ENTOMBED 700 metres beneath the surface of the earth, 33 Chilean miners – some showing signs of depression and “severe dermatological problems” – each got a gift that’s really going to solve all their problems: a miniature Bible. According to this report, Carlos Parra, an evangelical preacher, arrived at the San Jose mine in Copiapo [...]
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RABBI Ovadia Yosef, 89, spiritual leader of Israel’s ultra-Orthodox Shas party,  has outraged Middle East peace negotiators by calling on God to make: All the nasty people who hate Israel … vanish from our world. The old fool’s remarks, aimed specifically at Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, was made in a weekly sermon. He went on [...]
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A CATHOLIC high school chaplain in Reading, Pennsylvania, is being sued by a local couple for impregnating their 18-year-old daughter, who had mental health problems. Rev Luis A Bonilla Margarito was secretly videotaped having sex with the couple’s daughter in the basement of their home. The lawsuit, filed this week in Berks County Court, alleges [...]
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WAY back in March of this year, Christian street preacher  and wannabe MP – Paul Shaw, of Duffield Drive, Colchester – appeared at Colchester magistrates’ court charged with using threatening words or behaviour towards gays, which he denied. District judge David Cooper told him: You said you were spreading God’s word and when interviewed you [...]
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WHO is “BroJustin” and why is he so spitting mad? Like so many in the UK, “BroJustin” is appalled at the forthcoming State visit of Pope Ratzinger – but at the heart this “saved” Christian wingnut’s objections, voiced in a YouTube video, no rational arguments exist, just mindless – at time hilarious – howls about [...]
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COLLEGE honours student Michael Enright, 21, a volunteer for an organisation called Intersections International, faces charges of attempted murder and hate crime assault following an attack on Tuesday on cabbie Ahmad Sharif, who suffered a serious neck and face wounds. According to this report, Enright hailed Sharif’s cab, then asked the driver if he was [...]
The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
