SIX days have elapsed since a “Statewide Day of Prayer for Louisiana,” was mooted by some Christian numpty named Senator Robert Adley, and adopted by fellow state senators. Its aim was to get God on the case of the oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico. The result: Nada. Nothing. Zilch. Following a time-worn trend, [...]
FOUNDED on “Christian principles” in 2000 in an Atlanta suburb, Integrity Bank used the motto “In God We Trust”. It gave customers free Bibles, and employees prayed together at meetings. But the Almighty proved entirely untrustworthy, and the bank collapsed at the height of the recession in August 2008. According to this report, when government [...]
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A PRAYER offensive launched last month by the Christian Legal Centre in support of a Christian nurse failed to move God or sway an employment tribunal, which today brushed aside her discrimination claim. Shirley Chaplin, 54, took the Royal Devon and Exeter NHS trust hospital to tribunal after she was moved to a desk job [...]
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TEN thousand young people met in the Archdiocese of Quito in Ecuador and promised to remain chaste until marriage and defend life “from conception to natural death”, according to the Catholic News Agency. Amparo Medina of the organisation, Prolife Action, which organised the event, said thousands of young people attended a concert and listened to [...]
A GROUP of disenchanted Muslim students at City University in London have taken to praying outside in the street following the university’s decision to close their prayer room. According to this report, it was replaced by a multi-faith room – which simply isn’t good enough for some of the some of the university’s pork-dodgers. Bleated [...]
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BACK in 2007 it was reported that a French nun was “miraculously” cured of Parkinson’s disease after praying to the late Pope John Paul II Sister Marie Simon-Pierre, 49, declared at the time: It’s like a second birth. I feel like I’ve discovered a new body, new limbs. Simon-Pierre could barely move her left side, [...]
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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
