IN THE same week that that Alexander Bede Walsh – a former Roman Catholic priest from Staffordshire – was warned that he faces jail after being convicted of 21 counts of child abuse, retired New York Cardinal Edward Egan caused outrage by retracting an apology he made in 2002 to victims of sexual abuse carried [...]
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THE utterly childish nature of Islam is again in the headlines, this time with a report that Saudi Arabia’s Information Minister had to reach for a hanky after reading nasty things written about his dumb-assed religion by a young journalist, Hamza Kashgari. Abdul Aziz Khowja said: When I read his articles, I wept and got [...]
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OOZING sincerity from every pore, Jamaican–born televangelist Paul Lewis tells gullible audiences that he has a cure for cancer, AIDS, and a host of other diseases, afflictions and problems. Lewis and his ‘miracle’ olive oil soap. Click on pic to learn of its healing properties. His “miracle” olive oil soap will even get you “a [...]
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EDDIE Long, a self-styled gay-hating bishop who stood accused in 2010 of sexual misconduct involving four males – former members of Long’s New Birth Missionary Baptist megachurch in Lithonia, Georgia – is at the centre of a new controversy involving a throne, Jewish paraphernalia … and a load of tosh spouted by a Messianic rabbi. [...]
A BUNCH of lame-brained members of the Indiana state Senate recently made complete asses of themselves when they passed a bill to promote creationism in public schools. Sponsored by Republican Dennis Kruse, the new bill was worded thus: The governing body of a school corporation may offer instruction on various theories of the origin of [...]
JOHN Downie, a director of the Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations (SCVO), has been slammed by the Catholic Church for saying that one of the “key causes” of sectarianism in Scotland was the existence of denominational education. According to this report, he added that “getting rid of faith schools” would help eradicate the blight of [...]
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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
