I don’t actually read Icelandic (and apparently it’s rather difficult to learn) but I’m reliably informed that this photograph is legitimate, and not ’shopped or staged.

Svarthöfði á vegum félagsmanna í Vantrú
In other Icelandic news, the first gay couple has married in a church.
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Litigious christian wingnut and gobshite Stephen ‘dogshit’ Green of Christian Voice faces possible bankruptcy after failing to pay the costs of the defendants in the private blasphemy case he brought against the director general of the BBC for the screening of Jerry Springer: The Opera and the producer of that same show.
In a “press release” [...]

Want to get something off your chest? Not a catholic? In Edinburgh between the 11th and 15th August 2008? Then why not pop along to St Patrick’s Church and talk to a real live catholic priest, for free.
No tithing required. All confessions subject to the discretionary whims of the catholic church. [...]

Northern Ireland, that bastion of (arguably religiously supported) sectarian bullshit can now proudly lay claim to another religious born-again bigot, this time in the form of DUP Strangford assembly member Iris Robinson.
Robinson, a born-again christian (apparently she didn’t quite get it right the first time) is quoted as saying that homosexuality was an abomination when [...]

I’ve been meaning to update this for a while now, so here’s my outlook on things variously religious and godless in a neat little codified nutshell:
A->(11)A+->(24)A++->(29)A+ : TR(B,T,FSM,DST,QUA,UNI,WIC) : r(B%100,K%80) : RI(p0,s0,u0) : ex(Fam(1.0),Wk(0.9),Fr(1.0) : SO(A+) : FB(RD,DD+,MS,SH,PJ,JR+,CS++,RI++) : M(blg) : MS(o,l+,n+) : GCD : [gc-0.2]
Godless Code 0.2 (and v0.1 for reference).
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Since the news that a muslim that had applied to be interviewed for a job as a hair stylist cum model didn’t get the job (because she was unable to do it and lived too far away) and then took the prospective employer to a tribunal for “religious discimination” and was awarded £4,000, I’ve been [...]

Darwin exposed!
/hattip Sneer Review
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The Independent is, for the next eight days commencing on Saturday 14th June, covering six of the major religions in a two-part ‘encyclopædia’ and a series of mini-booklets.

Saturday 14 June : ‘The Encyclopedia of World Religions’ Part 1
Sunday 15 June: ‘The Encyclopedia of World Religions’ Part 2
Monday 16 June: Christianity
Tuesday 17 June: Islam
Wednesday 18 June: [...]

[In order that we might find out at least a little bit more about each other in the atheist blogging community, I've come up with a little meme. That, and I'm away this weekend at my sister's wedding and won't be blogging.]
If you’d like to take part, copy these questions, and answer them in [...]

The book What Is Your Dangerous Idea?: Today’s Leading Thinkers on the Unthinkable has been blocked from being published in China. The Chinese authorities give the following reasoning excuse:
[it] can’t be published in China because some content is not accordant to Chinese regulations, for example, some content about religious, soul. [sic]
Whatever one might accuse [...]

For those of you with a penchant for stuff dug out of the ground, archaeologists claim to have found the world’s “oldest christian church”, tentatively dated in the 33-70 CE region (although how they got the precision of ‘33′ with a margin of error that large does smell rather odd to my sceptical nostrils).
Time (ha!) [...]

Unlikely? Not so much. I can think of a couple more things they agree on…
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AKOTA hides in a closet and watches her uncle, DANIEL CRAIG, interact with a member of the MAGISTERIUM.
      DANIEL CRAIG
      Oh, the Magisterium. You guys must be the symbol of religion that religious folks are all pissed off about.
      SIMON MCBURNEY
      Actually, in the movie we’re just a symbol of conformity and blind obedience.
      DANIEL CRAIG
      Er, so organizations like the [...]

/hattip Pharyngula
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What do you mean they’re not True Christians™? They really do seem like sincere believers in Jesus to me…
/hattip Humanistdad
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