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Richard HollowayWhat's wrong with religion? Ask a bishop

Plenty of people outside religion believe they know what's wrong with it, but we decided to ask an insider – the former bishop of Edinburgh Richard Holloway, whose excellent new memoir Leaving Alexandria (Canongate) details how doubts about his faith, frustration at vicious in-fighting and the church's repressive attitude to sex led him to leave organised religion behind. Here's what he told us.


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Q&A: Shazia Mirza
Taboo-busting comic Shazia Mirza has combined an international reputation for close-to-the-bone gags with a belief in Islam. But now she faces her greatest challenge as she submits to New Humanist’s very own inquisition
Curiouser and curiouser
It means both inquisitive and odd, and drives human discovery. Philip Ball traces a curious history
The death of American secularism
Who is America's leading secularist? Thats right, there isn't one. And if someone effective doesn't start speaking up for the seperation of church and state soon, it could be lost for good, argues Jacques Berlinerblau
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