Atheist Ireland chairperson Michael Nugent will speak to the TCD Theological Society on Monday October 12th on the topic Reading the Bible as an Argument for Atheism. The meeting starts at 7 pm in the Chamber, GMB. Atheist Ireland actively encourages people to read the...
Blasphemy and bible reading: Atheist Ireland AGM 2009. Senator Ivana Bacik will open the first Atheist Ireland AGM at 2 pm tomorrow, Saturday 11 July, in Wynns Hotel in Abbey Street Dublin. Members of the public are welcome to attend. The meeting will discuss a...
Public information meeting on the introduction of a new blasphemy law held in Cork. Michael Nugent speaking at a public meeting on the introduction of a blasphemy law. The meeting was held in Cork in 2009. The Minister for Justice is proposing to amend his...
Massimo Pigliucci writes, blasphemy is a strange concept, according to my dictionary it refers to “the act or offence of speaking sacrilegiously of God or sacred things.” By that definition, every religious believer constantly engages in blasphemy — of all the other gods she doesn’t...
The Minister for Justice is proposing to amend his new blasphemy law by providing, as a defence, that a person accused of blasphemy can “prove that a reasonable person would find genuine literary, artistic, political, scientific, or academic value” in the blasphemous matter. He is...
Do you want to stop the Irish government from reviving the medieval crime of blasphemy? Do you want to promote a rational, ethical and secular society in Ireland? Atheist Ireland has put a campaign website online at http://blasphemy.ie/ as part of our campaign against this...
The Irish Government’s new proposed blasphemy crime combines the oppressive religious thinking of 1950s Catholic Ireland and modern Islamic fundamentalism. This proposal should be opposed for three reasons: One, it does not protect religious belief. Instead, it encourages outrage and it criminalises free speech. Two,...