DURING the course of a BBC3 TV programme called Britain’s Disgusting Drinks, screened earlier this week, presenter Alex Riley attempted to get some answers out of the Benedictine monks at Buckfast Abbey in Devon regarding the absurdly high caffeine content of a potent tonic wine they produce. The drink, Buckfast, commonly known is Scotland as [...]
THE UK gay humanist charity, the Pink Triangle Trust (PTT) has robustly refuted the claim by the Pope that the Nazis were atheists. In his opening address to the Queen at Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh yesterday, the lying old toad referred to: A Nazi tyranny that wished to eradicate God from society. But the PTT’s secretary [...]
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NIGERIAN humanist Leo Igwe, a frequent contributor to the Freethinker, has just sent me a horrifying account of five youngsters in Malawi who set fire to themselves in an apparent act of religious mania. According to their father, the children – named as Lamace, Etta, Annie, Petro and Maria  - established a  ”strange church” in [...]
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WOODY Allen is 74. Gosh, how time marches on. Love him or loathe him, you have to admit that he’s given the world some of the best one-liners ever. Oh, and to my mind, some excellent movies. One of my favourite Allen quotes is: If it turns out that there is a God, I don’t [...]
A NEW church schools award scheme, which turns a blind eye to discriminatory and admissions policies regarding pupils and staff, has been slammed by the chair of the Accord Coalition, Rabbi Dr Jonathan Romain. He said: Some faith schools do not discriminate on religious grounds in their employment and admissions policy, and instead see their [...]
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AN ice cream company banned from using an advert displaying a pregnant nun has vowed to position similar posters in London in time for the Pope’s visit this weekend. Antonio Federici’s advert showed a pregnant nun eating ice cream in a church, together with the strap line “immaculately conceived”. The Advertising Standards Authority has ordered [...]
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