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Alom Shaha
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It's been a while since The Young Atheist's Handbook was published but I've continued writing about Atheism and Humanism in New Humanist magazine and elsewhere and I have become a trustee of the British Humanist Association. However, I've been focussing on my work in science education and am proud to announce that Demo: The Movie, a film about how and why we should use demonstrations in science te
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“Religion allows people to ignore the needs of real beings in favour of the supposed wishes of a being that does not exist.”
― The Young Atheist's Handbook: Lessons for Living a Good Life Without God
― The Young Atheist's Handbook: Lessons for Living a Good Life Without God
“In many ways, accepting there is no God to provide meaning and purpose to our lives can, I believe, force us to create meaningful purposes ourselves.”
― The Young Atheist's Handbook: Lessons for Living a Good Life Without God
― The Young Atheist's Handbook: Lessons for Living a Good Life Without God
“It's an insidious idea, this notion that there is life after death. The promise of a reward in the afterlife has been used as an excuse to deny help to the poor, helpless and oppressed; to explain away human misery rather than deal with it. It is an idea that is used to encourage young men and women to kill themselves, and others, so that they can become martyrs. It allows victims of injustice to be told not to worry because justice will be done in the afterlife. It depresses me to think that so many people on the planet live their lives with this notion. Can we truly fulfill our potential as a species as long as we hold on to, and encourage, the perpetuation of the lie of life after death?”
― The Young Atheists Handbook
― The Young Atheists Handbook
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“The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then — to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn.”
― The Once and Future King
― The Once and Future King
