Watford Area Humanists

Watford Area Humanists is working with the British Humanist Association to celebrate International Humanist Week, from June 21 to 27.

Special materials with information about Humanism and with examples of significant Humanist personalities throughout history will be displayed at Watford Central Library, Hempstead Road, Watford, Hertfordshire WD17 3EU.

Library opening hours are: 10am to 8pm Monday to Friday, 9am to 4pm on Saturday and 1 pm till 5pm on Sunday.

For further information, please contact John Dowdle, President of Watford Area Humanists on 01923-252013 or by email on john.dowdle@watford.humanist.org.uk.

Further information about humanism is also available on the Humanist life web site.

Watford Area Humanists are delighted that our local Police Force, namely Hertfordshire Constabulary, has appointed two Humanist lay advisers to the Chaplaincy support team.

Pam Burn and Ray Owen are highly experienced Humanist Celebrants.

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The Watford Area Humanists are committed to protesting against the Pope’s state visit in September of this year.  We will be working with other groups to try to stop or curtail it significantly.

Current Pope Joseph Ratzinger was heavily involved in Read more »

In my in-box I occasionally receive requests to link to areas of the internet that may be of interest to members. Spencer has kindly suggested the “Symphony of Science”.  This is a musical project headed by John Boswell designed to deliver scientific knowledge and philosophy in musical form.  You may find it entertaining and informative so please go see if you like it.  Here’s the link http://symphonyofscience.com. Enjoy!

This is my response to a recent article in the Watford Observer.

Dear Editor,

There are religious “spin” items in the February 26, 2010 edition of The Watford Observer.

Patrick Boyle (In Good Faith – Politics cannot heal society) suggests there is an anti-Christian bias in British society and cites Hitler and Stalin – who he claims were atheists – as being responsible for appalling acts of tyranny and genocide as a basis for claiming that only Christian truth and ethics place a high value on human life. Read more »

A few of us Watford Area Humanists made it to the Pope Protest, London for a Secular Europe on 14 Feb 2010.  A few photos were taken, click on the thumbnails below and enjoy! Read more »

Better late than never, but here is an alternative Christmas song for your enjoyment.

Performed by British-born Australian comedian Tim Minchin. Also worth checking out is his most appropriate anti nonsense material, a beat poem called “Storm”. I’ll leave a YouTube Link here for you to follow. Enjoy!

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Darwin day conversation at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History.

Video here.

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As promised in my previous article “A de-conversion story” here are the details of various Atheist Web Sites and You Tubers.

Web Sites

Lets start with a little humour.

• http://www.venganza.org - Home of the “Flying Spaghetti Monster”.
  

  His Holy Noodleyness

  Pastafarianism or FSMism is an amusing parody of religion and does a great job of explaining the fallacious logic of ID proponents. If you want a laugh, pay a visit.

  May you be touched by his noodley appendage.

  RAmen

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I would like to encourage fellow members to write articles for this web site and so – to get the ball rolling – I thought I’d start by giving my own account of why I now lack belief in god or gods.
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