RUBBING their hands in glee, vindictive Christian fundies have been crowing for weeks over Christopher Hitchens’s cancer. This comment is typical of the badly written garbage that’s been posted on the internet ever since news of his illness broke: The militant God-hater, Christopher Hitchens, has been diagnosed with throat cancer … Hitchens is well known [...]
THE proportion of Spaniards who say they are Roman Catholic has fallen to 73 percent from around 80 percent eight years ago, according to a survey released this week by the CIS research centre. About 25 percent of all Spaniards now claim to be atheists or without a religion, compared to 17 percent in 2002, [...]
ANSWERING questions from MPs on the Commons education select committee today, Michael Gove said: One of the most striking things that I read recently was a thought from Richard Dawkins that he might want to take advantage of our education legislation to open a new school, which was set up on an explicitly atheist basis. [...]
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The National Secular Society this week applied to the High Court to have council prayers declared unlawful. If the society wins the case it would create a precedent that would be binding on other councils. After weeks of exhausting preparation, the papers were lodged at the High Court for a “Judicial Review between the Queen [...]
TONIGHT UK viewers can enjoy a screening of Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ – a movie dubbed ‘The Jesus Chainsaw Massacre’ by one US critic. It’s a film that: Lovingly and in detail recycles the bloody myth that all Jews are historically and collectively responsible for the murder of Jesus. These are the [...]
A WEBSITE A designed to “allow as many people in the UK as possible to put forward their ideas on what laws and regulations we should do away with” was launched at the beginning of July. Prime Minister David Cameron and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, along with the rest of the Coalition Government, are [...]
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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
