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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TODAY is Superbowl Sunday in Indianapolis, and in a few hours’ time a huge number of Americans – the thousands in attendance plus millions watching the event on TV – will see an aerial banner declaring: Football beats church anytime. The banner is the brainchild of American Atheists, and it will be flown around Lucas [...]
OUTSPOKEN Nigerian humanist Leo Igwe has incurred the wrath of Disu Kamor, Media and Communications Director of the Muslim Public Affairs Centre, who this week branded the human rights campaigner as “a salesman of hate” and “an ardent Islamophobe”. The attack on the “schizophrenic” Igwe followed the publication in Nigerian News of an article he [...]
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ONE MILLION MOMS, a vile offshoot of anti-gay hate group, the American Family Association, have found a new target for their bigotry: American stand-up comedienne, television host and actress Ellen DeGeneres. According to this report, OMM are all of a lather over the fact DeGeneres has partnered with US retail chain JC Penney to promote [...]
A WHILE back I was about to blog about burqas for dogs, having stumbled on a report that that quoted a Muslim sociologist, Omar Jahal, as saying: Muslim men got upset watching male dogs sniffing females and then mounting them in public. They found it indecent. Dog burqas – [barkas] – nip that in the [...]
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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
