IN a controversial decision that could divide its 4.6 million US members, an evangelical Lutheran Church decided at the weekend to allow gay men and lesbians “in committed relationships” to serve in its clergy, According to this report, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), which has 10,000 congregations throughout the US, voted to allow [...]
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SWINE ‘flu continues to cough up of stories of barmy goings-on among the faithful. A fortnight ago we were left chortling over a report from Israel about planeload of Israeli rabbis and Jewish mystics who held an airborne prayer meeting in the belief that it could help check the spread of swine flu in Israel. [...]
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THEY are fighting for truth, justice and the Islamic way, and are heading for your living room -prepare to say salaam to the world’s first Muslim superheroes. That’s how a report in The Times this week introduced an upcoming animated series on British TV – The 99, a Sharia-compliant version of the X-Men that has [...]
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BREAKING news: Bob Hutton, the mutton-headed evangelist who’s been trolling this site for months, has launched his own blog. And there are no prizes for guessing what his debut post on The Gospel Truth is all about. Just what is about these maggots that they cannot leave the subject of homosexuality alone? It seems to [...]
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THIS November, Yale University Press will launch Jytte Klausen’s The Cartoons That Shook the World. But, astoundingly, drawings that shook the world like no others in the history of contemporary cartoonery  – the Motoons published in 2005 by Jyllands-Posten – won’t be featured because YUP believes that, if it were to republish them, more [...]
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MORE changes were made yesterday over at Tom Estes’ hysterical Christian blog, Hardtruths. In addition to declaring it an “almost atheist-free zone”, the potty pastor has changed its description from “Renaissance of Rational Thinking”, to “Exposing the Adverse Affects of Atheism on Our World”. He explains the changes thus: When I started this blog, I [...]
The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
