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- Sat Oct 23, 2010 10:31 am
- Forum: Atheism in the News
- Topic: BBC documentary "The Big Silence"
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2519
Re: BBC documentary "The Big Silence"
Thanks, Ygern - good to be back, and it's really great to see the community as vibrant and motivated as ever. Fair dues to you for the work you're doing administering the forum. You're right, if these were well-balanced people (I won't even require them to be rational people) then this programme wou...
- Sat Oct 23, 2010 10:21 am
- Forum: Atheism in the News
- Topic: Another charlatan sets up shop
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1949
- Sat Oct 23, 2010 12:21 am
- Forum: Atheism in the News
- Topic: An angry atheist, and why she's right to be angry
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2048
Re: An angry atheist, and why she's right to be angry
As if I wasn't already in paroxysms of wrath after watching that BBC doco.
- Fri Oct 22, 2010 11:20 pm
- Forum: Education and Children
- Topic: ET Schools does not equal Secular schools
- Replies: 11
- Views: 6609
Re: ET Schools does not equal Secular schools
Care to name the school, mkaobrih?
- Fri Oct 22, 2010 10:51 pm
- Forum: Atheism in the News
- Topic: BBC documentary "The Big Silence"
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2519
BBC documentary "The Big Silence"
Wow, I don't watch much TV, but I just got up off the couch after seeing BBC's The Big Silence : Abbot Christopher Jamison, a Benedictine monk, believes that he can teach five ordinary people the value of silent meditation, as practised by monks in monasteries, so they can make it part of their ever...
- Thu Aug 06, 2009 10:47 am
- Forum: Education and Children
- Topic: Catholic Church and the Irish Education System
- Replies: 9
- Views: 7828
Re: Catholic Church and the Irish Education System
The Grauniad has published an extract from John McGahern's book Memoir in which he describes how he was fired from his job as a teacher because his book "The Dark" was banned by the Censorship Board . As countmeoutie has noted, "it is technically still legal to fire a teacher in the way that the lat...
- Tue Aug 04, 2009 3:00 pm
- Forum: Atheism, Philosophy and Religion
- Topic: Images of Jesus Muhammad Mary cannot break Blasphemy Laws
- Replies: 13
- Views: 7018
Re: Images of Jesus Muhammad Mary cannot break Blasphemy Laws
...and of course Jesus is the son of God, so I bred the two Jesi together to produce this lovely baby:


- Tue Aug 04, 2009 12:55 pm
- Forum: Atheism, Philosophy and Religion
- Topic: Images of Jesus Muhammad Mary cannot break Blasphemy Laws
- Replies: 13
- Views: 7018
- Tue Aug 04, 2009 12:37 pm
- Forum: Atheism, Philosophy and Religion
- Topic: Images of Jesus Muhammad Mary cannot break Blasphemy Laws
- Replies: 13
- Views: 7018
Re: Images of Jesus Muhammad Mary cannot break Blasphemy Laws
Regarding "What did our lady look like?": She's always represented as blandly pretty. Iconographers down through the years seem to have independently discovered the attractiveness of the average face.
- Tue Aug 04, 2009 12:16 pm
- Forum: Separation of Church and State
- Topic: End Religious Tax Breaks
- Replies: 12
- Views: 8155
Re: End Religious Tax Breaks
Personally, no. I do not think churches should be taxed. Why? Taxing them allows them to gain more political and social prowess. It would also make them a more persuasive force when it comes to adding to certain topics, like abortion rights, homosexual rights, marriage rights, contraception and the...