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REMINDER - sign up for the next Freethought History Webinar, happening 10 Nov, featuring @PeterTatchell @PT_Foundation on the history of secularism, freethought, and LGBTQ+ rights.
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Today in the Freethinker, amid talk of preparedness for war, Brian Victoria discusses the question of conscription and conscientious objection, 'perhaps the most serious question any of us will ever be called upon to make.'
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Today in the Freethinker, Samuel McKee @MolecularSamm interviews Simon Walker-Samuel about atheism, humanism, science, cancer research, and more.
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Freethinking has led many thinkers through history to get serious about nonhuman sentient animal ethics. Should it lead us all that way? Towards @sentientism? youtu.be/fgDzA97ucQk?si=gkEh…
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‘TERROR OF THE BRAIN THAT REFUSED TO THINK! CertX’
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If you missed it, you can catch up on the most recent Freethought History Webinar, featuring Nathan Alexander on atheism and vegetarianism in the 19th and 20th centuries.
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Today, Tolga Theo Yalur reflects on Israel's recognition of the Armenian Genocide.
'There needs to be a transition from a paradigm of geopolitical memory, where crimes are acknowledged only when it hurts an adversary, to a paradigm of universal memory'.
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We can’t tackle Christian Nationalism by pretending it isn’t Christian. @Humanists_UK
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'The veil wasn't protecting me from danger; it was protecting my family from judgement while my male relatives enjoyed complete freedom.' @sonia_nigar reflects on growing up in the shadow of the veil in Pakistan.
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Today in the Freethinker, Samuel McKee (@MolecularSamm) asks: Should we debate creationists?
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My new piece in @FreethinkerMag describes the damaging regulatory wilderness for non-therapeutic childhood male genital cutting. Religious privilege maintained by governments.
Non-voluntary permanent bodily changes breach children’s rights.
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Today in the Freethinker, William Hagerup (@WhigLiberal) of Agora Debate Club London reports on a recent debate about whether Christianity was foundational to Western civilisation.
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Join us for a webinar with @PeterTatchell on 10 November for a webinar about the links between secularism and the fight for LGBTQ+ rights—and how organised religion remains the greatest obstacle to these. Find out more and sign up now: freethinker.co.uk/2026/10/fr…
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Editor of @FreethinkerMag , Daniel Sharp, kindly invited me to submit a report from the latest Agora #Debate Club meeting, where the motion was. #Christianity is the Foundation of Western Civilisation.
Here it is: freethinker.co.uk/2026/10/ch…
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Akash Srinivas writes about the shameful treatment of women in the British military, as exemplified by the recent, awful Jaysley Beck case.
Ft. @BritishArmy @DefenceHQ @cmjhq @EmmaNorton10 @antbruceking
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Today in the Freethinker, @khuldune writes about the mollycoddling of Muslim representatives, as exemplified by the recent farce of a bin Laden apologist receiving an award from @ArchbishopSarah.
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A message from @LeoIgwe and Advocacy for Alleged Witches: Free Samaila Bala and end witch hunts in Zamfara State, Nigeria.
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Today in the Freethinker, Jamie Paul takes on 'New Faitheism'.
'In each and every area where New Faitheism proves useless, New Atheism—or something similar—can in fact be of genuine help.'
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New from me in @FreethinkerMag:
“The old saying that ‘There are no atheists in a foxhole’ has never quite been right. The more accurate version is ‘There are no politically ‘heterodox’ atheists in a vibe shift.’”
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A message from @LeoIgwe and Advocacy for Alleged Witches: Free Samaila Bala and end witch hunts in Zamfara State, Nigeria.
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