Editing Terry Pratchett (section)

===Views on religion===
Pratchett, who was brought up in a [[Church of England]] family,<ref name="Pratchett2014">{{Cite book |last=Pratchett |first=Terry |title=[[A Slip of the Keyboard]] |publisher=[[Doubleday (publisher)|Doubleday]] |year=2014 |chapter=The God Moment}}</ref> described himself as an [[Atheism|atheist]]<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |date=June 2008 |title=Terry Pratchett, Lord of Discworld, fights to save his powers |url=https://www.thetimes.com/article/terry-pratchett-lord-of-discworld-fights-to-save-his-powers-wm83n7twggb |website=[[Times Online]]}}</ref> and a [[secular humanism|humanist]]. He was a Distinguished Supporter of [[Humanists UK]] (formerly known as the British Humanist Association)<ref>{{cite web |title=Terry Pratchett OBE: Fantasy fiction author, satirist and distinguished supporter of Humanism |url=http://www.humanism.org.uk/site/cms/contentViewArticle.asp?article=2272 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070421224854/http://www.humanism.org.uk/site/cms/contentViewArticle.asp?article=2272 |archive-date=21 April 2007 |access-date=17 December 2008 |work=British Humanist Association website}}</ref> and an Honorary Associate of the [[National Secular Society]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Honorary Associates: Sir Terry Pratchett |url=http://www.secularism.org.uk/sir-terry-pratchett.html |access-date=26 May 2010 |work=National Secular Society website}}</ref>

Pratchett wrote that he read the [[Old Testament]] as a child and "was horrified", but liked the [[New Testament]] and thought that Jesus "had a lot of good things to say ... But I could never see the two testaments as one coherent narrative".<ref name="Pratchett2014" /> He then read ''[[On the Origin of Species]]'', which "all made perfect sense ... Evolution was far more thrilling to me than the biblical account."<ref name="Pratchett2014" /> He said that he had never disliked religion and thought it had a purpose in [[human evolution]].<ref name="Pratchett2014" /> In an interview Pratchett cites a quotation from the protagonist in his novel ''Nation'', "It is better to build a seismograph than to worship the volcano", a statement Pratchett said he agreed with.<ref name="Pratchett2014" />

Pratchett told ''The Times'' in 2008: "I believe in the same God that [[Albert Einstein|Einstein]] did ... And it is just possible that once you have got past all the gods that we have created with big beards and many human traits, just beyond all that on the other side of physics, there just may be the ordered structure from which everything flows."<ref name=":2" /> In an interview on ''[[Front Row (radio programme)|Front Row]]'' he described an experience of hearing his dead father's voice and feeling a sense of peace.<ref>{{Cite episode |number=1 September 2008 |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00d6tjk |title=Front Row |series=Front Row |series-link=Front Row (radio programme) |network=[[BBC]] |station=[[BBC Radio 4]] |date=1 September 2008}}</ref> Commentators took these statements to mean that Pratchett had become religious, but Pratchett responded in an article published in the ''[[Daily Mail]]'' in which he denied that he had found God, and clarified that he believed the voice had come from a memory of his father and a sense of personal elation.<ref name="Pratchett2014" />