This is an extract from my discussion with Hindu Swami Purnananda at University College Dublin Philosophy Society. Swami Purnananda is also a member of the Dublin City Interfaith Forum. This was my first time publicly discussing god with a Hindu. Apologies for poor image quality. Full discussion online later.
The rifts in recent years between some mostly American atheist and skeptic bloggers, that have recently been misrepresented as affecting the atheist movement globally, can be dated to events arising from the 2011 World Atheist Convention in Dublin, organised by Atheist Ireland. Some mythologies have since evolved about some of those events, and I am […]
The 2014 Atheist Ireland AGM and public meeting will take place next Saturday, 25 October, in Wynnes Hotel in Abbey Street, Dublin. We have had a very busy political year since our last AGM, with some major breakthroughs at the UN Human Rights Committee and the Government finally announcing a referendum next year to remove […]
Update: Latsot has now repeated on his blog his allegation that I defend rapists, writing “This is what I mean when I say that Michael Nugent defends rapists. It’s what I always meant. I stand by it. I didn’t apologise for that and I don’t apologise for it now.” He has written of his previous […]
Atheist Ireland’s recommendations to the OSCE human rights meeting in Warsaw last month are now available here on the OSCE website, along with the following documents: Our formal statements to the meeting Dublin Declaration on Secularism and Religion in Public Life 5 steps to secularism securing civil rights in Ireland Dublin Declaration on Secularism Empowering […]
My eldest cat Duck died today, at about eighteen years old. He was a rescue cat, and Anne and I called him Duck when we got him because he had been rescued from the Royal Canal, where some children were trying to drown him. Duck was blissfully unaware of how much Ireland has changed in […]
This is the full debate hosted by the NUI Galway Literary and Debating Society debate last week on the topic ‘Is Islam a religion of peace?’ The speakers are: For the motion Dr Oliver Scharbrodt, Prof of Islamic Studies at the University of Chester Shaykh Dr Umar al-Qadri of the Al-Mustafa Islamic Cultural Centre Abdullah […]
PZ Myers has not yet withdrawn or apologised for his serious allegation that I am defending and providing a haven for rapists, and that the evidence for this is that some people who comment on my blog also post on a different internet discussion forum. This is another example of the ratcheting up online of serious […]
This is my contribution to the NUI Galway Literary and Debating Society debate last week on the topic ‘Is Islam a religion of peace?’ We’ll have the full debate online tomorrow. Other speakers were Dr Oliver Scharbrodt, Prof of Islamic Studies at the University of Chester; Shaykh Dr Umar al-Qadri of the Al-Mustafa Islamic Cultural […]
I will be debating in Galway at 7pm today on the topic ‘Is Islam a religion of Peace?’ The debate is organised by the Literary and Debating Society at the National University of Ireland, Galway and is in the Kirwan theatre. The speakers are: Shaykh Dr Umar al-Qadri of the Al-Mustafa Islamic Cultural Centre Dr Oliver Scharbrodt, Prof […]