Posted on 10/14/2017 8:09:06 PM PDT by Olog-hai
The number of atheists in Ireland has shot up by nearly three quarters whilst the number of Catholics has dived, according to the latest census figures.
In 2011, a total of 277,237 ticked the ‘no religion’ box on the census form, but five years later, 481,388 did so.
That means that atheism is now the second largest belief system in the Irish Republic, accounting for 10.1% of the population.
The news was welcomed by the pressure group Atheist Ireland, which said, “We are increasingly optimistic that a secular Ireland is inevitable, free of religious privilege and religious discrimination against any citizens.” …
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Agreed.
Father Liam was a good priest.
Worthless, bullshit post. “No religion” is NOT the same as atheism.
It’s not your father’s Ireland anymore.
Thank you very much. Yes, he understood very well.
Atheists have no problem appropriating “no religion” as a synonym for their beliefs. Take note of the Freedom From Religion Foundation.
Is this talking about Republic of Ireland, the southern area.
The northern part, Northern Ireland, old Ulster, isn’t it Catholic and where the Catholics went?
The Republic.
The North used to be overwhelmingly majority Protestant, with the Presbyterians being the biggest single denomination. The proportion of Protestant to Catholic is coming closer to parity now (2011 census showed respective 41.6 percent to 40.8 percent), with “no religion” and “religion not stated” being reported in higher numbers. Presbyterians and most other Protestants identify as British.
I guess all of Republic of Ireland identifies as British, being as it is part of UK.
FYI I happened to hear, a few years ago, that the number of Catholic school children has surpassed number of Protestants.
Have continued to wonder what the P’s will get around to changing to keep things in their favor :(
The Priests, at www.thepriests.org !SonySuperstars, 3 Catholic Priests, who have sung around the world and for 3 Popes, from Northern Ireland, so admittedly intelligent.
Have a story of being refused to be sent to school after grade school, because unqualified. Like how they handled the Catholics. If family wanted anymore education, they had to pay for it themselves :(
No, that’s not what I said. I cited the FFRF as those radicals who appropriate the concept of no religion for themselves; it’s in their name. I did not say “embrace the FFRF” in any way, shape or form.
No, the Republic of Ireland is not part of the UK at all. They declare no allegiance to Britain’s monarch; that ended in 1948 when the Free State became the Republic. It’s the Republic that is majority Catholic.
God Bless the July 12th marchers.
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/07/protestant-parade-northern-ireland/533151/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6EQdcEa6hw
Its the same pipe and drum that marched in the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812.
Churches are taxed based on the number of members, and believers of any faith are routinely persecuted if not of the ‘approved’ faith, even today. Easier to say ‘no faith’.
Ireland, the land of my father’s family, is gone. Just 6 men entered the only seminary left in the whole country this fall and that was the least in 222 years they have abortion and gay marriage now. Their grand iman is a guy named Liam Egan. My heart breaks.
And *slam is rushing in to fill the void. Ireland is going the way of the rest of Europe.
The Republic was independent of England already when WWII came around; unlike WWI, most of Ireland never participated in WWII (with the exception of the still-occupied north).
Abortion, not yet, albeit Irish women have gone to England for decades to get those thanks to the UK’s Abortion Act. (That law does not apply in Northern Ireland or the Isle of Man, BTW; only England, Scotland and Wales. “Conservative” politicians, however, supported an amendment by a Labour politician that would give Northern Irish women “free” NHS abortions instead of charging them £900 [currently $1,196] as they presently do.)
The Republic of Ireland holds a referendum on its own Eighth Amendment next year (the specific outlawing of abortion).
They listened to John Lennon:
Imagine there’s no countries
It isn’t hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
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