Documenting the excesses of religion in the UK and worldwide
According to the latest Social Attitudes Survey, 53% in the UK are not religious, and rising to 71% in the 18-25 year group and the CofE is facing its own Armageddon as it heads towards total irrelevancy. The annual Social Attitudes Survey has become very well respected as a measure of social attitudes in the …
Continue reading A Clear Majority in the UK are not religious
Sometime I wince with disbelief at the utter stupidity, and it's no surprise that Christian Concern, and its sister organisation the Christian Legal Centre are involved with yet another Christian Victim narrative. In this case, a child (who’s identity is secret for obvious reasons) in a Church of England school had gender issues, previously born …
Continue reading Christian Parents sue school in Transgender row
Turkey, supposedly a secular state, is apparently banning the teaching of evolution in schools on the pretext that students are "too young to understand 'controversial subjects'" and one official described it as a ‘debate’. Story from the BBC here. Story from the NY Times here. The idea of a debate or controversy is one that …
Continue reading Turkey bans teaching of evolution in schools
Maybe that should be revelations. If the abuse in the Roman Catholic church wasn’t enough, here is another shocking story with the publication of an independent review into the way the Church of England responded to the case of Peter Ball, the former Bishop of Gloucester, who was jailed in 2015 after admitting a string …
This is a purely manufactured story straight from the CofE, which maintains an active publicity department. As reported by the NSS here. The claim was that the word Easter had been dropped by Cadbury’s (a chocolate company) and the National Trust from their Easter Egg Hunt and the claim was, of course, completely bogus - …
Why write it? Because I‘d noticed a steady stream of news stories about religion in the UK (and sometimes, where appropriate, elsewhere) and, with a little reading, found that the stories were almost always not what they seemed from the headlines. You know the type of thing, the “Nurse fired for being a Christian” story …
