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.

Saturday, September 24, 2005

Little Sign Of Improvement

September - has the silly season ended or re-commenced? I noticed some Sinn Fein posters locally which suggest that they expect to successfully hijack the "Make Poverty History" slogan. Their cheap attempt ro place partition on anything similar to the world problem of poverty and starvation, truly spotlights thei narrow vision.
Bush is in more trouble, Blair not out of the woods yet, Bertie seems to have lost the plot entirely.
The next 12 months will produce a lot of change, hopefully some of it for the better, but I expect anything worthwhile will come from outside Ireland.
Fortunately, from an atheist's wiewpoint, there is a lot of positive activity going on. American Atheists have hired a full-time professional lobbyist, with some other great campaigns in operation, The Brights have now a registered constituency of 18,000.
If only Ireland's young people were more aware of where to look for glimmers of hope
in our very badly administerd world, run mostly by fools, thugs, cheats and liars, it might help to reduce the increasing suicide rate.
Ah, well! Because of our majority christian/catholic culture, we mustn't expect too much.