AT the beginning of April we invited readers to participate in a caption contest for the photo below: We had an great giggle at the entries submitted – but a clear winner emerged. Remigius, take a bow, as your submissions raised the best laugh: Little kid: Mummy, when I said ‘I want some nutty chews’ [...]
THE evangelical men’s organisation, Promise Keepers, is on the slide – and it is hoping that by opening up its summer conference to women for the first time in its history it might regain some of the support it had in the 1990s. After 20 years of men-only events, Denver-based Promise Keepers is urging men [...]
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SOMETHING”S been bothering us over the last few months: A deafening silence from Stephen “Birdshit” Green. Goodness knows there’s been enough in the media to prompt another piece of nutty prose from the head of Christian Voice, but his website has been utterly devoid of any statements since February 11, when Green posted a piece [...]
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THERE were red faces over at the editorial offices of the Mormon Daily Universe when the governing body of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints were described in a photo caption as “the Quorum of the Twelve Apostates”. The word that ought to have been used was “Apostles”. “Apostate” is defined by Encarta [...]
VIDEO games should be vetted to ensure that none contain material offensive to religious groups. That’s the suggestion of Rajan Zed, President of Universal Society of Hinduism, who is all of a-lather over Hanuman: Boy Warrior, Sony’s video game for PlayStation2. The US-based Zed, according to this report, wants it withdrawn, saying it trivialises Hinduism’s [...]
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WHEN a loopy group of Christian fundies calling themselves the National Organisation for Marriage released “Gathering Storm” – a $1.5 million ad campaign in a bid to halt the spread of same-sex marriage in the US – they unleashed a storm of parody ads on YouTube, and were exposed to a great deal of ridicule [...]
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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
