Michael Nugent – Atheism, Reason, Happiness

Who will be our first woman Taoiseach?

Picture: Prime Ministers of Iceland, Norway, Finland, Denmark, Belgium, Germany, and Serbia; plus recent Prime Ministers of United Kingdom, Slovenia, Austria, Poland, Latvia, Romania, and Moldova.

As our fifteenth man in a row settles into the job of Taoiseach, I wonder when Ireland will have our first woman as head of government?

The rights of the child in Irish schools

The United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child will soon be questioning Ireland again. Atheist Ireland, the Evangelical Alliance of Ireland, and the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community of Ireland have sent this joint submission to the UN Committee.

Do gods exist? Some arguments

Photo: The Trifid Nebula Messier 20 from J. Rho SSC/Caltech, JPL-Caltech, NASA

I’m writing a series of short posts about whether gods exist and why the question is an important one. I’ll update this list every time I publish a new one, so please bookmark this page.

Danger – Jokes Ahead!

Photo: John Cleese, Claira Janover, David Silverman

Three online storms yesterday make me concerned about the future of humour online, with online mob outrage about jokes leaking into mainstream media and employment matters.

Do gods exist? 19 Morality with gods?

Photo: Westerlund 1 star cluster from NASA & ESA/Hubble

How can we judge morality if gods exist? This is the nineteenth of a series of short posts about whether gods exist and why the question is an important one.

Do gods exist? 18 Morality without gods?

Photo: star cluster NGC 3603 from NASA & ESA/Hubble

How can we judge morality without gods? This is the eighteenth of a series of short posts about whether gods exist and why the question is an important one.

Do gods exist? 17 How did morality evolve?

Photo: Cepheus B cloud from Chandra X-ray and Spitzer Telescope

How did morality evolve? This is the seventeenth of a series of short posts about whether gods exist and why the question is an important one.

Do gods exist? 16 What is morality?

Photo: star cluster NGC 3201 from NASA & ESA/Hubble

What is morality? This is the sixteenth of a series of short posts about whether gods exist and why the question is an important one.

Do gods exist? 15 Is human life special?

Photo: the Serpens cloud core from NASA/JPL-Caltech/2MASS

Are our lives as human beings on planet Earth special? This is the fifteenth of a series of short posts about whether gods exist and why the question is an important one.

Do gods exist? 14 Created for humans?

Photo: star cluster NGC 6397 from NASA & ESA/Hubble

Was the universe created for human beings on planet Earth? This is the fourteenth of a series of short posts about whether gods exist and why the question is an important one.