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Pat Condell DVD released

Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Internet atheist firebrand Pat Condell has had 35 of his YouTube rants collected, re-mastered, and packaged into one DVD. As The Freethinker first revealed in its February interview with Pat, the DVD is produced by RichardDawkins.net.
The 35 videos, plus an exclusive introduction by the man himself, add up to three hours of hard-hitting, no-punches-pulled irreligious [...]

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Atheist US soldier accused of being ‘immoral’, a ‘devil worshipper’ – and ‘gay’

Wednesday, April 30, 2008

A YOUNG US soldier who declared his atheism while on active duty in Iraq last year – and, as a result, was harassed and reviled – has filed a law suit alleging that his constitutional rights had been violated. The suit names Defence Secretary Robert Gates.

Since bringing the suit, Specialist Jeremy Hall has been called [...]

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God really is an imaginary friend, says UK anthropologist

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

HUMANS alone practice religion because they’re the only creatures to have evolved imagination.

That’s the view of anthropologist Maurice Bloch of the London School of Economics, who has challenged the popular notion among some anthropologists that religion evolved and spread because it promoted social bonding.
According to ABC News, Bloch argues that at first:

We had to [...]

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‘Aggressive secularism’ blamed for London’s problems

Monday, April 28, 2008

LONDON is plagued by a shedload of problems – and it’s all the fault of “the aggressive secularisation” of the city by out-of-touch politicians.
So says mayoral candidate Alan Craig, of the Christian Choice party, who promises to halt the breakdown of family life in the capital by bribing couples with £1,000 to get married.
Straight couples [...]

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Lay off Jesus and stick to legs, angry Catholic tells Verhoeven

Saturday, April 26, 2008

DUTCH film director Paul Verhoeven has got up the nose of America’s Catholic League President Bill Donohue by suggesting, in his forthcoming biography of Jesus, that “the son of God” may have been the result of a union between Mary and a Roman soldier who raped her during the Jewish uprising in Galilee.
Donahue said the [...]

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Catholic priest appears to have gone with the wind

Friday, April 25, 2008

CATHOLIC clergy are normally carried away with their own hot air – but it was helium that seems to have taken batty Brazilian priest, Adelir Antonio de Carli, off the face of the planet this week.
De Carli, 41, has been missing since Sunday, when he lifted off from the port city of Paranagua strapped to [...]

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Oh No! Now Florida contemplates issuing a religious licence plate

Thursday, April 24, 2008

HOT on the heels of the Indiania “In God We Trust” licence plate controversy comes the news today that the Florida legislature is to consider a speciality plate with a design that includes a Christian cross, a stained-glass window and the words “I Believe”.
According to this Google report, it’s the brainchild of Craig Dobson from [...]

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Orthodox Jew strips off in protest over Jewish food ruling

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

HERE’S a sight one does not often seen in public in Israel – or anywhere else for that matter: an Orthodox Jewish man wearing nothing but a sock over his genitals.
Ah, but the supermarket, in which he almost bared all, was not a public place, argued the unnamed 27-year-old yeshiva student.
He entered the [...]

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Rubbish Darth Vader faces an encounter with jail

Tuesday, April 22, 2008

PROBABLY the worst-turned out Darth Vader in the entire galaxy – he had a black binbag for a cape and a metal crutch for a light sabre – found himself before a magistrate today charged with assaulting two Jedis.
According to the BBC, Arwel Wynne Hughes, 27, from Holyhead, Anglesey, admitted assaulting Barney Jones and cousin [...]

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‘Holy’ hooligans come to blows

Monday, April 21, 2008

CHRISTIANITY’S holiest shrine – the Church of the Holy Sepulchre – was the scene yesterday (Palm Sunday) – of an unseemly brawl when dozens of Greek and Armenian orthodox priests and worshippers exchanged blows.
When police tried to break up the fight, they were pummelled with palm fronds.
All hell broke loose when Armenian clergy forcibly ejected [...]

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