Promoting atheism, reason and an ethical, secular state
Philosophy
Atheist Ireland has made the following submission about Freedom of Thought to Ahmed Shaheed, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief. Mr Shaheed had called for inputs to a report he is compiling for the UN General Assembly on the topic. Contents 1. Internal — Freedom ...
Martin O’Reilly of Atheist Ireland argues that assisted dying is a moral good. Linking to relevant sources, he examines religious objections, passive and active assisted dying, safeguards against pressure, the slippery slope argument, whether palliative care is enough, and the increased quality of life that assisted dying enables. What is ...
Michael Nugent had a discussion this week with Leah Libresco, who in 2012 converted from being an atheist blogger at Unequally Yoked to being a Roman Catholic. They discussed Leah's atheism, her conversion and her Catholicism. Here’s the video, in three parts.
Atheist Ireland is hosting a series of occasional lectures by prominent atheists. Here is the first one, with Professor AC Grayling, speaking last month in Dublin.
[caption id="attachment_739" align="alignleft" width="225" caption="Gorillas and girls"][/caption] Derek Walsh reviews the launch of the anti-evolution book that Ireland's Minister for Science had planned to formally launch. I arrived a little late at the book launch of The Origin of Specious Nonsense to find the author John J. May, already in ...
Michael Nugent debates "This house believes that one cannot be truly moral without God". Christian Union and Maynooth LnD will host a debate on "This house believes that one cannot be truly moral without God" as a part of part of our Christianity Week on the Maynooth campus. Michael Nugent ...
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 by the fact that there ...
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