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BY HEMANT MEHTA MARCH 30, 2021 Earlier this month, a church called The Pursuit NW in Snohomish, Washington got a letter from the state’s attorney general warning them against gathering in person in violation of the state’s COVID restrictions. As we know all too well by now, such a sensible request is considered Christian Persecution by religious […]
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BY HEMANT MEHTA MARCH 30, 2021 I’m not surprised that conservative Christians have lashed out at rapper Lil Nas X over the “Satan Shoes” he’s promoting (created by the company MSCHF). Given that the entire point of the shoes was to go viral — and not to make any kind of theological argument — the critics fell right into […]
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BY HEMANT MEHTA MARCH 31, 2021 Dozens of students representing 25 different Christian colleges and universities have filed a lawsuit against the Department of Education for giving federal funding to faith-based schools that discriminate against LGBTQ people. It’s an attempt to force the Biden administration to stop giving money to these bigoted Christian institutions. “The Plaintiffs seek safety and […]
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BY HEMANT MEHTA MARCH 29, 2021 Church attendance is at an all time low and the pandemic doesn’t deserve the blame. (Congratulations, everyone. We did it. Extra cookies for everyone at the next meeting.) According to a new Gallup poll, only 47% of Americans say they belong to a house of worship, marking the first time […]
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BY HEMANT MEHTA MARCH 26, 2021 I posted last week about a disturbing recording that a West Virginia middle school student had made of her health teacher. The teacher told kids they should avoid sex before marriage because the Bible said so, that students needed to believe in God, that God would help them “make better decisions” […]
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BY HEMANT MEHTA MARCH 23, 2021 There’s a sex scandal involving Australia’s Parliament that’s getting a lot of attention mostly because of how lurid the stories are. In addition to separate claims of sexual abuse, there are images circulating of a government staffer masturbating on a female lawmaker’s desk (with a Parliamentary rule book in the background), […]
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BY HEMANT MEHTA MARCH 23, 2021 Two of the people who escaped the King Soopers grocery store yesterday shortly after a shooter came inside — and eventually murdered ten people — spoke to news reporters afterwards about their experience. They said they ran out of the store through an emergency exit in the back and […]
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BY HEMANT MEHTA MARCH 15, 2021 Matt Powell, the hate-preacher and Creationist who appears to have dedicated his life to making atheists look smart, has done it again. Fresh off of his humiliating video claiming scientists believe in surfing monkeys, he’s now pretending dinosaurs farted themselves into extinction. I know this because his latest video is called […]
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BY HEMANT MEHTA MARCH 15, 2021 Given the chance to do the right thing — the obvious thing — the Catholic Church has, once again, failed. The Vatican issued a formal response today to the question of whether Catholic priests can “bless” same-sex unions. The answer up to this point has always been no. After all, the Catechism […]
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BY HEMANT MEHTA MARCH 15, 2021 When John* was only eight years old and in second grade, a staffer at Bishop Kelley Catholic School in Michigan “drugged and raped [him] in the teacher’s lounge.” Specifically, Aloysius “Father Al” Volskis gave the boy two blue pills which he thought were going to help his cold symptoms. Instead, in a […]
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BY HEMANT MEHTA MARCH 1, 2021 Here’s some free relationship advice for you: Never listen to Pastor Stewart-Allen Clark of First General Baptist Church in Malden, Missouri. During a sermon he delivered on February 21 — which has since been deleted from the church’s website and YouTube/Vimeo — Clark gave a sermon on how to keep your marriage strong. […]
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BY HEMANT MEHTA FEBRUARY 13, 2021 There may be no group of people in the world more susceptible to the dangers of COVID than Brazil’s remote indigenous villages. Because of their isolation, their bodies have far fewer natural defenses against diseases and exposure to COVID could be a disaster for them. The good news is […]
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BY HEMANT MEHTA FEBRUARY 16, 2021 A major new survey released today by the Pew Research Center finds that roughly 21% of Black Americans are not affiliated with any organized religion. And when you look to younger members of that demographic, the number only gets larger. Before you get excited though, the survey also finds that those […]
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BY HEMANT MEHTA FEBRUARY 17, 2021 Over the weekend, in Washington County, Utah, Gabriel Newland Dutson was arrested on multiple charges that include rape and assault. His victim survived the attack and Dutson is currently behind bars. There’s no need to go into the details of the attack other than to say it’s all disturbing. What’s also troubling, […]
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BY HEMANT MEHTA FEBRUARY 10, 2021 Before the election, self-proclaimed Christian “prophet” Jeff Jansen said the race was a matter of “good versus evil.” (Okay. “Good” won.) But Jansen still hasn’t accepted the outcome of the election, insisting last week that Donald Trump is still president and will return to the White House by this summer. “He’s not our president,” Jansen declared about […]
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BY HEMANT MEHTA JANUARY 30, 2021 There was a time when the dating website eHarmony, founded by a conservative Christian, wouldn’t allow gay people to find matches. After a lawsuit, a separate-but-equal website, and all kind of internal machinations, the site now permits searching for same-sex partners. That’s the focus of a recent ad featuring a lesbian […]
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BY HEMANT MEHTA FEBRUARY 1, 2021 Steven Brandenburg is the notorious pharmacist from Wisconsin who was charged with ruining hundreds of COVID vaccines because he believed they were a giant hoax. But as is so often the case, it turns out he doesn’t just cling to a single conspiracy theory. He’s absolutely full of them. They involve the […]
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BY HEMANT MEHTA JANUARY 20, 2021 Self-proclaimed Christian “prophetess” Kat Kerr, who said earlier that Donald Trump won a surefire landslide victory in the election he lost and that God told her Trump would remain in office, now has the difficult task of trying to defend those statements on the eve of Joe Biden‘s inauguration. You know she’s not about to apologize. Instead, during […]
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BY HEMANT MEHTA JANUARY 20, 2021 American Atheists and Americans United for Separation of Church and State are giving the Trump administration a going away present: They’re suing the Department of Education and Secretary Betsy DeVos in response to a policy that forces colleges to “financially support religious student groups that discriminate.” They’re referring to a rule published last […]
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BY HEMANT MEHTA JANUARY 20, 2021 During an appearance today on Trinity Broadcasting Network, evangelist Franklin Graham, a Trump sycophant who recently condemned the 10 Republicans who voted to impeach him and compared them to Judas, said it was unfair for anyone to claim Christian Nationalists were involved in the Capitol siege. Sure there were Christians outside, he admitted, […]
