YOUTUBE, which has lately been getting a lot of flak from religious zealots, is standing its ground against outraged Catholics over a series of videos posted by a young Canadian.
YouTube, however, “age-gated” his videos; you now have to be over 18 to watch them.
Well, you could – until a few hours ago, when the Quebec [...]
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THIS is just … well … bizarre? Surreal? Plain unbelievable?
Bill Donohue, the big chief over at the Catholic League in the US, has issued a complaint against Fox’s “Family Guy” for – wait for it – slandering GAY PRIESTS!
That, surely, is the Vatican’s job.
A statement issued by the CL this week declares:
In the October 19 [...]
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WHY, I wonder, do headline writers insist on using the term “family campaigners” to describe the likes of Stephen “Birdshit” Green, and the equally odious Catholic Tory MP Ann Widdicombe, when a far more accurate description would be “ignorance merchants”?
The Telegraph did it again today when they turned to Green and Widdicome for predictable rants [...]
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THE Vatican’s head honcho has seized upon the world’s deepening financial crisis to declare:
Now with the collapse of big banks we see that money disappears, is nothing and all these things that appear real are in fact of secondary importance.
People who think that only things that are visible, “such as success, career, money” should keep [...]
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IF J R R Tolkien were alive today, he would be spinning in his grave.
So thinks Hilary White, of the hilarious fundie website, LifeSiteNews:
Blathers White:
In the original Lord of the Rings books, the fatherly and honourable character of Gandalf was described by J R R Tolkien as an ‘incarnate’ angelic being sent by God to [...]
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The news that a Catholic high school in Prestwich is refusing to allow its girls to be vaccinated against cervical cancer is all over the mainstream media, so it is unlikely to be news to Freethinker readers.
But the extraordinary thing about this case is not the fact that members of the governing board of Saint [...]
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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
