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Martin Willett: atheist campaigner.

Whilst being an atheist since 1974 it was only when I got to see the antics of believers on the internet that I decided that something has to be done. The cosy view that truth will always win because it is the truth needs to be challenged. It is complacent. People get far more attached to comfortable well crafted lies than they ever get to the simple truth. Religion is dangerous, it should be confronted and not given a free ride.

There can be no freedom without freedom of thought and religion attacks this freedom head on.

I have described myself in the past as an atheist missionary. This was a joke that went over the heads of religious believers. Atheism is not a religion: it is a stance not to have a religion. Saving people from the mind slavery of religion is a political act and a humanitarian duty. Atheist and secular activism is not religious activity, it is political action required because religious people feel no shame in shoving their religious beliefs into everything they come across.

Whilst I have in the past been directly campaigning on the streets (in England, Wales, Scotland and the USA and I was arrested for chaining myself to the railings outside the Houses of Parliament) today all my campaigning is done online. I have run my own website since August 1999. Check it out.

Some people think it is worth commenting on my age or appearance. Trying to make the world a better place is not only for the young, the beautiful and the empty-headed. Neither is YouTube.