POPE Shenuda III, Egyptian head of the Coptic Orthodox Church, Patriarch of Alexandria and the See of St Mark, has banned the faithful from confessing their sins to priests over the telephone because such calls might be earwigged. The independent newspaper Al-Masri Al-Yom quoted Pope Shenuda III as saying: Confessions over the telephone are forbidden, [...]
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NOBEL Prize-winning British playwright Harold Pinter, who died of cancer on Christmas Eve aged 78, was an honorary associate of the National Secular Society, an organisation he supported for many years of his life. In 1966, on the occasion of the NSS’s centenary, Pinter penned the following message of support: The existence for 100 years [...]
IF the world is as violent and irrational a place as ever in 2009, it might possible be because the sexually exuberant Raëlians were denied the opportunity to hold a mass orgy for world peace in Israel just before Christmas. The plan was to hold World Orgasm Day on the winter solstice. But the event, [...]
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PRESIDENT Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran, who once denied that gays exist in his country, and does not believe that the Holocaust ever took place, delivered Channel 4′s alternative Christmas message last night – much to the fury of many. Four hours after the Queen’s traditional Christmas Day message was broadcast on the main UK channels [...]
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AROUND 400 Christians – presumably all male – donned Jesus outfits complete with thorny crowns – to remind Kansas City residents of the “religious roots” of Christmas. But Christmas, as everyone should know by now, is a PAGAN festival that has nothing to do with Christ. According to this report, members of Praise Chapel Christian [...]
A PROMINENT British spokesman on Muslim affairs, who once had a hard-on for jailed holocaust denier David Irving, has been caught out spewing bile on the social networking website, Facebook. Asghar Bukhari, who has set up media response workshops to educate and engage Muslims about dealing with the media, says in one recent Facebook thread: [...]
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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
