Inside the indoctrinated mind
Earlier this year, I wrote here about radicalisation, white Christian nationalism and how the far and extreme right-wing interface
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Sep
Tag Archives: Religion
21
Aug
Non-overlapping magisteria: Why Gould got it wrong
This article is part of our ‘Celebrate Science’ feature series to mark National Science Week. It was originally published in the...
05
Apr
Supernatural beliefs exist to explain natural phenomena
Religion is a human universal. For thousands of years, humans have held religious beliefs and participated in religious rituals. Throug...
24
Mar
Gods in the machine: Artificial intelligence and new religions
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
How cults corrupt our desire for love and connection
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
A country retreating from faith
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
Blaming ‘evil’: Unpacking the paradox of using the word
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
The religion question: Counting down to the census results
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
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 of falsehood, however ...
05
Oct
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 religious p...
08
Jul
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 clear why newspapers and t...
01
Jun
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,