Terry Sanderson confirms what I wrote in a recent post about the National Secular Society not being about pushing religion from just the public sphere, but about railing against religion wherever they can.

Commentators at the time pointed out that many religious people were also secularists. If they are members of the NSS I would advise them to get out, as they are nothing but "human shields" for Sanderson & Co's illiberal agenda.

See also Ekklesia

Comments

[joe90]

Here is an interesting article,
where a US politician stands out from the herd and basically publicly declares himself a 'g-dless' freak -
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=72&ItemID=12433>The First Openly Godless Member of Congress
by Ellen Goodman
ZMag.org
27 Mar 2007

That's the end of his career!
Aparantly, over 90% of Americans believe in the existence of angels, amongst other weird stuff with very high polling figures (which is the really scary part)

For more insight into this 'g-d thing', here is Prof Chomsky with some of his usual sparkling observations (under the sub heading 'On Religion') -
http://www.chomsky.info/debates/20060301.htm>Science in the Dock: Discussion with Noam Chomsky, Lawrence Krauss & Sean M. Carroll
chomsky.info
01 Mar 2006

And Osama flagged up this article before, but I thought I'd do so again, it's so interesting -
http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,,329726771-103602,00.html>Faith
Stuart Jeffries
The Guradian
26 Feb 2007

And some blogger bloke called lenin -
http://leninology.blogspot.com/2006/03/marxism-religion.html>Marxism & Religion
01 Mar 2006

I just thought people may be as interested in this topic of secular fundamentalism as I am. I am glad Osama brought it to my attention and there have been some wonderful comments on the matter here on his blog.

All the best!