Even before it opened yesterday, the Global Atheist Convention – claimed as perhaps the biggest-ever atheist convention – had an impact, with the launch of a coalition of atheist groups in universities across Australia…
The convention, which opened last night and runs until Sunday, features the world’s best-known atheist, Richard Dawkins, biologist P. Z. Myers, Muslim activist Taslima Nasrin and philosophers A. C. Grayling and Peter Singer. Comedians are prominent among the 30 speakers…
”Atheism is not a despondent outlook as painted by the faithful,” Mr Nicholls said.
”Atheism is a co-operative way forward for humanity, it is the recognition that this life is the only one available and we must all live it and let others live theirs to enable everyone to reach their full potential.”
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