The John Templeton Foundation, that’s what. And Richard Dawkins (among others) is furious over the fact that this body of faith-heads has managed to infiltrate the NAS, which has agreed to host the 2010 Templeton Prize this Thursday, March 25. The Templeton Prize was established to recognise: Exemplary achievement in discoveries regarding life’s spiritual dimension. [...]
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JAMES Randi, who has spent a large part his life exposing quackery and humbuggery in all its various guises, said that believers in the occult and paranormal – in his words, the “woo woos” – may try and detract from his work now that they know he’s gay. The founder of the James Randi Educational [...]
THIS Thursday, March 25, a number of cinemas in the UK will be screening Eric Idle’s Not the Messiah – a musical version of The Life of Brian. The film is being promoted by Classic FM – much to the annoyance of Britain’s most comical Christian, who is demanding that CFM pulls its trailers for [...]
NOVELIST Philip Pullman has been threatened by religious zealots over his new book, The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ. Pullman, an outspoken atheist once described by Peter Hitchens as “the most dangerous author in Britain“, has received scores of letters condemning him to “eternal hell” or “damnation by fire” and accusing him of [...]
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WITH the mood the Irish are in right now vis-a-vis the Roman Catholic Church, there’s every reason to believe that they will vote to ditch the country’s recently-introduced blasphemy law, under which a conviction could get an offender fined €25,000. But the prospect of the law being scrapped horrifies at least one Irish muppet – [...]
The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
