THE war of words between atheists and religious believers has entered a new chapter with the launch of Northern Ireland’s first ever humanist advertising campaign. The British Humanist Association (BHA) yesterday unveiled a billboard with the slogan: Please Don’t Label Me. Let Me Grow Up And Choose For Myself. Located on one Belfast’s busiest routes, [...]
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THE news this week that the US military has appointed its first-ever Buddhist chaplain – former Baptist pastor Thomas Dyer from Memphis, Tennessee – highlights attempts being made by the US army to provide for the “spiritual needs” of military personnel from a growing number of faith groups. But critics, according to a US Today [...]
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ATLANTA writer Jason T Berggren, a former pastor and heavy-metal Christian rocker has roused the fury of the faithful following the publication of a book called 10 Things I Hate About Christianity. Declared Berggren: I’ve had periodic hate mail, always from people who haven’t read the book. A handyman with an easy laugh and a [...]
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IRELAND’S attempt to introduce a blasphemy law is looking more and more idiotic with every day that passes. Now we learn that the creators of the brilliant Father Ted television series have joined the clamour against the proposed new law, denouncing it as as “insanity” and pledging to support a campaign to stop it in [...]
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Religion should not be a subject for entertainment programmes. These were the words thundered by Hamza Aktan, Chairman of the High Board of Religious Affairs in Turkey, after he learned details of a game show aimed at converting atheists into believers. Those competing to lure 10 non-believers from the path of godlessness will be a [...]
The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
