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 [...]
LAST night – at the beginning of Easter Week in Spain (Semana Santa) – I rounded a corner near a church in Benidorm and found myself in the thick of a parade of Spanish Catholics wearing sinister, pointy black hoods, or capirotes. Capirotes are hangover from medieval times for penitents, who could demonstrate their penance [...]
ON August 7, P Z Myers, creator of the popular religion-crushing blog, Pharyngula, will be touring the multi-million dollar Creation Museum in Petersburg, Kentucky. Myers has long mocked and ridiculed Ken Ham’s infamous, biblically-literal museum, but so far has not visited this “monument to scientific illiteracy”. However, the Secular Student Alliance – as part of [...]
OH, what a giggle we had trawling through over 80 entries we had for our June caption contest! But the hard bit was choosing a winner. In the end, we said sod the accountants, let’s award THREE prizes of a year’s subscription to the Freethinker to: • Rog – With the tide rising and her [...]
AT the beginning of April we invited readers to participate in a caption contest for the photo below: We had an great giggle at the entries submitted – but a clear winner emerged. Remigius, take a bow, as your submissions raised the best laugh: Little kid: Mummy, when I said ‘I want some nutty chews’ [...]
THE Grand Rebbe Meshulam Feish Lowy of Tosh – or Rebbe Tosh as he is known to his Ultra-Orthodox Jewish followers – has been giving awful earache to residents in the Victoria Park area of Fort Lauderdale. Tosh, from Montreal, had taken up residence in a vacant Mansion to escape the Canadian winter – and, [...]
Continue reading about Relief all round as noisy Rabbi Tosh buggers off back to Canada
The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
