Secularism

• Secularism - not concerned with religious or spiritual matters - a focus only on the events of this world
• "God is and illusion and the result of wish fulfilment" - Freud
• "The whole thing is so patently infantile, so foreign to reality that anyone with a friendly attitude to humanity it is painful to think that the majority of mortals will never be able to rise above this view. The religions of mankind must be classed as among the mass delusions" - Freud
• "The proofs they have left us are set down in writings which themselves bear every mark of trustworthiness. They are full of contradictions, revisions and falsification and where they speak of factual confirmations, they are themselves unconfirmed" - Freud
• "What is wrong with inciting intense dislike of a religion if the activities or teachings of that religion are so outrageous, irrational or abusive of human rights that they deserve to be intensely disliked?" - Rowan Atkinson
• "Parents who bring their children up to believe in a God should be classified as child abusers" - Rowan Atkinson
• "God is utterly evil, capricious and monstrous" - Stephen Fry
• "Bone cancer in children? Whats that all about?" - Stephen Fry
• "Religion is something for children to escape from" - Richard Dawkins
• "In short children have a right not to have their minds addled by nonsense and we, as a society have a duty to protect them from it." - Dawkins