FigBoy

Think before you tick

Secular analysis of Irish party manifestos and some individual responses.

Sam Seder Show

A list of questions relating to humanist/atheist/skeptic concerns aimed at candidates for the upcoming Irish general election.

Ireland seems to have a number of new political parties. Do any of them have a future?

"Commercial piracy must be treated very differently to person to person file sharing or a small amount of illegal downloading. I am of the view that personal downloading should not be criminal offence per se as there is no value in prosecuting a teenage for finding a ringtone or a song. You would be making a criminal of 80% of the young people in Ireland."

A reply to the Pope's attack on secularism

Dan Dennett, channeling Andy Rooney while responding to Ron Rosenbaum:

Have you noticed how self-proclaimed (and self-satisfied) agnostics often sneer at us arrogant, over-confident atheists without expressing any parallel contempt for the Pope, Rick Warren, the imams, and so on for their similar if opposite avowals of certainty? In the future I plan to insist on agnostics being equal-opportunity sneerers.