THAT Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) was no great fan of the Bible is common knowledge, and his disdain for the “Good Book” shows up in a number of well-known quotations, my favourite being: It is full of interest. It has noble poetry in it; and some clever fables; and some blood-drenched history; and some [...]
TONIGHT UK viewers can enjoy a screening of Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ – a movie dubbed ‘The Jesus Chainsaw Massacre’ by one US critic. It’s a film that: Lovingly and in detail recycles the bloody myth that all Jews are historically and collectively responsible for the murder of Jesus. These are the [...]
ARTWORKS that a Russian court found “blasphemous” this week are about to get a much wider audience. In the wake of the trial of art expert Andrei Yerofeyev and the Sakharov Museum’s then-director Yuri Samodurov, a magazine called Russia! has announced its intention to publish a book, The Banned Art, containing the “offensive” exhibits in [...]
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THE BBC has been forced to defend an EastEnders storyline after outraged viewers accused the corporation of anti-Christian bias. The complaints centre around a plotline on EastEnders which portrays Lucas Johnson, a Christian Pentecostal pastor, as a deranged killer whose deeds are motivated by his Christian faith. Viewers have watched the pastor, played by actor [...]
A TRIBUTE in the Portuguese edition of Playboy to the late Nobel Prize-winning author Jose Saramago – a “militant atheist” – has gone horribly wrong, and the magazine has been shut down for “blasphemy”. Playboy’s “crime” was to re-imagine Saramago’s novel The Gospel According to Jesus Christ as soft-core porno. Curiously, it wasn’t the Portuguese [...]
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RELIGIOUS imagery in Lady Gaga’s racy new Alejandro video has infuriated Bill Donohue, of the Catholic League in the US, who bashed out a press release slamming the promo. Lady Gaga is playing Madonna copy cat, squirming around half-naked with half-naked guys, abusing Catholic symbols – they’re always Catholic symbols – while bleating out Alejandro [...]
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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
