THE threat of a lawsuit has changed minds over at Bloomington Transit, Indiana. The bus company was threatened with legal action after refusing to carry an ad – You Can be Good Without God – created by local atheists, but capitulated days before a preliminary injunction hearing was scheduled in the US District Court, in [...]
DESPITE the fact that there is not one shred of credible evidence in the whole history of humankind that prayer to a supernatural entity has ever been answered, many religious nutjobs persist with this utterly pointless practice. Which would be OK – if only innocent parties, generally children, weren’t harmed by such idiocy. But they [...]
SUDDENLY I heard a voice, a voice that came from every direction. It was all around me. It was going through every fibre of my being. My head, my arms, my legs; it was all around me. The voice said, ‘I AM THE LORD THY GOD. STAND UP ON YOUR FEET AND TELL THE PEOPLE [...]
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A SCENE from an animated film at the new Acropolis Museum which shows Christian priests destroying parts of the Parthenon has been deleted following protests by the Greek Orthodox Church. As a protest against his film being censored, the creator of the segment, Greek-born French filmmaker Constantin Costa-Gavras, has demanded that his name be taken [...]
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AN unnamed Catholic priest in Germany has been demoted by the Pope because of his paedophile activities in the 1970s. He was stripped of his duties by Pope Ratzinger this week after he admitted molesting boarding-school boys, according to this report. At least 16 men have come forward to say they were forced into sexual [...]
BRIGHTON’S Jubilee Library has a policy of not allowing displays of religious posters – but its shop does sell tins of Messiah Mints. The product claims to “save your breath”, and an accompanying blurb says: He can’t feed the 5,000 with this cute little tin of peppermints, but you’ll feel a whole lot better after [...]
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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
