One Law for All Spokesperson Anne Marie Waters spoke at the National Secular Society Conference on Secularism on 10 September 2011.
Here is a podcast of her speech:
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Registration: 9.30am–10.00am. Conference: 10.00am – 5.00pm. Venue: Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, London, WC1R 4RL. Cost: NSS members: free. Students or unwaged: £2. All others £5. Other speakers include Jonathan Miller (British theatre and opera director, author, and TV presenter), Baroness Turner of Camden, Nick Cohen (Journalist), Evan Harris (Secular campaigner and former MP), and Baroness Warnock.
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Thank you
The Simple Answer to Ending the Terror – Plato Knew it years Ago Why have we not Understood.
The Real Culprits & Road to Change
As usual Humanity overlooks the real Culprits Religions of Certainty – The greater the Certainty the greater the danger to humanity.
These Religions of Certainty based on Foundation text which labels Other as not only less, evil, duplicitous but more importantly unable be swayed to change their minds either because God or the Devil have condemned them to such a condition.
This enables the genocide as represented by the 9/11 Terrorist attack and the recent responding Norwegian Terrorist Attack.
Instead of attacking Foundation Text and stopping the real culprit, as Plato pointed out so many years ago, from informing each new generation of hatred against Other – Otherphobia we continue to attack and destroy human beings their homes and dreams for the future.
It is so simple delete the Foundation Text of Religions of Certainty which informs adherents that evil against Other is OK and the Terror will end.
Otherwise broken bodies and dreams end in bloody conflict year after year.
9/11 after 9/11 after 9/11 after Iraq after Afghanistan after Pakistan after Indonesia after Malaysia after …. and as in the past another Terror group under a different name but exactly the same Foundation Text the cause.
Change the Foundation Text or the Tragedy so easily avoided continues.
The Secular Government as they have done in the past must advise Religions there is to be a review of Religious Text to remove such text which is enabling Terror and it is to be aligned to Modern Human Rights tenets.
Road to Change:
Understanding:
Foundation Text = Ethics = Ideas = Motivation = Action For and Against Other
There is no such thing as Freedom only the relative Independence Nature and Fellow Humanity allows
If Humanity took time, to take time to reflect on the meaning, purpose and utilization of ‘Clear Thinking’ prior to the creation of hardened bastions of prejudice and certainty, the future, which is all Nature, we and our children have, would be a much better place.
A Society to function in security and peace requires a common accepted ethical basis for its relationships otherwise violent schism will occur.
Action:
Establish specifically the Foundation Ethics of a Modern pluralistic Democratic Society which will inform Constitutions and Laws which will guide relationships. Based on Modern Human Rights Standards particularly as they apply to women.
Call together all religious faiths and interested secular bodies to establish the requirement vilification of Other to be removed and the status of Women to be raised to equality in all things with Man be instituted in Foundation Text which are used for the education of new citizens.
The Governments to utilize the expertise of the Legal, Human Rights, Psychology and Sociologist professions to assist Religions change their Foundation Texts to the required standards and advise Government regards a specific Religions concurrence and achievement in reaching the required standards.
Education of new citizens be it via Secular and Religious institutions be required to make sure no text vilifying Other is allowed to influence the nature of these new citizens. And these same institutions be required to instruct new citizens on the meaning, purpose and utilization of ‘Clear Thinking’ for the specific purpose of ridding humanity as much as possible of prejudice against Other.
If religions do not concur their status as a religion are removed and their ability to educate new citizens removed as much as possible from their sphere of influence.
As well any Governmental funding is removed and expenses for making sure they adhere to Societies requirements – which may even mean the costs of a internal Societies security services to protect fellow citizens because of their Foundation Text informing their adherents of evil against Other to be leveled on such a Religious Group.
Two things Process to change Foundation Text and Control of Education – In this way the possibility of the creation of hardened bastions of prejudice and certainty will be minimized if not stopped once and for all and with it the Terror and enormous waste of resources which can now be used for improving our lives rather than for just protecting them – with vast armies and internal security entities.
Thanks for your passionate speech on Saturday at the NSS. I had thought there was a depressing acceptance of dogma in the name of tolerance in this country. Your speech made me realise how bad it has become. I do need to understand what I can do to help your cause. As I work for a company that prides itself on religious tolerance, there’s an opportunity to raise the matter.
Another old leftie.
Hi Tony,
Thank you. Do you want to contact me at amwaters@onelawforall.org.uk and we can have a chat? Maybe we can discuss some ways to expand our message?
Thank you again.
Anne Marie