Challenging Religious Faith
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Chris Street, President of Atheism UK notes the flurry of reports about schools in the past three months. Report subjects range from inequality, religion and belief, relationship and sex, racial discrimination, national plans for RE and cheating to get in.
Our friends at Atheist Alliance International (AAI) plan to introduce a
Universal Declaration of Atheist Rights….
The Danger of Religion: Faith-based thinking is inherently dangerous, such as in thinking “everything happens for a reason”, says Alcuin (Rad Doherty) in our forum. Rad is an Atheism UK fully paid up member and forum moderator. He is also our most prolific forum contributor (with over 800 posts). Rad’s aim is to “undermine superstition in the UK” and he is a:
“Non-believer in favour of an inclusive, humanist (small h) society. One which values critical thinking and is based on secular principles such as ‘one law for all’, democracy and freedom of speech and expression.”
Alcuin concludes his July 22nd 2018 forum post “all superstitions are inherently harmful”:
By James A. Haught
Young seekers of truth go through a phase of wondering whether life has any discernible meaning. Why are we here? Why does the universe exist? Is there a purpose to it all? This is the ultimate question, overarching all others.
By James A. Haught
I’m quite aware that my turn is approaching. The realization hovers in my mind like a frequent companion.
My first wife died ten years ago. Dozens, hundreds, of my longtime friends and colleagues likewise came to the end of their journeys. They number so many that I keep a “Gone” list in my computer to help me remember them all. Before long, it will be my turn to join the list.
The 2018 Atheism UK AGM will be on Saturday 4th August in London.
INFORM is based at the London School of Economics. They meet on Monday 12 February 2018 from 6:30pm to 8:00pm.
“Thirty years after founding INFORM, the information network on religious movements, Eileen Barker argues that the sociology of religion still has an important role. This event will celebrate Eileen’s work over the past 30 years.”
h/t Ferran.
Great atheism quotes at ‘A Tippling Philosopher’ by Bert Bigelow.