Category Archives: Society
“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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Free speech – How far is too far?
Following on from my previous post on the blasphemy law in Ireland, and building upon the recent events in the UK of Anjem Choudary’s now banned group Islam4UK’s threatened march through Wooton Bassett. I start to wonder how important is free speech to us in actuality? Is it only when peoples free speech doesn’t our [...]
Why I oppose the Irish Blasphemy law.
It’s the second day of the new year, and the second day of the Irish Blasphemy law coming into affect. The Guardian newspaper reported on the activist group Atheist Ireland publishing 25 blasphemous quotes on the blasphemy.ie website including 2 quotes from Jesus Himself which could be perceived to be blasphemous towards Jews, and stating [...]
