David Cameron, and the dangers of being agnostic.

It's a sad time for atheist. Christopher Hitchens, one of the finest minds of his generation, has died. And now we've got this bullshit.

So David Cameron has explained that he thinks that the UK needs to revert to it's "traditional Christian values" in an effort to "counter Britain's "moral collapse" ".

Interestingly, and pleasingly, 2 of my friends who don't know each other both reacted with the phrase "Fuck Off Cameron" to this news story.

Depressingly, however, I worry about whether he is wrong or not. Or at least whether the majority of the UK would perceive him to be wrong.

In the most part my Facebook is well educated and enlightened. I would hope that it is also mostly atheist (or at least agnostic, but we are about to get to that) and the absolutely crucial thing is that it understands why it is, and needs to be, atheist.

See, I worry that while a high majority of the UK might consider itself to have "no religion", that it's not because they are enlightened.

It's simply because they can't be bothered.

See having a faith means quite a lot of hard work. There is praying. There is attending services. There is abstaining from the world's finest pleasures.

I think a lot of people who now consider themselves to have no religion do so because they can't be bothered to go through the rigmarole and effort.

They still want to get into heaven though. They still think their dead grandparents have gone to a 'better place'. They still want there to be something else beyond us.

That's what worries me. These people are not atheists. They want to believe. And that is dangerous.

I always think that the aforementioned Christopher Hitchens actually presents a much more convincing case for why you shouldn't want to be religious, rather than why religion is incorrect. Detractors from him would often point out that much of his argument rested on God being a terrible thing and bad for humans, but that regardless whether he was right about that, he couldn't disprove that God was actually there.

Hitchens articulated anti-religious sentiments in a far more effective way than I ever could. And I would highly recommend watching any of the many videos on YouTube to any agnostics. (For full on Christians you can't beat a bit of Dawkins or Sam Harris).

Just as a simple example, David Cameron notes that we are built on Christian values, but ethically that argument never stands up. I mean, we can talk about the ten commandments telling us not steal or kill people or covet our neighbours stuff.

But come on, you're saying the human race just thought murdering and stealing was OK before God came down and said "don't do that"?

If you want their to be a higher power always aware of your thoughts and judging you because of them, then you might as well be a slave.

It is not enough to be agnostic. Being agnostic means you are always going to open to the lies of religion.

The UK needs to understand that we only have this one life. And it is fleeting, so make the most of it. And make it as pleasant as possible for yourself and everyone else. We don't need a religious moral code, we just need to be decent human beings. We are all we have.