A SMALL gang of noisy Christian nitwits were given their marching orders by the residents of a Toronto neighbourhood after the unwelcome god-botherers were assumed to have targeted the home of a gay couple at the weekend. A row erupted after members of the Highfield Road Gospel Hall in the east end of Toronto invaded [...]
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THE Military Religious Freedom Foundation has written a letter to the US Secretary of Defence Robert Gates about a troubling new fact of life in some parts of the military – the use of chaplains to treat mental health problems frequently encountered by soldiers during war, including post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The letter, sent last [...]
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A SEVEN-year-old African girl, adopted by a pair of fundamentalist Christian loons in the US, died after receiving a “Bible-based” beating. Her 11-year-old sister, who was also severely assaulted, remains in a critical condition at a Sacramento children’s hospital. The two girls, Lydia, and her surviving sister Zariah, were adopted from an African orphanage in [...]
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TELLING folk they are miserable sinners who must repent or face hellfire is turning US evangelical preachers into a breed of emotional wrecks – and half would leave the ministry tomorrow. Addressing a “Refuel” conference designed to lift the spirits of American evangelists in Virginia this week, Jonathan Falwell – son of the obese homo-hater [...]
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IF Janet Porter’s plans for a huge fundie rally had turned out as intended on May Day, thousands of loopy Christians would have gathered at at a rally to beg God to forgive America for having elected wicked leaders like President Obama. Porter believes America is under a curse for having “made the choice of [...]
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DALE McAlpine, a 42-year-old Baptist from Wokington in Cumbia was charged at the weekend with causing “harassment, alarm or distress” after a gay police community support officer (PCSO) overheard him reciting a number of “sins” referred to in the Bible, including blasphemy, drunkenness and same sex relationships. But the town’s resident crank, who has been [...]
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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
