KeplersDream

* * * URGENT NOTICE * * *

Due to a recent and devastating personal tragedy, I shall no longer be taking an active part in this channel until further notice. This is extremely unlikely to change, at least for the forseeable future.

I had so many plans for this channel. Sadly, they were not to be.

"One day, I shall come back; yes, I shall come back. Until then, there must be no regrets - no tears, no anxieties. Just go forward in all your beliefs, and prove to me that I am not mistaken in mine."

Thank you all for your patience at this deeply distressing time.
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[ I am currently involved in creating the first of (hopefully) a series of videos with the aim of promoting atheism, as well as shining the light of reason and reality upon tenets of religious belief.

And having a damn good laugh along the way.

(I confess to being a YT-uploading virgin, so please  be gentle with me while I'm trying to get going. Thanks.) 

***UPDATE***

It's taking me rather longer than I intended to do this, and it didn't help when I lost all my work after a massive system crash! I'm back on it now though, and I'm slowly piecing things back to a reasonable shape. I hope!]

So - why KeplersDream?

Some time around 1611, Johannes Kepler wrote and circulated what has been called the first science fiction story. In it, he described a wonderful voyage to the Moon and men walking on its surface. The story was eventually published after his death as Somnium - ''The Dream.''

The narrator in the story used his mother's knowledge of magic to travel to the Moon, which may have led Kepler's real mother Katharina to be arrested and charged with witchcraft. Although she was freed after a six-year battle by her son, several other suspects were not so fortunate.

We have the privilege of living in an age in which Kepler's Dream is our reality. Mankind *has* walked upon the surface of another world. The scientific advances that Kepler helped to pioneer would seem like magic to the man himself. Yet Kepler would be forgiven for thinking that little else has changed since his day. We are still in a world in which the revelations of science are threatened with the flames of religious ignorance. Science is still being viewed as something evil, something to be feared, by the superstitious who deny reality and those who seek to profit from them.

It falls to us to fight the spread of the religion mind-virus, if we hope to leave a dream for our children to realise.