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BBC’s Godslot: ‘Deeply boring’ but popular with listeners
A poll being run by the BBC that asks ‘Does Thought for The Day still have a place on the Today programme?’ today shows that more than 46 percent of listeners want it kept ‘exactly as it is.’ The poll...
View ArticleNew book on secularism, politics, religion and freedom
DO religion and its institutions subvert reason and progress in modern life? In his introduction to Secularism: Politics, Religion and Freedom, Andrew Copson presents a holistic and hard-hitting case...
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New social housing: orthodox Jews to get special treatment
Because orthodox Jews tend to have much larger than average families, a new housing development in London’s Stamford Hill will feature homes that have up to five bedrooms, large kosher compliant...
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US bus company’s rejection of an atheist ad sparks a lawsuit
Residents of Scranton, Pennsylvania, are a godly bunch. So devout, in fact, that a local bus company rejected the ad pictured above because it feared the word ‘atheists’ it might spark violence. The...
View ArticleChristian moron: put crocodile problem ahead of gay marriage
Back in 2011, an Australian independent MP, Bob Katter above, was slammed by his gay half-brother for saying that the idea of same-sex marriage deserved to be ridiculed. The Christian fundamentalist...
View ArticleArchbishop’s ‘shameful’ attack on non-religious schools
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, has been strongly rebuked by Humanists UK for saying that, in ‘schools that are not of a religious character, confidence in any personal sense of ultimate...
View ArticleSurvey shows many Brits want religion kept out of politics
A new YouGov poll for the Times has found that a majority of people in the UK want religion kept out of politics and that bishops should not have an automatic right to sit in the of Lords. According to...
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Human rights activist faces death threats in the Maldives
Shahindha Ismail, Executive Director of the Maldives Democracy Network (MDN) is reportedly being investigated by police for the ‘crime’ of allegedly advocating for secularism in the Sunni Muslim state....
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There is a tsunami of atheism in the ‘Muslim world’
I was recently interviewed by Thomas Mahler for the French Le Point. The Freethinker is the first to publish the English version of the interview which has made a lost of waves in France. Born in...
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Study: gay pride and atheism is on the rise among the young
Encouraging news: Generation Z teens – the 70 million kids born between 1999 and 2015 – are at least twice as likely as American adults to identify as as LGBT or atheist, according to a study just...
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US’s ‘most unpopular Governor’ plunges into religious waters
When it was announced by the Trump administration last year that Catholic Kansas Governor Sam Brownback, above, was to be nominated as an Ambassador for Religious Freedom, Minority Leader Anthony...
View ArticleMore Catholic schools needed to project children into heaven
Growing secularism in the US has led to an increasing number of Catholic schools closing, but bishop George V Murry, above, of Youngstown, Ohio, imagines the trend can be reversed if parents were made...
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London town hall to become a Hindu temple. Locals protest.
London’s ITV news reported today that a sizeable protest took place outside Southall Town Hall in West London because the building is to be acquired by a ‘religious organisation’ which was it did not...
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Secularism is as great a threat to Christianity as terrorism
Former US House Speaker Newt Gingrich – a Catholic Republican – claimed last night that Western secularism is as great a threat to Christianity as that posed by terrorist groups such as ISIS and...
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Sweden pledges to impose a ban on religious schools
Outlining its education policy ahead of this year’s General Election, Sweden’s governing Social Democrats yesterday pledged to ban religious schools in an effort to combat segregation. At a press...
View ArticleNSS names its Secularists of the Year at a London ceremony
Phil Johnson and Graham Sawyer, left, a serving vicar, were yesterday named Secularists of the Year for 2018 by the National Secular Society. Johnson and Sawyer accepted a £5,000 prize from the human...
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Court: NJ taxpayers won’t have to foot huge church repair bills
The New Jersey Supreme Court, in a 7-0 decision today, upheld the state Constitution’s prohibition of the use of taxpayers’ funds for ‘building or repairing any church or churches’. The decision was a...
View ArticleIrreligious Britain is entering a ‘frightening new Dark Age’
Bishop Philip Egan of the Catholic Diocese of Portsmouth – pictured above with a glum young novitiate – warned at the weekend that a ‘frightening new Dark Age’ brought on by the end of faith in society...
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NSS campaign launched to end state-funded faith schools
Historian and broadcaster Dan Snow, left, and politician and former actor Lord Cashman are among those who are supporting a new national campaign launched this week by the National Secular Society to...
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Religion trumps equality: court rules against London coroner
Senior coroner Mary Hassell, above, who refused to fast-track Muslim and Jewish burials, has been ordered by the High Court to reverse her policy. Under Jewish and Islamic law, bodies must be buried on...
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