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There are 38 posts tagged: godstuff/religion
- Religiously passing the buck
- 29 October 2023
The Spanish Catholic Church is believed to be responsible for the sexual abuse of hundreds of thousands of children. Spain's ombudsman, Angel Gabilondo, also criticised the Church for inaction; attempts to cover up or deny the abuse; and a less-than-wholehearted engagement with his commission's work:
(more…)- The pumpkin slayer
- 20 October 2023
A Czech parish priest has taken it upon himself to turn the tide of heathen satanic worship, by smashing carved pumpkin lanterns in the village. Twice.
(more…)- Porky 🐷
- 21 September 2023
A Muslim woman has been sentenced to two years' jail time by an Indonesian court for eating pork after offering a brief Islamic prayer—Bismillah—and then posting the video to TikTok. On the spectrum of all that's stupid, that has gotta lie more towards the really-not-a-good-idea end. I'd've thought that, as a Muslim, she'd be behind Islam's strict prohibition on consuming pig; or at least cognisant of Indonesia's strict blasphemy laws.
(more…)- Bible bashing
- 3 June 2023
After the
(more…)pornography
of Michaelangelo's David, comes thevulgarity and violence
of the King James Bible. I shit you not. A parent in Utah complained of its depravity, and the school district has removed it from elementary and middle schools.- Keeping their religion
- 14 May 2023
The BBC's home page teases what appears to be a story of Muslims transitioning to other faiths. Possibly ones that show greater tolerance; which hardly narrows the field really.
(more…)- Sì, sì, cìtron
- 30 April 2023
Reading of Calabrian farmers' endeavours to protect and sustain the rare citron (Citrus medica) this morning, I was struck by an overpowering sense of déjà vu. For I'd recently read of the lure of this same fruit, less than four months' ago. On the very same site, as it happens, albeit stuffed into a different pigeonhole. It seems that good topics know no bounds.
(more…)- Talibomb
- 9 March 2023
Things haven't gone too smoothly in Afghanistan, since the Taliban came to power in August 2021. And not just for the populace, who probably wish that all these arseholes were
(more…)martyred
, so they could just get on with their lives.- You gotta be shittin' me, Sherlock!
- 16 February 2023
Queensland police, investigating the ambush of four of their colleagues at a remote location last December, have declared the attack to be a case of religiously-motivated terrorism.
(more…)- Oh, the irany
- 1 February 2023
An Iranian couple have been jailed for promoting corruption; prostitution; and propaganda, after posting a video of themselves dancing in the street beside Tehran's Azadi Tower (برج آزادی or
Freedom Tower
). Amply demonstrating that the Iranian authorities have nothing if not a sense of irony.- Prancing prophet
- 8 January 2023
Since being fan-edited into Jenna Ortega's dance improv in s1e4 of Netflix's Addams Family spin-off, Wednesday, Lady Gaga's Bloody Mary has become a bit of a trope on social media. I guess I never paid much attention to it before now. But now I have…and the lyrics are enlightening, to say the least.
(more…)- Bye-bye Ben
- 31 December 2022
Pope Benedict XVI—otherwise known as Benny the Rat—has only just squeezed on to the
(more…)those taken in 2022
list. In doing so, he snatched the year's Last Celebrity Death award from the clutches of Dame Vivienne Westwood.- Be careful what you wish for
- 28 December 2022
Reacting to the Taliban's prohibition against women attending university, a nineteen year-old Afghan girl wishes god had never created women.
(more…)- Hijab hysteria
- 25 December 2022
The Taliban has banned women from working with non-governmental organisations, citing dress code violations. The UN has condemned the move as a contravention of fundamental human rights, while the US Secretary of State criticised it as
(more…)devastating for the Afghan people
.- Pope porn
- 26 October 2022
Priests do it Nuns do it They have a lot of fun doin' it Let's do it Let's watch porn [with apologies to Ted Koehler and Harold Arlen]
(more…)- Immorality code
- 17 September 2022
Mahsa Amini was arrested by Iran's morality police for not wearing a hijab, in contravention of the country's strict rules on head coverings. She was beaten while inside a police van. Because it's immoral for a woman to not cover her head, but it's okey-dokey for the police to kick the crap out of her. That's not immoral; is that it? (rolleyes)
(more…)- Wrong message
- 18 August 2022
A common written style of street vocabulary eschews the use of vowels, relying instead on phonetics to fill the gaps. Thus,
(more…)N
becomes‑in‑
or‑en‑
, etc. It's so commonplace that reading acronyms phonetically becomes second nature.- Pet cemetery
- 19 July 2022
I never thought I'd say that I like the idea of life in Iran, but I like the idea of life in Iran.*
(more…)- Religious drugs are cuddly
- 9 June 2022
In A Christian Response to Wokeness, Noelle Mering relates the modern history of the woke movement, originating with the work of Karl Marx. All of which reminded me…
(more…)- Having their meat and eating it
- 4 May 2022
As the US Supreme Court appears set to challenge women's right to abortion, conservative and religious pro-lifers hope that Roe vs Wade will be overturned. I can't help but wonder how many of them are vegetarian though.
(more…)- Foetal attraction
- 1 April 2022
Lauren Handy is an American anti-abortionist, who describes herself as a
(more…)Catholic anarchist
. She's a leader of an activist group calling itself the Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising.- Thought for the day: hedging your bets
- 14 February 2022
If you don't believe in a god and the afterlife, and you're wrong, you'll find out when you die. But, if you do believe, and you're wrong, how will you ever know? (thinking)
(more…)- God is grate
- 20 December 2021
Offering
(more…)GREETINGS IN JESUS NAME !!!!
, Mrs Susan Wilson informs me that she suffers from breast cancer and stroke, which have denied her a child. Although I suspect that has more to do with her age. As, indeed, do her diseases. (pipe)- Fleecing the flock
- 2 December 2021
In When Jesus is used to steal from his flock, Bernd Debusmann Jr discusses elder fraud, the scamming of trusting, elderly Christians by snake oil salesmen. It's a variant on
(more…)affinity fraud
, in which individuals are targeted, based on religious, ethnic, or professional associations.- Let the punishment fit the crime
- 24 September 2021
The Taliban have announced that extreme punishments, including execution and amputation, will resume in Afghanistan. Mullah Nooruddin Turabi, who has an infamously zealous history in the pursuit of
(more…)justice
, claimed that amputations werenecessary for security
.- Bombs or blacklisting
- 30 August 2021
As someone who doesn't read comics, even I'm aware of Frank Miller. If only through his works that made it to the silver screen: 300; Sin City, and it's sequel, Sin City: A Dame To Kill For; and The Spirit. Although the less said about the last one, the better.
(more…)- League of extraordinary godbotherers
- 11 August 2021
Disney's Muppet Babies has managed to piss off the Catholics. Yay!
(more…)- Losing your head
- 19 October 2020
In the wake of the brutal murder of a French teacher by an Islamic fundamentalist, thousands have rallied across France to support and honour him.
(more…)- Biter bit
- 1 November 2019
In Indonesia, Mukhlis bin Muhammad of the Aceh Ulema Council helped draft strict adultery laws in compliance with Islamic Sharia law. So it was
(more…)a surprisenice to read that he was caught with a married woman who's not his wife, and has been publicly flogged 28 times. Deep joy.- The will of God?
- 7 September 2019
An Indian couple, Mangayamma Yaramati and Sitarama Rajarao, have welcomed twin daughters following IVF treatment. This wouldn't really be worthy of comment, if were not for the fact that she is 73, and he is a sprightly 82 years young.
(more…)- May god go with you...but take back-up just in case
- 11 July 2017
William Rian Adams, a North Carolinian priest, pulled a gun on two people in a road rage incident.
(more…)- If you're going to Mount Olympus, be sure to wear some laurels in your hair
- 20 June 2013
Followers of The Return of the Hellenes, who worship the ancient gods of Greece,
(more…)consider Greece to be a country under Christian occupation
. This, perhaps understandably, does not go down too well with the Greek Orthodox Church:- A sign of the times?
- 19 November 2012
I saw this while on holiday in Portugal recently, a sign on a bouncy castle warning that it's
(more…)Only for children up to 40 kg
, andDo not use the bouncy castle if you suffer from…pregnancy
.- A Mormon moment (not really)
- 16 November 2012
During the 2012 US presidential election, much* was made of Mitt Romney's Mormon faith, and how it was seen as a negative trait for his candidature. But it's useful to reflect on the fact that not all Mormons are the same, and their faith doesn't dictate an identical world view.
(more…)- Stop that 'fun' right now!
- 30 October 2012
The Catholic Church in Poland has warned that the celebration of Halloween promotes the occult, contradicting Church teachings and even Christianity itself.
(more…)- Benny joins the justice league
- 29 October 2012
In the wake of allegations of sexual abuse of minors by Jimmy Savile and some of his entourage—or one of his entourages
(more…)as it happens
—the Catholic Church in England and Wales has written to the Holy See to ask whether the papal knighthood bestowed on Savile in 1990 can be revoked. But it appears that this might not be possible.- Saudi Arabia is not feeling .gay
- 15 August 2012
Saudi Arabia has objected to several new global top level domains (gTLD), including .gay, on the basis that they may offend, or promote practices that are counter to their religion. The poofs, on the other hand, counter that .gay is needed for support.
(more…)- No shit Shylock
- 26 November 2009
…or, rather, Jessica probably.
(more…)- I (heart) religion (ish)
- 20 May 2004
Right, so along with man's greed for territory and mineral deposits, religion has got to be the greatest cause of war, death, and human misery. And they ring the fekkin' church bells on Sunday.
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