MarkHumphrys.com

by Mark Humphrys

• Pro-free private life: Atheist. Pro-science. Pro-reason. Pro-free speech. Pro-liberal democracy.
• Pro-free economic life: Pro-capitalist. Pro-West.
• Pro-interventionist: Anti-isolationist. End tyranny everywhere. End communism. End Islamic law.

These are my "Religion and Politics" pages - the topics you should not discuss in polite society. So I don't. Instead, I discuss them here. If you cannot stand robust discussion, then please do not enter.

These pages are based in the United States and are protected by the 1st Amendment.

These pages have grown slowly over the years, from a simple set of political links to some analysis explaining what I think. Is it a bad idea to put my political/religious ideas online for the world to see? Maybe. Maybe not. You only live once. I am tired of listening to ignorant people talk on my radio and television. I am tired of having to stay silent. I want to speak. I don't want to die without explaining why I think these people are wrong.

Previous generations of my family weren't exactly prudent. My family has a long history of putting their political and religious ideas in the public domain. My great-great-grandfather was a Home Rule MP and Free State Senator. My great-grandfather was a Home Rule MP and Free State TD. My grandfather took part in an armed insurrection against the state in 1916. RIC Special Branch had a long file on him. My other grandfather took part in the allied capture of Iraq in 1917, and was then a colonial administrator in Iraq, probably in Hilla province. My granduncle was the first Prime Minister of Ireland in 1922. His son became Prime Minister of Ireland in 1973. My father put his political and religious ideas in the public domain, as do my brothers. Many other relatives have spoken and published on political and religious topics. If they weren't and aren't silent, why should I be? And my workplace is covered with offensive political posters, including ones glorifying violence and terror. If they can speak, why can't I?

If you're the kind of person who is going to be upset by other people's political and religious ideas, then go away. Please do not read any further. Just take it as read that Humphrys has political and religious ideas you don't agree with, and go away. Because so does everybody, if you really get to know them.

Members of the First Dail (first Irish parliament), 1919.
Including my great-grandfather (on my father's side)
and my granduncle (on my mother's side).

I have been interested in politics since around 1981, and religion since around 1982. This site has been running in some form since 1994 or 1995. It certainly existed by Jan 1995.

This is a personal, non-profit site for political commentary and criticism. This site is based in the USA and is protected by the First Amendment.

Website address: markhumphrys.com
This site is running at around 75,000 page views per month.

"General comment on arguing (with anyone about anything) - you almost never get the pleasure of seeing that you won the argument in real time. People just don't like to publicly change their minds. They change their minds in private."
- Sam Harris on why the Internet is great for politics and religion and all those topics that are unpleasant and uncomfortable to discuss in person.

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