ANGUISHED protests from a rag-tag of fundies came at the weekend following Elton John’s claim that Jesus was a “super intelligent gay man”. The world-renowned pop star made the remark in an interview with US celebrity news magazine, Parade. I think Jesus was a compassionate, super-intelligent gay man who understood human problems. On the cross, [...]
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THE wife of televangelist Benny (“The Hair”) Hinn has filed for divorce from the parasitic pastor, whose reputation as an advocate of “prosperity” gospel has attracted millions of followers and criticism from lawmakers and watchdog groups over his lavish lifestyle. Suzanne Hinn filed the papers in Orange County Superior Court, citing irreconcilable differences, after more [...]
A BUNCH of students at the Aligarh Muslim University in Lucknow forced the suspension of a professor after filming him having sex with a rickshaw puller. Dr Shrinivas Ramchandra Siras, reader and chairman of Modern Indian Languages at AMU, was on the verge of retirement when some students set up cameras to catch him having [...]
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SCIENCE still has a way to go in Texas, where a new poll suggests that a majority in the Lone Star State – albeit a slim one -Â reject evolution. The poll also noted: Nearly a third of Texans believe humans and dinosaurs roamed the earth at the same time. This prompted David Prindle, a [...]
THREE Muslim women – the first in Malaysia to be caned for illicit sex – claim that their punishment was an opportunity for them to repent of their sins, according to this report. Prison authorities caned the women on February 9 after an Islamic court passed sentence. The caning has outraged rights groups and revived [...]
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WHILE the Irish press was giving blanket coverage to this week’s meeting between the Pope and bishops summoned to Rome in the wake of the Irish church’s vast paedophilia scandal, theatre-goers scrambled for seats to see a play which unflinchingly tackles the issue of clerical abuse and hypocrisy. Irish playwright Thomas Kilroy’s new play Christ [...]
The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
