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Catholic Response to Child Sexual Abuse

Open Letter to Francis Sullivan, CEO TJH Council: This open letter is in response to the “Where to From Here?” speech — given by Francis Sullivan, CEO of the Truth Justice and Healing Council on 10.3.17.  It refers to the Royal Commission into Child Sexual Abuse, and Francis Sullivan’s response to abuses committed by Catholics.  […]

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Survey on Creationism in Australia

(1)  Nielsen Poll: December 2009: 23% believe in creationism 32% believe God ‘guided’ evolution 42% believe in natural evolution, without God (2)  Australasian Science Magazine survey: April 2011: This is an excerpt of the cover story from Australasian Science Magazine.  For the full story please go to the link below.  Full cover price for the […]

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Census 2016: A Seismic Secular Shift

Census on 9th August: If you’re not religious any more, mark “No Religion”.

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Why Do We Believe in Gods?

No brain is programmed, at birth, to follow any faith. So, where did these primitive superstitions come from and why do they persist today?

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Religious Instruction Has No Place in Our Public Schools

A new article from Monash University focuses on religion in schools.

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End-Times Belief in US Stifling Climate Change Action: Study

The Raw Story ran an article on 1.5.13 on a US study which shows that 76% of Republican voters believe in the “end times”, the Second Coming of Jesus and the Rapture.  The full study by David C. Barker and David H. Bearce, from the University of Pittsburgh, will be published in the June 2013 […]

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A Simple Challenge for “Silent” Christians

Do moderate Christians tacitly condone their fundamentalists brethren?

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Advertiser Poll Shows 70% Reject the Message

An Advertiser newspaper poll showed that 70% of the Adelaide public were far from ‘tuned in’ to the biblical meaning of Easter.

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Isn’t Atheism Just Another Religion?

An absurd fallacy still promoted by fundamentalists Christians: Atheism is plainly and simply “a-theism” — which means being “non-theist” … not believing in any God, or Gods, or the supernatural.  This rational position is taken by atheists based firmly on logic.  One critical fact is irrefutable — there is absolutely no credible, scientific or verifiable […]

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Religion and Social Dysfunction

Evidence that secular democracies have lower violence and sexual crime.

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Australian Census: How “Belief” is Misrepresented

Why Changes to the 2016 Census are Necessary.

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Intelligent Design (ID) and Irreducible Complexity (IC)

How fundamentalist Christians corrupt the evidence for evolution: Those who attempt to discredit evolution either use “quote mining” — deliberately and selectively quoting scientists or academics out of context — or they brazenly breach their own 9th Commandment. Fundamentalist Christians believe their entire religious edifice will crumble if they accept the raw facts of evolution.  […]

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God’s Poor Design

God’s not-so-intelligent design.

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God’s Late Arrival

On God’s absence from most of history.

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Religion Costs Australia $31b Annually

Religious institutions continue to receive tax-exempt status, despite the establishment of the Australian Charities and Not for Profit Commission in November 2012

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Afterlife — Heaven or Hell?

Like many constantly changing religious doctrines, the concepts of Heaven and Hell arrived fairly late on the spiritual time scale.  In many ancient cultures the poor and impoverished — by far the vast majority — were regarded as too unworthy to even consider the bizarre idea of immortality.  Greeks feared the “Beyond” as an underworld, […]

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Jesus: Man or God?

Do Christians ever challenge their faith on this question? Christians who consider themselves “critical thinkers” are able to express openly that they fully accept all scientific discoveries that are verifiable.  Without a blink they will embrace the overwhelming evidence of human evolution; of an Earth that is 4.55 billions years old; and a universe dating […]

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The Faithful and the Bible

Why are there so many contradictions within the bible?

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IQ and Religion

Is there a relationship between intelligence and religious belief?

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Three Gods in One?

Ask any Christian to explain, in detail, this remarkable concept and it’s likely their eyes will glaze over.  An estimated 99% of parishioners wouldn’t have a prayer of getting this right — and most theological encyclopedias confuse even the theologians with unintelligible wordplay.  Are intelligent people really asked to believe that God is both himself […]

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More Sacred to Secular

Sacred to Secular: eBook Overview — Reviews and Preface

Why has Australia failed the secular test, and what are the solutions?

All in the Mind

What neuroscience has to say about faith, and belief in the supernatural.

Philosophical Ethics

Why secular ethics and not Christian morality is vital in all schools…

Fraudulent Faith

Selling Jesus with the manipulative language of a used car salesman…

Christ in Class

Why teaching kids supernatural stories of heaven and hell is child abuse…

Human Evolution

How understanding human evolution prevents delusions of a fictional god…

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