A TEENAGE Jehovah’s Witness who was crushed by a car as it crashed into a shop died after refusing a blood transfusion in hospital. Joshua McAuley, 15, was airlifted to hospital from the incident in Smethwick, West Midlands, on Saturday morning, but died later that day at around 5.30pm. The schoolboy, who sustained abdominal and [...]
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POLICE in Ghana were recently called to a hospital that had been besieged by a bunch of crazy Jehovah’s Winesses objecting to a blood transfusion for a five-year-old boy. The trouble, according to this report, erupted when Kwabena Afum and his wife, Margret Afum aka Abena Oduma, brought their son Jepheth to New Edubiase Government [...]
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A Pennsylvania judge has denied unemployment benefits to a Jehovah’s Witness who quit her job in a jewelery store. Trista Reichman claimed that her responsibilities at Calhoun Jewelers in Royersford, Pa, northeast of Philadelphia, conflicted with her religious beliefs against celebrating birthdays. The Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court’s ruling reversed a decision by the Unemployment Compensation Board [...]
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A DAY after the Vatican insisted that it had “diplomatic immunity” and could not be hauled into a US court to testify in a Kentucky abuse case hearing, news broke that a German bishop and close friend of Pope Ratzinger viciously beat Catholic orphans. Bishop Walter Mixa of Augsburg is accused of flogging and beating [...]
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WHEN we reported recently on pastor Ted Haggard’s failure to bag the holy grail of heterosexuality, we commented: People who are naturally homosexual cannot change their sexual orientation, any more than a white person can turn black. Evangelicals should take this fact on board, and instead of concentrating so much of their efforts on ‘curing’ [...]
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A WEEK of warm weather has brought forth an army of creepy-crawlies and squadrons of nasty flying things. They have, of course, invented repellants for pests like that, but, alas, it’s illegal to spray the stuff on Morons and Jehovah’s Witlesses, who have proved an even greater nuisance these last few days. Which explains today’s [...]
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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
