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Crackpot Christian outfit furious over spoof reports of their ‘gay to straight’ initiatives 27 Aug 2013 | 02:21 pm
PEOPLE can Change exists to help gay men: • To be free from the constant pull of homosexual desires… • To have deeply fulfilling non-sexual friendships with other men, and to belong to a close commu...
Texas mega-church learns the hard way that God alone is a useless defence against disease 26 Aug 2013 | 11:56 pm
THE 1,500-member Eagle Mountain International Church in northeast Tarrant County, Texas, has an “ambivalent” attitude towards modern medicine and many of its congregants use “alternative medicine” and...
Fear of Islam lies at the heart of uncharacteristic violence by Buddhists in Burma and Sri Lanka 26 Aug 2013 | 07:11 pm
“OF all the moral precepts instilled in Buddhist monks the promise not to kill comes first, and the principle of non-violence is arguably more central to Buddhism than any other major religion. So why...
Naked pastor’s son puts penis on a boy of 13; church dismisses assault as ‘horseplay gone wrong’ 26 Aug 2013 | 01:44 pm
ZACHARY Anderle, of the Vineyard Community Church in Chattanooga, Tennessee, was acting as a church camp counsellor when he apparently decided that an unruly boy needed to be taught a lesson. Zachery...
Icelanders disgusted by US evangelist’s visit – and a bishop apologises to the gay community 25 Aug 2013 | 10:18 pm
THE good folk of Iceland – said to be among the most godless people on earth – reacted with horror when they learned that a homophobic US preacher, Franklin Graham, had been invited to preach at a Fes...
First they targeted homosexuals, then the Pastafarians. Now Russia guns for ‘atheist extremists’. 25 Aug 2013 | 04:12 pm
“FOREIGN sponsored atheist extremism” has been identified by a group of Russian Orthodox Church activists as posing a threat to the country, and to religion in particular. To combat this evil they pl...
Atheist forces change in policy over the distribution of Gideon Bibles in Canadian schools 25 Aug 2013 | 12:56 am
RENE Chouinard got the hump – and rightly so – when he discovered that Gideon Bibles were being handed out at his daughter’s school. When his request to counter Christian propaganda by offering to su...
Jehovah’s Witness elders stonewalled a police probe into church member’s sexual abuse 24 Aug 2013 | 03:30 pm
THREE Jehovah’s Witness elders refused to co-operate with police investigating child sex abuse claims against a fellow JW who was yesterday jailed in Newcastle Crown Court for 13 years. Gordon Leight...
Christian girl guides are revolting; vow to kick a new god-free pledge into the long grass 23 Aug 2013 | 09:38 pm
A GROUP of Christian Girl Guide and Brownies leaders risk being expelled from the movement after publicly refusing to drop God from their traditional promise. According to this report, a group of lea...
Farewell to a dedicated secularist: former Freethinker editor Bill McIlroy dies aged 85 23 Aug 2013 | 02:42 am
BILL McIlroy, who died today, was editor of the Freethinker for around 14 years in three separate stints spanning nearly a quarter of a century from 1970, and worked as a volunteer for a further decad...
