AS prayer signs go, the one hanging for over 50 years in the auditorium of Cranston High School West in Cranston, Rhode Island, was not as cheesy as most. But its presence was in clear violation of church-state separation – and, thanks to the action of a brave humanist student, the school authorities were ordered [...]
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IN a speech to mark the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible, PM David Cameron said that a return to Christian values could counter the country’s “moral collapse” – and he blamed a “passive tolerance” of immoral behaviour for this summer’s riots, Islamic extremism, City excess and Westminster scandals. David Cameron goes a bundle [...]
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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 [...]
NORTH LOUISIANA has been described as “the buckle on the Bible Belt” – and not without good reason, as high school student Damon Fowler at Bastrop High School has discovered to his cost. On the eve of his graduation, the atheist student contacted the school superintendent to let him know that he opposed the inclusion [...]
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DUTCH MEP Sophie in ‘t Veld was yesterday named the 2011 winner of prestigious Irwin Prize of Secularist of the Year. The National Secular Society (NSS), which organises the annual presentation, awarded her the prize at a ceremony in London for her work as chair of the European Parliamentary Platform for Secularism in Politics (EPPSP). [...]
A ROW has broken out in Minnesota after the Rev Dennis Campbell, of Granite City Baptist Church in St Cloud, invoked the name of Jesus Christ three times and made other overt references to Christianity while delivering a state Senate prayer this week. This prompted Democrat Terri Bonoff to request that all future Senate prayers [...]
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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
