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— Desmond O’Toole (@desmondotoole) January 21, 2014
Great news:We’ve reopened diplomatic relations with a state that refuses 2 take full responsibility for mass abuse of poor kids in our state
— Dave Lordan (@davelordanpoet) January 21, 2014
Previously: That Showed Them
It’s evolutionary, dude.
Atheism to be taught to Irish schoolchildren (Henry McDonald, The Guardian)
Mr Big writes:
Was at a Law Society fundraising event last night where the compere told this joke, which I found a bit irksome. Don’t think they’d get away with calling followers of any religion fools at a public event. Maybe I’m just being oversensitive, but these are the people who run our legal system.
Hibernia College Dublin, in its Higher Diploma in Arts in Primary Education, is teaching as part of its Religion module several untrue statements about atheism and at least two defamatory allegations about modern atheists. This includes course notes that claim that “What bothers very few of its latter-day exponents is the fact that atheist humanism produced the worst horrors history has ever witnessed, namely Nazism, Fascism and Marxism…” and a mock examination where the student is expected to answer that it is “True” that “Atheist humanism produced the worst horrors history has ever witnessed.”
The course notes, according to AI – which has written in protest to Hibernia College – were written by Father Vincent Twomey, Iona Institute patron and professor emeritus of moral theology at St Patrick’s College Maynooth.
*humanist popcorn*