TODAY is Superbowl Sunday in Indianapolis, and in a few hours’ time a huge number of Americans – the thousands in attendance plus millions watching the event on TV – will see an aerial banner declaring: Football beats church anytime. The banner is the brainchild of American Atheists, and it will be flown around Lucas [...]
RIGHT now, there’s a blazing exchange taking place on the BBC World Service’s Facebook page, following a broadcast on religion this morning which utterly infuriated me. Getting wound up by the squads of religionists who get a disproportionate amount of airtime on the BBC is something that happens to people like me far too often [...]
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FACED with the realisation that her pet cat had died after a grim encounter with a pastor, a five-year-old Central Texas girl – on being told that her pet, Moody, was now “in heaven” – declared: I don’t believe in Heaven anymore, Moody’s just dead. Moody, according to this report, died after falling, or having [...]
AS prayer signs go, the one hanging for over 50 years in the auditorium of Cranston High School West in Cranston, Rhode Island, was not as cheesy as most. But its presence was in clear violation of church-state separation – and, thanks to the action of a brave humanist student, the school authorities were ordered [...]
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THE University College London Union Jesus & Mo controversy rumbles on. Latest to join the fray is S M Tahir Nasser, Treasurer of UCLU Ahmadiyya Muslim Students Association (AMSA), who declared: It is not for Atheists to decide what will or will not offend believers of different religions. Responding to a petition deploring UCLU’s attempt [...]
I HAVE been deluged by emails over the last day or so by readers enraged over ITV’s cowardly decision to cut Aussie comedian Tim Minchin out of the Jonathan Ross Show. ITV network’s director of television Peter Fincham apparently got cold feet over a song Minchin penned for the show in which he compared Jesus [...]
The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
