THE clownish Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, is facing strong criticism for participating in a carol service at a church that admits to carrying out “exorcisms” on gay people. Johnson, according to this report, attended the service on December 9 at the Jesus House Church in Barnet. It is led by Pastor Agu Irukwu and [...]
PRESIDENT Barack Obama’s defence of the “just” war principle in Oslo this week, where he received the Nobel Peace Prize, has drawn praise from many Conservative Christian nutsters, including Sarah Palin. She seized on the opportunity to plug her book, said to be a breathtakingly dishonest memoir called Going Rogue (see here and here). Said [...]
THE Archbishop of Canterbury has accused the Government of treating all religious believers as “oddities” and “eccentric”. Dr Rowan Williams said ministers were wrong to think that Christian beliefs were no longer relevant in modern Britain and he criticised Labour for looking at religious faith as a “problem” rather than valuing the contribution it made [...]
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A NEW poll by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life in the US reveals a disturbingly high level of belief in supernatural hogwash. Although most Americans profess to be Christian and many are devout, it hasn’t prevented some members of the flock from believing in astrology, reincarnation or the ability of trees to [...]
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MUSLIMS in Kenya should not be subjected to new noise pollution rules. Reacting to a recent directive issued by the National Environment Management Authority (NEMA), Adan Wachu, Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Kenya Muslims, has advised mosques to ignore the initiative and continue calling the faithful to prayer as they have always done. [...]
WITH lawmakers in Uganda poised to make homosexuality a crime punishable by death, a number of American Catholic, Protestant and Evangelical leaders have spoken out this week against the proposed legislation. Pardon the hollow laugh, but who was it that inflicted Christianity on Africa in the first place, thereby introducing homophobia to the continent? African [...]
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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
