Cardinal Sean Brady, Roman Catholic Primate of All Ireland, should resign today. Last December he told RTE that he would resign if a child had been abused as a result of a failure on his part.
Continue reading “Cardinal Brady’s meetings with paedophile priest”
There are two reasons why State schools should be run on a secular basis. But first, it is important to explain that a secular school is not the same thing as an atheist school.
Parents and children have a right to a secular education under international human rights law. These are the main treaties in which these rights are enshrined.
From today, 1 January 2010, the new Irish blasphemy law becomes operational, and we in Atheist Ireland begin our campaign to have it repealed. Blasphemy is now a crime punishable by a €25,000 fine.
Imagine you have never heard of the Bible, and you are given the 27 books of the New Testament and asked to put them in order.
Continue reading “The false flow of the Biblical Jesus stories”
How soon is the first fiction in the New Testament? Try the first page. The title is the Gospel of Matthew. In reality, nobody knows who wrote any of the Gospels, other than they were Christians who spoke Greek and lived outside Palestine between about 65-95 CE.
Continue reading “The fanciful first page of the New Testament”
This list was first published in July 2009, and is occasionally updated: add your own favourite atheist-related book to the comments and I will add it to the list.
If you plan to campaign against the new proposed Irish blasphemy law, here are some key points that it would be helpful to be familiar with.
The ten commandments of Judeo-Christianity are not a guide for ethical conduct. They are laws for regulating the conduct of one Bronze Age tribe.
Religion and wealth are the two main factors that influence cultural values around the world. The influence of religion can be measured on a scale from traditional values to secular-rational values, and the influence of wealth can be measured on a scale from survival values to self-expression values.
