When I joined the National Secular Society (NSS), and was elected to serve on its governing council, I did so because I believed it was secular organisation. I believed its own claim that it was “Britain’s only national organisation working exclusively towards a secular society”. I assumed that its remit was to oppose the political influence of religion, and to maintain the principles of freedom of belief and freedom of speech that are inseparable from a truly secular philosophy. A secular society is one where religion can be mocked, ridiculed, and heavily criticised without any retribution from the religion itself (other than the right of its followers to respond to criticism), or from the state. It is certainly a fundamental facet of secularism that religious violence can and must be challenged, as well as any threat of religious violence. The National Secular Society has however shown that the issues central
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