The better half and me had one of our little adventures yesterday when we went “over the water” as the locals say here.

We went to a baby naming ceremony and saw our good friends new arrival Robin being officially named.

It was a non religious, humanist ceremony and we both really enjoyed it. Everyone attending wrote a few words of advice for Robin in a book that she’ll be given when she’s eighteen and left our thumbprints on a picture for her.

I’m really in favour of this approach. It means that Robin will be able to make up her own mind about religion when she is old enough to have formed an opinion. 

For me that’s just an essential part of the whole freedom of choice thing - the refusal to blindly follow systems or beliefs just because we are born into them. 

The humanist Fellowship just offer an alternative to people who are spiritual. moral and want the best for the human race but who don’t identify with religion. 

SFM are doing the same thing I always think - offering people an alternative way to live their lives. 

A way that offers more freedom, choice and possibility that the “tried and tested” (and now very broken) system that has been in place for ever. 

A way that, as the humanists say, unites us rather than dividing us.

It’s a very good thing to be part of …..

Cheers!