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by JimC » Thu Apr 14, 2011 9:30 pm
Seraph wrote:klr wrote:redunderthebed wrote:klr wrote:I marked "no religion" on the Irish census last weekend.
I would imagine Australia is a fair bit further down the secular path than Ireland is however.
We shall see.
We already have. In 2006 4.4% of the Irish population described itself as of no religion, compared to 18.7% in Australia. Ten years earlier the figures were 1.9 and 15.6% respectively. The trend is certainly encouraging. I don't have sufficient data for Ireland, but for Australia it looks like this:
The line really started to climb around the time you and I became rebellious teenagers...
Coincidence? I think not...
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by redunderthebed » Fri Apr 15, 2011 12:45 am
JimC wrote:Seraph wrote:klr wrote:redunderthebed wrote:klr wrote:I marked "no religion" on the Irish census last weekend.
I would imagine Australia is a fair bit further down the secular path than Ireland is however.
We shall see.
We already have. In 2006 4.4% of the Irish population described itself as of no religion, compared to 18.7% in Australia. Ten years earlier the figures were 1.9 and 15.6% respectively. The trend is certainly encouraging. I don't have sufficient data for Ireland, but for Australia it looks like this:
The line really started to climb around the time you and I became rebellious teenagers...
Coincidence? I think not...
I think thats the census in the 60's and 70's not the 1901 census.
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by Hermit » Fri Apr 15, 2011 4:36 am
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by Aos Si » Fri Apr 15, 2011 7:14 am
49% here, we win the religion! The rest is broken down into God, other religions and agnosticism. So most of us do not believe in God. Which probably makes public funding even less justifiable but meh, the Church was pivotal in making free education in the first place exist, so I'm not sure it eats me up all that much. Since they obtain data like this from other independent poles and not the census though its hard to really justify the question. At least year it doesn't ask basically if you were raised under a religion which is why the census was so way out last time, well aside from the Jedi thing obviously.
We are such Godless heathens in this country. In the 50s 72% of people believed in God. Now that's quite a slide one that is probably quite unusual in terms of decrease.
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by Tigger » Fri Apr 15, 2011 12:12 pm
You should mark "no religion" rather than selecting "other" and adding your own stuff, though, like Jedi. The more people that mark it "properly" if they have no religion, the more it will generate the correct statistical data required to head in a more secular direction.
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by charlou » Sat Apr 16, 2011 4:37 am
Marking "no religion"
The info/advice/comments in the AFA's website linked to in the OP is
in a few ways though.
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by Aos Si » Sat Apr 16, 2011 8:02 pm
I marked no religion on mine even though technically I didn't have to. It all helps I guess?
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