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 Christian Bible. It makes many ...
Atheist Ireland is seeking your help to launch and shape a new long-term campaign with two important aims: to repeal the new Irish blasphemy law and to attain a secular Irish Constitution. Specifically, we are asking you to do three things: send us a message of support, get actively involved ...
Atheist Ireland has recently held two training workshops for members in how to lobby politicians. They have been led by our Lobbying Officer, Conor McGrath, who is a former lobbyist in the UK and who has taught at the University of Ulster as Lecturer in Political Lobbying and Public Affairs. ...
Today is International Blasphemy Day, administered by the Center For Inquiry as part of its Campaign for Free Expression. Atheist Ireland is an advocacy group for an ethical and secular Ireland: see details in these Irish Times articles on the Irish blasphemy law and our first AGM. Atheist Ireland is ...
The 'ladder of ascent' fallacy, a common misconception in evolution. “Life is peculiar,” said Jeremy. “Compared to what?” asked the spider. -- Men Who Play God (1968), by Norman Moss. The recent discovery by NASA of the amino acid Glycine in dust from a comet in the outer Solar System ...
Count Me Out, making leaving the Catholic Church easy. Apostasy refers to the defection from one's religion. Count Me Out was set up to make formally leaving the Catholic Church as straight forward and easy a process as possible. Edit: Due to a change in Canon Law the process to ...
A recession is always easy to recognise when industries that normally have to make very little effort suddenly begin investing in full page advertisements across multiple news papers and engaging in a nationwide radio ad campaigns, including an attempt at making a price freeze on all its products. This down ...
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 blasphemous statement to be published ...
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 new blasphemy law by providing, ...
The following is a critique of the basic postulates of humanistic philosophy: it may, in effect, be taken as a concise rebuttal of what humanism stands for, delivered, perhaps unusually, by a secularist and an atheist. My drive to do so has largely been fuelled by the fact that there ...
