My question is quite simple. Atheism seems to me to preach that life is utterly pointless and totally devoid of meaning and that suicide would be the most rational option given the circumstances. Is this what you believe and if it is how do you justify being alive at all? To bring suicide into this...

http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/1026/abuse.html Father Tony Flannery told 45 priests at a meeting in Mayo that a distinction needed to be made between the paedophile, whose history involved a pattern of child abuse and the man who had behaved inappropriately towards a teenager shortly after emerging fr...

owenmarshal wrote:Who will do it instead is to be seen as Mr May is looking for a replacement. Anybody?

Kathy Sinnott perhaps?

I mailed Conor Lenihan also.

Meremortal wrote:This was not abuse it was: "the systemic and institutionalised rape and torture of children".

Well put.

Ygern wrote:

I'm pretty happy with the letter.

The pope claims that secularists - like you - are in some way to blame for the fact that children were raped and abused and exploited in Ireland. In what way do you think that this is ok?

As a secularist I am offended. Where can I complain?

I just read this in another (private) forum Included discreetly in today's Finance Bill was a section to treat Shari'a Law-compliant financial services in the same manner as conventional financial transactions. This tax break along with not requiring the charging of interest will appeal to Gulf sta...

More resignations will follow no doubt, and that is where it will probably stop. I am afraid that, in time to come, it will be conveniently forgotten that they were all simply obeying orders from their superiors, as their vow of obedience requires of them. Orders which without any doubt originated i...

Wee example: When you have food with one person of a religous back ground and 10 of non religous back ground the 10 people have to quiet so that one person can pray. Why can that person not respect me and pray some where else or just don't? Reminds me of a guy we had at work some years back, always...

What about "Rationalist"?