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Secular Sunday #61 – News Addition

24/02/2013 Secular Sunday

Secular Sunday #61 – News Addition

Welcome to this week's Secular Sunday. We have some real changes this week. Most significantly we have a new contributor. Barbara Monea is a 30-year-old Italian who has recently joined Atheist Ireland. She is a long-time member of UAAR (Union of Atheists and Agnostics in Italy) and was a regular contributor to the news section ...

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15/02/2013 Atheist Ireland

Atheist Ireland to host international conference on Empowering Women Through Secularism

Religions and religiously-inspired laws discriminate against women. Secular activism can help to empower women. And, whether you are a woman or a man, you can help to shape the future of secular activism and women’s rights around the world by coming to Dublin this June. Following our successful sell-out World ...

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10/02/2013 Secular Sunday

Secular Sunday #59 – Food For Thought

It's time for this week's Secular Sunday. In this issue: News Upcoming Events Blogologue (more…)

10/02/2013 Atheist Ireland

Flirting with the light of reason: how a la carte Catholicism contributes to the secular agenda, by Andrew D Rattigan

In the first of a series of articles for Atheist Ireland, Andrew Devine-Rattigan remembers the set-menu Irish Catholics of recent decades, argues that they are being replaced by a new generation of a la carte Irish Catholics, and says that atheists and secularists should welcome this rejection of religious authority. ...

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09/02/2013 Atheist Ireland

Atheist Ireland to meet with Irish Government this year

Atheist Ireland will be meeting with the Irish Government this year for a bilateral meeting under the process of structured dialogue between the State and churches, faith communities and philosophical and other non-confessional bodies. We first requested this meeting last year, and we requested it again last month after the ...

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09/02/2013 Atheist Ireland

Second Sunday, Secular Sunday, Second Breakfasts tomorrow

Don't forget: Tomorrow, we have three simultaneous events in Dublin Cork Sligo It’s nothing formal, just getting together for a meal and a chat at midday on the second Sunday of every month. If you are organising one of tomorrow's events, here is a table sign to let people know ...

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03/02/2013 Secular Sunday

Secular Sunday #58 – Let’s Do Brunch

It's time for this week's Secular Sunday. In this issue: News Upcoming Events Blogality (more…)

03/02/2013 Secular Sunday

Secular Sunday #58 – Let's Do Brunch

It's time for this week's Secular Sunday. In this issue: News Upcoming Events Blogality (more…)

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