Diary
AGM, but dont let that put you off
Friday, Mar 6, 2009Please note that we’re moving from Castle Hill Community Centre to Pinewood Community Hall, on the other side of Ipswich, and from the second Wednesday of the month to the second Tuesday. The usual stuff – reports about our finances, etc., and the election of officers and committee members, then a discussion about our plans for the coming year – we’d love your ideas and suggestions, so please come and share them.East Anglian sceptics
Thursday, Mar 5, 2009Cath Elliott has written a piece for the Guardian’s Comment is Free website about a Theos survey on faith and Darwin, which indicates that East Anglia is “full of atheists”. So far from being the Sodom and Gomorrah that religious folk would no doubt have the godless east pegged as, according to the latest British Crime Survey (pdf), “The East of England region had the lowest rates of overall recorded crime and violence against the person and amongst the lowest rates of burglary and offences against vehicles.Campaign against sharia law in the UK
Wednesday, Mar 4, 2009This Saturday, the day before International Women’s Day, the One Law for All Campaign against Sharia Law is organising a demonstration and public meeting in Central London. Maryam Namazie emailed: We are looking forward to seeing many of you at the anti-racist London rally against Sharia and religious-based laws in Britain and elsewhere and in defence of citizenship and universal rights in Trafalgar Square from 3:30-4:30pm. You can find posters that have been prepared for the rally by Dan Simon and Reza Moradi on our website.Evolution for dummies, by Susie Smartypants
Wednesday, Mar 4, 2009IHEU update
Wednesday, Mar 4, 2009This is a monthly update of news from International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU). You can find the full versions of these news stories on their web site. Visit www.iheu.org/newsletter to subscribe. One Law for All – anti-racist rally – London, 7 March 2009The One Law for All Campaign against Sharia Law in Britain will hold an anti-racist rally in London on 7 March 2009. The rally, opposing Sharia and religious-based tribunals and laws in Britain and elsewhere and defending citizenship and universal rights, will be held in Trafalgar Square from 3.Keep Murphy OConnor out of the Lords
Friday, Feb 27, 2009From today’s NSS Newsline: Murphy O’Connor must not be given a peerage The Times reports today that the Government is considering offering a peerage to Cardinal Cormac Murphy O’Connor, who is soon to retire as leader of the Catholic Church in England and Wales. This will be the first time a Catholic cleric has sat in Parliament since the reformation. The Times says that “The prospect of offering Cardinal Murphy-O’Connor a life peerage is understood to have been discussed during Gordon Brown’s meeting with the Pope at the Holy See last week.Dont complain, be happy
Thursday, Feb 26, 2009The National Federation of Atheist, Humanist and Secular Student Societies
Friday, Feb 20, 2009The AHS is an umbrella organisation which represents atheist, Humanist and secular student societies in the United Kingdom.Atheist, Humanist & Secular Student Societies
Friday, Feb 20, 2009After our dismal failure to excite any of the students at University Campus Suffolk about a secular students’ society (we haven’t given up though), and the reports of science students who won’t accept evolution, it’s heartening to hear that there’s still some freethinking on British campuses. Hurrah for the AHS! Read about it in The Independent.Evils not supernatural
Wednesday, Feb 18, 2009The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.