I am putting together a secular bible. My Genesis is when the apple falls on Newton's head.

Look at the blogosphere - the biggest lavatory wall in the universe, a palimpsest of graffiti and execration.

Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little place for lives and ways that are too eccentric.

...mastery of the emotions is fundamental to a virtuous life.

Misuse of reason might yet return the world to pre-technological night; plenty of religious zealots hunger for just such a result, and are happy to use the latest technology to effect it.

Humanism is the philosophy that you should be a good guest at the dinner table of life.

Inculcating the various competing - competing, note - falsehoods of the major faiths into small children is a form of child abuse, and a scandal.