Atheists Have Moral Reflections Too | Sue Blackmore | guardian.co.uk
An online petition is hoping to persuade BBC editors to open up Thought for the Day to non-believers I've always enjoyed Thought for the Day (TFTD), that two-minute spot in the middle of Radio 4's Today programme, which seems to be a brief respite from the hard news, and a chance for someone to give moral or ethical reflections on current events. The trouble is that only religious speakers are invited. Rabbis, priests, imams, chaplains, and monks are there, but never humanists, agnostics, or atheists.
Why not? Wouldn't it be better if they were? Morality is not the sole prerogative of the religious - there are even reasons to think that the irreligious are more moral. So why shouldn't we be invited to speak on TFTD?
An online petition is hoping to persuade BBC editors to open up Thought for the Day to non-believers I've always enjoyed Thought for the Day (TFTD), that two-minute spot in the middle of Radio 4's Today programme, which seems to be a brief respite from the hard news, and a chance for someone to give moral or ethical reflections on current events. The trouble is that only religious speakers are invited. Rabbis, priests, imams, chaplains, and monks are there, but never humanists, agnostics, or atheists.
Why not? Wouldn't it be better if they were? Morality is not the sole prerogative of the religious - there are even reasons to think that the irreligious are more moral. So why shouldn't we be invited to speak on TFTD?
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