Seems one under God you laugh out load a lot, maybe roll on the floor laughing too.
And your self confidence is on display but not shared by me.
See you seem to fear honesty and truth, compared with 50 or even 10 years ago atheism is indeed growing.
On my way home from a charity job today I tuned in to ABC radio national.
The story was about the bigotry involved if a Catholic wed a non Catholic, dreadful stuff but bigotry within religion is not new nore is atheism.

Yes Belly, Atheism is on the rise. However I hate the idea that not believing in religious fairytales must have a name at all!
Atheism sounds like another religion to me.
I am a skeptic myself, and would rather not join any group at all.

My father was a protestant (non-practicing) who married my strict Catholic mother 50 years ago. In order for them to be married in a Catholic Church, my father had to agree (and sign a declaration)to actively ensure all children of the marriage would be brought up as Catholics.

My poor mother was made to feel inferior by being asked to stand in the small side chapel area of the church to get married, because she was not allowed to marry a non-Catholic man in the main church.

I always thought Christians all worshipped the same God? Why then should God be upset at one Christian marrying another sort of Christian, like my parents?
A load of crock really!

Dear JB,

Thank You for the two links.

I must say that the list of speakers is very impressive
and from their credentials it should be a very interesting
Convention.

I for one will be watching the media and waiting for the
promos to appear. I've already circled the dates on my
calendar for next year - and I think it will simply be
a matter of choosing which events to attend.

Well done David Nicholls!

I do have one question - has your organisation actually applied
for any Government funding for this event. Surely, there must
be some category out there - under which you'd be entitled to
apply and receive funding?

im never quite sure what came first your athiesm/or the flawed vtheory of evolution that underpins it...wondering how many decieved by both...would be so sure of their faithlessness...were evolution disproven

so rather that put this on the two current evolution theads...that again have the evolutionists stalled..for want of fact/science...lol

anyhow ask your dorkins..how he feels about the atlas of creation...specificlly the guy he refuses to debait...yet took the bait
http://tr1.harunyahya.com/Detail/T/EDCRFV/productId/17945/DAWKINS_HAS_TAKEN_THE_BAIT

refuted in 4 volumes..many of the so called proof's...lol

here are some links..fossils rebutted
http://www.fossil-museum.com/fossils/
its full of pictures

so even dumb athiest/evolutionists will''get it''
http://tr1.harunyahya.com/Detail/T/EDCRFV/productId/9601/RICHARD_DAWKINS__AND_DAILY_HURRIYET_S_IGNORANCE

complete rebuttal of ambiogensis...first life..by chance..
read/rebut this one
http://www.darwinism-watch.com/index.php?git=makale&makale_id=1859

missing link
http://tr1.harunyahya.com/Detail/T/EDCRFV/productId/18097/DARWINISTS,_FIRE_AT_WILL!_

index of other rebuttals
http://www.harunyahya.com/en.m_categorie_76.php

so where you athiest stand...without the evolving deception/theory

how about you ask the question

but its all about attracting the sheeple
into the god free belief/relief system...

based on deceptions and fraud...but whats the under-lying adgenda?..
http://www.harunyahya.com/en.m_categorie_76.php
http://tr1.harunyahya.com/Detail/T/EDCRFV/productId/658/FASCISM:THE_BLOODY_IDEOLOGY_OF_DARWINISM
http://tr1.harunyahya.com/Detail/T/EDCRFV/productId/3984/THE_SOCIAL_WEAPON:_DARWINISM

suzeonline in truth you highlight exactly how I feel.
I often duck threads started by this ones author, being as much against organized Atheism as Church's.
We all of us, fall for baits from Christians and other reildgions, even anti reildgions groups.
I suspect our indignation that the great good in humanity is so willingly given as evidence a God did it.
Yes men get it wrong, are often truly evil, but we have done great things too.
The story you told is one of a few I heard about yesterday, and many more I already knew about.
Just 50 years ago the church ruled us, in every thing including school life.
That same church, all Church's, was then, before, and now assaulting children in its care.
Putting the fear of death into people, tools used? as today threats promises fear bullying and lies.

suzeonline has expressed my feelings exactly.

If Atheism is going to become another group with a barrow to push we go down the same road of the religious zealots and missionary agendas.

To what purpose?

Atheism is on the rise for very good reasons. IMO to make atheism a movement in itself would appear to counteract the very nature of atheism.