Irish Atheist

An open-exchange base for Irish Dissenters. Hopefully, a platform enabling Ireland's non-believers to make contact, exchanging opinions and experiences, at least until I become aware of a more competent platform.

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Location: Dublin, Ireland

Born in Summerhill, a centre-city slum. Now 63, I remember the '60s as a time of economic relaxation in Ireland, with greater freedom of expression being taken for granted. Of course, abortion and euthanasia were still very much taboo subjects, but merely hurdles which would be jumped eventually. The '70s would be Socialist! How wrong we were back then.

Friday, April 01, 2005

Getting some of my own back!

Having had a naturalistic approach to life, rather than a supernaturalistic approach, for the first 55 years of my life I felt the need to tread very carefully in talking with family, friends, work-mates etc. The majority culture has always claimed a right to be super-sensitive and became "offended" at any tiny sign of disagreement with their views.
I often refused to give in to this "emotional bullying" (there were times when it was wiser to) and so felt isolated for much of that time.
However, I never dreamed I'd live to see the day when the Irish Catholic Church would fall off it's pedestal, blind drunk with it's own power, especially as a consequence of child sex abuse, as has been exposed over the past 15 years. Neither did I forsee the global improvements in communications which makes the covering-up of incompetence and dishonesty much more difficult for administrators.
Obviously, I am now thoroughly enjoying the daily/weekly exposure of our dysfunctional little "rosary bead republic" in all it's Catholic Nationalist glory!

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