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Posted in Humanity, Language, Relationships, Terrorism on Jun 5th, 2008
Later today Peter Hain, MP, former Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, will deliver a lecture at the New York University Centre for Irish and Irish-American Studies on whether the model for peacemaking that was used in Northern Ireland can be applied to other conflict situations throughout the world. A central thesis of his [...]
Posted in Government, Human Rights, Humanity, Morality, Relationships, Religion, Society, Terrorism on May 5th, 2008
There were some events that I just never expected to happen during my lifetime - the ending of Apartheid in South Africa and the decline of Communism in Europe and the fall of the Berlin Wall, for example. Thankfully, sometimes seemingly impossible things do happen, though I never thought the ‘Irish Question’ would ever [...]
Posted in Health, Humanity, Morality, Religion, Society, Terrorism on Dec 6th, 2007
Myth 1: Without religion we would have no moral values and our society would be worse off.
Surely, the argument goes, the benefit of having a god in your life is that it gives you rules to live by. “If God does not exist then everything is permissible,” said Dostoyevsky, and indeed, without the threat [...]
Posted in Government, Human Rights, Humor, Humour, Law, Religion, Society on Oct 28th, 2007
There was a strange posting in the Celtic Football Team blog last Friday. Don’t worry, I haven’t lost my senses (at least, not that I am aware of). I have a stringer who reads these things for me so that I don’t have to. No expense is spared in bringing you the most scintillating stories.
Imagine [...]
Posted in Education, Government, Humor, Humour, Isolation, Religion, Society on Sep 9th, 2007
I know people who, in the sixties, grew up in London, or who were at University. I missed that allegedly marvellous time. I was too young. I was at school. The only signs of hedonism or rebellion at the Grammar School I attended were people who occasionally smuggled alcohol into cricket bags and got drunk [...]
Posted in Government, Human Rights, Law, Morality, Relationships, Religion on Aug 5th, 2007
In the early part of the sixteenth century, a man called Felix Manz was executed in Switzerland. He was a sincere Christian, and his only crime was that he held different views about baptism from those held by the sincere Christians in the local ruling authority. They chose drowning as a method of execution.
Aha, you [...]
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