TAKE, for example, the row that erupted at the Smith-Cotton High School in Sedalia, Missouri, over this cool T-shirt: The shirts, designed to promote the band’s fall programme, are light gray and feature an image of a monkey progressing through stages and eventually emerging as a man. Each figure holds a brass instrument. Several instruments [...]
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ATLANTA writer Jason T Berggren, a former pastor and heavy-metal Christian rocker has roused the fury of the faithful following the publication of a book called 10 Things I Hate About Christianity. Declared Berggren: I’ve had periodic hate mail, always from people who haven’t read the book. A handyman with an easy laugh and a [...]
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UKRAINIAN-BORN Gideon Ahronovitch, 36, personal assistant to an aging extremist rabbi, doesn’t go a bundle on democracy. Interviewed in the Jewish settlement of Kiryat Arba, near Hebron, Ahronovitch said: We have this thorn in the butt called democracy. This is the Kingdom of David. We need to kick democracy in the balls. Give it back [...]
A SEX offender accused of fathering two children with a girl he kidnapped in 1991 was detained by police after he was spotted with two children as he tried to enter the University of California, Berkeley, campus to hand out religious literature. According to this report, police officers said that Phillip Garrido, 58, was acting [...]
Islam does not oppress women so they don’t need freedom! – Olatunde Oloyede, Lagos, Nigeria THIS is one of a number of depressing comments posted under a BBC report which yesterday revealed that the president of Mali has backed down on a family law which would have given women greater rights. Another commentator, Abdourahman Sey, [...]
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A WHILE back I received an email from someone called Terry in Bristol regarding a creationist zoo in his area. He wrote: I thought readers might be interested in this little titbit. Â Last month, I was wandering through Broadmead, which is the main shopping drag in Bristol. Posters for Broadmead’s competitions and events were on [...]
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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
