Comments on: What I believe: Interview with Andrew Copson

By: Geoff

Geoff — Wed, 29 Jun 2022 18:52:47 +0000

“attaching of value to human live” We also urgently need to recognise the need to protect the natural world, possibly even at the expense of ourselves to some extent. If we fail to do that, the eco-system may well fail and that will take us all down with it.

There is a limit to what this planet can support in terms of human numbers and we have, I believe passed beyond that limit!

By: Vrijdenker

Vrijdenker — Sat, 04 Jun 2022 13:55:28 +0000

In reply to Steuart Campbell. I am happy to accept the label of "Freethinker" but much less so "Atheist". After all that's merely saying that I am not a Theist; not much of a broader worldview in that position. "Humanist", on the other hand, is a much better term for depicting a non-religious, naturalistic, rational life-style.

By: Steuart Campbell

Steuart Campbell — Sat, 21 May 2022 10:42:09 +0000

In reply to Bob Forder. hear, hear! to Bob Forder. I'm not a Humanist as I don't know what it means (I'm just human), but I am a secularist and atheist (and er...a Freethinker).

By: Bob Forder

Bob Forder — Wed, 11 May 2022 16:07:39 +0000

Splendid interview with important insights. Humanist UK’s campaigning is of great value in defending and promoting secularism but it is worth mentioning that the National Secular Society has been campaigning on these and similar matters for over 150 years… and still is.
Freethinking a very nineteenth-century word. Come off it! Whether it’s Thomas Paine “my own mind in my own Church”, or Chapman Cohen “the rejection of authority in matters of belief”, what can be more important and relevant in an era when liberal values and free speech are under assault?