Will ‘True Christians’ please stand up
Along with many freethinkers, I am quite unable to distinguish genuine Christianity from extremes, superstitions and cults. But my failure in this respect is not for want of application to the problem....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Petition says: ‘Return the horny Devil’
A couple of days ago a priapic Devil figure mysteriously appeared in Vancouver. It was quickly removed by the authorities. Now a petition has been launched calling for its re-erection. The petition,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Two cautionary tales
Dan O’Hara castigates Freethinker editor Barry Duke for ridiculing the dead American pastor, Kyle Lake, above. Diesel Balaam leaps to Duke’s defence. HERE are two cautionary tales, both true. In late...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Happy Christmas – from an atheist!
I love Christmas – but not its mass of crassness. Christmas and religion have long since doffed their hats at each other and gone their separate ways. The idea that the festive season is something of a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Nativity zombies violate an Ohio law
It’s not entirely clear from various reports why, precisely, Jasen Dixon’s hallowe’en-meets-Christmas garden display has violated the law in Sycamore Township, just outside of Cincinnati, but it would...
View ArticleDialling God
A couple recently complained that they had been inundated by phone callers trying to contact God after a spoof article had given out a very similar number as that of the Deity. For a laugh I dialled...
View ArticleClik here to view.
François Cavanna’s grim prediction
In a call to arms to atheists, François Cavanna, above, founder of Charlie Hebdo who died a year ago aged 90, once ordered non-believers not to be ‘too discreet, too timid, too resigned!’ More than 20...
View Article‘So much universe, and so little time’
Terry Pratchett, who died this week aged 66, was not one of those aggressive ‘new atheists’ Christian fundamentalists are constantly shrieking about. Strange, really, that he never became a key target...
View ArticleComedy group forced to cut prophet sketch
A decision by Bath Student Union and university chaplains to block a Mohammed comedy sketch has been condemned by Terry Sanderson, President of the National Secular Society. Sanderson said: This is...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Catholics want Mrs Jesus book scrapped
Last year Emmy Award winner Dan O’Shannon published a satirical cartoon book, The Adventures of Mrs. Jesus – but not everyone’s happy about it, and we learn today that America Needs Fatima has...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Christians have been whinging about hurt feeling for decades
In this week’s Freethinker bulletin I had the pleasure of sharing a with readers a booklet entitled The Freethinkers’ Pictorial Text-Book. It was published in 1896 and illustrated in most part by...
View ArticleCharlie Hebdo angers Vatican with a murderous God cartoon
The Vatican has accused the French satirical magazine of insulting religious people of all faiths by portraying God as a as a gun-toting terrorist on an anniversary cover. The Guardian reports that the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Police protection for comedian who insulted Turkish President
German TV comic, Jan Boehmermann, above, has been placed under police protection after he read an ‘obscene’ poem about Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, whom he accused of having sex with goats...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Meet the world’s first CFSM couple to be legally hitched
Members of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, Pastafarians Toby Ricketts from the UK and New Zealander Marianna Fenn, made history at the weekend when they were married aboard a pirate ship...
View ArticleCharlie Hebdo again sparks fury with bare Muslims cover
Charlie Hebdo, the French satirical magazine, unleashed a fresh wave of death threats last week with the publication of an edition showing two naked Muslims, along with the words ‘Musulmans …...
View ArticleThe Freedom of Will
Stuart Hartill reviews a novel by Kenneth Clatterbaugh, pictured above. Will Tillett is young, Texas born but abandoned soon after and raised in small town Louisiana by a kindly aunt and uncle, the...
View ArticleTaking a rain check on Jesus
Inspired by the online ravings of Kent evangelist, Bob Hutton, Barry Duke used a lazy Sunday afternoon to pen this piece, which first appeared on the Freethinker website on October 14, 2012. (Warning:...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Santa vs Jesus game slammed for being ‘blasphemous’
A Christmas-themed board game that pits Jesus against Santa ‘trivialises Christian belief’ by portraying the the two ‘as fictional characters’, according to Evangelical Alliance spokesman Danny...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Well, blow me! You don’t often see nativity scenes like this.
Visitors to a nativity scene in Lucerne, Switzerland, got fits of the giggles when they saw a figure of Mary apparently performing oral sex on Joseph. But not everyone appreciated the work of the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Spanish sex shop forced to remove display of holy dildos
The shop – Non Sit Peccatum – in the town of Talavera de la Reina near Toledo removed the display after it received complaints from locals. According to this report, a group calling themselves the...
View Article
