Atheist Activist Zara Kay Was Charged with Blasphemy

The Tanzanian government needs to release her immediately.

• A judge has ordered the Church of Scientology to mediate civil claims brought against That ’70s Show actor Danny Masterson for “stalking and intimidating” the women who accused him of rape. Four of the five women that brought suits against Masterson are Scientologists, hence the absurd arbitration hand-off to the church.

• Just saying: When God unleashed a mighty flood in the Bible, it was a genocide.

  Pastor Greg Locke @pastorlocke

  It’s well after midnight and I can clearly hear the shouting from the streets in DC from the 9th story window of my hotel. The enemy is out in full force but I declare unto you that God is about to sweep through this place like a mighty flood.

• Atheist activist and ex-Muslin Zara Kay, who founded the group Faithless Hijabi and helps women leave the faith, has been arrested in Tanzania on blasphemy charges. She’s currently on bail, but had her Australian passport revoked to prevent her from leaving Tanzania. This isn’t over yet.

  Zara Kay 🇫🇷 @zarakayk

  On behalf of Zara: I'm out on bail, thank you all for the support. I'm still quite traumatised from everything. Please don't stop fighting for me. They can try shaking me, but they won't break me. #JusticeForZaraKay

  

  ex-muslim.org.ukURGENT ACTION UPDATE 2: DROP ALL CHARGES AGAINST ZARA KAY | Council of31 December 2020 #JusticeForZaraKay #JusticeForZara #StandUpForZaraKay Zara Kay, an Australian citizen and

• Christian nationalist ideology isn’t just repressive and annoying; it’s literally killing us.

• Rep. Jamie Raskin, the co-founder of the Congressional Freethought Caucus, lost his son over the weekend. Here’s the family’s eulogy to him. It’s beautiful and heartbreaking all at once.

• The Cowboy Church Of Corsicana in Texas came up with two lists: companies that support LGBTQ rights and BLM… and companies that support “Christian values.” Now have fun looking through the first list and spotting the things there’s no way a Texas Christian would live without.

  

• Right-wing radio host E.W. Jackson wants Georgians to vote against “demonically possessed” Democratic candidates Rev. Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff in the Senate runoff election, because if not, “we will be cursing our nation.”

• The Pew Research Center has released a survey on the religious affiliations of the 117th Congress and we’re pleasantly surprised by how many people didn’t specify their faith at all. That said, there’s only one Unaffiliated member, and one non-religious “Other”… but you can’t have a flood without the first few raindrops, right?

• Nebraska preacher Hank Kunneman, who prophesied Trump and his allies would win at least three more terms, is lashing out at Senator Ben Sasse for not supporting the upcoming attempt to overturn the election.

  Right Wing Watch @RightWingWatch

  Omaha-based right-wing pastor Hank Kunneman used his Sunday sermon to attack @SenSasse for not supporting the GOP effort to overturn the election, questioning his Christian faith, and warning that God will show him the error of his ways.

  

• Finally, look at this picture. Just look at it. How many problems do you see in it?

  Christian Nightmares @ChristnNitemare

  From Ken Ham's Facebook page... h/t @adlerdavidson facebook.com/aigkenham/phot…

  

We’ll start you off:

1) The biggest threats to Christianity apparently involve LGBTQ people *existing* or wanting equal rights.

2) It ignores how racism has often been perpetuated by Bible-believers.

3) It fails to answer how God allowed these people to float away.

4) It suggests Christians are afraid of bathrooms.

5) It repeats itself. (Abortion/Infanticide, Transgender/LGBTQ)

6) WHAT IS THAT ANCHOR ATTACHED TO?