A ROMAN Catholic bishop faces a possible prison sentence and $1,000 fine for failing to report a priest who was found to have hundreds of pictures on naked children on his laptop computer. Bishop Robert Finn, who heads the Kansas City diocese, became the highest-ranking US church official to be charged in the long-running Catholic [...]
PAT Robertson – one of the brightest stars in the firmament of US religious nutjobs – has been mouthing off on his 700 Club programme on the subject of Alzheimer’s disease. Asked by a viewer how she should advise a friend who had begun dating another woman even though his wife was still alive but suffering from [...]
WHEN Oz’s PM Julia Gillard expressed her heartfelt sympathy for the families of the victims of the Greymouth mine disaster, which occurred on November 19, she pointedly avoided religious language. In a recorded statement, Ms Gillard simply expressed her: Condolences . . . best wishes, sympathy and support. This omission has apparently pissed off the [...]
IF Tiger Woods is feeling a trifle less randy this morning, it could be ‘cos his libido has been zapped by that notorious passion-killer, Jehovah. On Wednesday, you see, a band of Christian fundies – who could think of nothing more worthwhile to do in the run-up to Christmas – gathered at Baltimore’s Miracle Temple [...]
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WATCH this amazing interview with Pastor Steven L Anderson, founder of the Faithful Word Baptist Church in Tempe, Arizona. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Up1a1zKqbAk[/youtube] At the end of his rant on the Michelangelo Signorile radio show in the US, Anderson says he would prayer for the interviewer to die of brain cancer. Nice! If you’ve the stomach for it, [...]
PRESIDENT Obama’s decision this week to reverse George W Bush’s 2001 veto on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research has, predictably, drawn fire from the Vatican. Monsignor Rino Fisichella, described as a “top Vatican official for bioethics” in this report yesterday slammed Obama’s decision to fund broader research into stem cells. He said Obama’s [...]
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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
