08 Sep Ethics & Religion Inside the indoctrinated mind 08/09/2023 By Clare Heath-McIvor 0 comments Earlier this year, I wrote here about radicalisation, white Christian nationalism and how the far and extreme right-wing interfaceContinue reading
21 Aug Feature series, Science & Health Non-overlapping magisteria: Why Gould got it wrong 21/08/2023 By Jonathan Meddings 0 comments This article is part of our ‘Celebrate Science’ feature series to mark National Science Week. It was originally published in the...Continue reading
05 Apr Ethics & Religion Supernatural beliefs exist to explain natural phenomena 05/04/2023 By Brock Bastian 0 comments Religion is a human universal. For thousands of years, humans have held religious beliefs and participated in religious rituals. Throug...Continue reading
24 Mar Philosophy & Psychology Gods in the machine: Artificial intelligence and new religions 24/03/2023 By Neil McArthur 0 comments 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...Continue reading
11 Jul Philosophy & Psychology How cults corrupt our desire for love and connection 15/07/2022 By Shane Satterley 0 comments 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...Continue reading
30 Jun Ethics & Religion A country retreating from faith 15/07/2022 By Hugh Harris 0 comments The 2021 census reveals a society in transformation. In terms of religion, the earth is shifting beneath our feet. Rocketing to 38.9...Continue reading
13 Jun Philosophy & Psychology Blaming ‘evil’: Unpacking the paradox of using the word 15/07/2022 By Elise Springer 0 comments The word ‘evil’ circulates widely in the wake of terrible public violence. The May 24, 2022, massacre at an elementary school in Uvalde...Continue reading
03 Jun Ethics & Religion The religion question: Counting down to the census results 15/07/2022 By Michael Dove 1 comment 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...Continue reading
18 Apr Ethics & Religion Challenging the Jesus myth theory 15/07/2022 By Hugh Harris 0 comments "I believe that no discovery of fact, however trivial, can be wholly useless to the race, and that no trumpeting of falsehood, however ...Continue reading
05 Oct Ethics & Religion Not so different: Does religion deserve special protection? 04/08/2022 By Ian Robinson 0 comments A new draft of the federal religious discrimination legislation proposes to give special rights to the words and actions of religious p...Continue reading
08 Jul Ethics & Religion A media pothole: The pitfalls of covering religion 04/08/2022 By David James 0 comments 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...Continue reading
01 Jun Ethics & Religion The truth by the numbers: Religion in Australian society 04/08/2022 By Paul Monk 0 comments RSA Fellow Neil Francis is producing a multi-part study for the Rationalist Society: Religiosity in Australia. The first installment, Continue reading