Thats me in bed with the Green's again. I voted for them last time and I wasn't happy

Dublin Writers Festival will be co-presenting an event with His Dark Materials author Philip Pullman. An outspoken atheist and humanist Philip is noted for his criticism of growing state authority and government encroachment into everyday life. Philip will be reading and discussing his latest work T...

EireannachforGod wrote:

Rather, we choose to love God. Forced love is no love at all.

Emm... from what I was taught it was a case of worship and love god or burn and suffer torment in hell for the rest of eternity, i.e. love and worship me or else. How is that not forced love?

Hi I'm from the Carlow area also. I've a 7 year old and a 2 year old neither of which have been baptised and I've never had any problems getting my oldest into the local schools, there are far more non-catholics than you might think in school today. We though we would have some problems but it was a...

Realised eventually that I was in fact an atheist and no longer a catlick. Embarassingly it took till my early 30's to work it out. Still - got there eventually. But then I read Dawkins' God Delusion and it persuaded me it was important to 'come out'. So I did. And it caused a lot of pain and diffi...

A much better resource is Heavens Above, this site will allow you to enter your exact location and give you a map of the predicted pass

A young girl who defended herself and her chastity against three male assailants who intended to kidnap and rape her causing injury to one of them who later died in hospital was condemned to death by hanging in an Islamic court in Iran. - Click here for full story When I read stuff like this I just ...

FXR wrote:Thats nothin': in my day kids did'nt have arms and legs and we had to live in rolled up newspaper in a septic tank!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe1a1wHxTyo

bipedalhumanoid wrote:I'm told that if things keep going the way they are we'll eventually have summers similar to those they get in the south of spain...

Isn't Global warming great

I cant say I'm totally convinced that it's all us. We certainly are not helping the situation and our total reliance on fossil fuels is a bit short-sighted but I think the Earth is going through a change as it has done on many other occasions in the distant past.