A CHRISTIAN fundie who worked for a prominent US televangelist – the Rev Marcus Lamb – is suing her boss for millions, claiming that Lamb’s recently admitted extramarital affair with a third party caused her “great emotional pain”. Jeanette Hawkins added that Lamb’s out-of-wedlock tryst compromised the Christian values she expected in the workplace. Lamb [...]
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BY sponsoring a peg in return for a $100 dollar donation, or a plank ($1,000), or a beam ($5,000) you could help a bat-shit crazy creationist organisation build a replica of Noah’s Ark in the state of Kentucky. Earlier this week, Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear (Democrat) unveiled a plan to construct a creationist theme park [...]
THERE are 22 shopping days left till Christmas … and 169 days left until Jesus’ second coming. Allegedly. That’s the message on 40 billboards which have sprung up around Nashville, proclaiming May 21, 2011, as the date of the Rapture. Billboards are up in eight other US cities, too. According to this report, fans of [...]
WHO is Eugene Delgaudio? The Merino-faced numpty is an obscure Republican politician in Virginia who made a complete berk of himself this week with the latest of his moronic anti-gay outbursts. The über-conservative Delgaudio is convinced that airport security “pat-downs” are part of “a wide-scale homosexual agenda”, and in an e-mail sent in his capacity [...]
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THE Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery in Washington hurriedly removed a video yesterday that was part of an AIDS awareness exhibit after complaints from a Catholic group that the images were sacrilegious. Catholic League President Bill Donohue said the video by artist David Wojnarowicz depicting ants crawling on a crucifix was “hate speech” and designed to [...]
CHRISTIANS who believe their faith is “under attack” in Britain have today launched a campaign to defend it against all “hostile” forces. Spearheaded by former Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Carey, a comical media circus, known as “Not Ashamed Day”, is being staged outside the House of Lords. Campaigners say a mounting number of cases of [...]
The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
