SHORTLY after it was reported that a 31-year-old Indonesian atheist may convert to Islam after insulting God and Mohammed, a row broke out between two Muslim groups over a Koran exhibition due to take place tomorrow in Dewsbury, Yorkshire. The first report concerns Alexander Aan, a civil servant who was detained after declaring on Facebook that [...]
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A MAD US hate group, the Family Research Council (FRC), has declared war on a multi-million dollar video game – Star Wars: The Old Republic – because its creators decided to include a same-sex romance component to the game in a future patch. Despite the fact that the patch, according to this report, is completely [...]
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RIGHT now, there’s a blazing exchange taking place on the BBC World Service’s Facebook page, following a broadcast on religion this morning which utterly infuriated me. Getting wound up by the squads of religionists who get a disproportionate amount of airtime on the BBC is something that happens to people like me far too often [...]
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RALPH Shortey is an Oklahoma state senator who this week got himself branded as “hilariously delusional” after he tabled bill that would ban the use of aborted human foetuses in food products. According to this report, the ridiculous Republican and ardent Christian pro-lifer said he filed the bill after reading that an anti-abortion group – [...]
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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IS IT me, or is America’s 2012 presidential campaign throwing more religious lunatics into sharp relief than any in the past? Take, for example, the Rev O’Neal Dozier, a wingnut described here as “a firebrand social conservative”, who heads the Worldwide Christian Center in Pompano Beach, Florida. Dozier loathes Islam and cares even less for [...]
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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
