Religion - Rationale Magazine

24 Mar

Gods in the machine: Artificial intelligence and new religions

24/03/2023
By Neil McArthur
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We are about to witness the birth of a new kind of religion. In the next few years, or perhaps even months, we will see the emergence o...

11 Jul

Philosophy & Psychology

How cults corrupt our desire for love and connection

15/07/2022
By Shane Satterley
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Project Mayhem is an all-male cult – but unlike the real cults that Sarah Steel writes about in Do As I Say, Project Mayhem is f...

30 Jun

Ethics & Religion

A country retreating from faith

15/07/2022
By Hugh Harris
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The 2021 census reveals a society in transformation. In terms of religion, the earth is shifting beneath our feet. Rocketing to 38.9...

13 Jun

Philosophy & Psychology

Blaming ‘evil’: Unpacking the paradox of using the word

15/07/2022
By Elise Springer
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The word ‘evil’ circulates widely in the wake of terrible public violence. The May 24, 2022, massacre at an elementary school in Uvalde...

03 Jun

Ethics & Religion

The religion question: Counting down to the census results

15/07/2022
By Michael Dove
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The results of the 2021 census are due to be released at the end of this month. One of the questions that has received the most attenti...

18 Apr

Ethics & Religion

Challenging the Jesus myth theory

15/07/2022
By Hugh Harris
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"I believe that no discovery of fact, however trivial, can be wholly useless to the race, and that no trumpeting of falsehood, however ...

05 Oct

Ethics & Religion

Not so different: Does religion deserve special protection?

04/08/2022
By Ian Robinson
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A new draft of the federal religious discrimination legislation proposes to give special rights to the words and actions of religious p...

08 Jul

Ethics & Religion

A media pothole: The pitfalls of covering religion

04/08/2022
By David James
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There are few areas of media coverage more vexed and controversial than religion. So much so, it is far from clear why newspapers and t...

01 Jun

Ethics & Religion

The truth by the numbers: Religion in Australian society

04/08/2022
By Paul Monk
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RSA Fellow Neil Francis is producing a multi-part study for the Rationalist Society: Religiosity in Australia. The first installment,

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