I FEEL as if I’m being dogged by the Pope. I was in the UK when the old bigot made an expensive state visit to the country, and now that I am in Spain I learned this week that he due here this weekend. I am delighted to report, though, that all is not well [...]
AUSTRALIA gained its first saint at the weekend after Pope Ratzinger intoned some arcane nonsense at a ceremony in Rome at the weekend. The creation of St Mary of the Cross MacKillop was immediately followed by a call to make the nun -who was briefly excommunicated for blowing the whistle on a paedophile Catholic priest [...]
AT the heart of Claire Rayner’s many admirable accomplishments – as a nurse, writer, commentator, “agony aunt” and vice-President of the British Humanist Association – was her healthy skepticism and her utter rejection of religion. But you would hardly guess this from this BBC report of her death from cancer, which – apart from saying [...]
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THE Catholic Church was hoping, no doubt, that its planned canonisation of an Australian nun would serve to divert attention from all the bad press it’s been attracting in recent years over clerical child abuse. No such luck. Oz’s National Broadcaster ABC, according to this report, intends screening a documentary on October 10 which reveals [...]
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THE UK gay humanist charity, the Pink Triangle Trust (PTT) has robustly refuted the claim by the Pope that the Nazis were atheists. In his opening address to the Queen at Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh yesterday, the lying old toad referred to: A Nazi tyranny that wished to eradicate God from society. But the PTT’s secretary [...]
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WOODY Allen is 74. Gosh, how time marches on. Love him or loathe him, you have to admit that he’s given the world some of the best one-liners ever. Oh, and to my mind, some excellent movies. One of my favourite Allen quotes is: If it turns out that there is a God, I don’t [...]
The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
