STARTLING revelation of the week comes from Oxford academic Dr Justin Barrett who claims that kids are “wired” to believe in a deity, and if you dumped a bunch of them down on a desert island they would become believers. Those that don’t, we assume, would be beaten with sticks and set alight. A senior [...]
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Constable Graham Cogman, 49, of the Norfolk Constabulary, is looking for a new job this week – preferably one that doesn’t involve contact with anyone gay. Cogman, you see, is one of those – a frothing fundie who believes that homosexuality is “sinful”. The potty pc first came to our attention in July when he [...]
IN a last-ditch attempt to gag poet Patrick Jones, Christian prodnose Stephen “Birdshit” Green has launched a petition calling on the Welsh National Assembly to cancel Jones’ planned appearance at the Assembly on December 11 to be cancelled. In response, we have launched a counter-petition. As of this morning, Green has managed to gather 437 [...]
WITH an angry cry of “Mary Kenny, up yours!” a supporter of the Atheist Bus Campaign dug deep into his savings today and donated £3,000 to the cause. Simon Bishop’s action was sparked by the outrage he felt when he a read a piece in the Irish Independent yesterday by the Catholic writer and journalist. [...]
POVERTY-stricken Yemen is plagued by internal armed conflict, terrorism and severe malnutrition. It desperately needs hospitals and schools and a vastly improved infrastructure – but what does it get instead? A bloody great mosque named after Yemen’s authoritarian President Ali Abdullah Saleh. Yemenis, according to this report, are bewildered – especially when they learned that [...]
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THOSE fundie nutters over at the American Family Association want Christians to Let their ‘light’ Shine For Christ This Christmas Season! But in offering the faithful its latest bit of Christmas tat, the AFA seems unaware that a blazing cross in one’s garden might possibly send out the wrong signals to passers-by – and may [...]
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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
