We are The Invisibles

 

Today brings the latest wheeze devised the Christians to use the Met. to promote their simplistic superstitious propaganda in a comic for the kids.

This is us demonstrating outside Scotland Yard though we know that no-one will see us or hear our point of view, but we will do it just the same.

What young people need is lives that are so full of interesting things to do that they will find drugs, drink, vandalism and crime a poor substitute. They don't need comics- promoting superstitious notions that did not work in the past, do not work now and cannot work in the future, because they are a con. to distract from what they really need, which is a society that values and cares about them.

Will these religious nuts get public funding and organisational help in promoting their dangerously mistaken view that crime can be solved by frightening people by divine retribution?     Probably.

Morality is a function of society - alienated youngsters are angry when the society does not recognise their needs and does not respect their rights. It is nothing to do with belief in gods and ancient scriptures or getting  brownie points towards entry into heaven.

The Christian church has shaped the cruel and punitive attitudes of our society that have always failed to curb  crime. Any brief look at history will show how violent and abusive the religions have been, and they still are whenever they become strong.

Do we really want a missionary  police force?

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This is a few of us standing outside the BBC:-

.......because to the BBC we are not only invisible, but inaudible as well.

No doubt if we were like the religions and threw a few bombs about or took hostages, insisted on obedience to our views, with laws and punishments to enforce them, or having dedicated atheists, secularists and humanists in the House of Lords, our own schools and organisation to intimidate politicians, we too might get our foot in that big door and make our views known whenever the religions have their say.

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This is us outside a Church School:-

We want every child to be able to go to a good secular school in their locality without having to be taken by car or travel unnecessarily especially in the morning rush hour.

We think children have a right to honest and objective teaching on every subject, including religion, opinion should be taught as opinion  not fact.

If they are opted-out the alternative should be interesting and worthwhile. This way, parents might want to opt for the alternative e.g. how to resolve dilemmas, or 'A child's guide to philosophy'.

Parents have a right to expect their children not to be inculcated into superstitious beliefs in school and be forced to use faith schools because they are the nearest especially if they have several children and do not have a car.

Teachers too have a right not to be discriminated against on grounds of their belief or way of life.

And the wider society has a right to the safety of a cohesive community, that is not riven by sectarianism and the bullying that often goes when children do not learn to mix.

 

 

Who are we?

We could be called a spin-off of the 'Brights in Britain' - but the notion of atheists, secularists and secular humanists as 'Brights' is totally at odds with the reality, even in Britain.

An Atheist Cult?

We are, if anything invisible and inaudible. But we are here in the cyber-world, and have ways of making ourselves at least partly visible in the real world.

We choose any venue to suit the issues on on which religions interfere with our freedom from religion and affect many areas of life

No-one sees us, no-one hears our strange rational opinions, based on the evidence of history and current affairs, observation, experience and fact are little represented in public life for fear of offending the god believers.

No-one wants to admit what fools they are to have been duped by superstitious beliefs for so long. Only as we  slowly drag ourselves away from this stultifying mumbo jumbo is real human progress being made with genuine quality and freedom that includes the human rights of  women and children, sexual minorities, the poor, disabled and disadvantaged.

We think we should be totally honest and realistic and present ourselves for what we are -  people who have avoided or escaped the religious conditioning of our cultures. We are free thinkers - thinkers free from doctrine and dogma -free from the inculcated superstitions of gods and  religions.

We are  individuals who are prepared to go against the grain of induced beliefs and look at them in the light of reason, observation, the experience and evidence of history and current events.

Our views are not new. They were first explored by the ancient philosophers of Rome and Greece, Lucretius, Seneca, Epicurus and they have had repeated flowerings through the centuries - small groups of men with the protection given by their status, wealth, power and education.

Our ideas could never flourish in such stony ground, because religion is too valuable a tool for the ruling elites who need the worship of and absolute obedience to  great leaders to exert control over the populations they rule.

Our  ideas have not only not been allowed to develop, but have been ruthlessly suppressed by the dominant religions through the centuries. They do this in their own interests and the interests of the other elites with whom they collude - monarchy and  government, the military and now global capitalism.

They reinforce their control through the law, politics and social policy, through tradition and culture, though individuals and families, through the indoctrination of children and the fear of god.

Atheism and its Suppression

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