Reading Time: 3 minutes LAKEWOOD, CO – Colorado is no stranger to dessert-based controversy. Masterpiece Cakeshop owner Jack Phillips found himself in the public eye on several occasions for refusing to take part in gay weddings. The Virgin Mary, however, had no such problem making an appearance – even if she didn’t RSVP first. “At first I thought it […]
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Keebler Lands Coveted Communion Wafer Contract
Reading Time: 2 minutes VATICAN CITY – The signal came early Monday morning as black-and-white striped smoke rose from the Sistine Chapel chimney. After months of intense prayer, negotiation, and taste tests, the decision had at last been made. The Vatican had chosen a new official communion wafer bakery: The Keebler Cookie Co. “It’s a match made in […]
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Double Standards Abound at Christian Leadership & Integrity Conference
Reading Time: 3 minutes LYNCHBURG, VA – Lynchburg’s hospitality market received a massive cash infusion last weekend as Liberty University hosted the Committee for Righteous Enlightenment and Education of Pluralistic Youth’s annual “Leadership & Integrity” conference. “We spared no expense in providing amenities for our honored guests,” said Liberty University president, Jerry Falwell, Jr. “Godly people shouldn’t have to […]
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Christians Outraged Over 150-ft Tall Steel Constitution
Reading Time: 2 minutes BETHLEHEM, MD – God’s self-declared people were outraged Friday by the unveiling of a massive 150-foot steel monument celebrating the U.S. Constitution. The controversial structure is the latest in a recent trend of increasingly bold secular activism. “There’s just no escaping it,” said Reverend Alan McKee. “It seems like everywhere you go these people ram […]
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New Christian Superhero Is Basically Hitler
Reading Time: 2 minutes ARLINGTON, VA – Move over Bibleman, a new superhero is rising to power in the pages of Millennium Comics’ Superiorman and certain readers are in for a treat! Following the trend of increasingly progressive, globally-oriented characters in the form of women and people of color, Millennium Comics publisher Evan Brown has taken up the cross […]
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My Struggle: A Black Atheist Wrestles with Anti-Intellectualism and Low Expectations
Reading Time: 4 minutes Guest post by James Murray A few months back after recording my podcast interview with Black Nonbelievers, Inc President Mandisa Thomas, I had the misfortune of experiencing the divisive nature of religion when an older cousin called me to discuss the interview. “I just don’t understand! Why don’t you believe?” she repeated, unsatisfied with the reasons […]
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Gay 'kidnapped-for-Allah' student wins a $10,000 award
Reading Time: 2 minutes A Youth Courage prize has been handed to Mahad Olad, a Somali-born student who managed to escape gay conversion therapy in Kenya. According to this report, Olad – the Ithaca College student activist and columnist for New York university’s website The Ithacan – was taken by his family to Kenya just over a year ago under the […]
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Blasphemy: NSS blasts Imran Khan for siding with fanatics
Reading Time: 2 minutes Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan wasn’t happy that a prophet Mohammed cartoon competition – now scrapped – was due to be held in the Netherlands in November. In fact, he was so angry that he called on countries with large Muslim populations kick up a coordinated fuss at the United Nations. According to the UK’s […]
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Swiss politician slammed for objecting to Christian ads
Reading Time: 2 minutes 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 picture on his Facebook page of a religious slogan on the side of a public transport vehicle. He said he was really angry and: I feel […]
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Australia: comedy duo skewers Prime Minister’s Christianity
Reading Time: < 1 minute Ever since Scott Morrison, inset, seized power last month, the godless masses in Australia – one of the least religious countries on the planet – have been asking themselves how they came to be saddled with a Prime Minister who’s a right-wing evangelical numpty. Oh wait … numpties was the word used by Morrison to […]