USING the “power of touch”, “ministers” from the Church of Scientology say they are “reconnecting” Haitians injured in the recent earthquake “with their nervous systems”.
Clad in yellow T-shirts emblazoned with the logo of the controversial US-based group, smiling Hubbardites, according to this report, fan out among the injured lying under makeshift shelters in the courtyard [...]
BILLIONAIRE televangelist Oral Roberts this week fell off the perch aged 91 – but his passing has generated a great deal more derision than sadness.
The life of the preposterous old fraud was, to my mind, best summed on Gawker.com:
Oral Roberts has finally been killed by God for not raising enough money.
Oral [...]
A NEW poll by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life in the US reveals a disturbingly high level of belief in supernatural hogwash.
Although most Americans profess to be Christian and many are devout, it hasn’t prevented some members of the flock from believing in astrology, reincarnation or the ability of trees to trap [...]
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HELEN Ukpabio, the demented leader of Nigeria’s Liberty Gospel Church, has brought a lawsuit against humanist Leo Igwe and a number of other parties opposed to her campaign against “witches”, claiming two hundred billion Naira ($800,000 dollars) in damages.
An email we have just received from Igwe reveals that Ukpabio, whose minions disrupted a conference held [...]
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WE know fortune-telling is a load of old codswallop, but no sane society would ever sentence a person to death for engaging in this silly pastime.
Saudi Arabia, though, is a far from removed from sanity as it is possible to get – and right now a Lebanese “psychic” is languishing on death row in the [...]
IT just goes from bad to worse for those poor, beleaguered Scientology nutsters.
After the major hit they took in a court in France recently, and their loss of prominent member Paul Haggis, they are now licking their wounds from a mauling inflicted by an Australian politician.
Senator Nick Xenophon, whose surname suggest that he might be [...]
The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
