Politics Immigration Will Not Spark a British Religious Revival Posted on August 6, 2018No commentsbyGraham Davidson There was recent surprise in some quarters, when London was revealed as the least tolerant place in the UK in terms of LGBT acceptance and premarital sex. But a brief… View Post
View Post 7 min Politics Is Ireland Ready to Abandon Catholicism Posted on August 17, 2017September 8, 20176 commentsbyCian O'Connor And is repealing abortion really the best approach? Earlier this week, fellow contributor at Areo, Barry Purcell, wrote “Is Ireland Ready for Abortion?” in which he concluded: “No longer can the… View Post
View Post 5 min Politics Is Ireland Ready for Abortion? Posted on August 10, 2017September 8, 20175 commentsbyBarry Purcell Ireland has always been seen, along with Poland, The Philippines and Central and South America, as the heartland of Catholic belief. Despite Ireland’s official status as a democratic republic, however,… View Post
View Post 6 min Culture & Media The Gospel of Jon Snow: Christ Allegory in ‘Game of Thrones’ Posted on July 31, 2017September 8, 20174 commentsbyAndrew Rainaldi — Spoilers for Game of Thrones up to Season 7, Episode 3 — When a writer is trying to convey that a character is some kind of hero or redeemer, that… View Post
View Post 7 min Politics The Cultural Relativism of the Christian Majority Posted on July 13, 2017September 8, 20176 commentsbyO.T. Ford A faith which still celebrates its lonely, martyred forebears two thousand years later is fertile soil for persecution complexes, and they have indeed developed. But a persecution complex is a little… View Post
View Post 25 min Politics The Atheist Atrocities Fallacy — Hitler, Stalin, and Pol Pot Posted on February 17, 2017September 9, 201712 commentsbyMichael Sherlock Religious apologists, particularly those of the Christian variety, are big fans of what I have dubbed, the atheist atrocities fallacy. Christians commonly employ this fallacy to shield their egos from the harsh reality… View Post
View Post 16 min Politics Scientology, The Simpsons, Cults, Christianity, and Islam Posted on December 28, 2016August 25, 20173 commentsbyMichael Sherlock In the Simpson’s episode entitled “The Joy of Sect,” Homer Simpson is eventually persuaded to join a UFO cult called the “Movementarians.”[1] The episode is a satirical exposition of cults and… View Post