Reg the Fronkey Farmer

Thou shalt not kill. This is not an example of objective morality. It is an example of absolute morality. If you can think of an exception that allows for a person to kill another person then it immediately moves from being absolute to being relative. All morality is relative morality. It is subject to the circumstances at a particular time or…[Read more]

Many Christians can see secular attempts to curtail religious privileges that allow for discrimination against other citizens (“The Religious Freedom Act”), as an attack on their faith. It is also true that Muslim fundamentalists see any intolerance of their creed and laws as an attack on their faith. This is where the nonsense word “Is…[Read more]

Have a great week everyone!!

If religious instruction were not allowed until the child had attained the age of reason, we would be living in a quite different world. Christopher Hitchens.

The school is an independent public school. It is run by the State and paid for by the general taxation system. It does not mention any religious ethos on its website.

I am calling it a case of religious discrimination. She was expected to use the words. It was only when she was upset that she was told she did not have to or could substitute…[Read more]

I don’t think it is a matter of “dumbing things down”. I think the most important thing is to be able to visualize the concepts involved. The mathematics are not needed at this stage. Even Einstein was not very good with the math and had to enlist the help of others when it came to (say) the geometry of spheres. He gained his insights by doing…[Read more]

Would the “atheist dad” be a prissy snowflake if his daughter was being asked to pray to Allah?. If he and his daughter were Muslims and she was being asked to pray to Jesus would you think that is “totally inoffensive” too?

I don’t think it is possible to take Time out of the equation. In our daily lives we understand what “Now” is. It is our present “time”. But when we consider it on a Universal scale it is meaningless, in the same sense as saying the moon is “up there”. When it comes to Space there is no “Up or Down” and when it comes to measuring Time, there is no…[Read more]

Screaming Lord Sutch of the Monster Raving Loony Party was great because he would stand for election in whatever constituency the current Prime Minister of the day was standing in. He was the original. I don’t think the Russians were bothered to even try to influence this unnecessary election.

Thanks Noel, I highly recommend this book by Carlo Rovelli. It is easily understood in the same way the video of the Brian Cox lecture in the “Coffee Break” is. I learn a lot from both of them as they help me to conceptualize the ideas and then I can study and develop them further.

Have a great week everyone!!

It’s a strange myth that atheists have nothing to live for. It’s the opposite. We have nothing to die for; we have everything to live for. – Ricky Gervais.