SIR Ludovic Kennedy, the distinguished broadcaster, outspoken campaigner and committed atheist, died on Monday at a nursing home in Salisbury. At the age of 80, Kennedy – an honorary associate of the National Secular Society – wrote All in the Mind – a Farewell to God in which he dismissed beliefs on which Christianity was [...]
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Peter Brietbart, 21, a contributor to the Freethinker, and a student of politics and philosophy at the University of Sussex where he is chair of the Secular Society, was there to see the Church totally routed – and he grabbed the opportunity to interview Christopher Hitchens after the debate, organised by Intelligence Squared. There are [...]
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AMNESTY International has appealed to the state of Texas to commute a sentence passed on Khristian Oliver, 32, who is due to die on November 5. He was sentenced to death in 1999 for murdering a man whose home Oliver was burgling. The victim was shot in the face and beaten with his own rifle. [...]
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A SEXUALLY explicit illustrated The Book of Genesis by controversial artist Robert Crumb, which features Bible characters bonking, has upset that bastion of barminess, the Christian Institute. The book, which is released this month, carries the warning “adult supervision recommended for minors”, and is described as “scandalous satire” by its publishers, according to The Telegraph. [...]
A LEEDS vicar has been given a 14-year jail sentence for raping two boys and for a string of other sex offences. Peter Hedge, 47, of Pudsey, carried out the “calculated and sytematic” abuse as a curate at St Margaret’s Church in Thornbury, Bradford, and later as vicar at Holy Trinity Church, Queensbury. Judge Peter [...]
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THE winners of a quiz organised by a bunch Somali Muslims have been given weapons and ammunition as prizes. Prizes, according to the BBC, included AK-47 assault rifles, hand grenades and an anti-tank mine. The quiz ran during the “holy” Muslim month of Ramadan in the port city of Kismayo, and included questions about the [...]
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