AN Indonesian court yesterday ordered a local branch of the Paris-based Buddha Bar chain to close after convicting the licence holder of blasphemy. According to this report, it also ordered licensee PT Nireta Vista Creative, the official Jakarta tourism agency and Jakarta Governor Fauzi Bowo to pay damages of one billion rupiah (110,000 dollars) to [...]
ENTOMBED 700 metres beneath the surface of the earth, 33 Chilean miners – some showing signs of depression and “severe dermatological problems” – each got a gift that’s really going to solve all their problems: a miniature Bible. According to this report, Carlos Parra, an evangelical preacher, arrived at the San Jose mine in Copiapo [...]
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WHO is “BroJustin” and why is he so spitting mad? Like so many in the UK, “BroJustin” is appalled at the forthcoming State visit of Pope Ratzinger – but at the heart this “saved” Christian wingnut’s objections, voiced in a YouTube video, no rational arguments exist, just mindless – at time hilarious – howls about [...]
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GENDER apartheid is set to be introduced next year on the Jerusalem light railway in deference to the city’s ultra-Orthodox Jewish population. CityPass CEO Yair Naveh said that he supports segregated cars on the train, unveiled today for the press and city and government officials. The train, built by CityPass, is not yet operational, but [...]
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A GROUP of US soldiers, who chose not to be given ear-ache by some wretched Christian rock band, were “locked down” as punishment for refusing to attend the “spiritual fitness concert”. According to this report, the US Army is now investigating claims that nearly 100 soldiers were kept in their barracks and forced to clean [...]
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THE National Secular Society has described as “beyond absurd” a Bibles-for-Beaks campaign headed by former Conservative Cabinet member Lord Mackay of Clashfern. Mackay, 83, acts as Honorary President of the Scottish Bible Society (SBS), and has invited sheriffs and judges to refamiliarise themselves with biblical principles, and act accordingly when presiding over court cases. Critics [...]
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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
