The July-August issue of Humanism Ireland is out now.
CONTENTS
END GAZA BLOCKADE NOW!
Mohammed Samaana appeals for Gazan suffering to end
JUDAISM TAKEN SERIOUSLY
Lothar Luken explores a religious ideology
NELSON’S BLINKERED VIEW
Will snakes soon be talking in the Ulster Museum?
AMNESTY, JIHAD AND WOMEN’S RIGHTS
Brice Dickson on a controversy within Amnesty
HOT TOPICS
A Truth Commission; Millionaires’ Axe; Enlightenment
IRELAND TOURIST GUIDE
Making sense of an Ireland people
DUBIOUS CONSOLATIONS
Bob Rees argues that religion isn’t harmless
VEC PRIMARY SCHOOLS
Dick Spicer replies to Catherine O’Brien
SHAKESPEARE’S HAMLET
Brian McClinton on the greatest play by the greatest writer
DUST-VEIL IMPACTS
David Godden warns of the destruction to come
THE LOST SYMBOL
Kenneth Halford wants an ancient image rehabilitated
CLINGING TO A ROCK
Stuart Hartill on the death penalty and other matters
MITHRA LIVES IN THE VATICAN
William Harwood traces the mithraic origins of Christianity
POETRY CORNER
PROSPERO’S DAIRY
FILMS: Four Lions
BOOK: The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ
SHORT STORY: The Son of God by Nicholas Emmett
EHF GENERAL ASSEMBLY: Ann James reports
