All our Easter Days
JAMES M ALEXANDER’s reflections on a ‘tarted up’ Christian Easter was first published in the March, 1975, edition of the Freethinker. … to misquote Shakespeare, for all humanity celebrates this...
View ArticleA Pagan Poet
Originally published in the August 1987 issue of the Freethinker to mark the centenary of Rupert Brooke’s birth on 3 August 1887. Since 1915, the year he died, his poems, particularly The Soldier, have...
View ArticleNordic gods are making a comeback
Norway was a bit of a Johnny-come-lately to Christianity, which only reached the nation around 1,000 years ago. But after it fell victim to one of the greatest hoaxes ever perpetrated on humankind,...
View ArticleUS Pagan locks horns with authorities over ID picture
Phelan Moonsong, 56, of Millinocket, Maine, ran into a spot of bother earlier this year when he submitted a picture of himself wearing goat horns in an application for an ID card. But, according to...
View ArticleProducers of Easter items must ensure they don’t offend Christians
THE UK’s advertising watchdog says there’s a ‘fine line’ between humour and sacrilege and companies producing Easter goods should be aware that Christians have very thin skins. Well, the Advertising...
View ArticleFranciscans defend card linking Christianity with paganism
MANY Christian HATE being reminded that Christmas was stolen from the pagans, and has bugger all to do with the birth of Jesus. So when Franciscans International, a human rights group formed by various...
View Article‘Papa Yule’ brings joy to whites-only ‘church’ mired in a racism row
MEMBERS of the Ásatrú Folk Assembly in California refused this week to allow a racism row in distant Murdock, Minnesota, to spoil a festive season celebration in its main Brownsville hof, better known...
View ArticleHeathens furious over idiotic insurrectionist’s ‘cultural appropriation’
MILLIONS across the world were appalled by the antics of posturing nincompoop Jacob Anthony Chansley, above, the painted and tattooed Trumpite who breached the Capitol in Washington DC, but among the...
View ArticleHey Panera Bread, a Pagan wants words with you about diversity
THE Rev Selena Fox, above, has a bone to pick with a branch of the Panera Bread Company in Pennsylvania over its obnoxious treatment of an employee who was told she’d go to hell for being a Pagan. She...
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