Atheism

Richard Ingrams: Studying humanism in religious studies is like studying astrology in science class

Five Public Opinions - April 21, 2008 - 12:13am

For the first time, humanism will be added to the UK GCSE religious studies syllabus:

The subject has been added to reflect the rising number of people sharing humanist beliefs in the UK, the Oxford & Cambridge and Royal Society of Art exam board (OCR) said. Read more »

Irrational and proud of it

Five Public Opinions - May 10, 2008 - 2:31pm

Ben Stein on science:

Anyway, I couldn’t give a [profanity] whether a person calls himself a scientist. It doesn’t earn any extra respect from me, because it’s not as if science has covered itself with glory, morally, in my time. Scientists were the people in Germany telling Hitler that it was a good idea to kill all the Jews. Scientists were telling Stalin it was a good idea to wipe out the middle-class peasants. Scientists were telling Mao Tse-Tung it was fine to kill 50 million people in order to further the revolution. [Via Memeplex] Read more »

Why do we atheists bother getting out of bed in the morning?

Five Public Opinions - April 19, 2008 - 1:30pm

A commenter at Bruce’s asks:

No one atheist (Dawkins arguments included) can successfully explain to me why they bother to get out of bed of a morning?

I’m throwing this question open to the floor. Well, atheists: what have you got to say? Read more »