LWith understanding that freedom of
religion or belief includes theistic, non-theistic and atheistic beliefs, as well as the
right not to profess any religion or belief
Final Document
of the International Consultative Conference on School Education in Relation with
Freedom of Religion and Belief, Tolerance and Non-Discrimination
http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu2/7/b/cfedu-home.html
Quote of the week: (National Secular Society Newsline - 14
April 2002)
"Although the Church cannot be blamed for what its priests
do, it is to blame for all the cover-ups.
Such a high level of
abuse didn't happen by accident: it required tacit collusion"
- Mitchell Symons, Daily Express.
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Quote of the week: (National Secular Society Newsline - 29
April 2002)
"One television news bulletin is - or should be - enough
to show that most of the miseries and atrocities in the world today have to do with
religion. People all over the planet have enough faith, or think they do, to kill and maim
and bomb and rape and rob."
- Minette Marrin, Sunday Times
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Quote of the week: (: National Secular Society Newsline
12 May 2002)
"The gods we make in our own image are tribal gods. They
tell you how very, very little you should tolerate outsiders, who are less favoured of the
Lord. Amazingly, there are no recorded cases of the holy man going up the mountain and
finding that it's the others who are right. It always turns out that God wants unbelievers
to suffer, and what could be more noble than to help him a little? When religion rules,
toleration disappears, for you cannot cherish the verdict of death to the infidels,
yet also tolerate those who disagree - for those are the very same
infidels.." -
Simon Blackburn, Independent on Sunday
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Quote of the week: (National Secular Society Newsline 12 May
2002)
"It is most essential that Muslims embrace and develop two
most important things: modernity and a liberal frame of mind. We have allowed ourselves to
be manipulated by bigots who possess a strange vision of Islam"
editorial in 'Dawn' (Pakistani periodical)
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Quotes of the week: (: National Secular Society Newsline
2 June 2002)
"The 20th century, with its millions of supernumerary
dead, has been called the age of ideology. And the age of ideology, clearly, was a mere
hiatus in the age of religion, which shows no sign of expiry. Since it is no longer
possible to disparage any single faith or creed, let us start disparaging all of them. To
be clear: an ideology is a belief system with an inadequate basis in reality; a
religion is a belief system with no basis in reality whatever. Religious belief is
without reason and without dignity, and its record is near-universally dreadful. It is
straightforward - and never mind, for now, about plagues and famines: if God existed, and
he cared for humankind, He would never have given us religion."
- Martin Amis, Guardian
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Quotes of the week: (: National Secular Society Newsline
9 June 2002)
"Religion, whatever its consolations, makes for hideous
governance." -John Lloyd, New Statesman
"Do not the troubles of the Middle East, India and
Pakistan, and Northern Ireland show that to carve out artificial territories on the basis
of religious differences is a recipe for disaster?"
-
Raj Kothari, The Times
Quote of the week: (National Secular Society
Newsline 7 JULY 2002)
"The British will never understand George Bush until we realise that he is a more
genuinely religious man than Osama bin Laden"
Tony Parsons, Daily Mirror
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