http://www.gladysganiel.com/dup/christians-v-atheists-the-battle-for-the-buses-and-the-ulster-museum/ Building a Church Without Walls Tue, 07 Feb 2012 06:49:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 http://www.gladysganiel.com/dup/christians-v-atheists-the-battle-for-the-buses-and-the-ulster-museum/comment-page-1/#comment-1314 Alan Rogers Wed, 09 Jun 2010 14:52:40 +0000 http://www.gladysganiel.com/dup/christians-v-atheists-the-battle-for-the-buses-and-the-ulster-museum/#comment-1314 I came across this "discussion" by chance whilst looking for data on church attendance in Wales. Sadly I seem to be the only respondent since 27th May. Let me put my position. I have been an increasingly convinced atheist since my late teens (I am now 70). I was a complacent atheist until 11/9/2001. This event was followed by an attack on a nation which, whatever its faults and there were many, represented no clear and present danger to Britain and the USA. This attack was led by two highly religious men. Mr. Bush a "born again Christian" and Mr. Blair at that time a crypto-Catholic. This agression cost at least 250,000 human lives and achieved nothing. Iraq now suffers unremitting sectarian murder. The rise of militant Islam and the reaction to this by militant Christianity poses a great threat to humanity. To make matters worse this is all (from the position of my world-view) based upon the absurdity of revealed religion. In 1794 Tom Paine published "The Age of Reason" it is still in print and is available on the internet.(Just Google the title) His demolition of revealed, organised religion and his exposure of its dangers has never been repudiated. Consequently I have become in the lat decade increasingly vocal in my opposition to organised religion and its attempts to posture in the "public arena". If humanity is to entrench the values of the Enlightenment then we non-believers must (peacefully and democratically) oppose the influence of revealed religion and challenge religious superstition whenever it is encountered. The Secular Democratic Declaration (Google it) is the best statement of secular principles available. I came across this “discussion” by chance whilst looking for data on church attendance in Wales. Sadly I seem to be the only respondent since 27th May. Let me put my position.
I have been an increasingly convinced atheist since my late teens (I am now 70). I was a complacent atheist until 11/9/2001.
This event was followed by an attack on a nation which, whatever its faults and there were many, represented no clear and present danger to Britain and the USA. This attack was led by two highly religious men. Mr. Bush a “born again Christian” and Mr. Blair at that time a crypto-Catholic. This agression cost at least 250,000 human lives and achieved nothing. Iraq now suffers unremitting sectarian murder. The rise of militant Islam and the reaction to this by militant Christianity poses a great threat to humanity.
To make matters worse this is all (from the position of my world-view) based upon the absurdity of revealed religion. In 1794 Tom Paine published “The Age of Reason” it is still in print and is available on the internet.(Just Google the title) His demolition of revealed, organised religion and his exposure of its dangers has never been repudiated. Consequently I have become in the lat decade increasingly vocal in my opposition to organised religion and its attempts to posture in the “public arena”. If humanity is to entrench the values of the Enlightenment then we non-believers must (peacefully and democratically) oppose the influence of revealed religion and challenge religious superstition whenever it is encountered. The Secular Democratic Declaration (Google it) is the best statement of secular principles available.

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