AN ATHEIST drug offender in California, who was returned to prison after complaining about a faith-based rehabilitation programme he was ordered to attend, has won an important legal victory. Barry A Hazle Jr, 41, served a year in prison on a drug charge. As a condition of his release, he was ordered to attend a [...]
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JUST days after Ratzinger’s No 2 in the Vatican – Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone – caused outrage when he blamed homosexuals for clerical abuse in the Catholic Church, a Mexican bishop declared that the root cause was, in fact, eroticism on TV and internet porn. Bishop Felipe Arizmendi, addressing an annual meeting of Mexican bishops near [...]
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A DERANGED senior Iranian cleric has claimed that “dolled-up women” incite extramarital sex, which in turns leads to more earthquakes in Iran. Ayatollah Kazem Sedighi told Tehran worshippers this week: Many women who dress inappropriately … cause youths to go astray, taint their chastity and incite extramarital sex in society, which increases earthquakes. He gabbled [...]
The huge cross hangs at Saint Charles Borromeo Catholic church and school, and some are claiming that the ghastly thing is pornographic. Others say the painting merely depicts Christ with muscles in his abdomen. Granted, as six-pack depictions go, this one ain’t convincing … or pretty … but does it require censoring by an over-sensitive media? No [...]
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A 15-year-old convert to Christianity has appealed to Egypt’s President Mubarak to allow her and her father to leave the country following a string of attacks against them by Muslim fanatics. In the latest attack three weeks ago, Dina el-Gowhary had acid thrown at her. Her father, Maher el-Gowhary, changed his name to Peter Athanasius [...]
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AN American group established to help Muslims escape the tyranny of Islam have been told that ads they put on Miami buses are to be pulled as they may be “offensive” to members of the Religion of Peace. The ads, placed by the  Stop Islamization of America (SIOA) group asks: Fatwa on your head? Is [...]
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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
