UN Briefing - Religious Discrimination In Ireland

[onager]

Atheist Ireland just delivered a speech to the UN in Geneva. The topic is officialy sanctioned discrimination against non-Xians in the Irish Republic.

Interesting stuff. Apparently atheists have few to no rights under the current Irish constitution.

But this sort of thing could never happen in the USA...cough...

http://www.michaelnugent.com/2015/06/08/atheist-ireland-un-speech/

[salimbag]

1. Not just in Ireland

There are still laws on the books in many places that discriminate against atheists. It is up to the citizens to lead the effort against these laws.

[Cartoonist]

2. For Better Or For Worse

The comic strip by a Canadian. There was one strip published around St. Patrick's Day that made me wince. There was a party and someone asked, "What did St.Patrick ever do for Ireland?"
"He rid it of snakes," came the first reply.
"What else did he do?"
"He brought Christianity to Ireland."
"What else?"
"Isn't that enough?"
. . . respective silence . . .

[Lordquinton]

3. In some sort of research i found out that Ireland was already christian before Patrick arrived

Just not catholic, so he went about knocking over the incorrect churches and putting up him own, basically. Little more complex but bshows you how it's not just believing, it's the right kind of belief.

[Iggo]

4. ...and didn't the Romans observe a couple centuries before old Pat that there were no snakes?

So what kind of "snakes" did Paddy boy really get rid of?

[Lordquinton]

5. That there were no snakes in Ireland before pat got there

Is a perfectly wrapped up metaphor about the Catholic Church.