{"id":7832,"date":"2014-07-24T17:42:20","date_gmt":"2014-07-24T16:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/?p=7832"},"modified":"2014-07-25T14:14:38","modified_gmt":"2014-07-25T13:14:38","slug":"world-humanist-congress-meets-oxford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/index.php\/world-humanist-congress-meets-oxford\/","title":{"rendered":"World Humanist Congress meets in Oxford"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A C Grayling<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The World Humanist Congress is meeting in Oxford from 8-10th August 2014.<\/p>\n

The Congress meets every three years, bringing together activists from over forty countries under the auspices of the International Humanist and Ethical Union. Being ‘ethical’ is important to humanists, because they have constantly to repel charges that without God, they only have their own prejudices to base their ‘ethics’ upon.<\/p>\n

This year, the British Humanist Association (‘BHA’) is hosting the World Humanist Congress<\/a><\/strong>. They are bringing together no fewer than seventy-seven speakers, from as far afield as Switzerland, America, Australia, India, Nigeria, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Uganda and Greece. The speakers are headed by humanist philosopher A C Grayling, writer Taslima Nasrin, Philip Pullman, Author of ‘His Dark Materials’, and Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka.<\/p>\n

Other speakers include Jim Al-Khalili OBE, President of the BHA, Labour Party Peer Joan Bakewell DBE, Richard Dawkins, who is Vice-President of BHA, PZ Myers, Associate professor of biology at the University of Minnesota Morris, who describes himself as ‘A godless liberal biologist’, Peter Tatchell, and Prof Peter Atkins, Roy Brown of the pro-abortion International Foundation for Population and Development.<\/p>\n

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BBC Crimewatch presenter Nick Ross<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Also speaking are Professor Ted Cantle, London Assembly member Tom Copley AM, Andrew Copson, who is Chief Executive of BHA, former RC chaplain Catherine Dunphy, Liz Lutgendorff, Chair of the Conway Hall Ethical Society, author Zoe Margolis, Kerry McCarthy, MP for Bristol East, Maryam Namazie, Maajid Nawaz, the highly-paid co-Founder of Quilliam, in receipt of government grants to counter Islamic extremism, Prof Richard Norman, founder-member of the Humanist Philosophers Group and Vice-President of the British Humanist Association, journalist and broadcaster Nick Ross, and Guardian columnist Zoe Williams.<\/p>\n

A number of speakers also have links to the National Secular Society, which is slightly more extreme even than BHA. Philip Pullman is a ‘honorary associate’ of NSS as is Professor Cantle, Richard Dawkins, Nick Cohen, Maryam Namazie and Maajid Nawaz.<\/p>\n

According to the WHC website<\/a><\/strong>, P Z Myers ‘is an outspoken critic of creationism and intelligent design (for which he has “nothing but contempt”, saying that it is “fundamentally dishonest”)’. Prof Myers was featured in Ray Comfort’s video ‘Evolution vs God<\/a><\/strong>‘, trying in vain to think of evidence for evolution and claiming that human beings are fish.<\/p>\n

See: Teach Children Creation, says report<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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