A CELIBACY-advocating rap group is promoting “Christian side-hugs” in a Youtube video – because frontal hugs are deemed “sinful”
Gimme Dat Christian Side Hug, by a band of pretty crap rappers apparently linked to a Californian ministry called The Father’s House, encourage standing side-by-side when hugging to avoid the uncontrollable urges that hugging face-to-face – and [...]
A SEXUALLY explicit illustrated The Book of Genesis by controversial artist Robert Crumb, which features Bible characters bonking, has upset that bastion of barminess, the Christian Institute.
The book, which is released this month, carries the warning “adult supervision recommended for minors”, and is described as “scandalous satire” by its publishers, according to The Telegraph.
It [...]
CHRISTIANS of a more fundamentalist stripe who are always banging on about “putting Christ back into Christmas” will be less than ecstatic over a new board game launched just in time for the festive season
According to this report, Blasphemy®: The Race to the Cross is the brainchild of US company Pinstripe Publishing, LLC. The game [...]
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ISAAC Hayes – music pioneer, actor, author of a cookbook, the voice of the cartoon chef in South Park, oh, and a 24-carat Scientology nutjob – is dead at 65.
Well, not really. According to wacky Scientology dogma, he has moved on to claim another body – or “meat” as the Scientologists so delicately put it.
Said [...]
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WHILST regaling ourselves reading the comments on “Birdshit” Green’s online petition, we stumbled across this intriguing reaction from Malcolm Stinker (No 1,316):
I am appalled by some comments left on this website making out that Christians are a bunch of medieval reactionaries more interested in sticking our noses into other people’s sex lives than in leading [...]
With over 5 million hits on YouTube, and another couple of million on LiveLeak, Pat Condell is a leading voice of atheism on the internet. He is also a stand-up comedian, a playwright, a former lumberjack, a talk-show panelist, and a subscriber to The Freethinker.
We tracked the blaspheming infidel down to a garden shed in [...]
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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 