How do you make any sense of history, art or literature without knowing the stories and iconography of your own culture and all the world's main religions?

My Lords temporal, today is the day to rise up against the regiment of Lords spiritual and proclaim the values of enlightenment, compassion and common sense.

Art and literature are my surrogate religions.

People want the right to die at a time of their own choosing. Too many families have watched helplessly as a relative dies slowly, longing for death.

But instead of standing up for reason, our government is handing education over to the world of faith.

There is all the difference in the world between teaching children about religion and handing them over to be taught by the religious.