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• Say what!? US Christians are appalled by Uganda’s plan to execute homosexuals

  
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  WITH lawmakers in Uganda poised to make homosexuality a crime punishable by death, a number of American Catholic, Protestant and Evangelical leaders have spoken out this week against the proposed legislation. Pardon the hollow laugh, but who was it that inflicted Christianity on Africa in the first place, thereby ...
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• Leading contributor to evil in the world condemns reporting of evil in the world

  
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  POPE Ratzinger took time this week to lament what he described as a steady diet of news about evil in the world. Every day, through the newspapers, television, radio, evil is reported, repeated, amplified, making us used to horrible things, making us become insensitive, and, in some way, poisoning us. Hearts harden ...
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• Should the law get involved when crazy religious crackpots collide?

  
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  UNLESS physical injury or civil disorder is involved, no! But at the heart of a trial that opened yesterday in Liverpool are the “hurt feelings” of a Muslim convert who claims to have been abused by a pair of dotty Christian fundies who ran the hotel at which she was staying earlier this year. Ericka Tazi ...
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• Lesbian bishop gives ‘Dumbledore’ another gay headache – and God a ’surprise!’

  
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  THE week began on another bum note for the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, who had just learned of the election of a second openly gay bishop in the Anglican Church. Mary Glasspool The Reverend Canon Mary Glasspool, 55, who has been in a relationship with another woman since 1988, was elected at the ...
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• Raelian leader who fled Iran is released from detention in Turkey

  
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  THERE’S jubilation among Raelians this week over the freeing of one of their leaders from a detention centre in Turkey. Negar Azizmoradi Negar Azizmoradi, who is said to have escaped a possible death sentence in Iran, was released in time to celebrate the 36th anniversary – on December 13 – of Rael’s ...
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• Away with the manger!

  
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  T’IS the season to be jolly … stupid! It seems to come earlier and earlier each year – this season in which loopy Christians declare with lumps in their throats, tears in their eyes and paranoia rampaging through their brains, that spiteful atheists are pulling all available levers to destroy the very essence ...
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• Branded a witch, a 10-year-old girl was tortured by her evangelical father

  
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  THE nonsensical belief that children can be possessed by evil supernatural forces is increasingly being spread in the UK by evangelical preachers with African backgrounds. The problem was highlighted a year ago by a Channel 4 Dispatches team – and this week we were reminded of the devastating effects of child ...
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• Freethinker Sunday Sermonette: Dawkins on evolution and religion

  
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  Whether religion is related to survival or not is obviously highly context dependent. Its negatively correlated with survival for minorities in intolerant societies. So why do religious identities persist? I would claim there is evidence they arent persisting, but the basic question is not something of much interest ...
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• Xmas is nigh – and God fiddles with an egg to remind us of the ‘reason for the season’

  
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  A MISSHAPEN egg produced by a Texas hen is being hailed as a “miracle” by its bird-brained owners, Pam and Tracy Norrell. The hen’s lumpy offering features what looks to this sceptic like a chicken’s foot – but Pam Norrell insists in this YouTube video that it’s a cross, and that she thinks: God did ...
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• Bad things happen when religion is allowed to cloud judicial decisions

  
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  COMPASSION is one thing; faith-based stupidity is quite another. And this week popular Republican Mike Huckabee , former Governor of Arkansas, is looking very stupid indeed. Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee is now host of the Fox News Channel talk show Huckabee It has emerged that the former Baptist ...
  6 days ago

• ‘Women are far better off under Islam’

  
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  WHILE doing some research yesterday, I stumbled across an astonishing comment posted three years ago on Jihadwatch by Heba Reisy, an Iranian “Muslima” living in Washington DC. Reisy runs the Sisters in Islam blog , set up to: Show other women the beauty of Islam and that Islam respects women and limits men ...
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• Church elder convicted of sexual abuse remains at large – he’s too fat for prison!

  
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  AN obese 66-year-old church elder convicted of indecently assaulting a young girl will not be sent to jail because his health is in “precarious” state. John William McConaghy John William McConaghy, from Urbal Road, Dervock, County Antrim, was found guilty of indecent assault. He was serving as an elder ...
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• PETA ad outrages Catholics

  
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  IF Joanna Krupa had been born a male, and was 15 years younger, he’d probably have frustrated Catholic priests gnawing on their knuckles and kicking holes in stain-glass windows. But as the world’s sexiest swimwear model, Joanna’s succeeded in rousing a different kind of passion among devout Catholics: FURY! ...
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• How to turn a Jew into a Muslim

  
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  LYING to the infidel in order to protect Islam or advance its cause is a well-known tactic among Muslims, and is sanctioned by the Koran. This form of deception is called takiyya , and we can see Egyptian cleric Mahmoud Al-Masri enthusiastically advocating the practice here: Click here to view the embedded video. ...
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• New subscription system introduced for The Freethinker magazine

  
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  NOW it is easier than ever to subscribe to the print edition of The Freethinker . We have handed over subscription management to a specialist company called SubCARE, so you can pay securely by credit card, direct debit, cheque – or even by the original PayPal method if you prefer. If you have never seen The ...
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• Nigeria’s Witchfinder-General sues humanist for religious discrimination

  
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  HELEN Ukpabio, the demented leader of Nigeria’s Liberty Gospel Church, has brought a lawsuit against humanist Leo Igwe and a number of other parties opposed to her campaign against “witches”, claiming two hundred billion Naira ($800,000 dollars) in damages. An email we have just received from Igwe reveals that ...
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• Christian Legal Centre suffers another defeat over religious discrimination claim

  
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  THE Christian Legal Centre, which champions the cause of zealots who refuse to do their jobs properly “for religious reasons”, has lost the case it brought on behalf of Gary McFarlane . Gary McFarlane McFarlane, 48, was a relationship counsellor who lost his job with Relate after refusing to provide sex ...
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• Bigotry wrapped in corduroy gets its come-uppance at Syracuse University

  
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  YOUNG Chris Pesto decided to retaliate when a foolish fundie wearing an ankle-length corduroy skirt decided to take her sad little anti-gay message to Syracuse University, NY, last week. Chris Pesto got great support for his counter-protest According to this report , he stood alongside her with his “Corduroy ...
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• Swiss vote for a minaret ban – and Muslims, not surprisingly, are incensed

  
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  No doubt angry mobs from Cairo to Karachi will be furiously putting together little square red flags with white crosses for their ‘spontaneous’ displays of anger and grievance, and no doubt the Islamic world’s leaders will call for an immediate boycott of all Swiss goods, except of course the banks, which are ...
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• On the Origin of Specious Arguments

  
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  GUEST blogger Dr Robert Stovold weighs up some Creationist arguments, and finds them wanting. Having tried (and failed) to smuggle Creationism into schools in the guise of “Intelligent Design”, Creationists now have another Trojan Horse strategy – bundling their ideas with Darwin’s masterpiece itself in the ...
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