TREVOR Phillips, Chairman of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, exposed breathtaking ignorance on Sunday by alleging that the NSS was using the High Court in London to PROSECUTE a West Country council over prayers said in the council chamber. Under the headline Human rights should help us protect the vulnerable (behind paywall) Phillips wrote: [...]
PRAYERS uttered at local authority council meetings in England could soon be a thing of the past if the National Secular Society wins a High Court case that began in London yesterday. Despite the fact that virtually no-one in the UK with an ounce of commonsense believes in the efficacy of prayer, around half of [...]
WE all know that prayer doesn’t work. Never has, never will. But today I’ve been reflecting on a tragedy that occurred just two miles from where I live on the Costa Blanca a few days after some cock-eyed evangelicals in the area beseeched the Almighty to save this region of Spain from sodomy. I learned [...]
PAT Robertson – one of the brightest stars in the firmament of US religious nutjobs – has been mouthing off on his 700 Club programme on the subject of Alzheimer’s disease. Asked by a viewer how she should advise a friend who had begun dating another woman even though his wife was still alive but suffering from [...]
IT seems like only a miracle can save Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, from bankruptcy – which is why Mayor Linda Thompson, along with a host of religious leaders, has decided to embark on a three-day fast ‘n prayer marathon. Said Mayor Thompson: Things that are above and beyond my control, I need God. I depend on Him [...]
REPUBLICAN Rick Perry – who replaced George W Bush as Governor of Texas – is partnering with the crazy Christian American Family Association (AFA) to hold an all-day prayer event in Houston this August. Perry has invited his fellow governors to join him at the event to: Call upon Jesus to guide us through unprecedented [...]
The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
