TWO Christian crazies are in the news today: a street preacher in Taunton called Michael Overd, 47, and the Vatican’s “Chief Exorcist” Father Gabriele Amorth, 87. The former is on trial before Taunton magistrates for threatening a gay couple with hell, and the latter has just written a book – The Last Exorcist – My [...]
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TWO girls – one aged 13 and the other four – are dead as a result of their parents’ superstitious belief in demonic possession. Japanese teenager Tomomi Maishigi  died in August after her father and a Buddhist monk performed a ‘waterfall service’ on the girl, who was thought to be possessed by “an evil spirit”. [...]
THERE is a chilling feature in the latest issue of the US magazine, Details, which suggests that the practice of casting out “demons of homosexuality” from mainly young gay folk in Pentacostal and evangelical churches in the US may be far more common than people might imagine. The truly shocking part, says the writer Matt [...]
THE clownish Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, is facing strong criticism for participating in a carol service at a church that admits to carrying out “exorcisms” on gay people. Johnson, according to this report, attended the service on December 9 at the Jesus House Church in Barnet. It is led by Pastor Agu Irukwu and [...]
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 [...]
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A MEXICAN drug gang, La Familia Michoacana, are, by all account, murderous thugs. But they are evangelical Christians too – and, according to this report in Time magazine: Protect their local community … and are disciplined to abstain from narcotics themselves and care for their homes and children. They are also made to study a [...]
The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
