Category Archives: Religion
“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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Christianity Week – March 30th – April 1st (NUI Maynooth)
It really has been quite a while since I’ve posted on this blog. Please accept my apology and be assured that I will be updating it much more frequently in the next few weeks? For those who mightn’t have known. I am the current Christian Union president at NUI Maynooth. We are currently organising 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 [...]
