TIME magazine this week carries a piece in which an “expert” in matters regarding the afterlife speculates on Osama bin Laden’s post-mortem existence. I kid you not. Vanderbilt professor and Islam expert Leor Halevi reckons it all hangs on what type of death one think he died. Halevi says for those who believe he died [...]
A LUNATIC Australian provider of Christian teaching materials has been forced to withdraw a comic strip following fury expressed by teachers. The comic strip, You’re Asking for It, was produced for primary schools by Access Ministries, a fundie outfit that receives hundreds of thousands of dollars from Australian taxpayers to brainwash youngsters. The strip features [...]
AMERICAN pop singer Kate Perry, whose hit song I Kissed A Girl sent a frisson of horror among through the ranks of prissy US evangelicals, is now claiming that she had been robbed of her childhood by her nutcase religious parents, Mary and Keith Hudson. Perry, whose mum wouldn’t read her anything other than the [...]
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POPE Paul performed his first post-beatification miracle at the weekend, according to Peru’s President Alan Garcia. His first miracle has been to rid the world of this incarnation of evil, this demon of hatred and criminality. He rid the world of Pope Ratzinger, right? Wait, wait … Garcia was referring to Osama Bin Laden. The [...]
THE world’s most wanted Islamic terrorist was despatched to paradise to claim his 72 virgins when US special forces attacked his luxury hideaway in Pakistan at the weekend. Curiously, according to these report, this is the third time bin Laden has died: once at Tora Bora in December 2001, then again in December 2010, when [...]
YOU know the world’s gone batshit crazy when one detestable Catholic tyrant is granted leave to pay his respects to another. The murderous Robert Mugabe, according to this report, was given special dispensation to attend today’s €3.5-million beatification ceremony of the late Pope John Paul II in the Vatican. Mugabe, 87, a Roman Catholic, arrived [...]


The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 