THERE’S always been a strange relationship between Christians and booze. Must go right back two thousand years to when the wedding guests at Cana were just getting off their faces and realised they’d run out of the plonk.
More on that in a moment in a special fairy story approved by biblical scholars (and acquired by [...]
WE have just received a report from Leo Igwe, director of the Centre for Inquiry in Nigeria concerning a case brought against Shehu Sani – a well-known human rights activist, social critic and author.
Sani – a practicing Muslim – was prosecuted by a group called Concerned Sharia Forum over a satirical play, Phantom Crescent, he [...]
FORMER Tory minister and Anglican turned Catholic John Gummer’s got into hot water with the British Humanist Association after what some see as an intemperate attack on non-Christians.
It’s alleged to have happened at the recent Tory conference, but now the BHA’s guns are ablazing, as its director Hanne Stinson marches on to war, according to [...]
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THE man who said gay people were the equivalent of paedophiles and those who commit incest will have a say in who will be the next pope.
Archbishop Angelo Bagnasco is one of 23 cardinals chosen by Pope Ratzinger yesterday. This vile gobshite – who can, of course be proven to be wrong, so is therefore lying [...]
In my business, asking people to risk their lives is part of the job, but doing so without giving them the chance to understand that there is a life after death is something of a betrayal.
Thus spake the head of the British Army, General Sir Richard Dannatt, when he recently addressed an evangelical Christian conference [...]
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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
