NC Pastor Wants To Build Electrified Fence To Contain, Starve And Ultimately Kill Gays: VIDEO| News | Towleroad
In a sermon blasting President Obama for his same-sex marriage support, Pastor Charles L. Worley of Providence Road Baptist Church in Maiden, North Carolina, offered a novel — and horrific — solution to the so-called gay scourge: build an electric fence and let “lesbians, queers and homosexuals” starve to death.”I figured a way to get [...]
U.S. News – Oregon mom sued by church over online criticism
An Oregon mother of seven is being sued for defamation by her former church over critical comments she made online. Julie Anne Smith, a stay-at-home mom who home-schools her children, said church members began shunning her and her family after they left Beaverton Grace Bible Church almost four years ago. She took to the Web [...]
Religious Experiences Shrink Part of the Brain: Scientific American
The article, “Religious factors and hippocampal atrophy in late life,” by Amy Owen and colleagues at Duke University represents an important advance in our growing understanding of the relationship between the brain and religion. The study, published March 30 in PLoS One, showed greater atrophy in the hippocampus in individuals who identify with specific religious [...]
Brazil actor playing Judas dies from accidental hanging
Brazil actor playing Judas dies from accidental hanging Map A Brazilian actor has died after accidentally hanging himself while playing Judas in an Easter Passion play. Tiago Klimeck, 27, was enacting the suicide of Judas during the performance on Good Friday in the city of Itarare. The actor was hanging for four minutes before fellow [...]
Miriam Smith Killed Dog For Chewing On Bible: Nephew’s Pit Bull Hanged From Tree, Burned To Death
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Authorities have charged a South Carolina woman with felony animal cruelty, saying she hanged her nephew’s pit bull from a tree with an electrical cord and burned its body because the dog chewed on her Bible. Animal control officers said Monday that 65-year-old Miriam Smith told them she killed a female dog [...]
Nigeria Christians hit by fresh Islamist attacks
Nigeria has been hit by a fresh wave of violence apparently targeting the country’s Christian communities.At least 17 people were killed in Mubi in Adamawa state as gunmen opened fire in a town hall where members of the Christian Igbo group were meeting.There were also reports of a deadly attack in Adamawa’s capital, Yola.The Islamist [...]
Pagan mom outraged after school gives son Bible
Ginger Strivelli is a different kind of Bible-thumper: The self-proclaimed pagan would like to smack school officials for giving her son access to a copy of the good book. “It’s totally inappropriate they think they can get away with this,” an angry Strivelli told the Asheville Citizen-Times after her fifth-grade son came home with a [...]
