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Meet rabbi Nistell, who is neither a rabbi nor even Jewish

Meet rabbi Nistell, who is neither a rabbi nor even Jewish

If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck it must be a duck. Right? Not necessarily so, as a small Jewish congregation in the Polish city of Poznan recently discovered when it was revealed that Rabbi Jacoob Ben Nistell, who had been ministering to them, was in fact […]

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Coming soon: part one of ‘The Cartoon History of Humanism’

Coming soon: part one of ‘The Cartoon History of Humanism’

When Dale Debakscy, above, made his first contribution to the Freethinker a couple of years back, I jumped with joy. Here was one humanist with an encyclopaedic grasp of humanism’s philosophical and ethical roots from the ancient Greeks onward, also with a fresh, informed and thoughtful take on current affairs. Most important of all, he […]

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Superstitions Ancient and Modern

Superstitions Ancient and Modern

I was surprised to read in a recent issue of the Freethinker that its founder pledged to ‘wage war against Superstition in general’. I had assumed that it was only concerned with the “Christian Superstition” and its contents had not led me to think otherwise. Recently I gave a talk with the above title and […]