Assertive Religion (0)
Tue 14 May 2013•
By Emanuel de Kadt As a survivor of the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, and having been raised in a liberal Jewish family, I held on to my rather wobbly religious beliefs for a long time. In Brighton, where I have lived since 1969, I was actively involved in the Progressive Synagogue, in spite of [...]
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Atheist Anthem (0)
Mon 29 Apr 2013 •
By Alan Charles Bennett Susan Johnson Meyer, editor. Stanza 1. I hereby testify to the fact That there is no scientific evidence To confirm or deny the existence Of a supreme being, veiled heaven Or spiritual existence beyond this life. Therefore, I will not curse the heavens And fear the shadows of the night Nor throw stones [...]
Poem: A Tribute To Christopher Hitchens: 13 April ‘13 (2)
Wed 17 Apr 2013 •
By Samuel Lawes He sits in fresh morning sunlight – the first man – leafing through a new Queen Elizabeth bible. Underlining. He’s naked, eating figs with gusto. He sips a brandy. Eyes the apples. The charm in those blue eyes has birds singing Beethoven’s 5th. Catch-22? He prefers Verdi but only a miracle could have [...]
Young Atheist’s Handbook campaign (0)
Tue 16 Apr 2013 •
By Ian Horsewell As I type this, the YAH4schools campaign is past 30% but not yet a third of the way to our target of £32000. Maybe by the time you read it, we will be; and if so, it will be because of people like you. Unlike Michael Gove, none of the people involved know [...]
Why Religion Is In Decline (3)
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By Burt Flannery According to the latest United Kingdom census, published in 2012, around 25 percent of the population no longer believes in God, an increase of eight percent in only six years. The European average is higher still. Scandinavians, for example, with their atheist majorities, have traversed much farther along the road to rejection of observant [...]
The Invisible Man and The Only Way is Essex (0)
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By The Wooden Duck We maintain a difficult relationship with the term “vanity”. That is: the excessive pride in ones appearance or accomplishments as defined in many dictionaries. I say it is a difficult relationship because we in the western world are very quick to condemn it whilst struggling with the fact that much of [...]
Wonderful Secular Woodcraft (1)
Mon 8 Apr 2013 •
By Michael Gerard In 1985 our daughter was approaching an age where we felt she needed to relate to other young people through an organisation other than school, I cast my mind back to my time in the scouting movement. I had had a few pleasant times. But as a young sceptic I also remembered prayers, [...]
Rethinking Our Aims and Strategies (4)
Tue 26 Mar 2013 •
By Vir Narain Humanists, secularists and rationalists everywhere are becoming increasingly concerned – even alarmed – at the role being played by traditional religions the world over in promoting instability and violence. Not long ago traditional religions seemed like an anachronism that would fade away with the growth of science and rationality. That has not happened. [...]
Choices (1)
Fri 22 Mar 2013 •
By Les Collins You can make one of at least five responses to religion (perhaps you can think of more): You can accept it wholeheartedly You can grudgingly accept it half-heartedly You can reject it completely You can deny other people the right to practise religion; you can actively campaign against it and seek to [...]
Humanism: A Philosophy Not A Religion (2)
Mon 18 Mar 2013 •
By Robert Breeze Humanism is a hard concept to define. A few months ago Andrew Brown wrote an article stating that Humanism is an impossible dream. In it, he took the British Humanist Association’s proclamation that it is “the national charity representing and supporting the non-religious and campaigning for an end to religious privilege and [...]
The Core Disbelief (10)
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By Martin Johnson. I can’t vouch for believers, but from the atheist perspective, arguments about religion seem tediously slippery. No sooner than a point seems to be established the terms of the argument magically change. What sounded like a fact turns out to have been only allegory, and it is the atheist who is branded [...]
Divine Revelation: Not just a fallacy of the faithful (0)
Tue 12 Mar 2013 •
By George Wilson On the 21st November 2012, the day after it had voted against the ordination of female bishops, the then Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams addressed the Synod on the subject. His much-publicized claim that the Church would be seen as “wilfully blind” to the “trends and priorities” of modern society did [...]
Has Human Knowledge Replaced The Bible? (4)
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By Tony French. Tony is 57 years old and retired after 32 years experience in criminal law and procedure. He was brought up in what could be called a Christian environment. He was christened, went through the Confirmation process and was a boy chorister in his local Parish Church. As he grew older and began to [...]
Music and Humanism (0)
Mon 11 Feb 2013 •
by Josh Kutchinsky In one of his famous lectures for children the musician, polymath and educator, Leonard Bernstein, played an extract from The William Tell overture by Rossini and asked his audience what they thought it was about. They answered and he responded: “That’s just what I thought you’d say: cowboys, bandits, horses, the wild [...]
Equal marriage and the LGBT Humanists (16)
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By Adam Knowles, Chair of Galha LGBT Humanists Myself and several Galha LGBT Humanists members were alongside Peter Tatchell upstairs in a packed Committee Room 9 at the Houses of Commons on Tuesday (5th) evening, as MPs below voted on equal marriage. The result was an overwhelming ‘yes’, 400 to 175 in favour. This is brilliant news, though the [...]
A Choir Boy’s Confession! (1)
Fri 1 Feb 2013 •
By Mike Newell I never attended a seminary, but come to think of it, I did do time in a convent (it had become a British Airways Training School). I have attended an awful lot of churches, for an awful lot of hours, over an awful lot of years, as a choir boy at York [...]
European research: new fight over the human embryo (0)
Thu 31 Jan 2013 •
By Julie Pernet, European Humanist Federation European lobbying is also about values. The ongoing negotiations on “Horizon 2020”, the new framework programme for research in Europe for 2014-2020 are a good example. This document sets the European criteria that research projects will have to meet in order to get European Union (EU) funding. It is [...]
Homeopathy, celebrities and marketing (3)
Wed 30 Jan 2013 •
By Lee Turnpenny Those who subscribe to the cult of homeopathy tend to be afflicted with a continually confused attitude to the concept of evidence. On Weds 25 November 2009, the House of Commons Science and Technology Sub-Committee convened for an Evidence Check on Homeopathy. Amongst the ‘witnesses’ was Dr Peter Fisher, Clinical Director and Director [...]
Is The Church Still Relevant? (13)
Tue 15 Jan 2013 •
In the ‘70s our church organist, a sweet, kindly and devout Anglican who’d been faultlessly abandoned by her husband, was flatly refused permission to remarry in church because she was divorced. The sense of injustice I felt as a Christian teenager at this callous prioritising of doctrine over decency is still palpable. Although I wasn’t aware of [...]
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