Diary
Age of Stupid screening in Ipswich
Monday, Apr 13, 2009Franny Armstrong’s film about climate change, starring Pete Postlewaite, will be shown at the Hollywood Cinema, Ipswich, on Sunday 26th April at 4pm, 6pm and 8pm. Go the Age of Stupid website to see a trailer, and more.Easter, or whatever you call it
Saturday, Apr 11, 2009I was going to write about Easter, for the benefit of those who’ll ask things like, “And what do you poor atheists do at this time of the year if you don’t believe in Easter?”, but I’m too busy gardening. However, Cath Elliott’s saved me the bother. I will get around to writing an informative and educational page about the Spring Equinox Festival eventually.What God means to them. What does it mean to you?
Thursday, Apr 9, 2009The New Statesman asked various people what God means to them. What does it mean to you?The atheist bus campaign, and hell
Wednesday, Apr 8, 2009The campaign was the idea of comedy writer Ariane Sherine, who’d seen some Christian bus ads with a link to a website with an unpleasant message. How unpleasant? Judge for yourself. I especially dislike the bit about God’s wrath if you reject him – You will be condemned to everlasting separation from God and then you spend all eternity in torment in hell. Jesus spoke about this as a lake of fire which was prepared for the devil and all his angels (demonic spirits) (Matthew 25: 41).The Daily Mail some history
Tuesday, Apr 7, 2009By David Mitchell What the proprietorship of these papers is aiming at is power, and power without responsibility the prerogative of the harlot through the ages. Those were the words of Stanley Baldwin, quoting his cousin Rudyard Kipling in the years leading up to the Second World War. Nothing much has changed in certain parts of the press and Humanists and other visitors to this website will have read about the furore caused by the scurrilous article in the Daily Mail on 20th March by James Chapman making wild and inaccurate accusations against the BHA.Urgent response required extreme religion in the classroom
Tuesday, Apr 7, 2009A few years ago, while visiting a local high school, one of the girls told me that her little sister had been told that their parents would go to hell because they were atheists. Who told her? Her primary school teacher. Did they complain? I believe they did, though I don’t know what the outcome was. In another local primary school, a class had been doing some science about colours. The head teacher visited the classroom and was admiring a picture of a rainbow.Murphy OConnor No.10 petition
Monday, Apr 6, 2009If you don’t want Murphy O’Connor in the Lords, have you signed this petition?Open-mindedness, by Qualia Soup
Sunday, Apr 5, 2009First meeting in our new venue AGM, 14th April
Wednesday, Apr 1, 2009A newsletter with the agenda and reports is attached. We’ll be at Pinewood Community Hall from 7.30pm on 14th April – see the events calendar (right) for a map and directions. SH&S News April 2009 A4.pdf (262 KB) Not sure about PDF files? Easy-peasy!New Gay & Lesbian Humanist magazine online now
Tuesday, Mar 31, 2009The latest issue of Gay & Lesbian Humanist magazine is now online at www.gayandlesbianhumanist.org. With a nod to Christopher Isherwood, we say “Hello to Berlin” – the Berlin Film Festival, to be exact. Some of the mixed bag of fascinating movies that were seen there will no doubt be worth looking out for when they are shown at British film festivals, and we take a look at 21 offerings through the eyes of our man in Germany, Colin de la Motte-Sherman.