Good company for the godless...

Whilst I loved The Office, I've always had a bit of a disliking for Ricky Gervais. I know he's a comedian and being funny is what he does but he always seems to be playing the clown and, because of that, I find it hard, sometimes, to understand who he really is. I just wish he could be serious for a minute or two.

Today I read this article by him, entitled, Why I'm an Atheist; it's a well written and personal piece. I must admit, he's moved up in my estimation. He's included below in a (by no means exhaustive) list of atheists, many of whom I was pleasantly surprised to see there:

David Aaronovitch, Douglas Adams, Larry Adler, Dave Allen, Keith Allen, Woody Allen, Sir Kingsley Amis, Lance Armstrong, David Attenborough, Francis Bacon, Kevin Bacon, Iain Banks, Björk, Johannes Brahms, Howard Brenton, Jim Broadbent, Luis Buñuel, Richard Burton, Angela Carter, Sir Arthur C Clarke, Sir Noël Coward, Prof Brian Cox, Alan Cumming, Alan Davies, Russell T Davies, Richard Dawkins, Frederick Delius, Johnny Depp, Marlene Dietrich, Beth Ditto, Carol Ann Duffy, Christopher Eccleston, David Edgar, Harvey Fierstein, Jody Foster, Morgan Freeman, Stephen Fry, Bill Gates, Bob Geldof, Ricky Gervais, David Gilmour, Germaine Greer, Eddie Izzard, Dr Christian Jessen, Burt Lancaster, Hugh Laurie, Nigella Lawson, Bruce Lee, Armistead Maupin, Sir Ian McKellen, Arthur Miller, Dame Helen Mirren, Friedrich Nietzsche, Dara Ó Briain, George Orwell, Sir Michael Parkinson, Bruce Parry, Andy Partridge, Ivan Pavlov, Grayson Perry, Steven Pinker, Brad Pitt, Terry Pratchett, Philip Pullman, Peter Purves, Daniel Radcliffe, Claire Rayner, Keanu Reeves, Griff Rhys Jones, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Fyfe Robertson, Richard Rodgers, Oliver Sacks, Andy Serkis, Omar Sharif, George Bernard Shaw, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Clive Sinclair, Dennis Skinner, Arthur Smith, Robert Smith, Dan Snow, David Starkey, Juliette Stevenson, Robert Louis Stevenson, Matt Stone, Sir Alan Sugar, Quentin Tarantino, Peter Tatchell, Louis Theroux, Emma Thompson, Tracey Thorn, Michael Tippet, Sue Townsend, Alan Turing, Kenneth Tynan, Wynford Vaughan-Thomas, Gore Vidal, Lars von Trier, Roger Waters, Edmund White, Gene Wilder, Terry Wogan, Frank Zappa, Mark Zuckerberg.

Today's run at 13:46
Distance	4.06 km	Time	22:14
Pace	5:28 min/km	Cadence	79 spm