THE owners of an Essex farm have been forced to apologise to the good folk of Woodham Ferrers for allowing hordes of believers to use their property as the base for convention of Christian Gypsies and travellers. Around 5,000 people turned up to the four-day “Life and Light” festival, which, according to Heather Richardson, one [...]
ALL is not going well for the US-based Christian Values Network, which recently launched a shopping portal for prats. Here’s the deal: shop with www.cvn.org, and a percentage of your spend goes to “good” Christian causes … such as virulently anti-gay outfits like Focus on the Family, Family Research Council, Summit Ministries, Abiding Truth Ministries [...]
ONLY 52 percent of Americans, according to a new poll, think that the Almighty is doing a good job as CEO of the universe. But at the weekend one man – a Baptist preacher in Tennessee – appeared to give God unqualified approval when he thanked the deity for providing him with a “smokin’ hot [...]
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RELIGIOUS right-wing talk show host Glenn Beck is in a class of his own when it comes to idiotic observations – but the moronic Mormon’s latest outburst regarding the young victims of the weekend shooting by Anders Behring Breivik at a Norwegian summer camp plumbed new depths of offensiveness. On his US radio show on [...]
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GOOD sense has triumphed over biblical bullshit in Texas. On Friday, the State Board of Education voted unanimously to approve sound-science materials for public school biology courses. By a 14-0 vote, the board chose to approve supplemental materials from mainstream publishers, not creationist crap from Religious Right-backed suppliers of dodgy Bible-bases hypotheses. According to this [...]
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CHRISTIAN Martinez, who was brutally lashed by a posse of Muslim vigilantes for consuming alcohol, says in TV interview that he has no intention of renouncing the “beautiful” religion of Islam. In a video we found here, the 31-year-old described Islam as: Â A great guideline to life. Meanwhile, it was reported here that Wassim Fayad, [...]
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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 