The following quotes by Professor Stephen Hawking are taken from Wikipedia: “There is a fundamental difference between religion, which is based on authority, [and] science, which is based on observation and reason. Science will win because it works.”
At the Grenfell Tower National Memorial Service held at St Paul Cathedral in London this morning (Thursday, December 14) it was announced that the service was for people of all faiths and none.
The Pink Humanist is an online magazine published by the UK LGBT charity the Pink Triangle Trust (PTT). It features topics of special interest to those who identify as atheists, freethinkers, humanists, secularists and sceptics in the LGTB communities and those who support them.
Gay Christians have given a cautious welcome to Archbishop Justin Welby’s apology to LGBT people yesterday. This followed his decision to punish the US Episcopal Church for supporting same sex marriage.
Raif Badawi has won the European Parliament’s Sakharov prize for human rights. Badawi is the Saudi Arabian blogger, writer, activist, and creator of the website Free Saudi Liberals, an online platform for political and religious debate.
The Pink Triangle Trust (PTT) has roundly condemned the University of Warwick’s Student Union for banning one of its patrons from addressing the University’s Atheists, Secularists and Humanists Society. The address was to have taken place next month.
Sophie in ’t Veldt MEP has been appointed a Patron of the Pink Triangle Trust (PTT). Sophie has been a Member of the European Parliament for D66, the Dutch social-liberal party, since 2004. Currently, she is the Vice-Chair of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE) and a member of the Civil Liberties, Justice & Home Affairs Committee, of which she is the ALDE spokesperson.
