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I shouldn’t need to say that. Being an atheist should be the default human condition. It would be like announcing constantly that you haven...

I took this photo in the William Morris gallery in Walthamstow last month. I love the work of William and his contemporaries but this i...

Religion and right wing politics exist to exploit and oppress large groups of people; enabling a few to control the many. They both offer e...

Events don’t happen in isolation. Life on earth is an ongoing chain reaction with the past influencing the present and the future. As human...

At the afore mentioned Creative Writing class we were asked to write a letter, just a paragraph, to someone in our past. I chose to write ...

“ God is a concept/By which we measure/Our pain ” – John Lennon I’m an atheist , but I’m sort of drawn to religion, even though I fight...

I’ve never really understood the point of funerals. I’ve always questioned the need for them. Much to most people’s bemusement. And please d...

In need of a breath of fresh air I wandered out on Boxing Day afternoon. We live close-ish to the Riverside shopping area in Norwich and all...

I received a state education during the sixties and early seventies. Up until the age of fifteen RE, or Religious Education to give the full...

“ Democracy can never flourish if the workings of a state or the major influences within that society are not secular .” * It should be eve...

Blasphemy and sin are two highly emotive words that conceptually don’t have a great deal of value. I suppose I would think that being an ath...

The trouble with free speech, and of course living in a democracy, is that you often have to listen to stuff you don't like. The one th...

Whilst I abhor physical abuse, messing with people’s minds is equally abhorrent. ‘Brainwashing’ is evil, inexcusable and surely has no plac...

Apparently atheists are responsible for global warming. It’s all our fault! Well that’s according to that well known nutter who trades ...

Apparently when the Archbishop of York, John Sentamu, met his popeness recently he gave him a customary gift . The gift in question was a bo...