POLICE from at least nine agencies in the New York area came racing to the Playland Amusement Park in Rye yesterday after a “multi-person fight” – involving between 30 and 40 people – broke out when Muslim visitors kicked off over the park’s prohibition of headgear on certain rides. According to this report two rangers [...]
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FOR far too long – some believe – artists have portrayed Jesus as a wimp: a namby-pamby cuddling a lamb, or a blue-eyed sissy boy laying hands on adoring children. This, some Christians believe, has to stop. Jesus needs to be butched up, and according to this report one man who is doing just [...]
IF this was International Nutters week, top prize should surely go to Pastor Mike Stahl of The Living Water Church in Miramar, Florida, for a dotty idea he proposed on the internet yesterday. Pastor Mike, as he likes to call himself, is a former police officer who has been: Â Seriously considering forming a (Christian ) [...]
BEFORE Galileo popped up with the “false” notion that the earth revolves around the sun, the planet was in a far better state, with the Catholic Church in a position of absolute authority over worldly affairs. That’s the view of a bunch of barmy Catholics in the US who are determined to turn the clock [...]
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NEXT month – on September 17 – a large-scale protest by secular groups against the Vatican’s persistent interference in politics is due to take place in London. But bizarrely, a left-wing German politician appears to be calling for MORE papal involvement in the way in which countries run their affairs. Ahead of Pope Ratzinger’s visit [...]
AN Israeli rabbi, Asher Dahan, 42 – accused of killing fellow rabbi Rabbi Elazar Abuhatzeira earlier this year – has been ordered to stand trial for murder despite a psychiatric opinion that he is mentally unfit to be tried. The alleged killer had apparently stabbed elderly Abuhatzeira, a mystic and Kaballist, because Abuhatzeira’s supernatural powers [...]
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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
