Tag: National Secular Society
Violent Criminal Spared From Prison Because He Was Religious
By Matthew Moore February 3, 2010.
Print: Telegraph
A secular campaign group has lodged a formal complaint against Cherie Blair for allegedly sparing a violent criminal from jail because he believed in God. The wife of former British prime minister Tony Blair, and a current judge who sits under the name Cherie Booth QC, said that she would suspend Shamso Miah’s prison sentence because he was a “religious man.”
Tony Blair “profoundly wrong” to imagine religion as a peacemaking tool
National Secular Society September 10, 2009.
Print: National Secular Society
Tony Blair profoundly wrong to imagine religion as a peacemaking tool. Tony Blair’s claim that religion can bring peace and prosperity to the world has been challenged as profoundly wrong and counterproductive this week by the President of the National Secular Society.
