REFLECTED in my bathroom mirror this morning were the haggard features of a guy who’d indulged a little too much in the festive spirit last night. What the mirror most certainly did not reflect was an “atheistic grinch” determined to “spoil the Christmas season”. The party I attended last night took place at the studio [...]
A SURVEY carried out by the Daily Mail reveals that less than one per cent of cards stocked by supermarkets have religious themes. Some had no cards at all with religious references in their extensive ranges. The paper visited major outlets of the big four supermarkets – Asda, Sainsbury’s, Tesco and Morrisons – in seven [...]
AT a cost of around $4,000 (postage and packing not included), Bill Donohue’s dotty Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights has sent nativity scenes to each of America’s 50 state governors in the hope that they will be displayed in government spaces. News of the initiative serendipitously came just after we, at the Freethinker, [...]
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T’IS the season to be jolly … stupid! It seems to come earlier and earlier each year – this season in which loopy Christians declare with lumps in their throats, tears in their eyes and paranoia rampaging through their brains, that spiteful atheists are pulling all available levers to destroy the very essence of Christmas. [...]
THE battle of the Christmas signs in Washington DC is hotting up – big time! Earlier this month, outrage gripped Christians when the Freedom from Religion Foundation mounted a winter solstice sign in the capitol building which declared, in part: Religion is but myth and superstition that hardens hearts and enslaves minds. The sign was [...]
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ATHEIST comedian Robin Ince made the horrible mistake last year of agreeing to participate in a debate staged by ITV’s London Talking. The subject was to be “Is Britain becoming more secular?”, but was changed at the last minute to “Who is taking the Christ out of Christmas?” Despite all his efforts to convince the [...]
The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
