However, UUs will be interested to read the article Doug Muder has written, A Church That Would Have You As A Member: A Humanist Guide to Unitarian Universalism. Doug, who writes for UUWorld and The Weekly Sift, provides a guide to UUism for nonbelievers, and discusses what type of nonbeliever will fit in at a UU Church and who will want start running and screaming toward the door.

The philosopher Charles Taylor, co-chair of the accra commission, points out that Quebeckers are not the only society of lapsed Catholics to show an attachment to religious traditions without necessarily embracing the doctrine. Millions of non-practising Germans continue to pay confessional taxes, for instance, even though simply declaring themselves as non-Catholics would spare them the expense. The most secular societies in the West also “retain the vestigial public reference to God in public space,” Prof. Taylor writes in A Secular Age .

Researchers believe redheads are more sensitive to pain because of a mutation in a gene that affects hair color. In people with brown, black and blond hair, the gene, for the melanocortin-1 receptor, produces melanin. But a mutation in the MC1R gene results in the production of a substance called pheomelanin that results in red hair and fair skin.