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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MEET the Rev R Jeremy Brooks. He serves full time with the hilariously-named Protestant Truth Society, and is a member of Ebenezer Baptist Church, Old Hill, Cradley Heath, West Midlands. This little sweetheart doesn’t much like the idea of gays getting hitched “on religious premises”. In fact, he is so against the concept that he [...]
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A 52-year-old member of a fundamentalist Baptist church in New Hampshire faces up to 54 years in prison after he was found guilty on Friday of raping his children’s 15-year-old baby sitter, who belonged to the same church, more than a decade ago. The case involving Ernest Willis of Gilford garnered national attention because Concord’s [...]
A 15-year-old rape victim was forced to stand terrified before her entire Baptist congregation in New Hampshire to confess her “sin” of having become pregnant. What Tina Anderson wasn’t allowed to tell the congregation was that she had become pregnant after she was raped by a church deacon, a man twice her age. According to [...]
A NEW version of the Bible, which attempts to eliminate much of the sexist language that appeared in earlier editions, went on sale in the US this week – and at least one fundie outfit ain’t too happy about it. Even before the latest translation of the New International Version Bible, or NIV, hit stores, [...]
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SOUTH African Pastor Xola Skosana has created a furore with his statement from his pulpit that: Today I will start with a three-part sermon on: Jesus was HIV-positive. The words, according to the BBC, initially stunned his congregation in Cape Town’s Khayelitsha township into silence, and then set tongues wagging in churches across the country. [...]
The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
