A SMOOTH-TALKING , charismatic “holy man” who claimed to possess healing powers and an “organic penis” has been found guilty of rape and indecent assault. “Guru” Michael Lyons aka Monan Singh, 51, wore flowing robes, drove expensive cars and flew around the world boasting of links to the Dalai Lama, a court in London heard. [...]
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AMERICA’S best-known hirer of male hookers – George (“I’m not gay”) Rekers – yesterday resigned from the board of NARTH, the National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality. NARTH is a group run by lunatic Christian fundies who promote the idea that homosexuality is a mental disorder that can, and should, be cured. Following [...]
JAMES Randi, who has spent a large part his life exposing quackery and humbuggery in all its various guises, said that believers in the occult and paranormal – in his words, the “woo woos” – may try and detract from his work now that they know he’s gay. The founder of the James Randi Educational [...]
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 [...]
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 Roberts [...]
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 [...]
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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
