On this date in 1975, biblical scholar and atheist Francesca Stavrakopoulou (Stav-rah-kah-poo-loo) was born in Bromley, Greater London, to an English mother and a Greek father. “I wasn’t brought up religious at all. There were people in my family who were different flavors of Christianity, but not in a going-to-church-all-the-time kinda way. Or the bible being read every day. Just that kind of cultural Christianity that so many of us grow up with in Western society.” (What I Wanna Know online, Aug.