A FEW days back, Alex Spillius, writing in the Telegraph, said: In 2008, Americans made history by choosing their first black President. This time round, they could break with precedent again – by electing a Mormon. Mitt Romney, the strong favourite for the Republican nomination, is a devout follower of the Church of Jesus Christ [...]
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REFLECTED in my bathroom mirror this morning were the haggard features of a guy who’d indulged a little too much in the festive spirit last night. What the mirror most certainly did not reflect was an “atheistic grinch” determined to “spoil the Christmas season”. The party I attended last night took place at the studio [...]
IN a speech to mark the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible, PM David Cameron said that a return to Christian values could counter the country’s “moral collapse” – and he blamed a “passive tolerance” of immoral behaviour for this summer’s riots, Islamic extremism, City excess and Westminster scandals. David Cameron goes a bundle [...]
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TREVOR Phillips, Chairman of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, exposed breathtaking ignorance on Sunday by alleging that the NSS was using the High Court in London to PROSECUTE a West Country council over prayers said in the council chamber. Under the headline Human rights should help us protect the vulnerable (behind paywall) Phillips wrote: [...]
THIS week a new law come into effect that will allow legally-recognised same-sex civil partnerships to be registered on religious premises in England and Wales. But before you start cheering and popping the Champagne corks, be aware that the law could hit the buffers if a lunatic Christian peer’s “prayer to annul” succeeds in the [...]
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PRAYERS uttered at local authority council meetings in England could soon be a thing of the past if the National Secular Society wins a High Court case that began in London yesterday. Despite the fact that virtually no-one in the UK with an ounce of commonsense believes in the efficacy of prayer, around half of [...]
The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
