LAST night BBC1 aired a programme entitled Are Christians being Persecuted? If you missed it, you can watch it here for a limited time – but be warned, it contains explicit scenes of Andrea Minichiello Williams, of the overworked Christian Legal Centre, in full cry. Presented by Nicky Campbell, the programme set out to show [...]
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AN ANGRY bunch of Coronation Street fans choked on their chocolate bunnies when a key character in this popular TV soap said unflattering things about Christianity – on the very day the “Lord” Jesus is said to have risen from the dead. ITV said it had received 100 complaints from Christians about remarks made by [...]
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ASTON Villa drew 3-3 against Everton at Villa Park this afternoon, and Manchester City went down 1-3 against Fulham at the City of Manchester Stadium. We only mention these scores because Christian leaders are furious – not with the results of the two Premier League matches, but because they were played on the Day of [...]
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IT’S Easter, but judging from some of the photographs in the world’s media this weekend, one could be forgiven for thinking hallowe’en had arrived a lot earlier than scheduled. In Mexico, according to the Guardian, followers of a rapidly growing Mexican religious cult that deifies death and counts a number of drug traffickers among its [...]
SIX hours on the shop floor, and another 45 minutes in a supermarket dodging trolleys, baby buggies and homicidal pensioners in mobility scooters have left me too drained to post anything of substance this evening. So I offer you instead this spoof book cover, which brilliantly encapsulates Easter. It comes from Somethingawful.com. You can amuse [...]
The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
