SCHOOLCHILDREN will be taught about the “rise of atheism” in a new religious studies GCSE, it has been announced. According to the Telegraph, lessons will also focus on Druids and Rastafarianism as part of a syllabus designed to boost understanding of religious diversity around the world. Attitudes by different faiths towards same sex marriages, human [...]
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BENEATH an hysterical headline in today’s Dail Wail – How cash meant for promoting faith is going to an organisation that campaigns AGAINST Christianity – someone called Steve has left this comment: Christianity is dead in the UK – RIP bible bashers! As for the other muppet religions, they should be banned. Well done Labour, [...]
A HARROWING report of sex abuse carried out in the Muslim community in the UK was broadcast tonight by BBC Radio 4, which indicated that a number of imams have been guilty of keeping such abuse a secret from the authorities. You can hear Rob Broomby’s report here. The report revealed that a dossier, containing [...]
A letter writer in this week’s NSS Newsline reveals that several schools in her hometown in Lancashire have been allowing evangelical Christians to take over lessons for a week – apparently without the consent or knowledge of the pupils’ parents. Freethinker subscriber Nicola Holt was first made aware of this clandestine evangelising campaign when her [...]
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The news that a Catholic high school in Prestwich is refusing to allow its girls to be vaccinated against cervical cancer is all over the mainstream media, so it is unlikely to be news to Freethinker readers. But the extraordinary thing about this case is not the fact that members of the governing board of [...]
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AS someone who has frequently complained to hotel managers about Gideons Bibles in the rooms I have occupied – “remove it now, or I will clog up the bog with the thing” usually did the trick – I was delighted to learn today that the American Civil Liberties Union has warned a school district in [...]
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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
