IN what Tajikistani police believe to be a religiously-motivated attack, a young man dressed as Ded Moroz – Father Frost, the Slavic equivalent of Santa Claus – was stabbed to death yesterday. A stock photo of Ded Moroz Parviz Davlatbekov, 24, fell victim to a mob as he visited relatives in the early hours of [...]
A BUNCH of Christian wingnuts who have been taking “God’s Word” to the streets of Adelaide in Australia have now changed tactics, finding captive audiences on trains. But the annoying antics of members of Street Church Adelaide – who came to blows with drinkers this week after shouting at patrons at a Victor Harbor hotel [...]
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I HAVE been deluged by emails over the last day or so by readers enraged over ITV’s cowardly decision to cut Aussie comedian Tim Minchin out of the Jonathan Ross Show. ITV network’s director of television Peter Fincham apparently got cold feet over a song Minchin penned for the show in which he compared Jesus [...]
BY NOW, I guess, many readers of this blog would have viewed what is turning out to be the most hated video ever posted on YouTube – Texas Governor Rick Perry flagging his Christian credentials and slagging off gays in the military. Governor Rick ‘Man of Faith’ Perry demonstrates how to deep-throat a corndog (click [...]
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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REACH for a tissue – another Christian bigot says she’s the victim of “persecution” after she turfed a lesbian couple out of her cake shop. Victoria Childress, by all accounts, makes exceedingly tasty wedding cakes plus other stuff besides – but if you are gay, you’d best give Victoria’s Cake Cottage in Des Moines, Iowa, [...]


The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 