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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A WHILE back I was about to blog about burqas for dogs, having stumbled on a report that that quoted a Muslim sociologist, Omar Jahal, as saying: Muslim men got upset watching male dogs sniffing females and then mounting them in public. They found it indecent. Dog burqas – [barkas] – nip that in the [...]
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RIGHT now, there’s a blazing exchange taking place on the BBC World Service’s Facebook page, following a broadcast on religion this morning which utterly infuriated me. Getting wound up by the squads of religionists who get a disproportionate amount of airtime on the BBC is something that happens to people like me far too often [...]
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RALPH Shortey is an Oklahoma state senator who this week got himself branded as “hilariously delusional” after he tabled bill that would ban the use of aborted human foetuses in food products. According to this report, the ridiculous Republican and ardent Christian pro-lifer said he filed the bill after reading that an anti-abortion group – [...]
FIRST off, let me make it absolutely clear – to BarrieJohn in particular – that I did not choose to blog this sorry saga because a key player in it has a funny name: Dr Hazel Chowcat. Chowcat is a magistrate in Yorkshire, and according to this report, she accepted the defence of a 73-year-old [...]
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AT least two Freethinker readers have received emails from Christian extremist Stephen “Birdshit” Green, asking for their support in his ongoing war on the supermarket giant over its Gay Pride funding. Not surprisingly, John M White and AngieRS are somewhat puzzled to have received a communication from the nutter. Said White: Oddly, I just got [...]
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