RELIGIOUS leaders – plus Community Secretary Eric Pickles – have let loose a collective howl of horror over the news that the National Secular Society had won its prayer case against Bideford Council. Community Secretary Pickles is concerned over the ‘chilling’ effect of the court ruling The God squad, according to the Telegraph, are saying [...]
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MOST people in Britain want Church of England bishops slung out of the House of Lords. A Yougov poll for the Sunday Times asked: Currently, 26 senior Church of England bishops are entitled to sit in the House of Lords and vote on laws. Do you think bishops should or should not be entitled to [...]
A GESTURE of goodwill went horribly wrong after Muslim zealots decided that a monument Pakistan gifted to the people of the Maldives was “idolatrous”. It was erected in November in the city of Hithadhoo to mark a South Asian summit in the Indian Ocean archipelago of 300,000 Muslims. A group of hotheads objected to the [...]
A NEW study in North America concludes that “Atheists are distrusted to roughly the same degree as rapists”. The research, led by University of British Columbia psychology doctoral student Will Gervais, found distrust to be the central factor motivating antagonism toward atheists among the religious. Said Gervais: Where there are religious majorities – that is, [...]
MORE bad news for the Vatican … Poland, once one of Europe’s staunchest bastions of Catholicism, seems to be falling out of love with the faith. The latest manifestation of growing secularism in the country occurred earlier this week when the leader of a new ultra-liberal party – Janusz Palikot of the Palikot’s Movement – [...]
NIGERIAN humanists have lashed out at a Parliamentary move to outlaw gay marriage in their country. The Bill for an Act to Prohibit Marriage Between Persons of Same Gender, Solemnization of Same and for Other Matters Related Therewith was sponsored by Senator Domingo Obende, and went through its second reading at the end of September. [...]
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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
