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August 2021

August 24, 2021

The world has lost a true freethought hero, Tom Flynn

AMERICA'S Centre For Inquiry has announced with shock and sadness the sudden death this week...

August 22, 2021

‘Affirmatively godless’ show what it means to be caring and moral

EVERY day I read further discouraging news about the spread of Covid-19 in areas where...

August 19, 2021

Atheists get to meet Dublin’s Lord Mayor for the first time

ON Monday this week, the Catholic Archbishop of Dublin Dermot Farrell, above, whinged that Christianity...

August 08, 2021

Atheist parolee wrongly returned jail for refusing to pray

A US court has ruled the man pictured above – chaplain Jim Carmack of the...

May 2021

May 13, 2021

Godless in Quintana Roo: Atheism soars in this Mexican paradise

CREATED as a Mexican state in 1902, heavenly Quintana Roo is a haven where youngsters...

February 2021

February 15, 2021

Atheist Larry Flynt, sued for defaming Jerry Falwell Sr, is dead

THIS Friday, the Hustler Club in Las Vegas will be celebrating the life of Hustler...

December 2020

December 12, 2020

Born on this day: Sinatra, who risked all by pouring scorn on religion

FRANK Sinatra (December 12, 1915 – May 14, 1998), born in Hoboken, New Jersey, was...

October 2020

October 19, 2020

Ronald Reagan’s atheist son roasts Trump and Republicans

Former President Ronald Reagan’s youngest son who fronted a successful TV commercial for the...

August 2020

August 31, 2020

Scottish atheist group under fire for supporting a hate crime bill

A LAW proposed by Scotland's Justice Secretary Humza Yousaf, above, has been widely condemned by...

June 2020

June 22, 2020

Bishop blasts female learning: ‘They be smarter than their husbands’

IN his 1970 three-act play, Happy Birthday Wanda June, Kurt Vonnegut Jr has one of...

May 2020

May 22, 2020

A Christian no more. Musician Jonathan Steingard is now an atheist.

JUST three years after he traveled from the US to Canada to take part in...

May 11, 2020

Diary of a quarantined Freethinker editor

MONDAY: Woke with a throbbing pain in a big toe. Gout. ‘Uhhhh. This is not...

April 2020

April 08, 2020

Veteran UK atheist Barbara Smoker dies aged 96

I LEARNED with sadness today that Barbara Smoker, former President of the National Secular Society, ...

January 2020

January 11, 2020

Today I’m celebrating a very special birthday

THE birth on January 11, 1850, of British atheist George William Foote – founder of...

January 07, 2020

Study finds atheists are more likely to own cats than Christians

IN an entertaining piece entitled '13 reasons why cats are just pure evil' Lucy Christie,...

November 2019

November 14, 2019

Kentucky man win ‘IM GOD’ lawsuit

BACK in 2005, The Ohio House of Representatives approved a new license plate featuring the...

November 12, 2019

‘Dire’ figures show Americans are increasingly rejecting God

IN 1993, according research from the General Social Survey, 65 percent of Americans said they...

October 2019

October 25, 2019

Atheist demands official confirmation that he’s dumped Quakerism

KENYAN Christian-turned-atheist Harrison Mumia, above, is now demanding that the Quakers remove him from their...

September 2019

September 06, 2019

Indian court rules in favour of ‘no God’ inscriptions on Periyar statues

ON pedestals of statues erected in honour of rationalist and humanist Erode Venkatappa Ramasamy (17...

July 2019

July 21, 2019

Op-ed: Ex-Muslims – a community in protest

When the Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain (CEMB) started 11 years ago in June 2007,...

July 16, 2019

Atheism, Race, and the Freethinker at the Turn of the 19th Century

WHAT is the historical relationship between atheism and racism? This is a question I...

June 2019

June 11, 2019

Wrongly buried committed atheist is to be exhumed and cremated

IN a rare decision, a Church of England Consistory Court judge agreed that a 'fundamental...

May 2019

May 25, 2019

German cardinal: Christians and Muslims worship different gods

I HAVE learned over many decades of writing about religion that there are two types...

April 2019

April 19, 2019

Bangladeshi actress forced to apologise for ‘no afterlife’ remarks

IN devoutly Muslim Bangladesh, outrage culture is deeply ingrained, and one has to choose one's...

April 15, 2019

New survey shows that ‘no-religion’ is at an all time high in America

Given that President Trump, with the help of shuffling hordes of theocracy-demanding evangelical zombies, is...

April 11, 2019

Rise of atheism deals a further blow to Catholic Church in Spain

AN English language weekly newspaper in Spain, Euro Weekly News, today published the following report...

March 2019

March 23, 2019

Ex-Muslim’s scheduled talk cancelled by Canadian university

On March 1 we reported that Oxford University's student newspaper, Cherwell, published an interview with...

March 19, 2019

Scientist blasts ‘new atheists’ saying ‘atheism is a belief in non-belief’

Marcelo Gleiser, above, a US-based physics and astronomy professor, today (Tuesday) became this year's winner...

February 2019

February 02, 2019

Alan Turing science lab to follow Dawkins classroom in Uganda

CHANCES are that most Africans would never have heard of atheist Alan Turing, the gay...

January 2019

January 25, 2019

New campaign aims to promote atheism and humanism in Pakistan

THE US-based Brighter Brains Institute – best known for promoting humanism and freethought Africa with...