Conor McGrath elected Vice President of Atheist Alliance International
Conor McGrath of Atheist Ireland has been elected as Vice President of Atheist Alliance International. The four new officers elected today are: President: Nick Lee - Freethinkers Association of Central Texas (Texas, USA). Nick is the co-founder and Vice President of Texas Freethought Convention, now in its third year of ...
Pope links atheism with Nazi Germany and lack of virtue
The Pope makes two scandalous comments in his opening speech in Britain: firstly, his attempt to blame atheism for the crimes of Nazi Germany, and secondly his inference that, if you do not want God or religion in public life, you also do not want virtue in public life. On ...
Science Minister Lenihan to launch book calling evolution a hoax
Update: Irish Science Minister Lenihan withdraws from launching anti-evolution book http://bit.ly/atOXec Conor Lenihan, Ireland's Minister of State for Science, is to launch a book this Wednesday that describes evolution as a scientific hoax. He says he is doing this because the author is a friend of his. This is an ...
60 years on, time to remove the Angelus from RTE
This week 60 years ago, on the request of the Roman Catholic Archbishop John Charles McQuaid, Radio Eireann started to broadcast the Angelus. This daily call to prayer, still gifted by RTE to the Roman Catholic Church as a free prime time advertisement, has no place in a modern pluralist ...
Atheist and Humanist Activism
How do activist Atheist groups differ from Humanist groups? And how can we best work together to promote a rational, ethical and secular society? Arguably, the labels are relatively unimportant in themselves. Most atheists and most humanists share most of the same fundamental beliefs and values. We reject the idea ...
Official – Vatican does compare child abuse with ordaining women
Apologists for the Vatican have recently claimed that the Catholic Church does not compare sexually abusing a child with attempting to ordain a woman, but that it merely included both crimes in the same document as a procedural matter. However, this is not true. A Vatican official has explicitly described ...
Read the Bible: The Resurrection of Jesus
One of Atheist Ireland’s campaigns is to encourage people to read the Christian Bible and the sacred texts of other religions. The physical resurrection of Jesus Christ is the central tenet of Christianity. But the evidence for this extraordinary claim is nonexistent outside the Christian Bible, and contradictory within the ...