Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers sing the first song in the Atheist Hymnal.

Our latest newsletter is here for you to download with articles on the Pope’s visit to the UK, an Indian Humanist’s opinion of Mother Teresa, Skeptics in the Pub, and suffering. There’s also news about our next meetings and Peter Tatchell’s forthcoming TV programme. This is from Denis Johnston’s article on suffering: We are alive during the first period in history where were able to substantially control physical painand because we can do that we can also reduce the mental pain associated with having to endure watching the suffering of others.

Suffolk Humanists and Secularists members are receiving car stickers this month. They’re printed with an easy-to-remember URL. Anyone who investigates will find it leads them to several sources of information about Humanism (click on the image to see where it takes you). An increasing number of people are either fed up with religion altogether, they’re indifferent towards it, or they’re rather confused. Maybe some of them will be pleased to know that there are many others who feel as they do, and that it’s not difficult to live a good life without religion.

One of us will be on James Hazell’s programme to talk about the Pope’s visit to the UK, and why we shouldn’t be paying for it out of our taxes.

If you missed Margaret Nelson on James Hazell’s BBC Suffolk programme this morning, talking about the Pope’s visit, you can listen again later online. Click here to go to the BBC website. The item is at the beginning of the programme. For an alternative view of the Pope’s visit, see The Daily Mash.

I’ve written to the East Anglian Daily Times, as follows: Having just heard the Popes speech on arrival in the UK, Im absolutely furious. Its bad enough that were paying tens of thousands of s for his promotional tour when the Governments telling us were broke, then one of his minions describes us as like a Third World country ironically, the mans supposed to be a diplomat. Now those of us who dont have a religious faith are aligned with the Nazis.

Review: The New Atheism Taking a stand for Science and Reason, by Victor J Stenger. Prometheus Books NY. Michael Imison Victor Stenger is an American particle physicist, now retired to Colorado University, where he is an adjunct professor of philosophy. This book is the latest of ten or more well-received popular polemics he has written exploring the interface between physics and religion. In this work he takes as his starting point the series of best-sellers which started with The End of Faith by Sam Harris (2006) and continued with Dawkins The God Delusion, Dennetts Breaking the Spell, and Christopher Hitchens God is not Great.

The cats can relax. Now that the Popes gone home, Ive stopped shouting at the TV. Who does he think he is, coming over here and telling us were aggressive secularists, and why does he imagine that the thousands of people who live here quite happily without religion have no morals? As for all that rubbish about atheists and the Nazis he obviously reads the wrong history books. Ive complained to the BBC about the coverage too much of it, too biased, too silly.