Reasons for God’s “existence”, not meant to be taken seriously (although many believers do). Hundreds of Proofs of God’s Existence Formerly: Over Three Hundred Proofs of God’s Existence Hours of entertainment – click the link… Hundreds of Proofs of God’s Existence. Tags: Humour, God, God’s+existence

E-mail: mail@suffolkhumanists.org.uk Event description: BBC Radio Suffolk presenter Rachel Sloane will phone Suffolk (and Cambodian) Humanist Nathan Nelson in Siem Reap, Cambodia, to talk on air about what he’s doing there. BBC Radio Suffolk’s FM frequencies are 103.9 (Ipswich), 104.6 (west Suffolk), 95.5 (Lowestoft), 95.9 (Aldeburgh). It’s not available on medium wave or DAB, but you can listen live online – see link below. Further info: http://www.bbc.co.uk/suffolk/local_radio/index.shtml

E-mail: mail@suffolkhumanists.org.uk Event description: Margaret Nelson will talk about the Scout Association’s discrimination against non-religious young people with presenter Rachel Sloane and the Scouts’ County Commissioner. BBC Radio Suffolk’s FM frequencies are 103.9 (Ipswich), 104.6 (west Suffolk), 95.5 (Lowestoft), 95.9 (Aldeburgh). It’s not available on medium wave or DAB, but you can listen live online – see link below. Further info: http://www.bbc.co.uk/suffolk/local_radio/index.shtml

We used to conduct gay weddings in Suffolk – by “we”, I mean our Ceremonies Team. When they introduced legal partnership ceremonies, the demand for Humanist ceremonies ceased abruptly. Now it looks like civil ceremonies are losing popularity too. The number of gay weddings has plummeted by more than 50 per cent in the past year. Civil partnerships became legal for homosexuals in December 2005, allowing them to acquire the same sorts of tax and pension rights as straight married couples.

Thought for the Day, BBC Radio Suffolk, Saturday 2 February 2008 Thirty-odd years ago, I met a suffragette. She’d known the Pankhursts – Emmeline and her daughter Christabel, who led the Women’s Social & Political Union, popularly known as suffragettes. Although Mrs Birnberg was an old woman when I met her, she still felt as strongly about women’s rights as she’d ever done and was scornful about the young women who didn’t use the vote that she and other women had fought for.

Join the International Humanist and Ethical Union and the American Humanist Association for the 17th annual World Humanist Congress in Washington DC at the L’Enfant Plaza Hotel. This exciting event will be held June 5-8, 2008, with extended activities June 4 and 9. Plenary sessions include topics on human rights, bioethical issues, religious reform, freedom of conscience and expression, Humanist approaches to social problems, and many others. Speakers include IHEU President Sonja Eggerickx, AHA President Mel Lipman, Maryland State Senator Jamie Raskin, Feminist Majority Foundation President Eleanor Smeal, Rob Boston of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, Lori Lipman Brown of the Secular Coalition for America, and many others to be announced.

Go to the Independent’s website to sign a petition calling on the Foreign Office to use its influence to prevent the execution of Sayed Pervez Kambaksh for “blasphemy” in Afghanistan. Sentenced to death: Afghan who dared to read about women’s rights – Asia, World – Independent.co.uk. A young man, a student of journalism, is sentenced to death by an Islamic court for downloading a report from the internet. The sentence is then upheld by the country’s rulers.

E-mail: mail@suffolkhumanists.org.uk Event description: Margaret Nelson provides a Thought for the Day on BBC Radio Suffolk for 2 minutes sometime between 7.25 and 7.35 am. BBC Radio Suffolk’s FM frequencies are 103.9 (Ipswich), 104.6 (west Suffolk), 95.5 (Lowestoft), 95.9 (Aldeburgh). It’s not available on medium wave or DAB, but you can listen live online – see link below. Further info: http://www.bbc.co.uk/suffolk/local_radio/index.shtml

It takes quite a lot to make Richard Dawkins look like a charitable, kindly injured innocent, but the trick has been managed by a ghastly group calling themselves the Pilgrim Baptist Church, who run a funeral oration site and (though the Prof is in robust health) have announced Dawkins’ memorial service for Friday, pronouncing “Richard Dawkins has proven to be one of the most wicked human beings to ever walk the earth” (hard luck, Hitler).

E-mail: mail@suffolkhumanists.org.uk Event description: Margaret Nelson provides a Thought for the Day on BBC Radio Suffolk for 2 minutes sometime between 7.25 and 7.35 am. Today’s will be about Darwin Day – the anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin. BBC Radio Suffolk’s FM frequencies are 103.9 (Ipswich), 104.6 (west Suffolk), 95.5 (Lowestoft), 95.9 (Aldeburgh). It’s not available on medium wave or DAB, but you can listen live online – see link below.