It’s time to cancel the Catholic Church. Earlier this week, a two year grand jury investigation in Pennsylvania found that over 300 Catholic priests sexually abused over 1000 children, and leadership within the church made the decision to cover it up and lie about it for decades. And that’s just in Pennsylvania. The Catholic Church […] More
In case you thought that the systematic abuse of children at the hands of Catholic priests, followed by a thorough cover-up wasn’t enough, Bill Donohue is here to set the record straight and inform you that yes, things can actually get worse. Bill Donohue is the president of the ‘Catholic League for Religious and Civil […] More
You read the headline correctly and no, unfortunately, this is not satire. The former chancellor of the St. Paul and Minneapolis archdiocese, Robert Carlson, said under oath that he “wasn’t sure if he knew that it was illegal for priests to have sex with children.” This comes after he admitted to protecting predator priests when […] More
I’ve long been skeptical of the effectiveness of Change.org petitions. It’s a rather simple process to use throwaway email addresses to artificially inflate the results, and the results can be ignored as easily as deleting an email. But finally, I think the perfect Change.org petition has come our way. The petition? To rename communion wafers […] More
After all the things we’ve heard so far – the child pornography ring the Catholic Church ran in Pennsylvania, the fact that some priests didn’t know if raping a child was wrong, and a pastor saying that the Bible says it’s not rape if the child didn’t scream – it’s hard to imagine what could […] More
As I wrote about a couple weeks ago, schools in Kentucky are required to display the “In God We Trust” motto in a prominent location. It’s a clear endorsement of Christianity by what is supposed to be a secular government. But as Hemant Mehta at Friendly Atheist pointed out, one school found an interesting loophole […] More
A totally serious and completely real Biblical prophecy claims that the apocalypse will happen in December 2019, ending life as we know it on Earth once and for all. More specifically, on December 28th. FREAKING FINALLY. It’s about damn time. I’ve been getting pretty tired of all these wannabe apocalypse events that end up falling […] More
Neophytos Masouras, a bishop of a Greek Orthodox Church, told a group of schoolchildren that gay people exist because their mothers had anal sex while they were pregnant (and they liked it). Another day, another religious nutcase saying something completely ridiculous and objectively false. During “spiritual meetings of dialogue” (whatever that means), Masouras told the […] More
To comply with new legislation, all schools in Kentucky must now display an “In God We Trust” sign in a prominent area of their schools prior to students returning this fall. Writing for Kentucky.com, Valarie Honeycutt Spears reports: When classes start in the next few weeks, every school in Kentucky will have to prominently display […] More
Having received status as a tax-exempt church in April, The Satanic Temple is now challenging a recent Supreme Court ruling regarding the handling of fetal remains on the grounds that it impedes their religious practices. Before becoming Vice President, then-Indiana governor Mike Pence signed legislation that not only blocked abortions for reasons pertaining to race, […] More
Christians around the country, whether they admit it or not, are using the Bible as a basis for legislation, but what if I told you the Bible is actually very pro-choice? Last week, I wrote about how statistics show that increased access to contraceptives lowers the abortion rate. I'm pro-abortion the same way I'm pro-appendectomy […] More
Sometimes, people get away with things that make us furious. The letter of the law sometimes misses proper justice by a long shot. A good example of this is a recent ruling that allows an ex-priest who impregnated a 16 year old parishioner to continue to teach reading and English to 6th graders in New […] More
