THE winner of our February 1 caption contest is Chris who submitted:
Mind Control, extortion, the pursuit of power – Vader felt like an amateur.
The prize is a copy of C J Werleman’s God Hates You – Hate him back.
Two runners-up prizes of a year’s free subscription to the Freethinker magazine go to Ian, who suggested:
He [...]
THE picture below was sent to us by University of Sussex student Peter Brietbart, who discovered it on the net. He assures us that it’s not a Photoshop creation, but a genuine shot of a fella in Darth Vader gear who fell into step with a flock of ecclesiastical coves out for a stroll.
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EGYPT’S top comedian, Adel Imam – widely known across the Arab world as The Leader – has upset “a celebrated” Muslim preacher, who has accused him of insulting Muslim clerics in his movies.
According to this report, Khalid Al Guindy, a prominent Muslim televangelist said on Azhari, a private religious TV station:
Imam mocks preachers, including me. [...]
A Jerusalem artichoke, surely?
Nah, far too exotic for the folk who run Tullys Farm in West Sussex.
Instead they have chosen the ’umble carrot to represent the baby Jesus in a veggie nativity scene created by Stuart Beare to encourage children to eat more healthily.
The three wise men, according to this report, have been made out [...]
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A MISCHIEVOUS billboard about to be hoisted by an Auckland church has raised the ire of a fundamentalist Christian lobby group.
Intended to provoke conversation about spiritual matters at Christmas, the billboard is far more likely to provoke smutty jibes about the hows and the whys of Mary’s encounter with a sizeable celestial penis – and [...]
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THE Catholic League has just spent big bucks on an ad in Variety magazine lambasting an upcoming episode of Penn & Teller on Showtime – and has told CBS
To send Penn & Teller a message and let them know that they have crossed the line for the last time.
Created by Catholic League head honcho Bill [...]
The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
