Ireland losing its religion - among top ten atheist countries

A Fitzyboy, from your mouth to God's ear.

maybe now the Protestants & Catholics can bury the hatchet .. wishful thinking ..

Please protect separation of church and state! These kinds of statistics make churchmen more determined than ever to exercise their influence through government, since they have lost direct influence over the people, who no longer flock into churches. Most RC churchmen believe "error [atheism and heterodoxy such as Protestantism] has no rights." The seminaries train many young men who mistook their arch-conservative politics for a divine call to the priesthood. They will try to use secular power to restore the influence of their religion. Just look at the craziness of the US presidential election campaign to see the lengths that churches will go to control the lives of women and LGBTs, the aged and disadvantaged and the schools that educate children. How many cases of censorship of liberal priests and nuns have you seen recently?--typical tactics of control. See Mirari Vos encyclical (On Liberalism and Religious Indifferentism), 1832: "But the death of the soul is worse than freedom of error," as Augustine was wont to say. When all restraints are removed by which men are kept on the narrow path of truth, their nature, which is already inclined to evil, propels them to ruin." And if religion can't "save" you through the churches, it has other means at its disposal.

When humanity,its poor,weak and those unable to self manage or regulate-discover that their incessant reliance on a higher power and the system it has created has directly corrupted their ability to be successful in life...God leaves the building.

About time the patriarchal religion program was placed in the virus vault so we can be free from all that brainwashing and lies.

briandelaney, Atheism? Been there, done that and finished with it. Our household has tried atheism and found it empty and lacking. Now our liberal Democratic household says "no thank you" to atheism.

Good news for Ireland, superstition on the decline!