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LITERATURE & ARTICLESThe May-June issue of Hi (Humanism Ireland) magazine is out now. Click on pdf logo beside date to download other recent issues.
HAS CATHOLICISM A FUTURE? Humanists are in a win-win situation FLIRTING WITH THE LIGHT OF REASON Andrew Devine-Rattigan scrutinises à la carte Catholicism CLERICAL CHILD ABUSE Tom White reads the mind of a loose cannon FILM: MEA MAXIMA CULPA; CROSSWORD; HOT TOPICS TERRY MOSELEY EXPLORES THE LIVING WORLD LYNDA FOY PLANS AN ADVANCE HEALTHCARE DIRECTIVE ROY JOHNSTON ON RELIGION, POLITICS AND THE GUN BEETHOVEN’S SYMPHONIES Brian McClinton on the five greatest works in musical history STUCK IN THE MIDDLE ON NEW TV SEASON HIGHLIGHTS CLINGING TO A ROCK WITH STUART HARTILL WHAT IF JESUS WALKED UP YOUR STREET? Tom Crawford poses the question SOROPTIMISTS AND HUMAN TRAFFICKING Joanne Harris explains their work MEDIA DIARY FILM: RICHARD MIDDLETON ON SIDE EFFECTS BOOK: JOHN DELANEY ON HANDS OFF NOT AN OPTION POETRY CORNER FAREWELL TO DAVID BACK ISSUES
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November-December 2011 Articles, letters etc will be accepted for publication, in part or whole, according to the space available and at the editor's discretion. The views of contributors represent the opinions of their authors and are not necessarily the views of any Irish Humanist organisation. Material should be sent in the body of an e-mail (no attachments) by 15th June to the editor:brianmcclinton@btinternet.com ARCHIVE OF ARTICLES (illustrations of some of the authors, artists and scientists featured - rest mouse on picture for name; for article, click on pdf logo beside title) 
HUMANISM, ATHEISM, AGNOSTICISM
Positive Humanism
Humanism: The Alternative to Religion
Humanist Non-Violence
The White Poppy
The Happy Humanist
Religion, the State and Humanism
The Greening of Humanism
Humanism and the Arts
Humani Thought for the Day
Avoiding Fundamentalism: A Quaker View
Darwin's Existential Legacy 1, 2
Epicurus the Humanist
I Married my Son!
The Global Village
The Necessity of Atheism
The Myth of Dogmatic Atheism
A Defence of Polemics
Agnostic about Everything
Spiritual Abuse: How Religion pollutes Spirituality
Blasphemy Quotes
The Hellenic Foundation of Humanism
War Minus the Shooting: The Olympic Games
2500 Year Marathon
Hypatia of Alexandria, Humanist Martyr
Humanism in the Renaissance
Sean Kearney, 1932-2004
Justin Keating, 1930-2009
PHILOSOPHY AND ETHICS (see also Literature, Art and Music below)
The Consolations of Philosophy
What Use is Philosophy?
What's It All About?
Philosophy and Religion
The Morality Maze
Morals without God
Moral Theories
Situation Ethics
Politics and the State
Political Obligation
Theory of Democracy
Philosophy of Liberalism
Bin Laden, Libya and the Just War
Eichmann, Kant and the Banality of Evil
Chemical Abuse (The Roaccutane Scandal)
RELIGION AND SCIENCE
Science and Religion
Creationism
The Philistines
The Last Days of Sodom
Easter Must Go!
Intelligent Design?
Intelligent Design
Is Evolution Certain?
Is There Anyone Out There?
The Legacy of Ian Paisley
Giving Protestants a bad Name
End Rome Rule Now!
The Trial of Pope Benedict
It's not just the Pope: the Flaws in Catholicism
The Holy See in International Affairs
The King James Bible
Did Jesus Exist? 1, 2
Was Jesus a Humanist?
The Religion of Jesus
Ecce Homo: Was Jesus Gay?
The Iona Institute
Genesis Story
EDUCATION
Academic Selection
Integrating Children
Reform of Education in the Irish Republic
Inclusive RE
RE in Northern Ireland – No Humanism Here
Philosophy Class
POLITICS AND ECONOMICS
New Politics
Cosmopolitan Politics
Crowing Politicians
Uprooting Sectarianism
The Dead End of Loyalism
The Case for Irish Unity
The Case for a Nationalist-free Northern Ireland
Tyranny of Ignorance
Baby Boom or Bust?
Palestine
The Failed Crusade of Bush and Blair
The True Cost of the Iraq War
Big Bad Iran
Market Fundamentalism
Scrooged by the Big Society
RIGHTS
The Right Stuff
A Bill of Rights for Northern Ireland
Political Islam and Human Rights
Secularism and the Rights of the Religious
Abortion in Northern Ireland
Euthanasia, the last Freedom
Beyond Legal Euthanasia
A Living Will
Doctor Assisted Dying
The Ethics of Assisted Dying
Bloody Homophobia
Gay Pride
Belfast Pride 2008
Gay Rights – Job Done?
Migrant Rights
Animal Ethics
Genocide in Canada
No Blood Stains on the Sugar
LITERATURE, ART AND MUSIC
Bach's Brandenburg Concertos
Francis Bacon's Advancement of Learning
Samuel Beckett
Beethoven's Symphonies
Pieter Bruegel
Robert Burns
Cervantes: Don Quixote
Denis Diderot: Encyclopédie
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Erasmus: The Praise of Folly
Edward Fitzgerald and Omar Khayyam
Galileo's Dialogue
Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
John Hewitt
The Influence of John Hewitt Today
Hume's Philosophical Works
Kant's Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals
John Keats
Machiavelli's The Prince
Louis MacNeice
Meslier's Testament
Michelangelo's David
Montaigne's Essays
More's Utopia
Paine's Rights of Man and Age of Reason
Pepys: Diary
Shakespeare's Hamlet
Shakespeare's Humanism
Shelley: The Necessity of Atheism
Spinoza's Ethics
Swift's Gulliver's Travels
Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary
BOOK REVIEWS
Arguably
Atheist's Guide to Christmas
The Better Angels of our Nature
Black Mass; The Neanderthal Parallax
The Book Thief
The Case for God
Clerical Errors
Complaint
Contested Will
The Da Vinci Con
Did Muhammad Exist?
The God Delusion
The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ
The Greatest Show on Earth
The Holy Grayling
The Incredible Shrinking Son of Man
Ireland's Hidden Diaspora
The Irish Gulag
Lewis's Convoluted Christianity
The Moral Landscape
Natural Atheism; Empty Pulpits
Origin of Species
The Portable Atheist
Sex and God
Six Ways of Atheism
Society without God
Soul of the Age
What God has made Clean
Why I Became an Atheist
Why Nations Fail
Zero Degrees of Empathy
Guide to Humanist Literature
FILM AND OTHER MEDIA
The Artist
A Separation
Agora
Anonymous: Shakespeare Snobs and Fibbers
Antichrist
Attack the Block
Avatar
Biutiful
Brokeback Mountain
The Columbo Defect
Film and Religion in Ireland
Film Noir
Four Lions
The History Boys
Holocaust Movies
Hunger
The Hurt Locker, The Class, The White Ribbon
In a better World
Invictus
Italian Humanist Cinema; Slumdog Millionaire
Jesus on Film
The King's Speech
The Kiterunner
Landscape and Memory: Motorcycle Diaries; Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
No Country for Old Men
Of Gods and Men
Senna
Shakespeare in Love
The Tree of Life
HUMANIST BOOKS Humanism as the Next Step Lloyd and Mary Morain (complete text) The Origin of Species Charles Darwin (complete text) The Philosophy of Humanism Corliss Lamont (complete text) |
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