APPARENTLY I am not alone in thinking that A C Grayling, noted philosopher and speaker at the Rise of Atheism convention, was greeted like a rock star. A greeting he went on to live up to with a superb talk entitled ‘Atheism, Secularism, Humanism: Three Zones of Argument’. A striking contrast to this proper, treatise-esque [...]
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Global Atheist Convention: The Rise of Atheism
March 15, 2010Australian Governance: Censorship Update
February 2, 2010It can hardly have escaped the notice of even the most vaguely politically inclined that the current state of affairs with our de-facto two party system is less than ideal for the left-leaning voter. We have, in simple terms, a decision between Tony Abbott’s Super-Catholic Hooray Party and our current mob, who are steadily transforming [...]
Cadbury: Inadvertently funding terrorism?
October 14, 2009“Have you ever seen this symbol on the back of your food products?” This question heads a forwarded e-mail which concisely details the horror of the ‘Halal Foods Authority’ and their association with Australian branches of food corporations such as Cadbury. Wikipedia defines Halal as a term referring to “any object or an action which is permissible [...]
Baby’s death prompts SA Medical Board’s Condemnation
June 18, 2009Also submitted to the Young Australian Skeptics. Via AdelaideNow. In brief: the South Australian Medical Board has officially condemned ‘bogus practitioners’ for taking advantage of vulnerable people, after a baby was crushed to death by a massage table at the clinic of an alternative therapist, referred to as an unregistered massage therapist, who allegedly claimed the [...]
Didn’t consent to baptism? Have it ‘deleted’
April 15, 2009By Daniel Carabellese. Source article here. It’s always a good day when successful Atheist endeavors make (what I catch myself thinking of as) the ‘real’ news, that is to say, the news which is on the television and in mainstream newspapers. In just one such case recently, a young gentleman has (with the help of [...]
Ghouls, Cheap Sympathy and Prayer
February 18, 2009Via Pharyngula. The confirmed death toll of the Australian Bushfires is, as I write this, climbing well beyond two-hundred. Some poor, deluded individuals might claim that these bushfires are caused by arsonists and lightning strikes, exacerbated by drought conditions and extreme heat. However, I know better: the bushfires are caused exclusively by the decline of [...]
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