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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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Church up a gum tree over apology to gay teacher

Saturday, August 30, 2008

THE Dutch Reformed Church, found guilty of discriminating against a music teacher by sacking him when they discovered he was gay, is in a quandary over the apology it has been ordered to make.
Dominee Dirkie van der Spuy, head of the Moreleta Park congregation in Pretoria, was disappointed by the High Court judgment in favour [...]

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Nuns’ beauty pageant crashes before take-off

Saturday, August 30, 2008

IT sounded like a fun idea at the time, but an Italian priest’s idea of an online beauty pageant for nuns went tits up when it hit a barrier of hostility from humourless Catholics who thought it was in the worst possible taste.
Howls of protests followed the Rev Antonio Rungi’s announcement last week that he [...]

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Whoo-hoo! Dutch Reformed Church must pay damages to gay musician

Friday, August 29, 2008

A PRETORIA High Court judge has ordered the Dutch Reformed Church at Moreleta Park to unconditionally apologise to a music teacher it fired because he is in a gay relationship.
According to this report today, South African Judge Dion Basson found that the congregation had unfairly discriminated against Johan Strydom when they fired him from their [...]

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Holy shit! Councillors told not to eat during Ramadan meetings

Thursday, August 28, 2008

IN a revolting display of dhimmitude, Tower Hamlets Council in East London have told non-Muslim councillors that they must not eat or drink in committee meetings while Muslims are fasting during Ramadan.
According to the Telegraph today, all members of the council , where 36 percent of the population is Muslim, were sent an email asking [...]

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Islamic law firm used porn stars to attract clients

Thursday, August 28, 2008

TWO porn stars posing a secretaries on a Muslim law firm’s website have been “disappeared” after they were unmasked by the media in Holland.
Photos of the women were removed this week from the sharia site after the press turned their attention on Jairam Advocaten, following a hissy fit thrown by one of its staff who [...]

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Shi’a savagery

Wednesday, August 27, 2008

ARDENT multiculturalists, who seem to believe that every bizarre and primitive religious practice imported into the UK should be celebrated as a valuable addition to “diversity”, ought to be seriously rethinking their position following the conviction today of a Muslim man on charges of child cruelty.
A jury at Manchester crown court found Syed Mustafa Zaidi, [...]

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A Mickey Mouse approach to Evolution

Tuesday, August 26, 2008

HOW do you begin to reverse the religious stupidification process that has left millions of Americans, and a sizeable number of Europeans and others wallowing in a nonsensical belief in creationism, or its ugly sister, “intelligent design”?
In a fascinating, albeit depressing New York Times article this week – A Teacher on the Front Line as [...]

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Why do ‘straight’ bishops want to exclude women and gay men from their frock-fests?

Monday, August 25, 2008

EVER notice that those church leaders who are most vocal in their opposition to homosexuality are also those who who flounce about in the campest of creations?
We all know that Pope Benedict is a peacock with a penchant for ostentatious drag – and so is Archbishop Akinola. But it’s only come to our attention that [...]

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Obama’s running-mate is the wrong sort of Catholic

Sunday, August 24, 2008

LATEST sounds of outrage over a political decision comes from Catholics in the US who are rallying to condemn Barack Obama’s running mate Joe Biden.
Biden is himself a Catholic – but the WRONG sort of Catholic, as he won’t toe the Vatican line on abortion.
The Roman Catholic group, Fidelis, said the choice was ” a [...]

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