she has very little chance of denting the influence of good old Dawkins, though, so I doubt he's bothered; I'm sure he, too, is confident of his own influence, or he wouldn't have made his original comment, which he had to have known was going to draw attention before he posted it. See, that's the ...

For the most part, I think we're on the same page; but I want to clarify a few things. (long rant, sorry) First of all, no-one knows what "elevator-guy"'s motives were, unless they are psychic. An awful lot of time and energy has been expended by people saying - he was a creep - he was hitting on he...

It's an emotive issue and the division seems to fall largely along gender lines. Nope, it really doesn't. (check out photo to the left for gender) I am hugely unimpressed by the fallout over this incident. I have no problem with someone feeling uncomfortable with the "4AM elevator incident". I don'...

How is this different from the casinos & betting venues that already exist all over Ireland, in the form of the always ubiquitous Ladbrokes and a multitude of other private establishments? Don't get me wrong, personally, I think gambling is akin to flushing your money down the loo; but then so are a...

Well, we did spend quite a bit of time trying to persuade the then minister, Dermot Ahern to get rid of it. He promised a referendum on the issue, but seeing as his government has gone that may take some time. The two main issues are: 1) It is pointless to have such an illiberal law on the statute b...

If it were possible to get the protesters to complain to the gardai under the blasphemy law, we might get a test case. It's not going to work. The law was written to be practically unenforceable, and particularly to protect artists of all media from being targeted by it. This is one of the reasons ...

Seeing as the Guadalupe image (the original) is an opportunistic fraud to begin with, I am finding it hard to see how anyone could be moved towards outrage at the satirical version. As satire goes, it's not even particularly shocking and certainly as far from obscene as it gets. Almost every perfume...

Oh cool, a new variation on the "I am an atheist but..." theme. We shall call this one the Argument from Youtube Donald Clarke's argument is a bit muddled though. He announces the thrust of his argument (organised atheists are just reaffirming theists' beliefs) which is a dubious claim at best, and ...

Some of your questionnaire would benefit from some tweaking. There are questions that are not as clear-cut as you might think, and could either be broken down further or re-worded for clarity. It might improve the information you get. Intro What part of the world are you from? - Do you mean where ar...

The "stoning" reference is to a joke in rather poor taste used by the Islamic crowd to deflect a question about the stoning of women under Sharia Law.

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