religion Archives - Desperate Living

The Salto del Colacho is a Spanish festival of purification and celebration that culminates in the local men jumping over newborn babies.

The world’s longest-running and most imaginary conflict is with us once again.

Priests and nuns have been watching porn on their phones, and The Pope is not at all amused.

More moral panic and slanderous claims from the religious fundamentalist grifters of the Satanic Panic era.

Just what is it with the need to nag people into abstinence at the start of the year?

The power of Satan – or the power of a woman? A Hardline Catholic Bishop gives it all up for the love of a writer of occult-flavoured erotic fiction.

The art provocateurs and cut-up masters create a study of hypocritical religious brutality.

An attempt to deal with demonic lumber thwarted by the police.

The deranged Pakistani film that reinvented the controversial author as an international super-villain, and was briefly banned in Britain.

Mail order salvation, as promised by America’s most delirious fundamentalist publisher.

The child preacher turned movie star tried to pull the rug from under evangelical con-men, but no one wanted to listen.

Exploding with anger every time someone criticises someone you like or something you believe is stupid.