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Thanks to Catherine Bennett, I've learned a new 'ology - eschatology, literally the study of the last. So, if there's an eschatology, there must be eschatologists, right? Gosh, they must be fun in the pub. "Oh, hello, what do you do?" "I study the end of the world." Pause. "Really? How does that happen?" "Well, the dead could be resurrected, or the Devil could be set free, or adultery and fornication will be performed in the open, or ..." "Where's my drink?"

Suffolk Humanists & Secularists committee seldom meet face to face - we use Skype because we're scattered all over the county. So far, we haven't done this. Maybe next time. I like the baby best.

Picture from www.defaithed.com.

This reminds me of the young man who phoned BBC Radio Suffolk after I was interviewed recently. He said that there were dinosaurs on Noah's Ark, but God chose baby dinosaurs, otherwise there wouldn't have been room.

On Tuesday 23rd February (next Tuesday) there'll be a parliamentary debate about the Government's own amendment to its Children, Schools and Families Bill, which would enable faith schools to teach their own skewed versions of sex and relationships education. Please read the BHA's report on this, and contact your MP urgently.

(Note: the asterisk used in the heading is to avoid the wrong sort of Internet attention).

You may remember the 2007 Pledgebank campaign to send a copy of Richard Dawkins' 'God Delusion' to every MP, if enough people pledged a copy. It succeeded. Now the same person behind that campaign has begun a new one, asking you to pledge:

I will donate one pound to the International Red Cross for each of the 26 Anglican bishops sitting in the House of Lords who completes the Sober Survey but only if 999 others will do the same.

The NSS has started a petition calling on the Prime Minister to ask the Catholic Church to pay the estimated £20 million cost of the Pope's visit. If his followers want him to come and see them, fine, but there are better things to spend taxpayers' money on.

To sign, click here.