THE publishers of Chased by an Elephant, the Gospel Truth about Today’s Stampeding Sexuality, missed an obvious trick when they commissioned the cover artwork: the pachyderm portrayed really ought to be pink. And the author – US Christian fundie Janice Barrett Graham – really ought to learn how create snappier titles. Mind you, Elephant is [...]
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HOLLAND’S Federation Against Cursing – or Bond Tegen Het Vloeken to give it its proper name – is a quaint hangover from the Netherland’s past, but it is grimly hanging on to its original mission to get the Dutch to be less foul-mouthed. With the arrival of darker, autumnal days, according to this report, some [...]
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FOREVER on the prowl for something – anything – to divert attention from the global child abuse scandal in which it is so deeply mired – the Roman Catholic Church this week trumpeted its outrage over the Nobel Prize awarded to Robert Edwards, known as the father of the test-tube baby and the inventor of [...]
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LAST month Mediawatchwatch drew our attention to the fact that Stephen “Birdshit” Green had found a new target for his bully-boy tactics: vicar turned best-selling author Graham (G P) Taylor, who incurred the mad fundie’s wrath by writing a children’s book entitled The Vampyre Labyrinth. Said to be “the most frightening children’s book every written”, [...]
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DUTCH MP Geert Wilders, soon to become a partner in the next Dutch government, went on trial yesterday accused of inciting racial hatred against Muslims – despite the fact that Muslims are not a race. The controversial politician with his signature shock of dyed blond hair risks up to a year in jail or a [...]
AT least three Muslim faith schools in thre UK are forcing girls as young as 11 to cover their faces with veils – with the blessing of Ofsted inspectors. It emerged yesterday that one of the schools insists that fees are paid in cash and warns parents against speaking to the local education authority. All [...]
The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
