As an antidote, Berlin's government brought in a non-religious ethics course a year later.For Berlin's beleaguered believers, this was both threat and opportunity.
That gap dwarfs the gap of four-tenths of 1% of GDP in non-religious charitable donations.Of course, money is not everything.
Most non-religious people would, of course, affirm these principles we have named.
Clearly, the Muslim parents and non-religious paediatricians who disagree on which course of action would be in the best interest of their critically and incurably ill child may feel committed to seemingly similar, but actually quite different principles.
Universal adoption of the new calendar was not automatic, of course, and numerous other religious and non-religious calendars have been in play over the centuries.
Kate Bielby and her 12-year-old daughter, Daisy, from Frome in Somerset, are one of three humanist families bringing the case to try to have non-religious beliefs included for in-depth study on religious studies courses.
Together we might not agree on theology, but we do agree that good policy allows for all people regardless of their religious or non-religious identity to follow their own faith and conscience when directing the course of their life.
He suggested that such a course should be giving students information about atheism and other non-religious viewpoints.
Of course religion isn't the only source of atrocity -- Stalin and Pol Pot demonstrated that non-religious ideologues can hold their own against the religious sort when it comes to crimes against humanity.
"Of course, as humanists, we don't believe we will," says Ted Stroud, one of about 170 non-religious officiants in the UK presiding over atheist funerals, baby-naming ceremonies and weddings.
Second, the course embraced its pluralism: the course took place at a pluralistic, secular university, and students and professors hailed from various religious and non-religious backgrounds, and yet we were able to discuss (and often debate) together the great normative traditions' visions of the good life.
