BETWEEN the covers of a book entitled Pure Manhood – yours for just $2.95 (or £1.23 in real money) you too can discover the secret of “how to become the man God wants you to be”. On offer at a generous discount from The Catholic Company, which describes chastity “expert” Jason Evert’s book as “simply [...]
OOZING sincerity from every pore, Jamaican–born televangelist Paul Lewis tells gullible audiences that he has a cure for cancer, AIDS, and a host of other diseases, afflictions and problems. Lewis and his ‘miracle’ olive oil soap. Click on pic to learn of its healing properties. His “miracle” olive oil soap will even get you “a [...]
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EDDIE Long, a self-styled gay-hating bishop who stood accused in 2010 of sexual misconduct involving four males – former members of Long’s New Birth Missionary Baptist megachurch in Lithonia, Georgia – is at the centre of a new controversy involving a throne, Jewish paraphernalia … and a load of tosh spouted by a Messianic rabbi. [...]
NO sooner had I decided to make it my mission in 2012 to help re-popularise the old English word “fopdoodle” – defined here as “a stupid or insignificant fellow; a fool; a simpleton” – than two links were sent to me about individuals who fully deserve the title. Ronald Weinland The first – Christian fundie [...]
AN online petition has been launched, calling on the Nigerian authorities to investigate a very public assault on a teenage girl by a self-styled “bishop”. The ‘bishop’ was caught on camera delivering the slap (click on pic to view the entire incident) During a “deliverance” service at Otta, in Ogun state, “Bishop” David Oyedepo, general [...]
HAROLD Egbert Camping, the 90-year-old loon whose latest end-of-the-world prediction failed to materialise on October 21, has decided to retire and stop banging on about Armageddon. His wife – according to this report – has confirmed that the fool has retired after his third failed prediction. Camping has also let it be known that he [...]
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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
