LABOUR may have taken a drubbing in the General Election, but candidates standing for the Christian Party and the Christian Peoples Alliance were utterly humiliated. In Barking, for example, Britain’s highest profile Christian candidate, the lunatic Rev George Hargreaves, managed to attract a paltry 482 votes. With 1.1 percent of the vote, he limped in [...]
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WE couldn’t be asked to watch Channel 4’s Make Me A Christian last night. When you have a heavy cold, replete with thumping headache and a barbed-wire throat, the last thing you need is a widescreen televisual encounter with the Rev George “So Macho” Greaves, the lead preacher in TV’s latest dismal foray in the [...]
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Despite the fact that the Scottish Christian Party, fielding 72 candidates, only managed to attract around 30,000 votes and won no seats in the 2007 Scottish elections, its leader, the Rev George Hargreaves, is convinced that his party’s narrow following of delusional crackpots will provide a springboard for far greater influence in Scottish politics in [...]
The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
