EU atheist-freemason summit ‘very odd’, says Europe’s chief unbeliever
Atheists would rather there were no summits with them or the churches
Leigh Phillips - 21.10.2010
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - The first ever summit between representatives of secularist, atheist and masonic organisations and the leaders of the European Union’s three main institutions was “very odd,” Europe’s top unbeliever has said.
On Friday (15 October), leaders from what the European Commission describes as “philosophical non-confessional organisations” met with the presidents of the European Commission, Parliament and Council to discuss their views on poverty and social exclusion. The first meeting of its kind, it is the secular counterpart to the summits the three institutions are now obliged by the Lisbon Treaty to regularly have with religious leaders.
David Pollock, the president of the European Humanist Federation, told EUobserver that his organisation is against the idea of the meetings but went along to balance out a previous EU meeting with religious figures.
“There is no reason why we as atheists or freemasons, any more than religious leaders, have any particular expertise on poverty reduction strategies. There were a series of fairly predictable expressions of outrage that citizens remain in poverty and demands for greater solidarity but nothing especially specific in the way of any strategy. There was lots of good will and not a great deal else,” he said.
“It was all a bit odd.”
Tags: Atheism, Grand Orient, Humanism
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November 4th, 2010 at 5:48 pm
I wish both critics and proponents of atheism would stop calling atheists “non-believers.” They are no more suited to that title than anyone else. Theists for example are non-believers when it comes to the meta-physical vacuum believed in by atheists. Once you believe in a proposition it is an unavoidable necessity that disbelieve in that proposition’s opposite. Hence we are all equally believers and disbelievers in one respect or another.
November 4th, 2010 at 6:57 pm
Not only that, they are as obsessed with God to a level that outdoes a seminary student. It is on their minds, it seems, all day, every day. God this; God that. All the time. It’s a secret love affair and a toxic marriage all in one.
November 5th, 2010 at 9:26 pm
Yep. My new mantra is fast becoming this: Agnostics are a dime a dozen but in the chest of every atheist beats the heart of a religious man.