Category Archives: religion

Blood and sperm

Posted on June 19, 2007 by Charles Lambert

An exhibition in the once-red city of Bologna has been closed after complaints of abominable blasphemy from the catholic church. The offending collective was named La Madonna Piange Sperma (The Madonna Weeps Sperm). This would be unremarkable if the reference … Continue reading →

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Revealed truths 6

Posted on June 14, 2007 by Charles Lambert

From Popbitch (what would we do without it?): This is an excerpt from May 31st, showing an end-of-term performance by the kindergarten class of the Islamic Association in Gaza: Host: Stay with us to watch this performance by the children … Continue reading →

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It must have been quite a week…

Posted on June 14, 2007 by Charles Lambert

Now, let’s see. Monday, light, Tuesday, space. No, wait a minute. Monday, light, Tuesday, the land and the sky and the oceans. Oh hell. (No, that was later.) And all the things that creep on the surface, etc. Wednesday? Thursday? … Continue reading →

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Your bodies, their bigotry

Posted on June 14, 2007 by Charles Lambert

Amnesty International’s recent advocacy of abortion in the case of rape, incest or risk to the woman’s health has inevitably got up some clerical noses. One of the largest belongs to cardinal Martino, president of the Vatican’s Pontifical Council for … Continue reading →

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Eric Schwartz: Keep your Jesus off my Penis

Posted on June 12, 2007 by Charles Lambert
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Revealed truths 5

Posted on June 9, 2007 by Charles Lambert

A Pentecostal teaching assistant in Croydon recently quit her job after refusing to listen to a seven-year-old girl read from a Harry Potter novel on the grounds that the book glorifies witchcraft, described in the Bible as an ‘abomination’. She … Continue reading →

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Gimme me a wafer and a mouthful of wine blues

Posted on June 5, 2007 by Charles Lambert

According to ANSA, a priest in the province of Bari has refused the Eucharist to a young gay man from a ‘difficult family’. Unfortunately, the press release doesn’t specify what kind of Eucharist. The tasteless wafer produced in some factory … Continue reading →

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Nel mezzo del cammin…

Posted on June 3, 2007 by Charles Lambert

If you really have nothing better to do with your time, why not take Dante’s Inferno Test? It’ll tell you where you’re going to go when you die! This is where I’m headed. Phew! (And if you run the cursor … Continue reading →

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Suffer the little children…

Posted on June 3, 2007 by Charles Lambert

Last Thursday, Annozero, a current affairs programme on Italian state television (RAI 2), was dedicated to the presence of paedophile priests in the catholic church. At the centre of the transmission was a documentary made by the BBC, which had … Continue reading →

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Revealed truths 4

Posted on June 3, 2007 by Charles Lambert

Cranks in the Czech Republic are using information from a higher source to wrap children in duct tape and leave them to dehydrate on bare floors. An article in today’s Independent – titled: Chance discovery of abused child reveals bizarre … Continue reading →

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