Ethics & Religion
Leslie Cannold: Setting the record straight on beliefs about religious moral superiority
Leslie Cannold
16/12/2023
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
Chrys Stevenson
11/12/2023
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
Rationale Magazine
19/11/2023
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
Geoffrey Barker
30/10/2023
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
Geoffrey Barker
23/09/2023
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
Clare Heath-McIvor
08/09/2023
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
Phillip Hoglin
02/08/2023
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
Peter FitzSimons
11/06/2023
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
Paul Monk
18/04/2023
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
Clare Heath-McIvor
08/04/2023
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
Brock Bastian
05/04/2023
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
M. Robert Campbell
25/02/2023
The first time I was suspended from school came in Year 8. To some, that might seem a little early ...
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