ANSWERING questions from MPs on the Commons education select committee today, Michael Gove said: One of the most striking things that I read recently was a thought from Richard Dawkins that he might want to take advantage of our education legislation to open a new school, which was set up on an explicitly atheist basis. [...]
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You commit social suicide as a black person when you say you’re an atheist. Those of the words of Jamila Bey, who attended the first African Americans for Humanism conference hosted recently in Washington by the Center for Inquiry. According to this report, Bey and other black atheists, agnostics and secularists are struggling to openly [...]
A WHILE back we brought to your attention the antics of a proselytizing prat called Cllr Lt Cdr Noël Atkins, who happens to be the Mayor of Worthing. This numpty is a True Believer ™, which is fine by us so long as doesn’t use the trappings of his office to foist his piety on [...]
Religious coverage is seen as a “rather tiresome obligation” by “secular and sceptical” BBC television staff, Radio 4’s Roger Bolton said. Bolton, according to the BBC today, called for the appointment of a BBC religion editor to improve coverage of faith matters. He was speaking at the Sandford St Martin Trust awards for religious programmes, [...]
THE controversial trial of secular ethics classes in Austalia has “decimated” Protestant scripture classes in the ten NSW schools where it has been introduced as an alternative for non-religious children, with the religious classes losing about 47 per cent of enrolled students. The figure, according to this report, was calculated by the Sydney Anglican diocese, [...]
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THE American Civil Liberties Union of Mississippi has rejected a $20,000 gift from the American Humanist Association intended to finance an alternate prom replacing one cancelled by a local school district after a lesbian student demanded that she be allowed to attend with her girlfriend. Last month the Itawamba County School District in Mississippi sparked [...]
The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
