An integral part of our vacations had always been visiting architectural and cultural buildings. I cannot remember a single summer holiday in which we just vacationed and relaxed. The usual suspects always came up in our agenda: musea, historical cities, landscapes of importance, palaces, castles and châteaux, and of course, churches. Now, I wasn’t brought [...]

“Religion, in all its forms — orthodox, spiritual, progressive, open, conservative, all — needs to be eradicated from society.” An opinion very common to many outspoken atheists, especially those with bad personal experiences in their past. To turn the whole world, the whole of society, into a secular state of mind, is a pretty hefty undertaking, [...]

I don’t believe in spirituality, religion, God, that human beings aren’t the same as animals, in dieting, that all obesity is wrong, or that lanky figures are. I don’t consider people to have souls, transmittable through years and generations, and as such do not believe in reincarnation, ghosts, the undead, spirits, that people can talk [...]

To organise the mess that is my mind, I keep a little black book (an actual one) with me and scribble random thoughts in it. Sometimes it makes sense, sometimes you get things like this: “laissez-faire, status quo, self improvement.” Don’t know why I wrote it down, what the connection between the three was, or [...]

It’s a non-issue for me really, because I consider homosexuality to be the most normal thing in the world. Well, okay, I guess the spankings, the need to cross-dress, the urge to bring a little bit of “flair” into everything, having incredibly fantastic taste in almost anything, and the love of pop whores, aren’t the [...]