The Importance Of Understanding Evidence
Why this article? Central to the debate between theists and atheists, and to our understanding of the world, is the question of how we discover what we can discover and…
The Myth Of The Absolute
Why is the 'Myth of the Absolute' relevant to our lives? How often have you come across a theist who argues that absolute rules of morality are necessary if morality…
Sexual Abuse Prevalent In Institutions Across Major UK Religions
Content Warning: This post contains content such as Child Sexual Abuse, Paedophilia, and Abuse by Clergy/Priests, which some might find distressing. The Independent Inquiry in Child Abuse report The Independent…
We Get Responses…
Recently on our @AtheismUK Twitter feed we posted the following meme: OK, it is a bit of a silly meme, after all we don’t believe that there is a god…
Earth, Solar System, Galaxies and Beyond
Some personal thoughts from one of our AUK members: (more…) (more…)
Collective worship in schools
Schools could be found in breach of failing to fulfil requirements for daily ‘collective worship’. The Education Act (1944) requires all maintained schools to provide a daily act of collective (more…)
Great Britain 2011-2018: non-religious increase by 1 million each year, Christians decrease by 0.7 million each year.
On average the number of non-religious people in Britain has increased by a million each year in the last seven years, according to the Annual Population Survey from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) released April 2019.
Childhood indoctrination / socialisation of pre-school toddlers creates up to two-thirds of British Christians says survey
A Church of England survey this week reveals the staggering extent of childhood indoctrination / socialisation* in Britain. The survey shows that nearly two-thirds of all British Christians become Christian when they were still toddlers at 0-4 years old. (1,2) Seventeen out of twenty Christians become Christian when children or teenagers, only one in twenty when adults.
* h/t Matt Sheard comment about socialisation 19/9/17.
Whilst half of Brits are Christian, four in ten don’t belong to any religious group. Almost six in ten of 19-24 year olds are non-religious.
The Spell of Faith and Politics
The Magical Spell of Faith
God’s SatNav for Britain
By Willem Sander van Boxtel
The first time I set eyes upon the glorious House of Lords chamber, in the summer of 2013, I was an ignorant tourist in the UK. With blissful awe I gazed on the golden decorations, the wooden benches, the leather seats, the red armrests. The red armrests which only seemed to be added to one bench. But the question why did not race through my fifteen-year old mind. Only much, much later did I find out the Bishops were granted those seats. The Bishops? Yes, the Bishops.
Religion irrelevant? Atheism UK debate at Bath University.
Is religion irrelevant today? Atheism UK was invited by Bath University to debate religious societies. The motion was: “This house believes that religion has become irrelevant in today’s society.”
Atheism UK’s council member Norman Bacrac agreed to talk for the debate motion.