ON August 7, P Z Myers, creator of the popular religion-crushing blog, Pharyngula, will be touring the multi-million dollar Creation Museum in Petersburg, Kentucky. Myers has long mocked and ridiculed Ken Ham’s infamous, biblically-literal museum, but so far has not visited this “monument to scientific illiteracy”. However, the Secular Student Alliance – as part of [...]
SATURDAY Morning Breakfast Cereal has been gracing the internet for eight years. Browse through its vast archives and it soon becomes clear why it is one of the world’s most popular webcomics. Dark, erudite, irreverent and intelligent, the daily gag-strip portrays a wild world of toddler-eating serial killers, pistol-packing parents, capricious deities, and inappropriate chat-up [...]
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IN a move that suggests it desperately wants to be seen as “cool”, the Vatican has done a U-turn on Harry Potter, which the Pope once condemned for “undermining the soul of Christianity”. In 2003, two years before he was elected Pope, Joseph “Boy Nazi” Ratzinger, then a Cardinal and head of Vatican doctrine, said [...]
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AN Iranian singer and composer who has been likened to Bob Dylan has received a five-year jail sentence in absentia for disrespecting Islam. According to this report, an Iranian Koran “scholar” filed a complaint against Mohsen Namjoo, who also plays a traditional Persian lute, for the way he had performed using verses from Islam’s “holy” [...]
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TEXAS chiropractor Dr Scott Dawson invites people to “experience the freedom of well-being” – but this despicable Christian zealot demonstrated no concern for the well-being of one of his employees, breast cancer sufferer Amanda Donaldson, when he discovered she was an atheist. In fact he fired Amanda Donaldson because he believed her atheism was a [...]
HARRY POTTER star Daniel Radcliffe further pissed off the Religious Right when he said in an interview with Moviefone that he thought it was “awesome” that some people thought he was gay. His remarks follow his recent revelation that he was an atheist. I grew up around gay people my entire life, basically, that’s possibly [...]
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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
