Discrimination can be an ugly thing. A friend of mine has this theory that you learn to discriminate from a very young age when you learn that your family and friends are more important than others. He uses the ethical dilemma that if faced with the choice to save a well respected doctor or a [...]

Don’t you just love it when some religious journalist decides its their turn to churn out the same old straw man arguments against the evil atheists? No, me neither. This article from Rosamund Urwin in the Evening Standard seems to have come out of nowhere. I can only guess since its Christmas time she must [...]

Hello hello hello. It’s all been rather quiet on this blog recently and I’m not going to apologise or make excuses but just say that I have been off work so have spent my time enjoying the outside world, gardening, jogging, sitting in the garden reading the paper, walking aimlessly around town whilst listening to [...]

John Denham, the communities secretary, has said that the values of Christians, Muslims and other religions were essential in building a “progressive society” and has revealed that a new panel of religious experts has been set up to advise the Government on public policy. First of all there is nothing progressive about religion; it is [...]

We’ve got the Monster Raving Loony Party, America just has raving lunatics; That is what equates to a candidate for the Livonia Michigan City Council. You know its the other seriously deranged people I feel sorry for, if you can get away with talking this level of crazy without seeing the man in white coats [...]

OK so this happened a couple of years ago now but Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s talk at Atheists Alliance International in 2007 truly is an inspiration to anyone trying to cross the divide from faith to reason and is as relevant now as it was then. Here is a quote from the speech below, I hope [...]

With all the negative press teenagers get the media would have you believe that Britain’s kids are out of control, knife wielding, hooligans with nothing better to do than take drugs and earn themselves an ASBO. Well this little study  conducted by Penguin books suggests that perhaps they aren’t all that bad after all, they are [...]