Anyone who reads the piece “Flanders will be secular or it will not be” by Jurgen Slembrouck of the University of Antwerp will get a textbook example of the dogmatic urge to proselytize that atheists display. The title doesn't lie: they will only be satisfied when everyone rejects religion and confesses that the Enlightenment is the only true doctrine. No, atheists don't need lessons...
RIP Stephen Hawking, myth and atheist
Yesterday Stephen Hawking, physicist and scientist, but above all myth and cult figure, passed away. It will probably not be appreciated by many for saying this, but the combination of a fantastic brain in an extremely vulnerable body has contributed to the fact that he is spoken of in superlatives yesterday and today. He is often mentioned in the same breath as Einstein...
Johan Braeckman preaches in his own church
In a blog on deredactie.be, Johan Braeckman, a known humanist, analyzes the claims of David Dessin and Khalid El Jafoufi regarding the statements of Stephen Fry. Johan wants to do this in a quasi fact-based manner, but ignores certain things that I would like to point out. For example, he states that David and Khalid find it difficult to make statements about Fry's...

