Stephen ‘dogshit’ Green faces bankruptcy

Friday, June 27th, 2008

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” [...]

Genesis, but accurate

Sunday, June 8th, 2008

/hattip Pharyngula
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A True Christian™ new media explosion

Friday, June 6th, 2008

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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Time Cube for Christians

Monday, May 5th, 2008

Now this is just super. Remember Time Cube? Yes, that Time Cube. Well, today, in my work email, I was treated to the wisdom of Frank Hatch, and his “Final Notice” before the Earth falls into “Null Space”.
I can’t possibly do it justice, so all I can do is let you see [...]

The Times: Ornithology (cartoon)

Wednesday, March 12th, 2008

From The Times Online’s Nature Notes.
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BBC: Jerry Spring blasphemy case dismissed, again

Wednesday, December 5th, 2007

Christian Voice’s civil blasphemy case appeal against the BBC over it’s screening of Jerry Springer:The Opera has, thankfully, been once again dismissed by the UK courts.
It’s not all good news though. The BBC reports:
However, the two senior judges at the High Court said the 1968 Theatres Act prevented any prosecution for blasphemy in relation [...]

The efficacy of abstinence

Monday, December 3rd, 2007

A big /hattip to Fall of Hate for alerting me to this gem from Evil Milk:

B-E-A-utiful.
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WorldNutDaily hack takes Hitchens’ challenge

Saturday, December 1st, 2007

Do you remember the challenge that Christopher Hitchens apparently mentions in his new book Portable Atheist (which I haven’t yet read) and put to theists everywhere while touring with God Is Not Great? I’ll remind you:
Name me an ethical statement made or an action performed by a believer that could not have been made [...]

UK secularism debate

Saturday, December 1st, 2007

When checking out The Times‘ coverage of Darth Benedict’s recent theonastic diatribe (:-)) I noticed a link to a debate between (humanist) philosopher David Papineau, (sikh) occasional Thought for the Day presenter Inderjit Singh and (christian) theologian and co-director of Ekklesia Simon Barrow concerning religion in public life and whether a modern plural society [...]

Ratzinger talks (more) bollocks

Saturday, December 1st, 2007

I was in the pub yesterday, and was made aware that catholic wingnut-in-chief Ratzinger had been bad-mouthing science and atheism by playing the old Marxism=teh evul! card and playing up christianity because it offers “hope”. Earlier today, I saw a few posts on blogs (The Freethinker, Atheist Ethicist - highly recommended) and articles in [...]

Teacher found guilty in Sudan

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

BBC News 24 has just reported that Gillian Gibbons, the teacher at the centre of the Sudanese Mohammed Teddy stupidity, has been found guilty of “insulting religion”, and sentenced to 15 days in prison and is then to be deported, hopefully, for her sake, to a country not run by those who cling to their [...]

Yahoo!: Springer blasphemy hearing closes

Thursday, November 22nd, 2007

As reported by Reuters in this Yahoo! News article, the hearing for the privately brought blasphemy case against the BBC for its screening of Jerry Springer: The Opera has wound-up, with a ruling expected at a later date.
The Yahoo! article writes about the arguments used to bring the case:
[Jon] Thoday is the producer of musical [...]

Christian Voice launches new bid for blasphemy ruling

Tuesday, November 20th, 2007

Stephen “Dogshit” Green of Christian Voice is launching a private prosecution in the High Court in an attempt to sue the BBC for blasphemy for it’s screening of Jerry Springer: The Opera.
Green first launched his legal application for special treatment for supposed offence caused in 2005, but it was turned down at the time by [...]

Telegraph: Pastor seeks to take over “gay loving” Microsoft

Monday, November 19th, 2007

I’m just flabbergasted. Go and read it for yourself.
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Revoke UK blasphemy laws (petition)

Monday, November 5th, 2007

UK citizens: if you haven’t done so, why not take a couple of moments out of your day to sign the Number 10 petition to get rid of the UK’s blasphemy laws (deadline to sign up by: 8 March 2008).
Further reading: Appendix 3 of the First Report of the Select Committee on Religious Offences in [...]

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