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“The knowledge exists by which universal happines can be secured; the chief obstacle to its utilisation for that purpose is the teaching of religion. Religion prevents our children from having a rational education; religion prevents us from removing the fundamental causes of war; religion prevents us from teaching the ethic of scientific co-operation in place [...]

“[Children] are so useable in Christianity.” — Becky Fisher, Jesus Camp What a bitch! You know, I had watched Jesus Camp before, but I cannot remember being so appalled (appalled I say!) by these evangelics. Believe me, I am this time. Perhaps I missed all the ridiculous claims they made the first time ’round, but [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]