Bishop blasted by Scottish secularists over BBC complaint
The Roman Catholic Bishop of Paisley, John Keenan, above, was accused yesterday by the Scottish Secular Society of ‘fabricating a ridiculous conspiracy that the BBC is seeking to oppress the Catholic...
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Faith schools: Catholics and secularists criticise new plans
The Government has abandoned plans to lift the 50 per cap on faith admissions in new free schools in a move that has infuriated Catholics. Equally angry are secularists, who, while welcoming the...
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Tory tit Jacob Rees-Mogg falls victim to ‘bigotry’ in the BBC
I’ve always regarded Tory MP Jacob Rees-Mogg as a bit of a tit – and I’m by no means the only one who detests this poncy Brexiteering Catholic. Back in 2017 Ginger Wildheart, a British musician...
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Retirement of liberal American judge sparks gloomy forecasts
The news this week that Justice Anthony Kennedy, above, is retiring from the US Supreme Court is ‘an ominous development for our civil liberties’, according to the Freedom From Religion Foundation,...
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London Humanists target the BBC over exclusionary godslot
Last month the South East London Humanist Group (SELHuG) held the first of a planned series of demos outside the BBC in a bid to get the corporation to open up Radio 4’s Thought for the Day to secular...
View ArticleSurvey shows that Scotland is no longer a faith-based country
Commenting the findings of a poll commissioned by Humanist Society Scotland, Gordon MacRae, above, Chief Executive of HSS, said today that ‘by all measurements Scotland is no longer a faith-based...
View ArticleSwiss politician slammed for objecting to Christian ads
Mohamed Hamdaoui, inset, a journalist and left-wing Social Democratic Party representative for the city of Biel and the Bern cantonal parliament, recently ruffled Christian feathers when he posted a...
View ArticleNSS protests UK judge’s claim that Islam is a peaceful religion
Following remarks about the peaceful nature of Islam by Mr Justice Haddon-Cave, above, the National Secular Society has asked the Justice Secretary David Gauke to ensure judges keep theology out of...
View ArticleBanned Bible classes: retirement home accused of hostility to religion
Hardly a week goes by without the media reporting on Christians being ‘persecuted’ by nasty secular organisations or institutions. Latest of these reports concerns Bible study classes held at...
View ArticleScottish politician vows to give his son a Jesus-centred education
A century ago Scotland snuggled up to the Catholic Church, and agreed – under the Education (Scotland) Act 1918 – that Catholic schools would be brought into the state system. Taxpayers, of course,...
View ArticleFaith groups & secularists say Matthew Whitaker is not fit for purpose
A letter signed last week by a coalition of 22 Muslim, Christian, Jewish and secular groups calls for Trump’s acting Attorney General to step down over his stated belief that US judges should be...
View ArticleHeresy-busting app takes the hard work out of protesting blasphemy
Muslims in Indonesia no longer have to create banners and take to the streets to protest against perceived insults to Islam, thanks to a new blasphemy-busting Google app. But Smart Pakem – launched...
View ArticleBeekeeping helps young Ugandans lead lives untainted by religion
THIS week I was contacted by Masereka Solomon, above, who brought to my attention a charity in Uganda called Abrimac Secular Services Ltd. Its website – called Ubuntu – is a registered charity with...
View ArticlePrayers have no place in Parliament, say a number of UK MPs
FOR at least 450 years Anglican prayers have kicked off proceedings in Parliament, but a group of British MPs have decided the time has come to ditch this silly and arcane practice. The MPs have moved...
View ArticlePakistan lawyer is named Secularist of the Year by NSS
SAIF ul Malook, the lawyer who defended Asia Bibi who spent eight years on death row for blasphemy in Pakistan was named at the weekend as Secularist of the Year 2019 by the UK’s National Secular...
View ArticleSnowflake Republican attacks immigration, feminism & secularism
A couple of things to note about State Senator Sylvia Allen, who represents Snowflake, Arizona: She is a biblical literalist who believes the world is just 6,000 old – and in 2015 she was ‘vilified’...
View ArticleVeteran UK atheist Barbara Smoker dies aged 96
I LEARNED with sadness today that Barbara Smoker, former President of the National Secular Society, has died – two years after she published a long-overdue memoir. She had been diagnosed as having...
View Article‘Jesus’ calls for war against ‘secular extremists’
ACTOR Jim Caviezel received a serious blow to the head by a big ol’ wooden cross when he was making Mel Gibson’s torture porn movie The Passion of the Christ. He was also struck by lightning while...
View Article‘Hostility to religion’ and secularism is driving down birth rates
PHILIP Jenkins, above, a professor at Baylor – a Christian University in Texas University – last week said in a ‘Faith and Fertility’ lecture that the world would be two billion people better off if...
View ArticleSecularism is subjecting Western Christians to ‘polite persecution’
THE head of the Catholic League, Bill Donohue, above, has seized on a new religious freedom report to warn that Christians in the West need to fear rapidly encroaching secularism. In a piece penned for...
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