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Our events are FREE for all LHG members (membership is £15/£5 for the year, see our Join page),
£2 per meeting for non-members.

Date

Theme

Venue

7.30pm, Wednesday 8^th April 2009

The Liverpool Humanist Group presents

Charity Quiz Night

In aid of the Mustard Seed School in Uganda

All Welcome

Entry £2

The Mustard Seed School is LHG’s charity for the current year. It is a secondary school run on Humanist principles of free enquiry and rationalism.

The quiz questions will focus on religion, philosophy and related subjects and there will be exciting prizes to be won! All proceeds from the quiz will be donated to the Mustard Seed School.

The Vines
(aka The Big House),

81 Lime Street,
Liverpool,
Merseyside,
L1 1JQ
(Please note change from previous venue)

Map

Quotations
'One is often told that it is a very wrong thing to attack religion, because religion makes men virtuous. So I am told; I have not noticed it.'

Bertrand Russell, "Why I Am Not A Christian," Little Blue Book No. 1372 edited by E Haldeman-Julius.

May 2009

tbc

Quotations
“Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”
Douglas Adams

Future Ideas for Meetings & Events

Debate

Consumerism

Debate

Multiculturism

Debate

The Effects of religion on gay rights

Recently the belief that to be gay is wrong and against the teachings of the bible have been expressed by some religious groups & individuals, how does this affect our society and do they have the right to such freedom of expression, and to try and influence policy making?

Debate

What is Religion?

Debate

The Social Function of Religion

Sea of Faith

Debate

Humanism & Existential Spirituality

Debate

Religion is no good for women

Debate

Can war be justified?

Debate

Do humanists have a position on capital punishment?

Do Humanist's agree on everything? what about such issues as capital punishment?

Debate

Euthanasia

Euthanasia is illegal in the UK, yet suicide is no longer. Do we have a right to voluntary euthanasia?

Debate

What meaning in life have we discovered as humanists?

Philosophical debate about our search for meaning in our lives.

Debate

Religion & Society

Imagine that tomorrow religion no longer existed, what would our society be like, what would happen individually and in the wider context?

Debate

Religion and Science: Where is it leading to?

Religious groups are having more say on such important issues as stem cell research? Are groups allowed to have such influence when there are implication of this for now & on future generations?

Debate

Censorship - the right to free speech.

Are there limits to free speech? Should there be? What are the distinctions between freedom of expression and incitement to religious hatred?

Debate

The pros & cons of religion?

Debate

Religion & politics

Debate

Religion in personal relationships

Looking at the effects and issues on personal relationships where one partner is religious and the other isn't.

Quotations The ministers are in duty bound to denounce all intellectual pride, and show that we are never quite so dear to God as when we admit that we are poor, corrupt and idiotic worms; that we never should have been born; that we ought to be damned without the least delay.... The old creed is still taught. They still insist that God is infinitely wise, powerful and good, and that all men are totally depraved. They insist that the best man god ever made, deserved to be damned the moment he was finished. Robert Green Ingersoll, "Some Mistakes of Moses"

Quotations 'One is often told that it is a very wrong thing to attack religion, because religion makes men virtuous. So I am told; I have not noticed it.' Bertrand Russell, "Why I Am Not A Christian," Little Blue Book No. 1372 edited by E Haldeman-Julius.

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