Pouring myself like a mildly solid liquid out of the car I returned yesterday from the tiring but moving Atheist Alliance International Conference in Köln. AAI once again put on a great conference. The organisers picked what normally is a music venue which afforded us...
Welcome to Secular Sunday, Atheist Ireland’s weekly newsletter. As the weather is far too pleasant to sit inside reading – or writing! – newsletters, this issue will be shorter than usual. Normal service will be resumed next week (along with normal weather, no doubt).
...Michael Nugent of Atheist Ireland will be debating in London with Sami Zaatari of the Muslim Debate Initiative on Thursday 19 April at 6.30 pm. The topic is: “Is religion less relevant to modern society?” The venue is Friends House at 173-77 Euston Road. Admission...
Last Friday, Michael Nugent and Jane Donnelly attended a conference in Limerick titled Towards Mutual Ground: Religious Pluralism in Educational Practice in Irish Schools. It was organised by the Mater Dei Irish Centre for Religious Education, the PDST, and hosts Mary Immaculate College. Catherine O’Brien...
Atheist Ireland today met with Hibernia College to discuss the course notes that made untrue statements about atheism and atheists. The meeting was very productive. The relevant course notes have been removed. Michael Nugent is preparing an initial one-hour introductory lesson for Hibernia College on...
Hibernia College Dublin, in its Higher Diploma in Arts in Primary Education, is teaching as part of its Religion module several untrue statements about atheism and at least two defamatory allegations about modern atheists. This includes course notes that claim that “What bothers very few...
On Sunday 5 June 2011, the World Atheist Convention in Dublin discussed and adopted the following declaration on secularism and the place of religion in public life. Please discuss and promote it with your friends and colleagues, and if you are a a member of...
This month we learn from a study conducted in University of B.C. that the only group Religious people trust as little as rapists is…. you guessed it…. Atheists. The study showed that such people think Atheists good enough to do waitressing but not any job...
Last week Randall Calvin interviewed Atheist Ireland chairperson Michael Nugent for skyzthelimi7 and Atheism TV.
...Atheist Ireland is hosting a series of occasional lectures by prominent atheists. Here is the first one, with Professor AC Grayling, speaking last month in Dublin.
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