mikerussell

Andrew Brown wrote:
“Faith is not a path to truth.”

 

I’ll have to try that one 😉

I believe that we all have to believe in something. For me, it is science, music, art, friendship, respect and love, etc.

My mother is an extreme ‘godist’ – she’s a Franciscan, which is supposedly some sort of really godly sort of person – she used to be a nun, so I’m told, so I wonder how I got here.

Anyway, I live with her as her carer and we…[Read more]

I’m finding it hard to understand why someone would need the term ‘worldview’ to express their ‘atheist’ standpoint – surely ‘atheist’ is enough?  Why bother with all this definition?  For me, at least, I simply don’t think that there is a god and have never heard any argument that convinces me otherwise and so I don’t need a word to define what I…[Read more]

It’s in our language, “Would you bed Madonna?”  “Oh god no!”  We might swear and say, “Fucking hell!”  Etc, etc, etc.  Many Western societies were built by Christians.  As it is today, we of the atheist persuasion are in the minority and so we are likely to see children brought up in this verbal environment, thus perpetuating this sort of thing…[Read more]