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This month’s competition

Friday, August 31, 2007

THE winner of our July placard contest is Beaner, who suggested the wording pictured left. He shares the first prize of a year’s free subscription to the Freethinker with Tim Wright, who elicted the same number of votes.
Tim’s suggestion was: Single white male, 70 years old, no sense of humour, seeking similar.
Today, we have a [...]

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Taunton churches ban toddler yoga classes because they are ‘un-Christian’

Friday, August 31, 2007

TODDLER Yoga is an adaptation of traditional yoga. It is designed to stimulate the mental, physical and emotional faculties of your child with the added benefit of enriching the parent-child relationship. Toddler Yoga is great fun and can be enjoyed by the whole family, younger and older siblings as well. It encourages pre-verbal communication and [...]

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How to dispose of a bible

Thursday, August 30, 2007

C’MON, I thought, this just HAS to be a joke. But no, the “recipe” for properly disposing of a bible on a “how to” website appears to be completely genuine.
According to Wikihow:
In the middle ages it was a deadly sin to dispose of a bible in any way, but in modern times there is a [...]

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‘Holy’ water upset for pilgrims on inaugural ‘faith flight’

Thursday, August 30, 2007

A NEW, Vatican-approved charter flight service leaves little doubt about what its clients are doing at 30,000 feet: “I Search for Your Face, Oh Lord” is the slogan of Mistral Air, set up to fly the deluded to and from a variety of ‘holy’ shrines around the world.
But the faces of passengers returning to Rome [...]

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Iran furious over Mohammed drawing: ‘Zionists’ blamed

Wednesday, August 29, 2007

IRANIAN President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said that “Zionists” were behind a cartoon in Swedish newspaper Nerikes Allehanda, which depicted the head of the Prophet Mohammed on a dog’s body. The drawing sparked an official protest by Tehran to Stockholm.
“They do not want the Swedish government to be a friend of other nations. I strongly believe [...]

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Muslims outraged by goodwill gesture

Tuesday, August 28, 2007

A PUBLIC relations exercise went horribly wrong last Friday when the US military dropped a consignment of footballs from a helicopter as a gift to children in Khost province in eastern Afghanistan.
According to an International Herald Tribune report, at least one of the balls carried a small picture of the Saudi Arabian flag. The flag [...]

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Get de-baptised now!

Monday, August 27, 2007

The National Secular Society’s “Certificate of De-baptism” has now been accessed 100,000 times since it was put up on the web 5 years ago.
Although the certificate has no legal significance, it has obviously taken the fancy of many people, particularly Catholics, who want to make a formal split from the religion they were baptised into [...]

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Israel gives Muslims what they they crave the most: pornography

Monday, August 27, 2007

MUSLIMS may hate everything Israeli – but they are fast growing addicted to kosher Hebrew porn.
According to a number of reports this week, Israeli erotic sites are proving enormously successful among Internet surfers in Arab countries.
“We notice on our servers that thousands of users live in Muslim states with which we don’t even have diplomatic [...]

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Holy smoke! Malaysian paper shut down for ‘offensive’ Jesus Loves Fags illustration

Sunday, August 26, 2007

MALAYSIA has shut down a newspaper for a month after it published a picture of Jesus holding a cigarette and what appears to be a can of beer.
Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi himself stepped in this week to admonish the editors of Makkal Osai, a Tamil-language paper.
The country’s publishing laws allow politicians to close any publication [...]

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Christian Voice temporarily silenced

Friday, August 24, 2007

ONE of Britain’s most hate-filled websites – Christian Voice – was temporarily silenced last week following a complaint to Pipex, which hosts the website via a subsidiary company called 123.reg.
The homophobic website, run by Stephen “Stay a virgin, marry a virgin” Green, was closed down for four days pending investigations by Pipex into a complaint [...]

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