FOLLOWING on from our recent post about how unhappy numerous evangelical preachers are with their lives comes news that many pastors and ministers may be closet atheists. In “Preachers Who Are Not Believers,” a fascinating report by Daniel C Dennett and Linda LaScola of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University, there are five [...]
FRONT man for a barking mad fundamentalist Christian Ministry, which brings Christian punk rock to US public schools – and has strong ties with the Republican Party of Minnesota – has called on Americans to take a leaf out of the Islamists’ book and start threatening gays with death. According to this report, Bradlee Dean, [...]
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THE silly sods who recently decided to launch “Everyone Draw the Holocaust Day” in retaliation for Facebook’s “Everyone Draw Muhammad Day” have unfortunately (from their point of view) chosen to focus on episode in history which shows Islam in a positively gruesome light. The Facebook group founder is urging supporters to: Gear up for a [...]
NICOLAUS Copernicus, the 16th-century astronomer branded a heretic for his findings by the Roman Catholic Church, has been reburied as a hero by Polish priests – nearly 500 years after he was laid to rest in an unmarked grave. According to this report, his burial in a tomb in a cathedral in Frombork, northern Poland, [...]
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THE UK’s first TV ad campaign for abortion services airs tonight on Channel 4 at 10.10pm – and the fundies are besides themselves with rage. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSH6wLDoE1w[/youtube] Ahead of the screening of the Marie Stopes International (MSI) ad, the Christian Institute garnered a fine crop of foam-flecked comments from furious religious opponents. Said Anthony Ozimic, a [...]
THE “rage of 1.6 billion Muslims” over sacrilegious cartoons featuring the “prophet” Mohammed has been condensed into a 62 minutes movie called The Blasphemy. But if the picture in this report is an accurate depiction of the actual DVD, it seems that proof-reading is not among the maker’s skills. Shot by a Pakistani-born filmmaker living [...]
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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
