THE prosperity gospel movement – “you give, we prosper” – has hit hard times in the US, and it’s not entirely the result of the credit crunch. According to this report, it appears as if it’s finally dawning on the dupes that the only people prospering from the movement are thieving evangelists with dodgy hairstyles, [...]
CATHOLIC priests normally make it to this blog because of their kiddy-fiddling antics or their anti-gay rants. But Monsignor John Skehan, 81, is here today because he was fiddling the finances in what authorities say could be the one of the biggest embezzlement scandals ever to hit the American Catholic Church. Originally from Johnstown, Co [...]
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STEPHEN “Birdshit” Green, the whingeing fundie fruitcake who heads a failed campaigning outfit called Christian Voice, claimed yesterday that Advertising Standards Authority was “a tool of the politically-correct secularist establishment” and that the ASA Council was appointed and run by a homosexual. His hysterical attack on the ASA follows its ruling yesterday the Atheist Bus [...]
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THE Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has just concluded that the “There’s probably no God” bus ad campaign by the British Humanist Association is not in breach of the advertising code. The ASA will therefore not launch an investigation and the case is now closed. The ASA said it had: Carefully assessed the 326 complaints it [...]
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THE American Humanist Association yesterday placed an ad in both editions of a special inauguration issue of the Washington Post, praising the non-religious upbringing of Barack Obama. The ad is headed: President Obama: Living Proof that Family Values Without Religion Build Character. It goes on to quote from Obama’s own account of his upbringing in [...]
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THE news that a fireman in Scotland who refused to hand out safety leaflets at a gay pride event had reached an out-of-court settlement with his employers was greeted with outrage yesterday by the National Secular Society. John Mitchell, a Roman Catholic, was one of nine firemen who disobeyed an instruction to hand out fire [...]
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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
