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8 August 2012

Irish People Abandoning Religion

Irish people are among the least religious in the world. That’s according to the latest Global Index of Religion and Atheism released by WIN-Gallup International. The index is based on surveys conducted in 57 countries, representing more than 73% of the world’s population.

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5 August 2012

Secular Sunday #32 – A Good Society

Welcome to this week’s Secular Sunday. In this issue: News Upcoming Events News Atheist Ireland’s Annual General Meeting has been confirmed for a weekend in mid-September. We haven’t finalised the date because we’re waiting on the availability of Sanal Edamaruku (president of Rationalist International and...

29 July 2012

Secular Sunday #31 – Making a Difference

It’s Secular Sunday time! In this issue: News Upcoming Events Bloggage

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28 July 2012

Atheism and science: Aoife McLysaght talks to Dublin Atheists in the Pub

Aoife McLysaght of TCD Genetics Dept talks at Dublin Atheists in the Pub, July 2012. She talks about how we become atheists, a new book called the Young Atheists’s Handbook by former Muslim Alom Shaha, the Giant’s Causeway creationist controversy, and defending science against religious...

22 July 2012

Secular Sunday #30 – Good Without Gods

It’s time for this week’s Secular Sunday! In this issue: News Upcoming Events Blogosphere

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15 July 2012

Secular Sunday #29

News Youtube http://www.teachdontpreach.ie/2012/07/atheist-ireland-replies-to-minister-for-education-re-vec-community-schools/   Upcoming Events Today, Sunday 15 July, 8:00 pm, The Exchange, Temple Bar, Dublin 2 (map) Skeptics in the Pub will be hosting Martin Robbins, a Berkshire-based researcher and science writer. His talk will centre around the work he did last year...

13 July 2012

Trusting women to decide: Sinead Redmond talks to Dublin Atheists in the Pub

Sinead Redmond talks to Dublin Atheists in the Pub about how she set up the Facebook group ‘Unlike Youth Defence, I trust women to decide their lives for themselves’ and how she organized a protest at Leinster House against misleading advertisements about the impact of...

12 July 2012

Atheist Ireland replies to Minister for Education re VEC Community Schools

In April, Atheist Ireland wrote to the Minister for Education about Document No. 154 of material released to RTE under the Freedom of Information Act. This document outlined how parents in a VEC community school were told that: “It is true that all morality is...

8 July 2012

Secular Sunday #28 – Blogs and Plugs

Welcome one and all to the latest Secular Sunday! We have quite a full issue this week, with some exciting news, lots of blog posts and a competition. In this issue: News Upcoming Events Competition Time Blogorrhea Shameless Plugs

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1 July 2012

Secular Sunday #27 – Why We are Atheists

Welcome to this week’s Secular Sunday. In this issue: News Upcoming Events What You Told Us

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