For many people who tread a humanist path, there is often a history of a traumatic and initially disenfranchising break from the religion of their upbringing. For myself and many others, there is one man who either eased the break somewhat or gave their faith a stay of execution. So...

The idea that that we live in a designed and created world died today. That is it died in my pretty little head. Don't get me wrong, I have never been a true adherent to the notion of the Genesis account of 6 days of creative fury by the big...

I must first start by stating that this blog is not a philosophical premise so much as it is the culmination of thoughts about language. Of late I have been torn between the idea that language is a key sign of higher consciousness in our species but that it is...

As we approach Christmas each year, I often find myself informally wondering why I celebrate this festival other than for tradition's sake and indeed the sake of my children. I have, over the years, kind of ignored the meaning of Christmas because, to be honest, I have not known what...

A lot has happened for Libya this week. Arguably, the most fulfilled revolution of the Arab Spring came to a gruesome conclusion in the popularly broadcast capture and death of Muammar Gaddafi.

I don't know about you, but I couldn't help being the far distant, western moraliser on seeing the...

I have been thinking today just how obsessed we are with the notion of evil. We are almost as obsessed with evil as we are with sex and pop stars. Our definition of evil is solid. We are all confident that we can point out something that is evil and...

Some people have asked me what I "do" if I "don;t do God". This following my last blog about my opinions on the dangers of theism and fundamentalism, fulfilled in the 9/11 attacks.

Well I have been trying to answer this question for a while and the best way to...

There has been somewhat of a shadow over this week. That is the shadow created when four planes and its passengers found their way into the twin towers, the pentagon and a field en route to the Whitehouse.

Many people have said it was the day when the world changed...

There are numerous aspects of the religion I was brought up in which annoy and even anger me. Perhaps the most undesirable, in my opinion, is the tendency to undermine humanity whilst using throwaway religious language that has little meaning or power to anyone. By far the biggest offender is...

We have all been utterly shocked over the last couple of weeks over the depths of depravity achieved by the British News Paper The News of The World. It would appear that in the darkest hour of murder victims families, terror victims families, families of killed service personnel, this Newspaper...