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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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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, [...]
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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
