Ethics & Religion
Challenging the Jesus myth theory
“I believe that no discovery of fact, however trivial, can be wholly useless to the race, and that no trumpeting ...
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Why does Stan Grant’s opinion about religion pass as ‘analysis’ on the ABC?
We recall the controversy surrounding Emma Alberici’s 2018 article about corporate tax cuts. Subsequently, the ABC judged it to have ...
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Has the pandemic fundamentally changed our ethics?
Over the past two years, our lives have changed in unprecedented ways. In the face of the pandemic, we have ...
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This matter of Christmas and hope
On 19 December, the ABC online ran an essay by Stan Grant under the title ‘With Christianity receding and many ...
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Shaming unvaccinated people has to stop
“Unvaccinated mother, 27, dies with coronavirus as her father calls for fines for people who refuse jab.” This is the ...
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When rationalist Anne Lennon exposed church’s selling of ‘indulgences’
In the Roman Catholic Church, a ‘novena’ is a devotion in which special prayers or services are repeated on nine ...
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Why religious conservatives are hitting the panic button
In the 1950s, Australians were constantly being told to be aware of the dangers of communist infiltration of our institutions. ...
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Report adds ‘reach, depth and nuance’ to our understanding of religiosity
This foreword appears in ‘Religiosity in Australia: Religious minds, religious collectives’. The Rationalist Society of Australia believes — and has ...
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The personal stories reshaping Australia’s journey out of religion
The trend in people ‘deconverting’ from religion or ‘deconstructing’ their faith has in recent years triggered viral hashtags on social ...
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Between swinging arms and chins: The push for ‘religious freedom’
This is an excerpt from Neil Francis’ soon-to-be published Part 2 of the Religiosity in Australia research series, commissioned by ...
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Not so different: Does religion deserve special protection?
A new draft of the federal religious discrimination legislation proposes to give special rights to the words and actions of ...
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A media pothole: The pitfalls of covering religion
There are few areas of media coverage more vexed and controversial than religion. So much so, it is far from ...
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