A SILLY apology was issued yesterday to a bunch of sensitive souls in South Africa who refer to themselves as “Christians”. Like “Christians” in other parts of the world, they cling fast to a set of quirky, and sometimes very funny beliefs (see a book called “The Bible”). Members of the zombie-worshipping cult think they [...]
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GOSH, can you believe that almost a whole month has elapsed without us having had a “mad Muslim cleric” story on this blog? Just as we were beginning to think that the mullahs had run out of fatwa fodder, along comes Saudi imam Mohammed al-Najimi who has issued a religious edict forbidding Sons of the [...]
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TODAY sees the climax of a skateboarding event which has sent a shudder down the spine of a number of Christian traditionalists. Christian Skaters UK – yep, they really do exist – took over Malmesbury Abbey in Wiltshire for a three-day event which saw eighty bales of straw and 100 sheets of 8×4 plywood imported [...]
SPARE a thought for “Proclaiming Truth In London”. The Christian evangelical group’s modest hope was that their Bible-quoting bus advert would hell-scare a few of the capital’s pedestrians into worshipping their zombie-god. Instead, it sparked a planet-wide atheist counter-revolution, with public transport in cities around the globe bearing messages which cast varying degrees of doubt [...]
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AN evangelical church in Hamilton that used donor money to pay for gym memberships, Gucci fashion accessories and trips to Hawaii and elsewhere for its directors has been stripped of its charitable licence by the federal government. High-living Pastor Rigo According to this report, the Dominion Christian Centre of Canada was set up in Hamilton [...]
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A NEW poll confirms that religious belief is a factor in poor economic progress. The Gallup poll shows that Estonia, the least religious country in the world with a “believer index” of just 14 percent, became one of the world’s fast-growing economies after it gained its independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. Near neighbour [...]
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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
