Hey Scientologists! – I’m still gonna read it
I’m not a fan of advertising – the art of making you need what you don’t want. (The ads which occasionally appear at the foot of posts on this blog […]
Category Archives: Religion
Ask a stupid question…
During a disappointing Question Time last evening, (the confusingly titled) Baroness Warsi, in response to a suggested consideration of whether our monarch should follow the example of Queen Beatrix of […]
Toeing the toadying line
It is ironic that, in the constitutional republic that is the USA, with its constitutionally enshrined separation of church and state, any pretenders to high public office tend to not […]
The Secular Charter and women (as) bishops
The following is an extension of the previous post, with a version published in the latest edition of The Leicester Secularist. ————————————————– (Image adapted from: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20433152) According to the information […]
The Secular Charter and women bishops
According to the information provided by the National Secular Society, secularism is primarily defined as ‘… the strict separation of the state from religious institutions’, with equality before the law […]
A cHunt-er on abortion
I’m hardly the first to air a view on this, and what with ground already covered, and a week away (deliberately) incommunicado in The Lake District, I wasn’t going to […]
Secularism2012 – a take
This year’s National Secular Society conference relocated from cosy Conway Hall to the higher capacity provided by the nearby Royal National Hotel. Additional to the attraction of the listed speakers, […]
Free speech for the ignorable
What a couple of shackling weeks for free speech. A scheduled re-showing of Professor Tom Holland’s recent film, Islam: The Untold Story, was cancelled by Channel 4 owing to threats […]
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