International news
Vatican exposed over holocaust denial and homosexuality
February 2009: ex-Hitler youth member, Joseph Ratzinger, ex-head of the Vatican's Inquisition unit (renamed the "Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith") and now Pope Benedict XVI, has decided to pardon Catholic Bishop Richard Williamson who has denied that the holocaust took place or that there were gas chambers in Nazi concentration camps. Williamson said in a Swedish TV interview: "historical evidence is hugely against 6 million Jews having been deliberately gassed in gas chambers as a deliberate policy of Adolf Hitler." Not surprisingly, this has rather upset Jews and others throughout the world.
Catholic Cardinals continue to rant against gays by talking of homosexuality as "a sexual perversion", as "prostitution" and as "a learned behaviour". As usual, the Catholic church is decades behind the rest of the world and continues to believe that homosexuality is "an illness" that can be "cured." They are not alone in the view - American fundamentalist churches run courses to "cure" gays!
We look forward to the Catholic church curing the sexual deviation that is chastity - with all the resulting sexual abuse carried out by Catholic priests who have been unable to control their testosterone-driven lusts.
We recommend the excellent book "Double Cross" by David Ranan which exposes the contribution the Vatican made to helping Nazi war criminals escape after World War II.
Women's rights crushed in new male-dominated theocracy of Iraq
Women students at the University of Baghdad in 1976 wearing what they chose to wear.
Women students at the University of Baghdad in 2006 wearing what men and religion tell them to wear.
Women school students in Baghdad in 2007 wearing what men and religion tell them to wear.
For more details on the fate of women in "liberated" Iraq, please see Mark Lattimer's Guardian article.
For more details on why we are sometimes very angry and very frustrated please click here.
International: UN Human Rights Council
Please click here for an email we sent to express our concern about Islamic (Sharia Law) countries, and fellow travellers on the UN Human Rights Council, passing a resolution on Combating Defamation of Religions.
Please click here for a Derbyshire Secularists and Humanists Position Paper prepared for our meeting with the UN Rapporteur on June 5th, 2007.
Please click here for an NSS document submitted as background to a debate in the House of Lords.
Latest news in the wars of religion
"Medical research must pass a three-part test: ‘Is it ethically correct? Is it biblically correct? Is it morally correct?’
Stem cell research does not pass the smell test."
Rev. Jerry Falwell, founder of the Moral Majority
- As of 18/08/06 three aircraft have been intercepted and forced down as governments lash out with ill-considered, insane and useless rules following the latest alleged plot in the war of religion between Christian-led USA/UK and Muslim-led Al Queda etc.
How to bring a plane down: simply pretend that you have found a handy bottle of Luzozade or a tube of hand-cream tucked into the seat in front of you! This is madness - the lunatics (governments and their over-reaction) are out of the asylum.
- Religious police return to the streets in the Muslim state of Afghanistan created by the USA after the religious war between Christian USA and Muslim Taliban/Al Queda. Next women will be forced back into black sacks and threatened with stoning if found guilty of adultery or of demanding education or, heaven forbid, equal human rights. The world turns, but moves steadily back towards the middle ages.
- Thousands continue to die in the religious wars of Iraq. Christian-led USA/UK v Muslim fanatics and Shia Muslims v Sunni Muslims.
- People return to their homes after the short war between Judaist Israel and Muslim Hezbullah.
Hezbullah made extensive use of French-made Milan and Russian-made Metis-M anti-tank missiles against Israel's Merkava main battle tanks. Middle Eastern sources claim that 100 tanks were destroyed but we certainly will not be told that on the BBC, CNN, Sky or Fox news! Expect to see major shipments (via Prestwick) of weapons of mass destruction from Christian-dominated USA to Judaist-dominated Israel.
Not just Christians, Muslims and Judaists
The good news - it's not all religious doom, gloom and slaughter
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