Category Archives: Secular humanism

“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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Religion and the Noughties

To start off a new blog, and just about a new year and a new decade. A review of the role of religion in the last decade seems almost apt, and indeed it is something that has been done in The Guardian recently with various contributors giving their views on the subject this week. It [...]

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