A DOCUMENTARY scheduled to be screened on RTE One tonight features Irish Catholic priests complaining they have the hump with Catholics of Convenience using the Church simply for hatches, matches and despatches. In the Would You Believe? documentary, the Archbishop of Dublin, Diarmuid Martin, urges the rising numbers of “a la carte” Catholics to “have [...]
A FIGHT which broke out shortly before the start of a nativity play at Harton Primary School, in South Shields, resulted in a dad having his finger bitten off. According to this report, shocked parents looked on as the two men began brawling on Tuesday afternoon. Onlookers told of their horror after one bit the [...]
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THE Onion – America’s premier satirical magazine – has turned its signature irreverence to the subject of Christmas. Christmas Exposed – published last month – features more than 100 shocking tales of secret Santas, shopping mall mayhem, dysfunctional families, and – don’t ask – autoerotic asphyxiation. Readers will discover such hilarious reports like “Child Bored [...]
SENSIBLE Muslims – and we assume there are at least some in the UK – must be writhing with embarrassment today as a result of the latest rant by Islamic half-wit Anjem Choudary. The lawyer – who recently praised the Mumbai terror attack – got up off his magic carpet to brand Christmas “evil” in [...]
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CHRISTIANS of a more fundamentalist stripe who are always banging on about “putting Christ back into Christmas” will be less than ecstatic over a new board game launched just in time for the festive season According to this report, Blasphemy®: The Race to the Cross is the brainchild of US company Pinstripe Publishing, LLC. The [...]
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AN IDEAL Yuletide board game for atheists and their families has just been released – and promises a welcome diversion from all that mindless religiosity that has come to blight an otherwise enjoyable annual pagan midwinter festival. Playing Gods: The Board Game of Divine Domination bills itself as: The world’s first satirical board game of [...]
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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
