A SURVEY carried out by the Daily Mail reveals that less than one per cent of cards stocked by supermarkets have religious themes. Some had no cards at all with religious references in their extensive ranges. The paper visited major outlets of the big four supermarkets – Asda, Sainsbury’s, Tesco and Morrisons – in seven [...]
ENTER the Chymorvah Private Hotel in Marazion, near Penzance, and in the bedrooms you will find open Bibles and Christian leaflets. The reception area features a mosaic that reads: Jesus Christ is Lord. On its website, the deranged hotel owners – Peter and Hazelmary Bull – declare: Here at Chymorvah you will be met by [...]
A JUDGE in Indiana this week sentenced a church financier to 54 years in prison for pocketing millions of dollars that investors believed would be used to build churches. Special Judge Dena Martin ordered former pastor Vaughn Reeves to serve consecutive six-year terms for each of nine fraud counts, in a scheme that cost about [...]
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THIS past week we’ve seen the majority of Facebook’s userbase swap their profile pictures for images of cartoons from their childhood. This was part of a well-intentioned, but ultimately superficial campaign to reduce child abuse by drawing attention to the issue. So effective was it, I was prompted to comment, “I was about to punch [...]
AT a cost of around $4,000 (postage and packing not included), Bill Donohue’s dotty Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights has sent nativity scenes to each of America’s 50 state governors in the hope that they will be displayed in government spaces. News of the initiative serendipitously came just after we, at the Freethinker, [...]
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TENSIONS are reportedly rising in the Germany city of Moenchengladbach, where the authorities have stopped the building of an Islamic religious school, citing security concerns. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3yS7aeDzHQ[/youtube] The group behind the planned school calls itself “Invitation to Paradise” – and has begun a defiant response to weeks of public protests against what many regard as an [...]
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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
