Author Archives: Gareth Peoples
“Faith Schools Menace” (Richard Dawkins) thoughts…
For those of you who haven’t yet seen the documentary, please do watch it before reading this blog post because it does contain a lot of spoilers. As far as I know the link only works in the UK & Republic of Ireland (unless you have a proxy). “Faith Schools Menace” was an interesting take [...]
Why believe? – The Resurrection
I’m hoping that this will be the first of a series of posts explaining the reasoning behind my current belief in Christianity. Over the last few years I’ve had a lot of people ask me for solid basis in what I believe, and I think that this blog gives me the opportunity to adequately show [...]
Women and Quotas in Politics
Is it right to take affirmative action and to place a % quota on the amount of women that must run in an election, or is such an idea patronising to women suggesting that they cannot run for election on their own merit? This subject has been debated to and fro over the last few [...]
How to: Facebook Chat without a web browser
Apologies to all for not posting for a while, I’ve been up to numerous things that I hope to update you all on over the next while! Today’s post is going to be more technical, rather than to do with philosophy, politics, or religion. Many of you will no doubt see this blog via my [...]
Jesus the raging ruler of Revelation?
Over a week ago, Michael Nugent (chairperson of Atheist Ireland) tweeted about his recent blog post on Jesus, and the alleged role that Jesus happens to take from the Jesus (presumably meek and mild) of the Gospels which differs from the Jesus of the book of Revelation (presumably cruel and callous). A prophetic book, and [...]
Thoughts on the Gaza aid flotilla incidents
As a user who recently commented on my blog noted, it has been well over a month since I have posted on it. Naturally during that time numerous things have happened, that I thought could be weighed in on. One of these incidents is the Gaza flotilla incidents which occurred recently, in which 9 Turkish [...]
Letter on atheism in the Irish Independent
This is the letter I wrote that got published in the Irish Independent about what atheism is, and its relation to Communist regimes: In response both to Eric Conway (Letters, April 22) and Sean Conroy (Letters, April 21) may I suggest a middle ground? People, in general, have a capability of doing terrible things on [...]
Thoughts on the first UK leaders debate
Note – If you have not watched the debate, there are spoilers in this blog post, if you do not wish to have this spoiled for you, please watch the debate first and then read my blog post on it. I had just got around to watching the first televised debate between Nick Clegg (Liberal [...]
My debate speech on morality
This is the debate speech that I put forward at the debate on the motion “This house believes that one cannot be truly moral without God” on behalf of Maynooth Christian Union along with my co-partner. The video was uploaded on the Atheist Ireland youtube channel, but unfortunately it doesn’t contain the full speech so [...]
Why Genesis 1 – 3 cannot be read literally and make sense.
It is the first time that I have posted on this blog in a while. However, this is a subject which rightly or wrongly has become an area of key contention within Christianity. The idea of a young earth versus what I would feel is the more reasonable view, even from reading the Genesis 1 [...]
