No doubt angry mobs from Cairo to Karachi will be furiously putting together little square red flags with white crosses for their ‘spontaneous’ displays of anger and grievance, and no doubt the Islamic world’s leaders will call for an immediate boycott of all Swiss goods, except of course the banks, which are vital and necessary [...]
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GUEST blogger Dr Robert Stovold weighs up some Creationist arguments, and finds them wanting. Having tried (and failed) to smuggle Creationism into schools in the guise of “Intelligent Design”, Creationists now have another Trojan Horse strategy – bundling their ideas with Darwin’s masterpiece itself in the form of a Creationist introduction to Darwin’s On the [...]
WE have just learned of the existence of the Count Me Out website – a source of information for those considering leaving the Roman Catholic Church. The site says that: For many who no longer practise, remaining “lapsed” is not sufficient; a clean break is needed. In 3 simple steps this site produces all the [...]
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A LAVISHLY-shot documentary about what God means to people around the world has just opened in the US. But Oh My God? left at least one critic singularly underwhelmed. Tirdad Derakhshani, of the Philidelphia Inquirer, says the movie – brainchild of Brit Peter Rodger, a commercial photographer and adman-turned-filmmaker: Is anything but a treasure. The [...]
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YOU’D think that any spare cash in the Catholic coffers would have been spent by now on compensating the multitudes who suffered sexual abuse at the hands of their priests. But no, Catholics, via their Centre for Family Development in Maryland, have managed to find the moolah to launch an ad campaign on behalf of [...]
A CELIBACY-advocating rap group is promoting “Christian side-hugs” in a Youtube video – because frontal hugs are deemed “sinful” Gimme Dat Christian Side Hug, by a band of pretty crap rappers apparently linked to a Californian ministry called The Father’s House, encourage standing side-by-side when hugging to avoid the uncontrollable urges that hugging face-to-face – [...]
The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
