A CHRISTIAN school in Werribee, Victoria, has been defending its refusal to offer a training placement to a Muslim teaching student on the grounds of her religion. Victoria University student Rachida Dahlal has reportedly lodged a complaint with the Equal Opportunity Commission against Heathdale Christian College, accusing it of discrimination and prejudice. But, according to [...]
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SCHOOLCHILDREN will be taught about the “rise of atheism” in a new religious studies GCSE, it has been announced. According to the Telegraph, lessons will also focus on Druids and Rastafarianism as part of a syllabus designed to boost understanding of religious diversity around the world. Attitudes by different faiths towards same sex marriages, human [...]
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AN Italian religious leader who calls himself the “Instrument of God – he claims to be able to walk on water and be in two places at the same time – faces a court hearing next week for allegedly salting away millions of euros obtained through blackmail. According to this report, investigators believe Ernani Barretta, [...]
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THE Pope is a dickhead. Even the Vatican is beginning to realise what a disaster he really is. But he is by no means the Church’s only dickhead. Cardinal Cormac Murphy O’Connor, President of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales, is another. His dickheadedness was exposed again last week when he reportedly wrote [...]
MEET Dr Don McLeroy. He is from Texas, bullshit capital of the US. Worryingly, McLeroy is head honcho over at the Texas Board of Education. This was what was said of him at Dr Joan Bushwell’s Chimpanzee Refuge blog back in 2007 (filed aptly under “Troglodytes at Play”): Smiling Don, an otherwise intelligent man, has [...]
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FOLK really ought to read their blogs better before soliciting publicity for their products. Time and again we are asked by some religious publishing house, or author, to put up a link, or post a review of a shameless work of Christian or Muslim propaganda. These are systematically binned. I really don’t have the time [...]
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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
