I've just joined Living Without Faith

I've just joined "Living Without Faith". Not too many members at the moment, but it looks as if it will be interesting.

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'Been reading 'An Atheists Guide to Christmas' - something I pick up every December. Always a good book to dib into (note to self: see if I can get it on Kindle). My favourite so far is Clare Rayner's chapter. It's a nice easy book, but I must admit some of the chapters seem a bit, shall we say, apologetic. Not to worry. Off to find some more Dawkins! 'Bye for now. . .

To Live Without God Beliefs

Came across this great quote, which I also carry on my mobile phone. Just about sums it up:

To live without god beliefs is intellectually stimulating. To find one’s own purpose and be responsible for one’s own life is exciting. To be free of the imagined surveillance of good and evil spirits is liberating. To seek a peaceful world through work and friendship and civic action is life-affirming.

---- Marie Alena Castle

So who is she? (Thought: does it matter as long as the words ring true?) Anyway, I found this link to some TV & Radio interviews she made: http://www.scottmuir.net/pages/castle.html

If You Are Not Religious...

http://www.humanism.org.uk

God Hinting At Retirement

Thought this was a bit of fun - but then perhaps it's serious after all! At any rate, it's time we retired God anyway.

http://www.theonion.com/articles/god-hinting-at-retirement,17747/

Homaranismo - An outline

Homaranismo
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Homaranismo (roughly: "Humanitarianism" or "Humanitism") is an Esperanto word used by its creator, Ludwig Zamenhof, to describe his philosophy of human interaction and behaviour. Based largely on the teachings of Hillel the Elder, a 1st Century B.C.E. rabbi, Zamenhof originally called this philosophy Hillelism.

Zamenhof first described this philosophy around the year 1900 and published it anonymously in a brochure in 1906. He later published a revised version in 1913 under the name Homaranismo.

Find out more HERE.

Humanist Heroes: Ludovic Lazarus Zamenhof

Humanist Heroes: Ludovic Lazarus Zamenhof

http://www.humanistlife.org.uk/2010/06/humanist-heroes-ludovic-lazarus-zamenhof/

Wikipedia link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto

EAB - Esperanto Association of Britain
http://www.esperanto-gb.org/

How Guilty Do People Feel?

I came across this interesting article in the Daily Mail about how we deal with guilt these days - or seem to. I won't paraphrase here - just pop through and read it all for yourself.

Cardinal Newman, whom Pope Benedict will beatify when he comes to England in September, believed that God wired the human conscience, making right and wrong the same in any time or place. His, however, is now a minority view. Many more now agree with last year's bus poster campaign, devised by the British Humanist Association and supported by Richard Dawkins, which proclaimed: 'There is probably no God'.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive/article-1290607/What-Mafia-Sex-And-The-City-teach-guilt.html?ITO=1490