VISITORS to this blog will no doubt be aware that Florida Pastor Terry Jones, who threatened to burn a Koran last year to mark the anniversary of 9/ll was barred last week from entering the UK. But a less known fact is that Jones’s highly-publicised stunt – he did not, in the end, follow through [...]
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THE publishers of Chased by an Elephant, the Gospel Truth about Today’s Stampeding Sexuality, missed an obvious trick when they commissioned the cover artwork: the pachyderm portrayed really ought to be pink. And the author – US Christian fundie Janice Barrett Graham – really ought to learn how create snappier titles. Mind you, Elephant is [...]
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IT’S always heartening to hear news that bully-boy tactics, so beloved of religious organisations like our very own Christian Voice, don’t always work. Take the case of Michigan-based Grosse Pointe South High School, which later this month will stage the controversial play, The Laramie Project – an account of the torture and beating death of [...]
The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
