In George Orwell’s ‘Animal Farm’ he addresses how the wickedness, indifference, ignorance and greed of it’s leaders corrupt the revolution. Those leaders are the pigs. John Smeaton, the director of the ‘Society for the Protection of Unborn Children’ has likened the agenda of people who support equal rights to marriage for gay people with the corruption [...]
Earlier this week I discovered the ‘Society for the Protection of Unborn Children’ (SPUC) were holding anti-abortion protests across the UK on the 44th anniversary of the Abortion Act. One of these was to be held in the city of Bath and as I am local and pro-choice I decided to organise a pro-choice counter [...]
There are two things atheists are often told by believers: first, that there are no atheists in trenches; second, that asserting disbelief is ‘arrogant’. The former is verifiably untrue, since we now have atheist groups within the armed forces, but I’ve certainly heard examples of atheists in burning buildings and labour camps calling out to [...]
‘Most of these people’, Morpheus tells Neo in The Matrix, ‘are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it.’ Occasionally the producers of 4thought, Channel 4’s atheist-inclusive answer to Thought for the Day, get in touch with me [...]
Hallo, For my next post, I thought it highly appropriate that I offer a Marxist outlook on the nature of religion and its role in society today. Like it or not, religious institutions do and may continue to exercise influence on very important aspects of people’s public and personal lives for the foreseeable future and [...]
I just watched a great Atheist Experience with Russell Glasser and Jeff Dee. At the beginning, a caller raised the issue of ‘Islamophobia’ among atheists, and specifically Pat Condell. His 2010 ‘No mosque at Ground Zero’ video came up, in which someone suggested he was blaming all Muslims for 9/11, as did the idea he’s [...]
So I’ve finally been pushed to create my first post for THC, and what a push it was. It seems, somewhat ironically, that today I found that there may well be an element of truth in the Friday 13th superstition: today is a day of darkness. Now I’m not being dramatic, I promise you. As I [...]
There are three key points no one seems to have made about those homophobic ads that just got banned from London buses. 1. Remember Reverend Lynda Rose, who smeared Evan Harris with pro-life leaflets just before he lost his seat in Oxford West? Here are some of the leaflets, if you don’t. The Guardian quotes [...]
If you’ve ever felt that you simply cannot cope with the humdrum of the real world, there are a number of remedies you can try. I have a friend who opts for hallucinogenic drugs that make him see space dragons made of rainbows and joy; on the other end of the spectrum, thousands of people [...]
In his Easter Sermon this year Cardinal Keith O’Brien has echoed the sentiments of his 2011 Easter address in which he stated Christians must unite in the face of aggressive secularism. “Recently, various Christians in our Society were marginalised and prevented from acting in accordance with their beliefs because they were not willing to publicly [...]