‘So much universe, and so little time’
Terry Pratchett, who died this week aged 66, was not one of those aggressive ‘new atheists’ Christian fundamentalists are constantly shrieking about. Strange, really, that he never became a key target...
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‘Persecution’ movie mired in controversy
A Facebook advert for a planned movie about the persecution of Christians has reportedly been rejected by Facebook because it broke policy guidelines. According to Christian Today, the text of the...
View ArticleSpare a dollar or two for Russell Wolfe
Wolfe, one of the producers responsible for God’s Not Dead – rated here as the worst film of 2014 – is appealing for financial assistance as he battles against a crippling degenerative disease. Using a...
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‘Blasphemous’ opera: theatre chief sacked
Boris Mezdrich, above, has lost his job as director of the Siberian Novosibirsk State Opera and Ballet Theatre after staging a ‘blasphemous’ version of Richard Wagner’s 19th-century opera Tannhauser....
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Don’t offend the men in frocks & silly hats
Russian theatre directors are being ordered to exercise greater ‘taste, common sense and responsibility’ and avoid offending the sensitivities of faith-heads. Ominous threats, according to the...
View ArticleAngry Sikhs force movie cancellation
The Odeon and Cineworld cinema chains in the UK have cancelled screenings of an Indian movie, Nanak Shah Fakir, following a major sit-in protest at a branch of Cineworld in Wolverhampton. Around 50...
View ArticleA black metal band? In Saudi Arabia?
‘Black metal is an extreme subgenre and subculture of heavy metal music. Common traits include fast tempos, a shrieking vocal style, highly or heavily distorted guitars played with tremolo picking, raw...
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It’s all over for ’19 Kids and Counting’
American TV network TLC has pulled the plug on its long-running Christian reality show, ’19 Kids and Counting’, over revelations that stars Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar covered up their son’s...
View ArticleGay music video sparks row in Norway
Iranian-born singer Tooji, above right, has become the focus of row after the Church of Norway discovered, to it horror, that he had used one of its buildings to create a ‘raunchy’ gay music video....
View ArticleBBC Raw’s Ciaran Varley sparks fury
BBC Raw is an online platform launched by the broadcaster in February to develop new talent and engage younger viewers in current affairs. But it now stands accused of being “too provocative” after...
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Will Katy Perry end up in this LA convent?
An unholy row has broken out in Los Angeles over the proposed sale of a convent to pop star Katy Perry, above. According to this Los Angeles Times report, the row has erupted between Los Angeles...
View ArticlePride platform for N Ireland atheists
LAST December, Michael Nugent, of Atheist Ireland, welcomed the formation of a new Northern Ireland group – Atheist NI – pointing out that the new mission of the group was to: Advocate an ethical and...
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Reason not the need
David Tennant as Hamlet in a 2008 stage production. Shakespeare was interested in the ways people are horrible to each other, often not through malice or cruelty but just by pursuing their own ends...
View ArticleKim Davis: ballad for a banged up bigot
More than 14,000 views in three days and rising fast – a rollicking YouTube video called ‘Shut up and do your motherfucking job’. The honky-tonk number was was created by Sandy and Richard Riccardi to...
View ArticleUS Christians angry over new sitcom
Impastor, which premiered this summer on the TV Land channel, follows Buddy Dobbs (Michael Rosenbaum), above, a fugitive and hard-core gambling addict who, in order to hide from a pair of loan sharks,...
View ArticleA sexy new twist to the Kim Davis saga
An erotic novella loosely based on the antics of homophobic Kentucky clerk Kim Davis, above, has just been published. According to the Huffington Post, author Lilith St Augustine’s Kim Goes To Jail: An...
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You need God on your side in this contest
Judges on a South American version of Britain’s Got Talent have been slammed after castigating a contestant who told them she did not believe in God. According to the Independent, Carolina Peña, above,...
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‘Dangerous’ exorcism airs on US television
Police and paramedics have been enlisted to help anyone affected by ‘evil entities’ who may not like being targeted today by Catholic exorcist Bishop James Long, above, and a bunch psychic ‘experts’...
View ArticleResurrected: Jesus, Queen of Heaven
Back in 2009, Jo Clifford, above, caused much wailing and gnashing of teeth when she portrayed Jesus Christ as a transgender woman at the Glasgay! arts festival. The show, according to this report,...
View ArticleBBC radio presenter loses his job over bigotry remark
Iain Lee has lost his job as a presenter for BBC Three Counties radio after calling an anti-gay Christian group representative ‘a bigot’ during a debate on homophobia. Lee made the comments to Libby...
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