WEEKS go by without a pareidolia story, then three come at once.
After Marmite Jesus and bacon Jesus, we now have a tale from South Africa, where “Allah” has branded a cat. Allegedly.
Farouk Sha, a “professed animal lover and human rights activist” according to this report, says he cannot express the joy he feels when he [...]
A CHRISTIAN fundie in the US has been arrested and charged with criminal defamation, making terrorist threats, and disseminating threats through the internet after he posted an “Elton John must die” video on YouTube.
The charges appear to me as crazy as the man himself. Neil Horsley, a 65-year-old fundamentalist who claims he is running for [...]
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DERMOT Ahern, the Irish Justice Minister, is proposing a referendum this autumn to remove the newly-introduced offence of blasphemy from the Irish Constitution, along with two other referenda that the government is already committed to.
Atheist Ireland, which tirelessly campaigned against a law that made Ireland the laughing stock of the Western world, revealed today that [...]
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GIVEN the Roman Catholic’s despicable history of child abuse in Ireland, one would think that Church representatives would now be cowering shame-faced in a corner, and doing all they can to avoid drawing attention to themselves.
But no. Right now they’re all full of piss and vinegar over Ireland’s Civil Partnership bill which three RC bishops [...]
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THE American Humanist Association (AHA) has stepped forward with an offered to organise and fund a prom for the Itawamba County Agricultural High School in Mississippi.
The Itawamba County School District made headlines earlier this week by cancelling their prom rather than allowing a lesbian student, Constance McMillen, 18, to bring her girlfriend as her date.
Said [...]
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IT’S not only Jesus and Mary who make appearances on unlikely objects, as a report this week from Malaysia indicates.
A while back, an image of the Hindu elephant god Ganesha (may peanuts be upon him) manifested itself on a tree adjacent to a Chinese restaurant in Taman Sri Selayang, and began attracting a steady stream [...]
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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
