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December 2017

December 27, 2017

Survey shows many Brits want religion kept out of politics

A new YouGov poll for the Times has found that a majority of people in...

December 26, 2017

Be merry, god damn it!

Well Baby Jesus’s Pretend Birthday is over for another year, so now that everyone is...

December 25, 2017

In Jerusalem camels are being used to bless Donald Trump

Oh, and billboards and buses too are carrying a message concocted by a lunatic called...

December 18, 2017

US Christian writer feels the full wrath of Trumpite evangelicals

Until the run-up to the US Presidential election last year Jen Hatmaker enjoyed enormous popularity...

December 18, 2017

Bishop's hateful rants were meant only for Christian ears

Virginia's 'Bishop' E W Jackson Sr, above, a primary Republican candidate for the US Senate,...

December 13, 2017

'Jesus is wonderful' – Alabama says NO to lunatic Roy Moore

Yesterday voters in Alabama did something many thought impossible. They rejected Republican Roy Moore, left,...

November 2017

November 29, 2017

Religion left out in the cold as Oz debates same-sex marriage

Opponents of gay marriage in Australia suffered defeat after defeat yesterday when religious exemptions were...

November 25, 2017

Atheism in Malaysia must be crushed, says deputy PM

Dr Asyraf Wajdi Dusuki, above, Malaysia's Deputy Prime Minister, has proposed that any ideology deemed...

November 21, 2017

Robert Mugabe enjoyed God's protection says Catholic priest

Robert Mugabe's chaplain believes that God 'protected' the Zimbabwean dictator during his 37-years rule, which...

November 18, 2017

Deranged NY rabbi weighs in to support judge Roy Moore

On Thursday, a conference of crazies took place in Alabama in support of beleaguered judge...

November 15, 2017

Australia overwhelming says 'Yes' to same-sex marriage

Following the result of controversial postal ballot, Australia could have same-sex marriage by Christmas –...

November 14, 2017

Roy Moore's week has just taken a turn for the worse

The tearful woman pictured above is Beverly Young Nelson, and yesterday she accused Judge Roy...

November 12, 2017

Roy Moore: 'Liberals are out to silence conservative Christians'

Hop across to Reddit Atheism and you will find no fewer than seven links on...

November 10, 2017

NY secession vote gives Haredi Jews a town of their very own

Founded in the 1970s, the village of Kiryas Joel – a hotbed of orthodox Jewish...

November 08, 2017

Virginia's 'chief homophobe' ousted by trangender woman

A significant blow against bigotry occurred yesterday when a devout Catholic, Bob G Marshall, who...

November 06, 2017

New book on secularism, politics, religion and freedom

DO religion and its institutions subvert reason and progress in modern life? In his introduction...

November 06, 2017

Islamophobia: row over halal meat erupts in Lancashire

Abdul Hamid Qureshi, above, of the Lancashire Council of Mosques (LCM), is calling for a...

October 2017

October 31, 2017

Failed doomsday predictions turn people off Christianity

Russell Moore, President of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention,...

October 28, 2017

Warning: godlessness and ruin faces NZ under its new PM

No mention was made of God, and there wasn't a Bible in sight when Jacinda...

October 18, 2017

Australian voters give anti-gay marriage bigots a good kicking

Despite a determined push by Australia's anti-gay marriage lobby – and a whopping A$1 million...

October 17, 2017

Superstition is not the answer to India's mounting problems

India’s Junior Education Minister Satyapal Singh, above, recently stated that engineering students should be taught...

October 11, 2017

Christian cheats on wife, bangs on about 'traditional marriage'

Tory MP and evangelical Christian Steve Double, 50, has had the gall to criticise the government’s...

October 04, 2017

Prominent US anti-abortionist told mistress to get an abortion

If there one thing that best defines Pennsylvania Republican congressman Tim Murphy, above, it's his...

September 2017

September 30, 2017

Gagged priest gets his voice back and attacks xenophobia

A few years back priest and journalist Fr Adam Boniecki, above, angered the Catholic Church...

September 27, 2017

Major political win for lunatic Christian judge Roy Moore

Roy Moore, 70, a former State Supreme Court chief justice and firebrand evangelical Christian, defeated...

September 15, 2017

Seeking publicity in the name of absurd religious sentiments

Gaurav Tyagi, a new contributor to the Freethinker, reflects on the recent row over an...

September 14, 2017

Orthodox Israeli MP resigns amidst gay wedding uproar

After a bunch of furious rabbis slammed him for attending a relative's gay wedding, haredi...

September 12, 2017

More – especially the young – discard Christianity in the UK

Britain is fast becoming one of the least religious countries in the world. Although vestiges...

September 12, 2017

Bishop: 'gays are like drunks, you can't reason with them'

Portsmouth Bishop Philip Egan, above, reckons that when they are challenged, homosexuals 'lash out, full...

September 10, 2017

Cleric links radical Islamists with violence and segregation

Western politicians should stop pretending that extremism and terrorism have nothing to do with Islam,...