THE news this week that the US military has appointed its first-ever Buddhist chaplain – former Baptist pastor Thomas Dyer from Memphis, Tennessee – highlights attempts being made by the...
ATHEIST author Phillip Pullman, whose excellent His Dark Materials trilogy sent the Vatican into a tailspin, looks set to cause fresh controversy with The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ, due ...
HERE’S a surprising bit of info: any mention of God in a “first approach” lonely heart’s message will reduce your chances of receiving a reply – but your chances of sp...
OH what fun we’ve had today!
On the way to work this morning, I spotted this poster outside my local news agent.
What, I wondered, could that be all about? I soon learned that it related to ...
SIR Ludovic Kennedy, the distinguished broadcaster, outspoken campaigner and committed atheist, died on Monday at a nursing home in Salisbury.
At the age of 80, Kennedy – an honorary associate...
IF you want to make mega-bucks, sinply turn the Bible or the Koran into an application for the iPhone, and watch the green and crinklies magically fly from the pockets of the faithful into your bank a...
ON October 20 Freethinker representative Peter Brietbart reported on an historic debate in London organised by Intelligence Squared, which resulted in a crushing defeat for the Catholic Church.
The m...
THE BBC Trust today rejected calls for non-religious contributors to be allowed on Radio 4’s fatuous relic of a programme, Thought for the Day.
Complaints were made earlier this year that banni...
THE happy expressions on the faces of the two children chosen to front the British Humanist Association’s latest poster campaign were put there by Jesus. Apparently.
Writing in The Times yeste...
