A HEAVY snowstorm in New York yesterday thwarted plans for a topless bike ride through the ultra-Orthodox Jewish neighborhood of Williamsburg. The “Freedom Ride” was planned as a protest against the removal of bike lanes in the neighbourhood to spare the blushes of Hasidic Jews who “can’t handle the sight of scantily clad women on [...]
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MORE and more professional sportsmen in the US are falling under the malign spell of evangelical ministries. According to the author of a book entitled Onward Christian Athletes, high-profile expressions of piety by athletes have become routine in pro sports. Tom Krattenmaker said: Some love it, some really resent it. The comedians have a field [...]
WHEN P Z Myers drew attention yesterday to a poll asking whether an “offensive” billboard – erected by the Joliet Jackhammers, a baseball team in Illinois – should be removed, 56 percent said Yes, while 44 percent said No. This morning the Yes poll has dwindled to  a miserable 11 percent. This is the billboard: [...]
A Jerusalem artichoke, surely? Nah, far too exotic for the folk who run Tullys Farm in West Sussex. Instead they have chosen the ‘umble carrot to represent the baby Jesus in a veggie nativity scene created by Stuart Beare to encourage children to eat more healthily. The three wise men, according to this report, have [...]
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IF Tiger Woods is feeling a trifle less randy this morning, it could be ‘cos his libido has been zapped by that notorious passion-killer, Jehovah. On Wednesday, you see, a band of Christian fundies – who could think of nothing more worthwhile to do in the run-up to Christmas – gathered at Baltimore’s Miracle Temple [...]
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IRISH bishop Dr Donal Murray resigned today, following severe criticism of his handling of child sex abuse allegations. The Murphy report on abuse by priests in the Dublin Archdiocese found Donal Murray’s handling of one case while an auxiliary bishop in the 1980s was “inexcusable”. The BBC reports that the Pope had accepted his resignation [...]
The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
