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02/01/2011 Michael Nugent

Teach, Don’t Preach: New Website Launched

Atheist Ireland has launched a new website as part of our campaign for a secular Irish education system based on human rights law. http://teachdontpreach.ie includes information, resources and a discussion forum about secular education, and sample letters to help you to opt your child out of religious education classes in ...

31/12/2010 nozzferrahhtoo

The Grand really, truly True Believer™ Awards 2010

With 2010 dead and gone to a better place it is time to turn out attention to handing out the big awards of the year. The Truly True Annuals. Coming in second place in the popularity polls from the year, and thus winning the annual IRISH TRULY TRUE BELIEVER OF ...

28/12/2010 nozzferrahhtoo

The really, truly True Believer™ of the Month Award December 2010

A tie between comical Homosexual and Christian issues has given this Months Believer award what can only be described cumulatively as a “Gay Christmas” feeling. The Christmas theme comes to us this year from Vendsyssel, Jutland where a Pastor so offended by Christmas elves saw fit to symbolically execute one ...

06/12/2010 Grania

An appeal from Atheist Alliance International

Inoculate Ugandan Children From Magic and Superstition Two years ago, the Kasese United Humanist Association (KUHA), inaugurated the courageous goal of raising a generation of children in Uganda grounded in freethought, reason, and science. They wanted to break the generational cycle of families passing on myths of magic and superstition ...

05/12/2010 nozzferrahhtoo

The really, truly True Believer™ of the Month Award November 2010

This month‘s winner is another home grown credulous memeoid. Easily brushing off competition from Pakistan’s prosecutions of Blasphemy and Muslim Cynophobia leading parents to obtain a "seeing eye horse" rather than a "seeing eye dog" our very own Minister for Social Protection raced to a victory with 42% of the ...

05/11/2010 nozzferrahhtoo

The really, truly True Believer™ of the Month Award October 2010

Father Dougal Mcguire can rest easy this month as the rise of the Anti-Santa in Germany failed to attract a single vote in the polls, while Christian attempts to take over Halloween barely made it to second place despite the core of their faith being based on an un-dead Jewish ...

19/10/2010 Michael Nugent

Give us a state that's not religious nor atheist, but secular

Here is an article I wrote for today's Irish Times. Give us a state that's not religious nor atheist, but secular ATHEISM PROVIDES a better model of reality, and a better basis for morality, than believing in gods. Atheists can enjoy the benefits that many people get from religion, without ...

19/10/2010 Michael Nugent

Give us a state that’s not religious nor atheist, but secular

Here is an article I wrote for today's Irish Times. Give us a state that's not religious nor atheist, but secular ATHEISM PROVIDES a better model of reality, and a better basis for morality, than believing in gods. Atheists can enjoy the benefits that many people get from religion, without ...

15/10/2010 Michael Nugent

Atheist Ireland meets European Union Presidents to discuss poverty policy

Today in Brussels Atheist Ireland became the first Irish philosophical organisation, and the first European atheist advocacy group, to meet with the Presidents of the European Commission, European Parliament and European Council. The meeting discussed European Union policy on poverty and social exclusion, as part of the dialogue process under ...

13/10/2010 Michael Nugent

Atheist Ireland calls for change to Education Bill

Atheist Ireland wants a change to the Education (Amendment) Bill 2010, which is being debated this week in the Dail, to ensure the right of parents to a secular education based on human rights law in new VEC primary schools. The Bill will allow VECs to become patrons of new ...

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