Atheism

NPR Promotes Atheist's Horror Movie, Where the 'Horror Is Religion Itself'
By Tim Graham | May 26, 2013 | 8:39 AM EDT

NPR could stand for Not Pro-Religion. It’s the taxpayer-subsidized network with the Wiccan-priestess reporter. On Friday’s All Things Considered, NPR promoted a new horror movie in which “it’s not the Devil that’s scary.” Instead, “the religious horror is religion itself.”

NPR is pushing an “atheist’s take on Catholic horror.” Those teachings can be “terrifying.” (Disclaimer: NPR reserves the right to spare Muslims all of these criticisms.) The director’s name is Rodrigo Gudino, and reporter Beth Accomando explained the plot:

On Easter, MSNBC's Harris-Perry Calls Babies 'Things' Again, Invites Atheist Feminist to Slam All Faiths
By Tim Graham | April 1, 2013 | 10:11 PM EDT

ABC wasn’t the only network to turn to atheist on Easter morning for some acidulous religion-bashing. MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry turned to feminist Katha Pollitt to rip apart religions as “all invented by men for men” to repress women.

That came after Harris-Perry somehow compared the morality of abortion as a less weighty matter than access to water in the Third World. Once again, like last weekend, Harris-Perry referred to unborn babies as “things,” in this case “things in your uterus” that you can evacuate: 

Stephanopoulos Features Atheist on Easter Sunday Discussing...Religion?
By Noel Sheppard | March 31, 2013 | 4:47 PM EDT

As religious people are bludgeoned with secular views by America's media practically 24/7, it would be nice if they could be given a break on their holiest days.

George Stephanopoulos clearly doesn't feel that way for on Easter Sunday he invited an atheist on ABC's This Week to join a panel discussion about - wait for it! - religion (video follows with transcript and commentary):

Catholic League Asks Time Warner CEO to 'Have a Serious Talk' With Bill Maher
By Noel Sheppard | March 28, 2013 | 10:25 AM EDT

The Catholic League has clearly had enough of Bill Maher's regular anti-religious tirades on HBO's Real Time.

On Tuesday, League president Bill Donohue sent a letter to Time Warner CEO Glenn Britt saying, "The time has come for someone in a position of responsibility to sit down and have a serious talk with this man":

Huffington Post Recommends People Lose Virginity Under San Francisco's Christian Cross Landmark
By Noel Sheppard | March 26, 2013 | 4:46 PM EDT

The debauchery at the Huffington Post knows no bounds.

On Monday, the website actually offered readers a slideshow of the best places to lose one's virginity in San Francisco, and coming in seventh was under the Mount Davidson Cross, one of the city's most beloved religious landmarks:

WaPo's Sally Quinn: Pope Francis 'Could Possibly Have Been Involved in a Scandal'
By Noel Sheppard | March 17, 2013 | 2:57 PM EDT

Sally Quinn sure has a low opinion of the Catholic Church for someone that edits the Washington Post's "On Faith" blog.

Having claimed last week on CBS's Face the Nation that "so many priests are gay," Quinn this Sunday on CNN's Reliable Sources said the lack of media vetting and background checks of Cardinals meant Pope Francis "could possibly have been involved in a scandal" (video follows with transcript and commentary):

Yahoo News Asks: 'Was Mother Teresa Actually Sort of a Jerk?'
By Tim Graham | March 7, 2013 | 1:59 PM EST

Former Time.com writer Keith Wagstaff has just joined a different magazine, The Week, but he’s still sounding like the old employer. He has a new piece posted on Yahoo! News titled “Was Mother Teresa actually sort of a jerk?”

Catholic-bashing is a much more acceptable journalistic pastime than snarky revisionist histories of hallowed liberals like Thurgood Marshall (honored as a saint by the Episcopalians.) Wagstaff began, "A new study claims the beloved nun might not have been as helpful to the poor as she could have been."

‘Djesus Uncrossed’: SNL Depicts Christ Returning to Vengefully Slaughter Romans
By Noel Sheppard | February 17, 2013 | 9:40 AM EST

The season of Lent began Wednesday, and the folks at Saturday Night Live thought it was appropriate to usher it in with a movie trailer depicting Christ returning to Rome to exact revenge.

In the gory fashion of Quentin Tarantino and Sam Peckinpah, SNL presented to viewers on the fourth day of Lent "Djesus Uncrossed" (video follows with transcript and commentary):

Slate Brings Back Hitchens To Trash Pope's 'Stench of Evil'
By Bill Donohue | February 13, 2013 | 11:33 AM EST

Christopher Hitchens has been brought back from the dead by Slate, but it won’t do them any good. Yesterday, they republished a hit piece by the atheist from 2010 that was vintage Hitchens: the man was a great polemicist but a third-class scholar. Facts never mattered to him. ("The Pope's entire career has the stench of evil about it.")

Hitchens said the scandal “has only just begun.” Wrong. It began in the mid-60s and ended in the mid-80s. Current reports are almost all about old cases.

Maher: Catholic Priests Would Use Birth Control If Altar Boys Could Get Pregnant
By Noel Sheppard | February 13, 2013 | 10:04 AM EST

There clearly is no limit to Bill Maher’s depravity.

On TBS’s Conan Tuesday, the comedian beloved by the liberal media said that Catholic priests would use birth control if altar boys could get pregnant (video follows with transcribed highlights and commentary):

CNN Hypes 'Very Activist Atheist Movement', 'Massive' Rally, Celebrity Atheists
By Matt Hadro | February 7, 2013 | 5:30 PM EST

Only about five percent of Americans identify as atheists, but CNN played up the "very activist atheist movement" and touted celebrity atheists like Julianne Moore and Mark Zuckerberg, on Thursday.

"Various surveys put the number of atheists in America around five percent. And according to the Pew study in 2012, one in five people claim they have no religious affiliation at all," anchor Carol Costello noted. She didn't mention that having no religious affiliation might not even be close to atheism.

NPR Anchor Compares Catholic League To The Ku Klux Klan
By Noel Sheppard | January 12, 2013 | 12:07 PM EST

As NewsBusters previously reported, Catholic League President Bill Donohue on Friday in response to some disgusting comments made by MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell said President Obama might want to swear on Karl Marx's Das Kapital during the upcoming inaugural festivities.

NPR contributing anchor Louise Schiavone took to her Twitter account Saturday asking the disgraceful question, "What is this group? Do they wear hoods?"