The Son of Protagoras

Another mural that comments on the NI conflict is this piece from the 2014 Hit the North Festival. Protagoras is commonly believed to be the first recorded agnostic; he wrote in 84BC ‘As to the Gods, I have no means of knowing either that they exist or that they do not exist, or if they do.”

MTO was surprised on his arrival in Belfast to learn that we build walls to separate our communities and educate our children separately, and this piece is a direct response to seeing religion as the cause of our problems. The boy finds the stricken dove, killed by the twin arrows of Catholicism and Protestantism, and looks angrily at Belfast Cathedral which is just over the road. 

@mtograff