OUR favourite on-line comic strip, Jesus & Mo, which also appears monthly in the print edition of the Freethinker, has made it to the finals of the 2008 Weblog Awards in the Best Comic Strip category.
The strip – clever as it is amusing – is a British contender. Freethinker readers can help it towards a [...]
DAN Barker, co-president of the Freedom From Religion Foundation, has joined with Michael Newdow – who fought to have the words “under God” removed from the Pledge of Allegiance – in a federal lawsuit to prevent prayers being uttered at Barack Obama’s official inauguration on January 20.
Obama ran headlong into controversy when he recently announced [...]
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THE Churches’ Advertising Network revealed this week it was planning to “respond” to the atheist bus campaign in the New Year – but did not reveal what form its counter-strategy would take.
Speaking on BBC1’s Breakfast Show, Francis Goodwin of CAN, surprisingly said he thought the atheist campaign was “fantastic” and welcomed the debate. “Bring it [...]
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EARLIER this month we ran a compelling piece about the American linguist Daniel Everett, a missionary who travelled to the Amazon to take Christianity to the remote Pirahãs tribe, but wound up an atheist.
Everett’s amazing story, told in Don’t Sleep There are Snakes, was broadcast this week by BBC Radio 4, which chose it as [...]
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BIRMINGHAM City Council has no problem with its staff accessing religious websites, many of them notorious for their high hatred content – and usually with homophobia at the forefront.
But atheist websites are a definite No-No!
According to BBC News, the council’s Bluecoat Software computer system allows staff to look at websites relating to Christianity, Islam, Hinduism [...]
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AN astonishing attack has been launched on Illinois atheist Rob Sherman by State Representative Monique Davis, a member of Trinity United Church of Christ, who said his atheism represented ” danger to children”.
Davis’ hysterical outburst occurred when Sherman testified before an Illinois legislative committee against Governor Blagojevich’s plan to donate one million tax dollars to [...]
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