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Roisin Ingle writes on the growing number atheists, agnostics, humanists in Ireland and their struggle for recognition. “I talked about how embarrassing it would be for this country if a successful candidate decided that in all conscience they couldn’t give that oath because they didn’t believe in God,” says Whiteside. He was gratified to observe Kenny requesting that Shatter make a note of this potentially awkward eventuality. |
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Jump To Comment: 1its 1/16th of the entire population and that's probably a conservative figure.
I think thats pretty significant. Don't you?
Dawkins is just one single atheist. He's entitled to any personal political alignment he wishes. Its not really very relevant to this discussion.
Quite aside from the fact that he seems far more amenable to (and capable of) honest polite reasoned discourse than most political or religious types I've come across.