Member Frees Herself From Religion.

Cheryl a member with us over at FACEBOOK
posted this as a recent response to a status update. It speaks for itself .... Good on you Cheryl.

Cheryl posted this in response to our standard welcome note. 

Welcome new arrivals to the baddest assed atheist group you're ever likely to join -

What a person believes isn't really an issue or any other person's business. It's more what a person does with their belief which makes it relevant by infringing upon another in any way.
We can be contacted via http://www.antitheists.co.uk/. first page.

The rights of an individual to practice their faith ends where the rights of another to not be encroached upon begin.

Mission:

Non violently oppose religious doctrine which promotes hate, prejudice, non free thinking and where it causes harm. Not singling out any particular faith. Where the faith causes harm no longer can people of sense and reason stand by and be perceived to respect their dogma through this perceived unspoken agreement to not speak out for fear of causing offense. There is nothing we could say or do to come close to the offense the doctrines of faith create to those of us with any sense of decency, fairness and love of all humanity. Ironically unlike the many conditions the faiths place upon their acceptance of certain people and groups our respect for humanity is unconditional beyond neither hurting another or depriving another. If it harms none then do as you will.

Islam and Judaism are seen as minority groups in the West and as racist far right organisations target these groups whilst hiding behind the banner of anti-religion, we have and want no association with such hateful groups and do all that is physically possible to prevent such groups or their members using our page as a vehicle for their hate.

Church Tax Exemption Costs 2.5 Million University Places

Church Tax Exemption Costs 2.5 Million University Places

The 71 billion is an estimate calculated by Tampa University and reported by Secular Humanism. The $28k is an average cost calculated across several reports, this excludes student's living expenses and other such costs.

Endemic Child Abuse. Cameron Ambushed Live on TV by Phillip Schofield.

Endemic Child Abuse. Cameron Ambushed Live on TV by Phillip Schofield.

Following recent allegations that child abuse cases in North Wales children's homes were unsatisfactorily investigated, a further investigation has been called as a result of a review called for by Cameron. The review established that pertinent facts were overlooked in the initial investigation.

Senior MPs from Maggie Thatcher's era are named as frequent visitors to the area and prolific abusers of the children, yet complaints of this by the children were ignored and not included in the initial police investigation. A man who claims to have been abused as a boy by a senior Conservative has accused William Hague of "stifling" a 1997 paedophile inquiry by preventing it from examining claims beyond the care system in north Wales.
Since the news of Jimmy Savile, always a strange man, but amazing man for the amount of charitable work he did, especially for Stoke Mandeville Hospital which was close to where I come from. After his death he has been shown to be a prolific abuser of children, leading to his family removing his gravestone, all his awards looking to be stripped and considering his tv persona and work on tv with kids has shocked and sickened a nation.

The Savile case begs the obvious questions, who at the BBC knew what, when and why wasn't something done about this a lot earlier?  The suspicion of course and the most obvious, is that abuse on the scale we are seeing from organizations in addition to the Vatican and Catholic church reaches right to the very top and is therefore covered up and swept under the carpet.

On being questioned live on TV Cameron was ambushed with a list of names by presenter Philip Schofield. Without looking at the list, he responded with "I've heard all sorts of names being banded around and what then tends to happen is, of course, everyone sits around and speculates about people. Some of whom are alive, some of whom are dead."

As much as this sounds more something from conspiracy corner, it's not, the evidence to date infers almost without doubt that the establishment from the bottom to the top is instrumental in obstructing justice for the abused.

The shadowy and secretive organization "The Family" where the founder believed that god gave him a new revelation saying that Christianity had gotten it wrong for two thousand years and that what most people think of as Christianity, as being about, you know, helping the weak and the poor and the meek and the down and out, he believes god came to him one night in April in 1935 and said what Christianity should really be about is building more power for the already powerful. And that these powerful men who were chosen by god can then if they want to dispense blessings to the rest of us, through a kind of trickle-down fundamentalism.

The leader of the family stated raping three little girls would not make a member a bad person, because the usual rules do not apply. You can see the interview with the author of the family here. RACHAEL MADDOW

The republican sex offenders list makes for lengthy reading and something else they seem to share with the religious organizations they are so closely affiliated.  SEE THE LIST HERE.

The scandal that the Vatican deals with cases under canon law, where no DNA or anything of real investigative value is used, has always led to ideas that abuse at the level it is happening reaches right to the very top and given unprecedented protection.

Has this always been the case, and that the speed at which people can now share information means we are far more aware, rather than this being a new endemic problem?




For your copy of The Family. Please click below.

Third Party Debate. - Jill Stein and Gary Johnson.

The third party debate, the debate where you actually might hear something sensible that you agree with. The younger generation and their interest in a third party choice might indicate a change for the next election.  Admirable people like Johnson and Jill Stein have fought as much as they are permitted to and you can only admire their conviction.

Third Party Debate - Jill Stein, Gary Johnson.

"We should do unto others as we'd have others do unto us," Johnson's said in response to a question on foreign policy. He said that US foreign interventions have killed countless civilians, and unnecessarily created millions of enemies.
Johnson said the US must "set the example" worldwide and use its diplomatic influence, not military force.

Stein proposed that the US implement a foreign policy based on "international law, human rights and diplomacy," instead of its current policy of invading countries for oil and dominating militarily. After a decade of war, trillions of dollars and thousands of lives lost, she said, we have only witnessed a further expansion of war and the failure to create stable democracies.

She also said that the US must set an example for its allies by respecting human rights and international law. She pointed to the US relationship with Israel and Saudi Arabia – two countries known to regularly violate international law that Washington rarely calls to account.

The current tensions with Iran, Stein said, are indicative of a "short-sighted" foreign policy. Iran may or may not develop nuclear weapons, she said, but several Middle Eastern nations already possess that technology and do not follow international nuclear nonproliferation standards. She proposed an "even-handed and equal" approach, which would eventually create a nuclear weapons-free Middle East and world.
Stein argued that American diplomacy should focus on the country's most serious threat: Climate change.
(RT)