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.” …
(Excerpt) Read more at irishcentral.com ...
“The Communists are further reproached with desiring to abolish countries and nationality.” …Straight out of the Communist Manifesto, lyrics like that.
“There are, besides, eternal truths, such as freedom, justice, etc., that are common to all states of society. But Communism abolishes eternal truths, it abolishes all religion and all morality, instead of constituting them on a new basis; it therefore acts in contradiction to all past historical experience.” …
Oooops — I MADE A MISTAKE — bad — I APOLOGIZE :(
The country I was talking about in that post was NORTHERN IRELAND.
I wrote **Republic of Ireland** — BY MISTAKE. [should have just gone to bed.]
Which gives an entirely different meaning to it all.
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I guess all of NORTHERN 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 :(
Northern Ireland is in the same odd situation as Scotland now; England has voted to leave the EU but N. Ireland and Scotland want to remain in it. “United” Kingdom my arse...
The Protestant “majority” only exists if you count Hindus, Muslims, etc. as “Protestant”; Catholics have been the largest denomination in Northern Ireland for many years now.
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