THOSE smart cookies over at Ranker.com have created a Top Ten Comic Book Gods Worth Worshipping in response to the news this week that the world’s loopiest Christians – members of the Westboro Batshit Church in Topeka, Kansas – are to turn their wrath this week on a comic book convention in San Diego. The [...]
THE Conservative MP says he will refuse to hold meetings with Muslim women wearing full Islamic dress at his constituency surgery unless they lift their face veil. According to this report, Muslim groups condemned Philip Hollobone and accused him of failing in his duty as an MP. The Kettering MP said: I would ask her [...]
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IT’S been a day of disappointment. First, for a young Saudi, whose face grew as lugubrious as a camel’s after I patiently explained to him that there was no “magic bullet” – or pump, or cream, or pill – that would lengthen his 11cm penis to the 20cm he so desperately wanted. Then disappointment came [...]
THE bishop of Hamburg – the world’s first female Lutheran bishop – has resigned amid criticism of her handling of a sex abuse case. Maria Jepsen denies having known before May this year about a priest in the town of Ahrensburg who reportedly sexually abused boys and girls in the 1980s. Said Jepsen: My credibility [...]
FOR “some time” Kentucky astrophysicist and creationist nut-job Jason Lisle has been grappling with the “distant starlight problem”. This, he explains: Is the issue of how starlight from the most distant galaxies is able to reach earth within the biblical timescale. Although light is incredibly fast, the most distant galaxies are incredibly far away. So, [...]
ARTWORKS that a Russian court found “blasphemous” this week are about to get a much wider audience. In the wake of the trial of art expert Andrei Yerofeyev and the Sakharov Museum’s then-director Yuri Samodurov, a magazine called Russia! has announced its intention to publish a book, The Banned Art, containing the “offensive” exhibits in [...]
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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
