COVID Cases on the Rise at “Christian Hogwarts” School in Redding, CA
BY HEMANT MEHTA OCTOBER 15, 2020 I posted earlier this month about how a COVID outbreak in Shasta County, California had been linked to Bethel Church, which is home to…
Residents of Small Minnesota Town Push Back Against Possible Whites-Only Church
BY HEMANT MEHTA OCTOBER 16, 2020 If you visit the website of the “Asatru Folk Assembly,” it makes clear it’s an “ancestral religion” that honors the “spirit of our gods.”…
Priest Arrested After Getting Caught Filming Sex With Two Women on Church Altar
BY HEMANT MEHTA OCTOBER 9, 2020 Someone wasn’t social distancing… Last Wednesday night, an eyewitness was walking by Saints Peter & Paul Church in Pearl River, Louisiana when the person…
Catholicism Just Fell Apart Because the Vatican Said Some Baptisms Were Fake
BY VAL WILDE OCTOBER 6, 2020 Were you baptized Catholic? Do you know somebody who was? Are you sure? It seems that, in the waning years of the 20th century,…
Amy Coney Barrett: Abortion is “Barbaric” and IVF Should Be Criminalized
BY HEMANT MEHTA OCTOBER 1, 2020 This is what happens when you nominate someone without extensively vetting her first. I’ve been fairly adamant in saying that Amy Coney Barrett shouldn’t…
Satanists Sue Lamar Advertising for Rejecting Their Pro-Abortion Billboards
BY HEMANT MEHTA OCTOBER 1, 2020 Last month, The Satanic Temple announced a new campaign meant to fight back against abortion restrictions throughout the country — especially as the ground…
The Lack of Opposite-Gender Friendships Among Evangelicals is Itself a Problem
BY BETH STONEBURNER SEPTEMBER 26, 2020 Christian-turned-atheist Patheos blogger Libby Anne wrote an eye-opening blog post this week on why evangelicals don’t do opposite-sex friendships. The inspiration came from the…
Icelandic Church Under Fire for Depicting Jesus With Beard and Breasts
BY VAL WILDE SEPTEMBER 26, 2020 An advertisement encouraging children to attend Sunday school classes hosted by the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Iceland has stirred up controversy following its social…
AG William Barr: “Militant Secularists” Don’t Understand Church/State Separation
BY BETH STONEBURNER SEPTEMBER 24, 2020 Attorney General William Barr spoke at the (virtual) National Catholic Prayer Breakfast yesterday and was awarded the “Christifideles Laici Award” for — and I’m…
Christian Preacher: If You Have Faith, You Can See Dead People Come Back to Life
BY HEMANT MEHTA SEPTEMBER 24, 2020 Christian preacher Andrew Wommack has said repeatedly in the past that anyone with faith can raise people from the dead. It even happened to…
Baptist Preacher Caught Yelling “White Power!” After Speaking at Trump Rally
BY HEMANT MEHTA SEPTEMBER 24, 2020 On Saturday, in North Carolina, preacher Jesse Hursey spoke (in his personal capacity) during an Alamance County Trump rally. Speaking like any politician would,…
Democrats Do Not Have “Anti-Catholic” Bias, No Matter What Republicans Tell You
BY HEMANT MEHTA SEPTEMBER 23, 2020 With Donald Trump expected to name his Supreme Court nominee on Saturday, and with all eyes on Judge Amy Coney Barrett, conservatives have already…
Germany’s Largest and Richest Archdiocese Will Close 90% of Its Churches by 2030
BY HEMANT MEHTA SEPTEMBER 23, 2020 There’s good news. So of course it’s not happening in the United States. In Germany, the Archdiocese of Cologne — the largest and richest…
“Jesus of Siberia” Arrested for Running Cult That Extorted and Abused Members
BY HEMANT MEHTA SEPTEMBER 23, 2020 Jesus was arrested. Or at least a guy who looks like Jesus. A guy who at least claims to be God’s voice in this…
Donald Trump: If Joe Biden Wins, “There Will Be No God”
BY HEMANT MEHTA SEPTEMBER 19, 2020 During his rally tonight in North Carolina, Donald Trump claimed that a Joe Biden victory this November means “there will be no God.” Atheists:…
Court Order Bans TN School District from Constantly Pushing Christianity on Kids
BY HEMANT MEHTA SEPTEMBER 15, 2020 Back in November, the ACLU and its Tennessee chapter sued the Smith County School System in Nashville over its longstanding illegal promotion of Christianity.…
Televangelist Jim Bakker is Now Selling 115 Giant Buckets of Food for $10,000
BY HEMANT MEHTA SEPTEMBER 14, 2020 What do you do if you’re televangelist Jim Bakker and your attempt to sell a (fake) all-purpose cure for COVID, SARS, HIV, and “all…
COVID-Denying Church Finally Goes Outside After County Issues $112,750 Penalty
BY HEMANT MEHTA SEPTEMBER 15, 2020 For weeks now, North Valley Baptist Church in Santa Clara, California has been defying local COVID restrictions by holding massive indoor services that break…