A NEW study in North America concludes that “Atheists are distrusted to roughly the same degree as rapists”. The research, led by University of British Columbia psychology doctoral student Will Gervais, found distrust to be the central factor motivating antagonism toward atheists among the religious. Said Gervais: Where there are religious majorities – that is, [...]
ALL hell broke loose after members of a Baptist Church in good ol’ Kentucky voted to bar mixed-race couples. Nine daft bigots, members of the Gulnare Free Will Baptist Church in Pike County, voted for the ban after the daughter of church secretary Dean Harville attended the church during the summer with her boyfriend, who [...]
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SAUDI Arabia’s population of virgins would be catastrophically wiped out if women in the Islamic kingdom were allowed to drive motor vehicles. Quelle horreur! A Muslim woman behind the wheel of a car The “no more virgins” warning, according to this report, was sounded by Muslim clerics from the Majlis al-Ifta al-Aala, the country’s highest [...]
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PRAYERS uttered at local authority council meetings in England could soon be a thing of the past if the National Secular Society wins a High Court case that began in London yesterday. Despite the fact that virtually no-one in the UK with an ounce of commonsense believes in the efficacy of prayer, around half of [...]
A TOTAL of 85 priests are said to have abused children across all the dioceses in Ireland between 1975 and the present– and the Bishop of Raphoe, Philip Boyce has apologised for “poor judgements” in managing priests accused of “horrific acts of abuse”. Yet bizarrely, the same bishop is said in this report to have [...]
The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
