BETWEEN the covers of a book entitled Pure Manhood – yours for just $2.95 (or £1.23 in real money) you too can discover the secret of “how to become the man God wants you to be”. On offer at a generous discount from The Catholic Company, which describes chastity “expert” Jason Evert’s book as “simply [...]
TWO Christian crazies are in the news today: a street preacher in Taunton called Michael Overd, 47, and the Vatican’s “Chief Exorcist” Father Gabriele Amorth, 87. The former is on trial before Taunton magistrates for threatening a gay couple with hell, and the latter has just written a book – The Last Exorcist – My [...]
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THE latest insanity to be exposed in Jerusalem, where an ultra-Orthodox Jewish Taliban is fast increasing its influence, is an attempt to silence women singing in public. Yakov Halperin Yakov Halperin, a religious member of Jerusalem’s City Council, said: The voice of a woman can be fine … the problem we have is with women [...]
ALL hell broke loose after members of a Baptist Church in good ol’ Kentucky voted to bar mixed-race couples. Nine daft bigots, members of the Gulnare Free Will Baptist Church in Pike County, voted for the ban after the daughter of church secretary Dean Harville attended the church during the summer with her boyfriend, who [...]
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SAUDI Arabia’s population of virgins would be catastrophically wiped out if women in the Islamic kingdom were allowed to drive motor vehicles. Quelle horreur! A Muslim woman behind the wheel of a car The “no more virgins” warning, according to this report, was sounded by Muslim clerics from the Majlis al-Ifta al-Aala, the country’s highest [...]
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THE young Idaho man charged with the attempted assassination of President Obama, (or a member of the White House staff), thinks he is Jesus Incarnate. In a 20-minute video obtained by CBS affiliate KBOI, Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez says that not for nothing does he look like Jesus, and: I am the modern day Jesus Christ [...]
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