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Is the pope a…
6 January 2025

US catholic conservative commentator and media personality, Megyn Kelly, fulminated yesterday after having watched Conclave. In this awards contender, Ralph Fiennes plays a cardinal who uncovers scandalous secrets at the Vatican during the organisation of a papal conclave. The plot twist is delivered when the pope elect confides to Fiennes' character that he/she/they is intersex and has…da-da-DAAAA…girly bits, albeit only on the inside.

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Talibanned
29 August 2024

The Taliban has prohibited MMA fighting in Afghanistan, claiming that it's incompatible with Islamic sharia law.

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To be thankful for small mercies
7 August 2024

During recent anti-Islamic riots in England, held after the murder of three girls by the son of Rwandan immigrants, protesters have been heard chanting Who the fuck is Allah?. The spineless panderersgreat and the good clutched their pearls at the very thought of those benevolent Muslims being offended. But it could've been so much worse.

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It pays to be a pilgrim who pays
23 June 2024

The annual Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca has claimed an estimated 1300 lives as temperatures in Saudi Arabia soared past 50°C. The majority who died did not have official permits, walking under direct sunlight without adequate shelter.

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Pope on the ropes
21 June 2024

If, like me, you read the headline Pope told off by student for using anti-LGBTQ language and thought Pope Francis had been indelicate again, then you'd be wrong. It appears that fragile student twink was referring to Frankie's earlier slip in using the word frociaggine last month. A sin for which he'd already apologised.

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Pope goes the weasel
28 May 2024

Old men are wont to say what they really think when it's least appropriate, and Pope Francis is no exception. During a closed door meeting with bishops, the aged god-botherer rejected the proposal that homosexuals should be eligible for the priesthood, going so far as to say that there was already too much of an air of frociaggine in the Catholic Church.

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Saint argentina
11 February 2024

A first not involving space travel, but only because it didn't exist in 18th-Century Argentina. The Argentine president met the pope at the canonisation of their country's first female saint.

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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:

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The pumpkin slayer (pumpkinface)
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.

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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.

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Bible bashing
3 June 2023

After the pornography of Michaelangelo's David, comes the vulgarity 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.

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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.

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Sì, sì, cìtron
30 April 2023

Reading of Calabrian farmers' endeavours to protect and sustain the rare citron (Citrus medica), 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.

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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 martyred, so they could just get on with their lives.

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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.

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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.

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Bye-bye Ben
31 December 2022

Pope Benedict XVI—otherwise known as Benny the Rat—has only just squeezed on to the those taken in 2022 list. In doing so, he snatched the year's Last Celebrity Death award from the clutches of Dame Vivienne Westwood.

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And god created woman…and the Taliban
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.

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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 devastating for the Afghan people.

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Pope porn
26 October 2022

Pope Francis has recognised the almost inevitable: nuns and priests are human. And those who aren't taking out their frustrations on choir boys and orphans, are taking it out on themselves. While viewing pornography online, that is.

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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)

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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, N becomes ‑in‑ or ‑en‑, etc. It's so commonplace that reading acronyms phonetically becomes second nature.

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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.*

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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…

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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.

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Foetal attraction
1 April 2022

Lauren Handy is an American anti-abortionist, who describes herself as a Catholic anarchist. She's a leader of an activist group calling itself the Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising.

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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)

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God is grate
20 December 2021

Offering 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)

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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 affinity fraud, in which individuals are targeted, based on religious, ethnic, or professional associations.

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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 justice, claimed that amputations were necessary for security.

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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.

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League of extraordinary godbotherers
11 August 2021

Disney's Muppet Babies has managed to piss off the Catholics. Yay!

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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.

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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 a surpriseinteresting to read that he was caught with a married woman who's not his wife, and has been publicly flogged 28 times. Deep joy.

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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.

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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.

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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, consider Greece to be a country under Christian occupation. This, perhaps understandably, does not go down too well with the Greek Orthodox Church:

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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 Only for children up to 40 kg, and Do not use the bouncy castle if you suffer from…pregnancy.

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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.

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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.

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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 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.

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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.

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No shit Shylock
26 November 2009

…or, rather, Jessica probably.

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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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