I ADORE cooking Indian dishes. When I was still living in the UK my provisions cupboards were fully stocked with items readily available from a variety of stores stocking the herbs, spices and pastes needed to create great curries and other Asian recipes. But here on the Costa Blanca in Spain I have been unable [...]
NORTH LOUISIANA has been described as “the buckle on the Bible Belt” – and not without good reason, as high school student Damon Fowler at Bastrop High School has discovered to his cost. On the eve of his graduation, the atheist student contacted the school superintendent to let him know that he opposed the inclusion [...]
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A 52-year-old member of a fundamentalist Baptist church in New Hampshire faces up to 54 years in prison after he was found guilty on Friday of raping his children’s 15-year-old baby sitter, who belonged to the same church, more than a decade ago. The case involving Ernest Willis of Gilford garnered national attention because Concord’s [...]
A LESBIAN, who was ordered last year by a court to undergo hospital therapy for her drug addiction, wound up instead in the clutches of an evangelical couple, who were allegedly paid $600 by Bartow County Sheriff’s Department to “cure” her of her homosexuality. Amanda Booker is now suing the police. A lawsuit filed earlier [...]
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IT’S been a funny old week in the life of the Roman Catholic Church … First there’s the report that a bunch of Cistercian monks at a renowned monastery in Rome has been evicted by the Pope, who took a dim view of their “loose-living” antics, then we learn that a priest in Genoa has [...]
TRADITIONALISTS in the Church of Scotland were left reeling this week after the C of SÂ General Assembly voted to consider lifting a ban on the ordination of gay ministers. Addressing the General Assembly in opposition to the proposal, the Rev Andrew Coghill, of the Isle of Lewis, likened the impact of the ordination of [...]
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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
