OVER 90,000 secular Israeli’s have signed a petition demanding that a clock change, made to accommodate devout Jews over Yom Kippur period, be reversed. The Government’s decision to move the clocks back an hour to Standard Time was approved: By a wide majority by the entire coalition …Yom Kippur and the fast are important to [...]
IN DUBLIN tomorrow a book rubbishing evolution will be launched – by Ireland’s Minister of State for Science, Technology and Enterprise, Conor Lenihan! The Origins of Specious Nonsense is the creation of John J May, who states: Charles Darwin and his modern ‘disciples’ – Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Daniel C Dennet (sic), Christopher Hitchens et [...]
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TAKE a very deep breath before you read this. A press release just received from the humanist think-tank, the Institute of Ideas, is not a windup. The Institute accuses fellow secularists of engaging in: A New Atheist witch-hunt – in stark contrast to their own professed views on tolerance. Speaking to launch a series of [...]
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CARDINAL Newman, the Victorian theologian who is due to be beatified by Ratzinger when he arrives in the UK later this week is: Very popular with everyone – Anglicans, Catholics, even gays like him because they say he was homosexual. Those are the words of Opus Dei spokesman Jack Valero, reported in today’s Telegraph. But [...]
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A CONTROVERSIAL pro-euthanasia television advertisement, due to air at the weekend, has been banned by the authorities in Australia. The ad’s creator, lobby group Exit International, says the ban is a violation of free speech. The ad, which you can see below, features an actor playing a terminally-ill man man. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRDZFwlWU1s[/youtube] It ends by emphasising [...]
OKLAHOMA has the dubious reputation of being America’s eighth most godly state – but local atheists are determined to change all that. The Coalition of Reason recently received $5,250 from its national counterpart to erect a billboard along Interstate 44 near the Oklahoma State Fair, which opens Wednesday. Its message reads: Don’t believe in God? [...]
The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
