The ‘ladder of ascent’ fallacy, a common misconception in evolution. “Life is peculiar,” said Jeremy. “Compared to what?” asked the spider. — Men Who Play God (1968), by Norman Moss. The recent discovery by NASA of the amino acid Glycine in dust from a comet...
Count Me Out, making leaving the Catholic Church easy. Apostasy refers to the defection from one’s religion. Count Me Out was set up to make formally leaving the Catholic Church as straight forward and easy a process as possible. Edit: Due to a change in...
A recession is always easy to recognise when industries that normally have to make very little effort suddenly begin investing in full page advertisements across multiple news papers and engaging in a nationwide radio ad campaigns, including an attempt at making a price freeze on...
Blasphemy and bible reading: Atheist Ireland AGM 2009. Senator Ivana Bacik will open the first Atheist Ireland AGM at 2 pm tomorrow, Saturday 11 July, in Wynns Hotel in Abbey Street Dublin. Members of the public are welcome to attend. The meeting will discuss a...
Public information meeting on the introduction of a new blasphemy law held in Cork. Michael Nugent speaking at a public meeting on the introduction of a blasphemy law. The meeting was held in Cork in 2009. The Minister for Justice is proposing to amend his...
The following is a critique of the basic postulates of humanistic philosophy: it may, in effect, be taken as a concise rebuttal of what humanism stands for, delivered, perhaps unusually, by a secularist and an atheist. My drive to do so has largely been fuelled...
Massimo Pigliucci writes, blasphemy is a strange concept, according to my dictionary it refers to “the act or offence of speaking sacrilegiously of God or sacred things.” By that definition, every religious believer constantly engages in blasphemy — of all the other gods she doesn’t...
The Minister for Justice is proposing to amend his new blasphemy law by providing, as a defence, that a person accused of blasphemy can “prove that a reasonable person would find genuine literary, artistic, political, scientific, or academic value” in the blasphemous matter. He is...
Atheist Ireland member Micheal Nugent was a guest on Spirit Moves on Sunday, May 17, on RTE Radio 1 at 6:05pm. The other guests are David Quinn, Harry Browne, Fr Brendan Purcell and Claire O’Connell. Courtesy of Irish Shaman Part 1 of 6
... Do you want to stop the Irish government from reviving the medieval crime of blasphemy? Do you want to promote a rational, ethical and secular society in Ireland? Atheist Ireland has put a campaign website online at http://blasphemy.ie/ as part of our campaign against this...