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Belief in TV
Ariane Sherine (of Atheist Bus Campaign fame) was on BBC Breakfast this morning (3rd December). She was discussing the Church's new Christmas Ad campaign (Nativity in a bus shelter) and the Christian representative made the most glorious defence of faith in God by saying, "I don't understand how TV works, but I believe it does."
As the kids say nowadays, I "LOL'D" all around the living room 
One law for all
The One Law for All campaign against Sharia law in Britain is to be launched at the House of Lords on International Human Rights Day, December 10, 2008 from 4:00 to 5:00pm.
A good read for gays - and for straight people
From Gay & Lesbian Humanist Magazine:
It's been a significant time for poetry and politics - and much else of course. And this is reflected in the second online issue of the newly relaunched Gay & Lesbian Humanist magazine, available now online.
Don't be fooled by Samaritan's Purse
Last year, I persuaded one of my local churches to withdraw their support for Operation Christmas Child, run by the Samaritan’s Purse charity, by explaining that its agenda is destructive. We still hear of local schools and organisations that are taken in by its ostensibly charitable purpose, encouraging children to fill shoes boxes with gifts for needy children overseas, unaware that they’ll arrive with a toxic message.
"Devout Christians" no more likely to do the right thing than anyone else
From Suffolk Humansts & Secularists Chairman David Mitchell:
On this morning's Andrew Marr Show, Carol Vorderman reviewed the papers and made a comment that I for one am pretty fed up with hearing.
She described the young parents of the recently born conjoined twins, who decided to take the pregnancy to full term despite knowing the children were conjoined, as “devout Christians”.
Below is a comment I sent to the show via the BBC website. As yet it hasn't made it amongst the criticisms of Jackie Smith's dire performance and given there's far more evidence of the BBC being a Christian conspiracy than a Liberal one I doubt it'll get aired.
Carol Vorderman's description on today's show of the young parents of the newly born conjoined twins who decided to take the pregnancy to full term as 'devout Christians' cannot go unchallenged. The clear implication of her throw away comment is that atheist or Humanist parents would have chosen to terminate the pregnancy. Moral decisions, difficult decisions, 'doing the right thing' and generally being 'good' are human characteristics and nothing to do with medieval religious superstition. Tens of millions of people know you don't need God to be Good so please stop equating good with Christianity. It's rubbish.
