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A C Grayling: An antidote to the prevailing superstition
Friday, 20 February 2009
The launch of a national federation of atheist, humanist and secular student
societies is one of the brightest things to happen this winter.
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It is a good augury for the future that some of tomorrow's leaders are making a
commitment to rational and ethical outlooks free of superstition. It promises
hope of a world where faith – ultimately the opposite of reason – and dogma
will not distort public debate in the interests of sectarian prejudice but
where everything from public policy to the personal making of good lives will
be the work of free and open minds.
Among the notable things about the launch at London's Conway Hall, attended by
students from all over the country, were these: that a high proportion of those
attending were science students, and a main reason why atheist, humanist and
secularist groups are springing up in our universities is that they are a
response to assertively proselytising religious groups, many of them externally
funded and encouraged.
Why so many of the new activists among non-religious students should be
scientists is obvious. Science is as much a mindset as a body of knowledge; its
premise is that thought is to be guided by publicly testable and rationally
consistent evidence. The discipline of this approach makes short work of the
foundation of today's religions, which lie in the ignorance of people living
several millennia ago. This critical, evidence-based, enquiring mindset also
thinks afresh about the good for human lives and societies; it is this
responsible motivation which most naturally accords with science at its best.
The other reason – the response to aggressive proselytising by religious groups
– is prompted by a typical scenario: religious groups at freshers' fairs
fastening on new students who are, perhaps, away from home for the first time,
overwhelmed and nervous in the scary environment of university, surrounded by
people making loud efforts to appear sophisticated, and in need of a friendly
hand. The hand ceases to be friendly when the fresher wakes up to the
limitations accepted in the moment of vulnerability. The non-religious groups
aim to give a cheerful welcome and support without the baggage of having to
think someone else's thoughts and follow someone else's rules as the price of
fellowship.
The author is professor of philosophy at Birkbeck College, London
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