A CALL to ban Elton John’s forthcoming Greatest Hits tour in Malaysia by the Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS) has been met with derision by various artistic bodies. Datuk Freddie Fernandez, President of an association of artists called Karyawan, is quoted here as saying: These people (protesting the concert) should all go and live in a [...]
AN ITALIAN sculptor has agreed to make some changes to a statue of Pope Paul John Paul II which some say looks more like the fascist dictator Mussolini than the late Pope. The 16ft, four-ton statue – the work of Oliviero Rainaldi, 55 – appeared last spring outside Rome’s main train station, much to the [...]
LAST week DC launched a revamped version of Action Comics, which has been given a makeover by veteran Scottish comics auteur Grant Morrison. According to this report: Just as the first Action Comics premiered against the backdrop of the Great Depression, imminent technological advancements like television, and the rise of Nazi Germany, Morrison wanted to [...]
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A GAY senior at the University North Carolina has been slung out of a group he has been part of since his freshman year. The reason, according to Psalm 100 chief Blake Templeton was that Will Thomason was removed for his opinions about homosexuality, not for his sexual orientation — his views had clashed with [...]
A MOVIE made to foster religious tolerance was due to be shown by SCTV in Indonesia this week – but was pulled at the last moment following threats by Muslim zealots against the TV station. Simply called ? – which must qualify as the shortest title ever devised – the film is the work of [...]
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FOR far too long – some believe – artists have portrayed Jesus as a wimp: a namby-pamby cuddling a lamb, or a blue-eyed sissy boy laying hands on adoring children. This, some Christians believe, has to stop. Jesus needs to be butched up, and according to this report one man who is doing just [...]
The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
