THE hemp plant (scientific name: cannabis, slang: marijuana) is one of the many useful herbs ‘yielding seed after its kind’ created and blessed by God on the third day of creation, ‘and God saw that it was good’. (Genesis 1:12) He gave hemp for people to use with our free will. That quote, extracted from [...]
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IN a move that suggests it desperately wants to be seen as “cool”, the Vatican has done a U-turn on Harry Potter, which the Pope once condemned for “undermining the soul of Christianity”. In 2003, two years before he was elected Pope, Joseph “Boy Nazi” Ratzinger, then a Cardinal and head of Vatican doctrine, said [...]
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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 