Search result for: 2010

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31 December 2010

The Grand really, truly True Believer™ Awards 2010

With 2010 dead and gone to a better place it is time to turn out attention to handing out the big awards of the year. The Truly True Annuals. Coming in second place in the popularity polls from the year, and thus winning the annual...

28 December 2010

The really, truly True Believer™ of the Month Award December 2010

A tie between comical Homosexual and Christian issues has given this Months Believer award what can only be described cumulatively as a “Gay Christmas” feeling. The Christmas theme comes to us this year from Vendsyssel, Jutland where a Pastor so offended by Christmas elves saw...

6 December 2010

An appeal from Atheist Alliance International

Inoculate Ugandan Children From Magic and Superstition Two years ago, the Kasese United Humanist Association (KUHA), inaugurated the courageous goal of raising a generation of children in Uganda grounded in freethought, reason, and science. They wanted to break the generational cycle of families passing on...

5 December 2010

The really, truly True Believer™ of the Month Award November 2010

This month‘s winner is another home grown credulous memeoid. Easily brushing off competition from Pakistan’s prosecutions of Blasphemy and Muslim Cynophobia leading parents to obtain a “seeing eye horse” rather than a “seeing eye dog” our very own Minister for Social Protection raced to a...

5 November 2010

The really, truly True Believer™ of the Month Award October 2010

Father Dougal Mcguire can rest easy this month as the rise of the Anti-Santa in Germany failed to attract a single vote in the polls, while Christian attempts to take over Halloween barely made it to second place despite the core of their faith being...

19 October 2010

Give us a state that’s not religious nor atheist, but secular

Here is an article I wrote for today’s Irish Times. Give us a state that’s not religious nor atheist, but secular ATHEISM PROVIDES a better model of reality, and a better basis for morality, than believing in gods. Atheists can enjoy the benefits that many...

15 October 2010

Atheist Ireland meets European Union Presidents to discuss poverty policy

Today in Brussels Atheist Ireland became the first Irish philosophical organisation, and the first European atheist advocacy group, to meet with the Presidents of the European Commission, European Parliament and European Council. The meeting discussed European Union policy on poverty and social exclusion, as part...

13 October 2010

Atheist Ireland calls for change to Education Bill

Atheist Ireland wants a change to the Education (Amendment) Bill 2010, which is being debated this week in the Dail, to ensure the right of parents to a secular education based on human rights law in new VEC primary schools. The Bill will allow VECs...

5 October 2010

Creationist book and Science Minister versus facts

With Science Minister Conor Lenihan winning our September Really Truly True Believer of the Month Award for planning to launch an anti-evolution book by creationist John J. May, here are two excellent videos by Shane Owen that will confuse both the Minister and the author...

4 October 2010

The really, truly True Believer™ of the Month Award September 2010

Conor Lenihan surprised no one by winning this month’s award. An Anti-Science Science Minister would be anyone’s favourite to get past the post and win any award of this nature. It reminds us that although an award such as this is all a bit of...

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