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 [...]
AT LAST the C of E has done something really important to justify its privileged status as England’s established church: yesterday it has released a special prayer for worshippers to call on God to imbue Prince William and Kate Middleton with the strength to be faithful to each other. The new Anglican prayer, issued ahead [...]
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THIS week saw the state of Queensland suffer what is said to be its worst-ever cyclone. And blame for the disaster has been laid squarely on Australia’s atheist Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, who lamentably failed to fall on her knees and beseech God to avert the looming disaster. Dr Daniel Nalliah, President of a loopy [...]
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A MAN appointed by the late sultan of Yogyakarta to keep Indonesia’s Mount Merapi under control with a cocktail of mysticism and Islamic prayer lost his latest battle with the volcano this week. According to this report, the spiritual guardian – Â a tiny man in his 80s known as Grandfather Marijan – was buried in [...]
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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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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
