Hugh Harris - Rationale Magazine

17 Jul

How Queensland’s state schools remain ‘mission fields’ for ‘harvesting’

19/07/2023
By Hugh Harris
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"But Dad! Dad! We learned it at school!" This was how my son defended his claim that “God created the whole world". Evidently, this...

14 Jun

Education

Why is Labor walking away from secular education?

15/06/2023
By Hugh Harris
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The Australian Labor Party (ALP) looks like it’s jettisoning the long-held ideal that schools are “universal, free and secular”....

10 Jan

Ethics & Religion

George Brandis and the Christian persecution complex

18/01/2023
By Hugh Harris
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Attending the Religious Freedom roundtable in November 2015 on behalf of the Rationalist Society of Australia, I was bemused by ...

15 Oct

Law & Politics

The need for caution when prioritising employers’ values over individuals’ rights

15/10/2022
By Hugh Harris
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Many would see the removal of Andrew Thorburn from his position as a victory for progressive values over intolerance. While this messy ...

30 Jun

Ethics & Religion

A country retreating from faith

15/07/2022
By Hugh Harris
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The 2021 census reveals a society in transformation. In terms of religion, the earth is shifting beneath our feet. Rocketing to 38.9...

16 Jun

Education

What’s so offensive about secularism?

15/07/2022
By Hugh Harris
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Demonising secularism has become something of a sport for the religious right in the United States. Secularists are routinely painted a...

18 Apr

Ethics & Religion

Challenging the Jesus myth theory

15/07/2022
By Hugh Harris
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"I believe that no discovery of fact, however trivial, can be wholly useless to the race, and that no trumpeting of falsehood, however ...

19 Feb

Ethics & Religion

Why does Stan Grant’s opinion about religion pass as ‘analysis’ on the ABC?

22/07/2022
By Hugh Harris
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We recall the controversy surrounding Emma Alberici’s 2018 article about corporate tax cuts. Subsequently, the ABC judged it to ...

08 Jan

Feature series

A fundamental examination of the intersection of reason and belief (Part 2)

07/09/2022
By Hugh Harris
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This is Part 2. You can read Part 1 here. Distinguishing faith and reason Richard Colledge, in ‘Intellectual Assent and th...

07 Jan

Feature series

A fundamental examination of the intersection of reason and belief (Part 1)

07/09/2022
By Hugh Harris
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"For the mind of man is far from the nature of a clear and equal glass, wherein the beams of things should reflect according to their t...

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