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Christian zealot’s Taliban tactics blow up in his face

Saturday, November 15, 2008

POET Patrick Jones – so shamefully treated by Waterstones in Cardiff this week when they caved in to a low-grade terrorist threat issued by low-life Christian zealot Stephen “Birdshit” Green – has gained more publicity for his new book that he and his publishers, Cinnamon Press, ever could have hoped for … and he has [...]

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How an Amazonian tribe turned a missionary into an atheist

Saturday, November 8, 2008

A RIVETING and hugely satisfying report on BBC Radio 4 today tells the story of a missionary who was charged by an American missionary group with taking the Gospel to the little understood Pirahãs tribe in the Amazon – only to realise how ridiculous his faith in Christianity was.
Daniel Everett, 57, a linguist in the [...]

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Evangelist Billy Graham won’t be bending Barack Obama’s ear

Saturday, November 8, 2008

ALL together now …. Awww!
Ailing veteran US evangelist Billy Graham, 90 and not long for this world, is not best pleased with Barack Obama’s liberal agenda, particular in regard to abortion and gay rights and he will not be counselling the President-elect.
His evangelist son Franklin Graham said in an interview that his father’s mind remains [...]

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US atheist soldiers ‘are at war’ with Christian extremists

Saturday, October 4, 2008

A SECOND member of the US military is suing the Department of Defence, claiming he was forced to attend military events where fundamentalist Christian prayers violated his constitutional rights.
According to this report, the action has been brought against the DoD and US Defence Secretary Robert Gates by army medic Dustin Chalker, a decorated Iraq combat [...]

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Barmy Army plans to use force to impose Christianity on non-believers

Sunday, August 31, 2008

WHEN we posted a piece recently on Christian “healer” Todd “Bam” Bentley, we realised at the time that he was clearly wired to the moon. What we didn’t know is that he is a lot more deranged than we initially thought.
How’s this for evidence? Bentley tells his followers that he’s seen King David and spoken [...]

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‘Cancer-stricken’ pastor exposed as a lying son-of-a-bitch

Thursday, August 21, 2008

IS there no depth to which some Christians will sink?
An Australian pastor-cum-singer who rose to fame with the claim that he was suffering terminal cancer, which inspired him to write a hit evangelical pop song, has just been exposed as a fraud – and a man with “a severe porn addiction”.
According to this report, Michael [...]

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