Skip to main content

Church fails at education in Ireland


Churches in Ireland run 96 per cent of primary schools and about 50 per cent of the secondary level, even though the fastest growing cohort in the Irish population today is people with no religion. They are also among the youngest.
Their number, including atheists and agnostics, increased by more than 70 per cent per cent between 2011 and 2016, and now number almost one-half million persons. They are now the second largest category in Ireland, at 10 per cent of the population, with an average age of 34 - younger than the average population age.
All came through an education system dominated by the churches.
The churches will lose this battle, and should.
Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular Post

complete absence of any supporting data whatsoever

"I've sworn off agnosticism, which I now call cowardly atheism. I've come to the position that in the complete absence of any supporting data whatsoever for the persistence of the individual in some spiritual form, it is necessary to operate under the provisional conclusion that there is no afterlife and then be ready to amend that if I find out otherwise." James Francis Cameron , interview with the Hollywood Reporter (March 23, 2010) Cameron directed two of the highest grossing films of all time: "Titanic" (1997) and "Avatar" (2009). Cameron has also written and directed several other blockbuster movies, including "The Terminator" (1984), "Aliens" (1986), "The Abyss"(1989), "Terminator 2: Judgment Day" (1991) and "True Lies" (1994). Promoting Understanding of Religious Suffering
Post a Comment
Read more

don't care enough about religion to call themselves atheists

“As you learn more and more about the universe, you find you can understand more and more without any reference to supernatural intervention, so you lose interest in that possibility. Most scientists I know don't care enough about religion even to call themselves atheists. And that, I think, is one of the great things about science — that it has made it possible for people not to be religious”  Steven Weinberg (quoted in Natalie Angier, “Confessions of a Lonely Atheist," The New York Times, Jan. 14, 2001) Promoting Understanding of Religious Suffering
Post a Comment
Read more