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 [...]
Also posted in Agnosticism, Atheism, Christianity, Civil Liberties, Conflict, Equality, Ireland, Irreligion, Islam, Judaism, Morality, Northern Ireland, Religion, Science, Scripture, Secular humanism, Society, Theistic evolution, UK, Young Earth Creationism
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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Tagged Ashdod, Binyamin Netanyahu, FOX News, How The World Works, IDF, international law, Israel, Israel - Palestine conflict, Israeli, Lee Doren, legality, Mavi Marmara, Netanyahu, Operation Cast Lead, Palestine, Palestinians, peaceful, Rachel Corrie, Turkey, Turkish
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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 [...]
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Tagged agenda, agendas, agnosticism, atheism, China, Christianity, communist regimes, Crusades, gospel, ideologies, ideology, Irish Independent, middle ground, North Korea, religious warfare, secularism, state atheism
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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 [...]
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Tagged Afghanistan, Britain, bureaucracy, crime, curriculum, David Cameron, Education, educational quangos, Electoral Reform, European Union, failure, freedom, Gordon Brown, House of Lords, ID cards, immigration, ITV, Labour, Liberal Democrats, Nato, Nick Clegg, police officers, PR, Proportional Representation, sentencing, students, teachers, Territorial Army, Tories, Trident, UK, UK election, Westminster 2010, youtube
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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 [...]
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Tagged Anjem Choudary, Athens, Bill of Rights, British law, Christianity, Europe, First Amendment, free speech, Garda Síochána, God, Greeks, importance, Ireland, Irish law, Islam4UK, Israelites, Judeo-Christian, offence, offensive, Paul the Apostle, Public Order Act 1994, Socratic, State, UK, USA, Voltaire, Wooton Bassett
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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 [...]
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Tagged Atheist Ireland, blasphemous, blasphemy, blasphemy law, blasphemy.ie, Christian, church, Church - State separation, courtesy, DPP, etiquette, freedom of conscience, freedom of speech, Golden Rule, incentivized, individuals, Ireland, Jesus, Jews, Michael Nugent, outrage, religious, secular, The Guardian
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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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Tagged 9/11, Afghanistan, AIDS, Anglican realignment, Atheist Ireland, Bali, Britain, Christian Institute, Christianity, Christians In Science, Christopher Hitchens, conservative, Detroit terrorist attack, Evangelical, Evangelical Anglicans, female bishops, Ferns report, France, GAFCON, Gaza Strip, Gene Robinson, George W. Bush, God, God is Not Great, Hamas, HIV, Holy Land, homosexual clergy, Humanist Association of Ireland, Iraq, Ireland, Islam, Islamic extremism, Israel - Lebanon War, Israel - Palestine, Israelis, Jewish Christianity, Judaism, Lambeth conference, liberal, London, Los Angeles, Madrid, Mary Glasspool, Michael Nugent, Middle East, Murphy report, new decade, New Hampshire, new year, New York, Nigeria, NUI Galway, Operation Cast Lead, Operation Defensive Shield, Orthodox Judaism, Palestinians, Pennsylvania, Pentagon, Religion, religious belief, religious symbols, Richard Dawkins, Roman Catholic Church, Ryan report, Second Intifada, Secular - Religious quo, Separation Barrier, Shabbat, The BioLogos Foundation, The God Delusion, The Guardian, The Root of All Evil, UCC, UCD, UCL, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, US presidential elections, West Bank, Western world
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