Mike Tidmus

Anti-gay hypocrite is news because of his activism (video: The Rachel Maddow Show) From The Rachel Maddow Show: Rachel Maddow explains what’s really scandalous about revelations that anti-gay activist George Alan Reker is gay. It’s not his personal life but his efforts to impose his self-loathing on the rest of society. On the subject of [...]

Family Research Council’s European Gaycation (video: The Daily Show with Jon Stewart) From The Daily Show with Jon Stewart: “Faisal Shahzad forgets his keys, Greece drowns in debt, BP tries to cap the oil spill, and George Rekers rents a male prostitute.” Love this. The big punchline of the evening is none other than the [...]

Big heap o’ trouble for a young Polish chanteuse who has managed to offend a number of Roman Catholic groups: The 26-year-old singer ruffled conservative sentiment in Catholic Poland by explaining that she believed more in dinosaurs than the Bible because “it is hard to believe in something written by people who drank too much [...]

Notice of this Telegraph story comes via The Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science: “The memo, which was leaked to The Sunday Telegraph, threatens to overshadow the Pope’s entire four-day visit in September after it prompted fury in the Vatican and among Catholics in Britain.” Right. Like it’s going to upstage the Roman Catholic [...]

Spelbound – Britain’s Got Talent 2010 – Auditions Week 2 (video: BritainsGotTalent09 at YouTube)

This is incredibly rich, given that the first thing His Infallible Papalness did after slating his UK tour dates, was criticize the citizens of Britain for their tolerance and democracy. Now, according to a Vatican aide: “The Pope went to Turkey, a Muslim country, and had no problem at all. He visited Israel, no problem, [...]

Condoms mocking the pope were distributed in Paris in 2009 (Photo: Boris Horvat/AFP) Apparently, you can rape little boys and girls and the Roman Catholic Church thinks you should be able to keep your job, but woe to those who offend His Exalted Popiness — it’s the unemployment line for you. On the other hand, cancellation [...]

The end of democracy in Britain, or the beginning? (video: Pat Condell at YouTube) Pat Condell‘s latest. Find all of Pat Condell’s videos at his YouTube channel. Get the bound transcripts in Pat Condell – Godless and Free, at the link.

Death threats for South Park creators, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, over Muhammad satire (video: Atheist Media Blog at YouTube) Ayaan Hirsi Ali on CNN: Religion, violence & South Park (video: Atheist Media Blog at YouTube) CNN’s Anderson Cooper spoke to Ayaan Hirsi Ali about online threats leveled against the creators of South Park by [...]

Catholic Bishop Richard Williamson was a facet of one of Papa Ratzi’s scandals back in early 2009. Ratzi, attempted to shore up his extremist right-wing base within the Catholic Church by welcoming the radical Society of St Pius X back into the folds of the church. How freaky is SSPX? They condemned the French Revolution, [...]

Oh.My.Dog! It’s the holy mother of all lawsuits! About. Fucking. Time. Suing Muhammad – Atlas Shrugs atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com Back in March I reported on a new front that opened in the Islamic litigation jihad on the vastly superior West. A Saudi Arabian law firm launched a mega Muslim lawfare attack against the Danish newspaper Jyllands Posten [...]

In Graz, Austria, 1,000 registered Catholics renounced the Church last month. One in five German Catholics says that the abuse scandal is making them consider leaving. Believers in Germany pay a church tax and have formally to de-register if they no longer want to pay the levy, so the number of defections can be precisely [...]

InCulto – Eastern European Funk – Lithuania (video: eurovision at YouTube) If you’ve been hanging out in these parts for long, you’re undoubtedly aware that it’s coming up on time for the international campfest known as The Eurovision Song Contest. As I did last year, I’ll be posting a selection of videos, and I’ll post [...]

Is Satan a Catholic? (video: Pat Condell at YouTube) Pat Condell kicks off a brilliant riff on the astonishingly bad behavior of the Catholic Church throughout history by noting that the Vatican’s chief exorcist has admitted that Satan’s in the house, as it were.

Quelle surprise! From John Shook, writing at the Center for Inquiry: Religious people can be racist, and that’s not news. But are they more likely to be racist than non-religious people? A new study now confirms this hypothesis. The February issue of Personality and Social Psychology Review has published a meta-analysis of 55 independent studies [...]