head-to-toe Muslim bodybags [...]
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IN May we carried a report that Catholic priest Father Alberto Cutié, of Miami, was contemplating leaving the Church to marry the woman he loved. Well, he’s since ditched the Church, and gotten hitched to 35-year-old beautician Ruhama Canellis, a divorcee (gasp!) just days before before geriatric Pope Ratzinger – in “a tender, personal and [...]
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