NOW is not a good time for the Rev Ian Paisley – and it’s hardly surprising that the 84-year-old founder of the evangelical Free Presbyterian church who masterminded the notorious Save Ulster from Sodomy campaign, is keeping his lips tightly zipped over the Iris Robinson affair.
Shame really, as we would dearly love to hear this [...]
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AN historic vote in favour of gay marriage yesterday made Portugal the sixth in Europe to approve same-sex unions – and, as we pointed out yesterday, it all came about without interference from the Catholic Church.
But in Mexico City, where gay marriage was approved on December 21, 2009, a rag-tag alliance of Catholics and homophobic [...]
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AFTER re-crunching a bunch of numbers in the Bible, doddery old US evangelist Harold Camping has calculated that the world will go kaput on in May 2011. On that date Jesus will return to harvest the souls of the faithful.
Back in the early 90s, the 88-year-old head of the Oakland-based, evangelical Family Radio station, predicted [...]
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THAT’S the view of aging New Zealand-born evangelist Winkie Pratney, who will be spending New Year’s Eve in hospital after being struck down by an aneurysm.
He is being kept at a New Zealand hospital and is said to be “doing well” by his son, William Pratney.
No surgery seems to be needed. He has just eaten [...]
JUST when I thought I had a handle on some of the world’s pottiest pastimes – running with bulls in Pamplona, dwarf-tossing in Australia and cheese-rolling in Gloucestershire are just three examples – along comes a bunch of religious halfwits with a brand new entertainment: a contest to see who can best bad-mouth [...]
MANY Americans were shocked last month when a video was posted on YouTube showing a 16-year-old boy being roughly “exorcised” in a Connecticut evangelical church, where the “demon of homosexuality” was said to have been cast out of him.
The video shows the boy writhing on the floor as at least ten people at the Manifested [...]
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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
