tisdag 22 april 2014

Brittiska Humanisterna har tagit  initiativet till ett öppet brev, signerat av 55 namnkunniga personer, till premiärminister David Cameron. Bakgrunden till brevet, som publicerades i The Telegraph och därefter fått stor uppmärksamhet i brittisk press, är att Cameron sagt att Storbritannien är en “kristen nation” .

British Humanist Association skriver mer om detta och deras president Jim Al-Khalili kommenterar där initiativet:

‘As people who value reason and evidence in public policy and fairness and secularism in our political life we wrote this letter as a result not just of one recent speech and article but of a disturbing trend. Politicians have been speaking of our country as “a Christian country” with increasing frequency in the last few years. Not only is this inaccurate, I think it’s a wrong thing to do in a time when we need to be building a strong shared identity in an increasingly plural and non-religious society.’