Ethics & Religion

Leslie Cannold: Setting the record straight on beliefs about religious moral superiority

This is the foreword that appears in the newly published volume of the Religiosity in Australia series, by Neil Francis. ...
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Christian dominionism: Follow the money

This article is based on a speech given by the author at the Secularism Australia Conference on 2 December in ...
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Our 2017 interview with Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Editor’s note: In UnHerd magazine last weekend, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a feminist and critic of Islam, wrote about her journey ...
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Truth and consequences in a world of liars

The world watches horrified as bombs and rockets kill thousands and reduce Ukraine and Gaza to smoking rubble. Australians agonise ...
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Pentecostalism: New, old and unchanging

The “new face of Pentecostalism in Australia” was joyfully proclaimed in a recent edition of the Weekend Australian newspaper. “Rock ...
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Inside the indoctrinated mind

Earlier this year, I wrote here about radicalisation, white Christian nationalism and how the far and extreme right-wing interface. In ...
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Why the Army’s choice to serve God comes at a cost to the nation

On 8 July 2023, the Australian Army, specifically the 1st Armoured Regiment, had a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to march through the ...
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Peter FitzSimons: ‘Religion and charity’ report will help inform debate

This foreword appears in the newly published Religiosity in Australia: Religion and charity. It is the hoariest chestnut of the ...
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Greg Sheridan’s uncritical supernaturalism

On Easter Saturday, The Australian was to run a 1200-word piece of mine about Mathias Cormann being a safe pair ...
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Radicalisation and white Christian nationalism

Last year, I had a quick conversation with another writer about the difference between the ‘far right’ and ‘extreme right’ ...
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Supernatural beliefs exist to explain natural phenomena

Religion is a human universal. For thousands of years, humans have held religious beliefs and participated in religious rituals. Throughout ...
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The day I stood up to bullshit

The first time I was suspended from school came in Year 8. To some, that might seem a little early ...
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