A 64-year-old Church of England minister who intends tying the knot with his lover, aged 25, has sent a frisson of horror through Stephen “Birdshit” Green, creator and sole member of an hysterical outfit called “Christian Voice“. Britain’s funniest fundie described the forthcoming civil union between the Rev Colin Coward, a priest at St John [...]
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HEIR to the British throne, Prince Charles, is said to have “thrown his toys out the pram” by refusing to attend a papal inter-faith event in London in September. Writing in the New Statesman, James Macintyre revealed that the Prince has caused anger in London and Rome after declining an invitation from the Pope, and [...]
IN THE wake of a report that religious education is “inadequate” in one in five secondary schools in England, the Church of England is calling on the Government to invest more heavily in the subject, which the National Secular Society insists holds no interest for either teachers or pupils. In its study, schools watchdog Ofsted [...]
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YOU’D think a cloth cap, clogs and a crash course in Mancunian would do trick, but no, some crazies at the religion-obsessed BBC think that a 30-grand-a-year-vicar will better help staff get over the horrors of moving to Salford. According to this report the Beeb is to recruit its own vicar to counsel staff who [...]
HAVING an unelected House of Lords in Britain is ludicrous – but even more objectionable is the presence in the Lords of 24 bishops and two archbishops The House of Lords, widely seen as an elitist and out-dated institution that doesn’t represent the diversity of the UK population, needs to be reformed, and its unelected, [...]
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THE Church of England is facing a fresh schism this week over its long running and frequently fraught attempts to consecrate women bishops. An influential coalition of evangelicals said they would order newly trained priests to leave the Church if it pressed ahead with the ordination of female bishops without any caveats for conservatives who [...]
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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
