Do we need God to defend civilisation?
'The advocates of the "necessary" Christian God are dining at an ethical buffet, picking and choosing from the Scriptures according to taste.'
Image of the week: Filippino Lippi’s ‘Triumph of St Thomas Aquinas over the Heretics’
A detail from Filippino Lippi’s late fifteenth-century fresco, held in the Carafa Chapel of the Santa Maria sopra…
What has Christianity to do with Western values?
Nick Cohen on Ayaan Hirsi Ali's conversion to Christianity and the problem with seeing Western values as inherently 'Christian'.
‘The Greek mind was something special’: interview with Charles Freeman
The author of 'The Closing of the Western Mind' on ancient Greece, Christianity, and the narrowing of public discourse today.
Image of the week: a double vanishing act
From the Jesus and Mo series. First published 14th January 2015. Enjoying the Freethinker? Subscribe to our free…
Traditional religion in Zimbabwe: was God a Christian import?
Did the Shona religion in Zimbabwe have the concept of a deity before the arrival of Christianity? A linguistic analysis.