It’s fiction of course, but this week DC comics confirmed that Batman is not religious. You can find it here – (Batman #53). In one sense it says a lot about the general cultural shift away from religion. The rise of the nones is quite real, and so that is now also being reflected by cultural icons.
You can read more about it here. It is part of the complexity and development of the character to make it more compelling.
So what other religious news items popped up during the past week?
Weird Religious news from the past week
End Times Conspiracy Theorist and preacher Rick Wiles claims that the QAnon Conspiracy theory doing the rounds is itself a deep state manufactured conspiracy. Will this now result in the QAnon Conspiracy Theorists claiming the Rick Wiles is part of a conspiracy to discredit them? …
There is also a claim that the Unite the Right rally was really a left wing false flag conspiracy from another conspiracy theorist preacher …
Dominionist Dutch Sheets wants all his followers to pray for God to kill liberal Supreme Court justices so that Trump can fill the slots with deeply religious ones ..
Yet another religious conspiracy theorist suggests that people who reject his absurd claims have been brainwashed …
- End Times author Paul McGuire says that those who dismiss his views as “conspiracy theories” have most likely been brainwashed.
As a response to a white Christian airport worker stealing a plane and crashing it this happened …
- The American Family Association’s Bryan Fischer tweeted for Muslims to be banned from working on airport ground crews.
What do you do when your anti-LGBT stance gets robustly defeated in court? The answer is to lie and tell all your followers that you won …
Pat Robertson is back on form and is promising that God is going to destroy America because his imaginary God does not like how people dress when the read stories to kids …
At least he has some empathy … oh wait, perhaps not …
- Pat Robertson Tells Grieving Mother of Molested Daughter to “Get Over It”
Some are literally terrified of people who simply have a different religious belief than they do and use this to drum up xenophobia …
- Muslim Candidates Running For Office ‘While The American People Sleep,’ Warns Bradlee Dean
- John Guandolo: Muslims Should Be Banned From Office
Not seeking proper medical care for your kids and instead “trusting god” has consequences when they die …
Not too long ago Creationist Kent Hovind claimed that Broccoli was proof of God, this week he has moved on to Celery. I guess he is working his way up to Mr Comfort’s Banana …
- Creationist Kent Hovind Now Says Celery is Proof That Evolution is False
Outright lying and deception being promoted as “truth” persists …
- Christian Writer Equates Gay Couples to Pedophiles in Review of Netflix Show
Sigh! … here we go again. The bigoted baker popped back into the news cycle once again …
- Christian Baker: Making a Birthday Cake for a Trans Woman Violates My Faith
Good News Items of the Week
We learned this about Scotland …
This was announced, and so we learned that you can be religious but also not a total prick …
- Pro-Gay Church Opening a Brewery Will Donate Some Proceeds to Planned Parenthood
… and just to drive that point home, this also happened …
- Christian Law School Will No Longer Force Students to Sign Anti-Gay Covenant
Finally Don the Con’s cult members are still leaping to his defence …
- Gordon Klingenschmitt: Trump’s Critics Are Demon-Possessed and Need Exorcisms
The Big News of the Week
It is of course the rather obvious, the issuance of the report that identifies over 300 Catholic priests who abused over 1,000 children.
- PA Catholic Church Report Released: “Priests Were Raping Little Boys and Girls”
- Here Are the Worst Abuses by Catholic Priests from the PA Grand Jury’s Report
I also posted some direct extracts for the report here a few days ago. I did not think it was possible because we hear about priests abusing so often, but it is harrowing stuff that will shock you.
Inevitably some are claiming that others are to blame. Here is a highly educated Catholic claiming that these abuse priests are simply atheists and satanists who joined Catholicism and that they only pretended to believe …
- Catholic Ph.D. Blames Sex Abuse Scandal on Atheists, Gays, and “Mega-Dioceses”
A more rational response is to perhaps be like Batman and simply walk away from this toxic mess.