Ethics & Religion
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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Euthanasia through the ages
Hugh Breakey
15/02/2023
Are our moral judgements about euthanasia a product of our time? If we came from a different culture, might our ...
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How I dropped the dogma and took control of my own destiny
Giulio Bortolozzo
07/02/2023
I was about six years old when the parish priest walked into the room. His vestments swirled around him as ...
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The faithless in foxholes
Noel Turnbull
25/01/2023
There is an old saying – there are no atheists in foxholes. In reality, modern soldiers are unlikely to be ...
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George Brandis and the Christian persecution complex
Hugh Harris
10/01/2023
Attending the Religious Freedom roundtable in November 2015 on behalf of the Rationalist Society of Australia, I was bemused by ...
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Andrew Denton: Report reveals gulf between conservative Christian politics and voters
Andrew Denton
18/12/2022
This foreword appears in the newly published Religiosity in Australia: Religion and politics. In May of 2022, as New South ...
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Christ’s commanders
Si Gladman
13/12/2022
This article is the third in a series on religion in the Australian Defence Force. Read the first article here. ...
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Losing faith in Defence chaplaincy
Si Gladman
24/11/2022
This article is the second in a series on religion in the Australian Defence Force. Read the first article here. ...
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The committee of clerics lording it over Defence
Si Gladman
16/11/2022
This article is the first in a series on religion in the Australian Defence Force. Every three months, Australian taxpayers ...
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In the Defence Force, religion is a barrier to care – and it shouldn’t be
Collin Acton
27/10/2022
In February 2018, as head of the Royal Australian Navy’s Chaplaincy Branch I attended an international Chiefs of Chaplains conference ...
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A more ethical way to buy animal-source foods
Jacob Nazroo
29/09/2022
If you have $6.50 and you want to buy 12 eggs, you could either spend it all on 12 free-range ...
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