Ethics & Religion

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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It’s time to abolish the erroneous idea of sin

‘Sin’ is a word embedded in our language and culture. It has wide use. Uprooting it would be as difficult …

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The truth by the numbers: Religion in Australian society

RSA Fellow Neil Francis is producing a multi-part study for the Rationalist Society: Religiosity in Australia. The first installment, Part …

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Assisted dying opponents don’t mention Switzerland. Why?

Recently, Dr Theo Boer, an Assistant Professor at a “black-stocking” (strongly conservative Protestant) theological college in the Netherlands was at …

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Out in the open: Should candidates for parliament state their religious affiliations?

When I read Meredith Doig’s comment about “a new breed of ‘muscular’ Christians (Australian Rationalist, December 2020), some of them …

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Rethinking the human: On being accountable in the Anthropocene

In a quiet corner of my library is a book called Man and the Ecosphere. It’s a set of essays from Scientific …

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