FOLLOWING a week of bad publicity, a Michigan defence contractor has announced that it will stop stamping references to Bible verses on combat rifle sights made for the US military, a major buyer of the company’s gear. Trijicon says it is also providing, free of charge, modification kits to remove the scripture citations from sights [...]
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DR BRIDGET McConnell, head of Culture and Sport Glasgow (CSG), the £100 million charity in charge of the city’s culture, said yesterday that she was alarmed by what she describes as a “personal witchhunt” against her by packs of evangelical loonies. For the past six months, the head of Glasgow’s museums and art has been [...]
THEÂ Â American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property – property? – is not at all happy with Hollywood’s latest incursion into the world of fantasy Â- Scott Stewart’s action thriller, Legion, which opened today in US cinemas. The plot, in a nutshell, is this: Black-winged, machine-gun-toting rebel Archangel Michael (Paul Bettany) flexes his [...]
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REMEMBER the Reverend Archie Coates? He made it onto this blog last October when he arrived in Brighton to reclaim this, Britain’s “most godless city”, for Jesus. Coates came to atheist Brighton – home of the Freethinker -Â to establish a franchise of London’s evangelical Holy Trinity Brompton church at the failed Anglican St Peter’s [...]
A US Airways passenger plane was diverted to Philadelphia earlier today after religious paraphenalia worn by a Jewish passenger was mistaken for a bomb, Philadelphia police said. According to this report, a passenger was alarmed by a ludicrous arrangements of two small black boxes affixed to the man’s arm and head by thin black straps. [...]
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A couple from the US state of Georgia was recently arrested for tattooing six of their seven children with crosses. The mother bemusedly commented: I’m their mother. Shouldn’t I be able to decide if they get one? No, madam, you shouldn’t. Children are not possessions; parents do not own them. They are human beings with [...]
The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
