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Christians Believe That God Created Man, And Humanists Believe That Man Invented God. But Whichever Way You Look At It, We're Brothers And Sisters. Either We're Brothers And Sisters Because We're Children Of God, Or Because We've Banded Together To Invent God. So The Ethics Of The Humanist And The Ethics Of Some Christians Are Very Similar. And We Don't Want To Create Divisions Between Humanists And Liberation Theologians, Any More Than We Want Between The New Worker And The Trots. It's Not Helpful.

Change Always Follows The Same Pattern. If You Come Up With Something New They Try And Put You Off.if That Doesn't Work They Call You Stark Raving Bonkers.if That Doesn't Work They Lock You Up Like The Suffragettes.then, After A Pause, The Change Happensand You Can't Find Anyone That Doesn't Claim To Have Been Fighting For It With You.

Change From Below, The Formulation Of Demands From The Populace To End Unacceptable Injustice, Supported By Direct Action, Has Played A Far Larger Part In Shaping British Democracy Than Most Constitutional Lawyers, Political Commentators, Historians Or Statesmen Have Ever Cared To Admit. Direct Action In A Democratic Society Is Fundamentally An Educational Exercise.

Experience Is The Only Real Teacher And If You Keep A Diary You Get Three Bites At Educating Yourself - When It Happens, When You Write It Down, And When You Reread It And Realise You Were Wrong. Making Mistakes Is Part Of Life. The Only Things I Would Feel Ashamed Of Would Be If I Had Said Things I Hadn't Believed In Order To Get On. Some Politicians Do Do That.

I Met Somebody Once Who Said, "i'm A Lapsed-atheist" By What He Meant Was, "i Don't Believe In God But The Older I Get The More I Realise There Is A Spirituality In Everybody That Has To Be Cherished And Nourished." That Made A Lot Of Sense To Me.