POPULAR Finnish politician and blogger Jussi Halla-aho has fallen foul of Finland’s archaic blasphemy laws by claiming that the “prophet” Mohammed was a paedophile. The Eurabia blog revealed at the weekend that the Helsinki city councilman was charged in the Helsinki district court with blasphemy, and incitement of an ethnic group, and ordered to stand [...]
I WAS just about to blog about blasphemy in Finland, but I’ve just received an e-mail from Dave over at MediaWatchWatch, containing a link to the dumbest – and funniest – Christian YouTube musical video ever! Listen out for this verse: Once I tried to run, I tried to run and hide But Jesus came [...]
SOUTHERN Baptist Churches in the US are on a downward spiral – and are wondering what they can do to reverse the trend. Reacting to news that their churches had lost over 34,000 members in 2008, Thom S Rainer, president and CEO of LifeWay Christian Resources, the Southern Baptist Convention’s publishing arm, said: The numbers [...]
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A PLAN to bury a much-loved green area of Madrid under tons of Catholic concrete has been greeted with outrage by many residents of the Spanish capital. The plan – described by critics as a “mini-Vatican – will see an area between the Church of San Francisco el Grande and Las Vistillas gardens transformed into [...]
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A TWO-DAY conference which will explore ways in which homosexuality can be “cured” is to take place in London this weekend – and it is our fervent hope that enough people turn out to tell the Christian and Jewish creeps who have organised this vile event to butt out and get the fuck back under [...]
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LASTÂ year chubby Johnny Vegas look-alike pastor Rick Warren invoked the wrath of the Californian gay community for supporting Proposition 8 which led to the ban of same-sex marriage in the state . But, according to this report, he has now he has infuriated American fundies by claiming that the disgraceful Prop 8 never received [...]
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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
