IT’S just a story. Let’s say it again, louder: it’s just a storr-eeee! Hmm. Doesn’t seem to have done much good. They’re still obsessing about Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy, wondering if it’ll poison the impressionable minds of schoolkids and turn them against God. To judge by the current brouhaha, you wouldn’t think the [...]
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AT LAST, it may go to court. The preposterous and risible law of blasphemy could be put to the test – and taken out of the reckoning entirely. Stephen Green, the man who brought us the laughable Christian Voice – although most communications issuing from this obscure little organisation seem to emanate from Green himself [...]
I AM a frequent visitor to Muslim websites. In this job one needs to keep abreast of what’s happening in the collective orthodox Muslim mind – especially nowadays when so many of our freedoms are under assault from Islamic fundamentalists. Trawling through page after page of mindless ranting, paranoia, and gripes about ‘Islamophobia’ is bad [...]
The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
