AS everyone on the planet ought to know by now, Judgment Day is slated for May 21, 2011 – that’s in just three days’ time. We know the end is pretty damn nigh because a senile Christian bullshit merchant called Harold Camping, head of Family Radio in the US, has spent months – and around [...]
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THE Australian Federation of Islamic Councils has called for Muslims to be granted “legal pluralism” in Australia – but the Government will have none of that crap. In its submission to the parliamentary inquiry into the Government’s new multiculturalism policy, the AFIC argued that a mild brand of sharia should be allowed in regard to [...]
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PASTOR Martin Ssempa, the odious creature who played a major role in helping Uganda to draw up a vile anti-homosexuality bill, is smarting over the fact that the draft legislation has been shelved. Commenting on a statement issued by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, which urges Uganda to engage [...]
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P Z MYERS, Associate Professor of Biology at the University of Minnesota Morris and author of the world’s most widely read science blog Pharyngula, will be in London next month to present a lecture organised by Atheism UK, established to advance atheism in the UK. The title of Myers’ talk – to be delivered at [...]
ANYONE here remember Brian Mawhinny? Nope? Well he was a particularly undistinguished Conservative politician from Northern Ireland who first came to public attention by campaigning vigorously against pornography. In 1979 one of his bills, which attempted to ban indecent displays outside cinemas, sex shops and strip club, was in the Private Members’ Bills ballot. Famously, [...]
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ANOTHER day, another tale of a “persecuted” Christian. In the headlines this time is a taxi driver in the UK who was asked to remove a cross displayed in his vehicle because an “over-imaginative” teenage boy thought it looked like a penis. The “devout” Roman Catholic driver from York, who asked not to be named, [...]
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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
