Sometimes I wonder what it would be like not to be in the minority for once. It’s so difficult to imagine for me, seeing as I’m in multiple minority positions. There is the gay issue, the fact that I’m an atheist, the struggles I’ve had with being perceived as “foreign” because of my mixed ethnicity, [...]

For many believers, my opposition to religion is unacceptable, strange and meaningless, but somehow theists do find a little bit of respect for it — not in the sense that they also believe it, or that they even find it a possibility or fact, but in the sense that they can (somewhat) respect my opinion [...]

Whenever I’m discussing religion, it is not my intention to ridicule the beliefs of people who consider God to be a supreme being of unchallenged power; who see the Bible as the true representation of this being on this earth — an earth which was created by the same supreme being mentioned before, according to [...]

“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, [...]

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 [...]

Those out there claiming to be “the true Children of God” are in the witness box today. It’s not fair to only question God, when many of my issues are related to what his faithful followers, you, are doing on a day-to-day basis. Don’t worry, my questions concerning you are less spiteful (I think). I [...]