What makes atheists such whiners and naggers; those people who will ruin every dinner party with their incessant talk about Darwin, the God question, the latest “news” concerning the stupidity of the Vatican, why secularity should be maintained in government, and more of that utterly useless and unnecessary stuff?

“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 [...]

Whenever I’m around Christians, or “people of faith,” I am reminded of how different I live my life from the way they do. I have no Bible to give me answers about life — I find them myself. No bishop, priest, pastor, is around to tell me what to believe, what choices to make or [...]

I’ve been non-religious for some time now. It has served me well — mostly the ability of being able to define for myself what my feelings towards a certain issue is, has been liberating. Also, the ability to live my life according to how I want to live it, and not according to people who [...]