Dawkins to present secular prize |
Best-selling author and leading biologist Richard Dawkins will present this year's NSS Irwin Prize for Secularist of the Year. Tickets for the lunchtime presentation are going fast, so if you want to ... Posted by Friends of the NSS on Mon, 27 Aug 2007 01:52:00 PST |
Religious paedophile goes free |
Outrage as serial abuser escapes jail because he is "a man of faith"A predatory paedophile walked free from court yesterday after admitting a string of sex attacks on children, including an 18-month-o... Posted by Friends of the NSS on Mon, 27 Aug 2007 01:47:00 PST |
Petition Against Faith Schools |
There is an important petition on the Prime Minister's website calling for the abolition of faith schools. Please sign it and spread the word about it.
It is very safe and also easy do, simp... Posted by Friends of the NSS on Sun, 26 Aug 2007 04:15:00 PST |
Gays to blame for all the rain |
According to the Rt Rev Graham Dow, Bishop of Carlisle, God was provoked into sending the storms that have trashed Britain. What provoked him? On God's hate list are recent laws that have undermined m... Posted by Friends of the NSS on Mon, 02 Jul 2007 09:23:00 PST |
The Root of All Evil? |
Is religion the root of all evil?
Or is it just one expression of evolved human behaviour? The impulse to fight over territory and resources is as old as humans themselves - and even ol... Posted by Friends of the NSS on Mon, 02 Jul 2007 07:01:00 PST |
Have sex, get punished |
From the NSS website:Sexually active unmarried women? Let them die in agony, say Christian activistsFundamentalists Christians from the Christian Institute and Christian Voice organisations have spoke... Posted by Friends of the NSS on Sat, 23 Jun 2007 05:22:00 PST |
Atheism or Apathy? |
From Newsline, the weekly free email newsletter of the NSS:
An article by Gregory Paul & Phil Zuckerman in The Edge challenges the widely-held belief that there is some kind of worldwide religious... Posted by Friends of the NSS on Thu, 24 May 2007 03:39:00 PST |
Getting started |
These are some of the things we believe in:This life is the only one for which we have any evidence-based knowledge and human effort should be directed towards its improvement. Secularism seeks to spr... Posted by Friends of the NSS on Fri, 20 Apr 2007 04:08:00 PST |