About

This is the personal website of Gavin Orland. I was born in England in 1973 have lived in mostly in London since 1991.

I have long been interested in the process of rational analysis and in ethics – this led me to read Philosophy at the University of Durham in 1994. Prior to this I had studied advertising and design in West London.

I come from a happy family and am not motivated solely by money.

I’m a Humanist and care about the state of the society I see around me and often reflect upon it here on this site. I’m a conservative Humanist, if anything, and am against leftist, appeasing, multiculturalists, whom I regard as näive at best (cowardly at worst). As such I find myself in a minority among non-believers.

I am on the whole proud of the achievements of the West and sick of hearing that we need to apologise about everything. I’m pleased the USA is the world’s number one superpower and hope it is not supplanted by China or North Korea (then the lefties really would have something to worry about).

I’m against political correctness and believe it is important to defend reason and compassion against superstition and faith. While I’m completely open minded to evidence, I’m against any kind of superstition, from tetraphobia to feng shui, ghosts, rain dances, ionized bracelets, astrology, lucky charms, magic spells and religion. There’s extremely strong evidence that these are all completely unfounded.

I’m especially concerned about religion, which I regard as baseless, arrogant, unnecessary, demeaning, stultifying, backward, irrational and in many ways immoral. As such, I consider faith to be the equal number one obstacle to peace and the primary threat to humankind in the world today. Its partner in crime is the nihilism and laissez-faire morality embraced by many leftist liberal atheists – this hands ammunition to religious believers and directly aids the decline of Western civilisation.

I am also against PR spin and idiotic advertising, by the way, which are other kinds of lying.

Sometimes I make my own music. Other things I enjoy include:

• Science
• Keeping fit (I go spinning & lift weights at least four times a week)
• Cinema
• Travel
• History
• Classical art
• Current affairs

After a further year’s weight-training I intend to take up Taekwondo too.

My writing on this site is essentially humanist in nature but does tend to make uncomfortable reading for those who have been mindwashed by political correctness or religion. I edit what I write whenever I like – revisiting, honing and improving. I do not permit comments on my articles unless they are of a sufficiently high intellectual standard and are politely written. I hope you find my articles an interesting read!