Mike Tidmus

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 [...]

“From the Pope on down, through the Vatican and therefore through the lower echelons, the whole organisation, in my belief, is utterly anti-Christian and evil, as proven by centuries of torture, bloodshed, burnings, terrorism, and coverings-up of “the worst crime” known to man. “And if Jesus Christ is to be seen in the vulnerable of [...]

Vatican Hit By Gay Sex Scandal (video: Atheist Media Blog at YouTube) CNN covers the intrinsically disordered Vatican’s latest PR cataclysm. From Atheist Media Blog: The Vatican has been thrown into chaos by reports that one of the Pope’s ceremonial ushers, as well as a member of the elite Vatican choir, were involved in a [...]

I believe in the god of thunder … thank Thor our politicians agree As a person of faith it’s gratifying to know that my views are being taken seriously. I believe in the Norse Gods. Everyone from our own dear First Minister, to the current UK Labour Government and the likely incoming Conservative administration firmly [...]

Via UK Gay News, we’re linked to an excellent article in the Irish lesbian e-zine Gaelick, on the protest at a prey-away-the-gay conference in Northern Ireland that was organized by the London-based journalist and founder of Stop Conversion Therapy Taskforce (SCOTT), Patrick Strudwick. Writes Canuck Jacq: The newly formed Stop Conversion Therapy Taskforce (SCOTT) protested an ex-gay [...]

“The message of our protest is simple. Love needs no cure. We want to remind the young people in the conference in the midst of so-called treatment that they are healthy, normal, valuable people; they are perfect how they are; they don’t need to try to change something unchangeable and they can be happy being [...]

Monty Python’s Not the Messiah – He’s A Very Naughty Boy trailer (video: Monty Python at YouTube) Oh. My. Dog! Dear remaining Pythons: Please, please, please, please, please bring Not the Messiah to the Colonies, as quickly as possible, s’il vous plait.

The Mormons are worried that a more secular America will lead to substantially less government protection for bullying bigots like, shall-we-say?, the financiers behind California’s Proposition 8 — the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Jamshid Askar, writing at The Mormon Times, reports: Secularism is growing obstacle for Mormon Church By Jamshid Askar [...]

Gay kiss-in against homophobia in Paris for Valentine’s day 2010 (video: Yagg at YouTube) Threats by violent christianist goons forced the relocation of a kiss-in against homophobia (Kiss-in contre l’homophobie !) from the square in front of Notre Dame Cathedral to Place Saint-Michel. As can be seen in the video above, the threat of Christian, [...]

The crooked judges of Amsterdam (video: Pat Condell at YouTube) This is absolutely Kafkaesque. Suppose that a party or, say, a religion existed that was allowed to attack or defame you in any way it chose and they could get away with it with the blessing of the state. But, if you were to speak [...]

Air New Zealand – Cougars on the Hunt – Offended? (video: miriamthrottling at YouTube) Apparently, according to blogger Joe Jervis, there’s a controversy surrounding this video. It’s claimed the video, created for Air New Zealand, “promotes predatory behavior.” Speaking of which … Here’s to you Mrs Robinson: I was going to post this video as [...]

Voeux de Noël 2009 – Sensitif (video: ParisianDutchman at YouTube) This month, I posted quite a few videos of kiss-ins from around the world. You’ll recognize some of that footage is this really sweet video with a tune by Thomas Anders. From ParisianDutchman: Sensitif présente ses voeux 2010 en relayant le message de KISS-IN contre [...]

Pope Attacked by a woman// pape attaqué par une femme enregistré sur mobiel (video: LesNewsTwitter at YouTube)

GLEE – Il FlashMob (video: FoxTV at YouTube) From FoxTV: Glee, il fenomeno televisivo americano, ha fatto ballare la Galleria Alberto Sordi di Roma contagiando tutti in un brillante FlashMob voluto per lanciare la nuova serie che, il 25 dicembre – alle ore 15.00 e alle 21.00 – andrà in onda… solo su FOX! But [...]