A FEW days back, Alex Spillius, writing in the Telegraph, said: In 2008, Americans made history by choosing their first black President. This time round, they could break with precedent again – by electing a Mormon. Mitt Romney, the strong favourite for the Republican nomination, is a devout follower of the Church of Jesus Christ [...]
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THE world has a new religion – Kopimism. But no gods, saviours, or silly dogma here because the Missionary Church of Kopism exists solely for the “sacred” practise of file-sharing on the internet. According to Gizmodo, the church, which has adopted Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V as its religious symbols – rather than Ctrl+U, which forms [...]
TWO members of a breakaway Amish group in the US – Johnny and Lester Mullet – have been charged with “degrading” a 74-year-old Amisher by removing his beard. The pair of Mullets – aged 38 and 26, respectively – are, according to this report in the Philadephia Inquirer, the sons of Amish “bishop” Sam Mullet [...]
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ALLEGED dodgy dealings within an a mystical outfit described by some as “Jewish Scientology” may have led to the collapse of Madonna’s $15-million girls’ school in Malawi. Newsweek reports that the pop superstar has abandoned the project despite helping raise $18-million, and that the collapse of the Raising Malawi scheme was largely due to the [...]
A FUNDIE Christian couple who relied on prayer, not medicine, to cure their dying toddler son was convicted last week of involuntary manslaughter and child endangerment. Herbert and Catherine Schaible of Philadelphia face more than a decade in prison for the January 2009 pneumonia death of 2-year-old Kent. Jury foreman Vince Bertolini, 49, told The [...]
A MAN appointed by the late sultan of Yogyakarta to keep Indonesia’s Mount Merapi under control with a cocktail of mysticism and Islamic prayer lost his latest battle with the volcano this week. According to this report, the spiritual guardian – Â a tiny man in his 80s known as Grandfather Marijan – was buried in [...]
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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
