RESIDENTS in three major US cities are being reminded that it is perfectly possible to live a fulfilling life without God. The message is hardly new. Rationalists, skeptics and philosophers have been saying this for centuries. But only in the last decade or so has the idea taken hold in a big way, and it [...]
Jerusalem is an overwhelming city. In the tradition of absurdist thought, nothing is truly meaningful, and any meaning has to be somewhat arbitrarily imposed onto the world. Jerusalem poses a significant empirical challenge to this notion: every stone of every street bursts with historical significance. It is overwhelming for the psyche to become aware of [...]
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A BILLBOARD which claims that all religions are scams has been erected in Huntsville, Alabama – and is likely “make a lot of people mad”. But Blair Scott, communications director for American Atheists, which created the ad, explained: Our target is not the Christians, but all the atheists and agnostics still in the closet who [...]
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THE law that obliges schools to hold daily acts of worship in England ought to be scrapped. Teachers and pressure groups, according to the Guardian yesterday, are urging Education Secretary Michael Gove to ditch the law, which, they argue, infringes children’s human rights and discriminates against pupils of no faith and non-Christians. The National Secular [...]
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POLAND needs saving from the “scourge” of secularism, and some daft Catholic priest hopes that the erection of a 187-ft statue of Jesus Â- the world’s tallest – will stem the rising tide of disbelief in his country. Said the Rev Sylwester Zawadzki, the priest who inspired the construction of the figure in Swiebodzin, a [...]
POPE Ratzinger has criticised an “aggressive” anti-church sentiment that he said is flourishing in Spain when he arrived on a two-day visit to the country this weekend. According to this report, he said the anti-clericalism being felt today in Spain harks back to the 1930s when the church suffered a wave of violence and ill [...]
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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
