Your Australian Source of Atheist News
Young Earth Creationists are coming to spread bullshit in your state
Feb 22nd
Creation Ministries International, that hotbed of science denial and biblical inerrancy, is bringing their special brand of crazy back to Australia in April-May 2012, with their so-called Question Evolution 2012 Tour.
Christadelphian conference – keeping the women in their place
Feb 21st
The Christadelphians are a 150-year old biblical nut cult notable mostly for an extreme propensity to schism. They’re biblical literalists; they start from an assumption that the bible is the inerrant word of god, and derive all their doctrines from that.
Debaptism: reversing the crazy
Feb 20th
There are several reports online regarding Rene LeBouvier, age 71, who is attempting to have his Catholic baptism reversed and who has taken the Catholic church in France to court for their refusal to do so, to his satisfaction.
As an unconsenting recipient myself of baptism, delivered when I was too young to understand it, my More >
It’s time to get God out of our schools
Feb 19th
Hat tip to Tracy Spicer for writing Get God out of our schools and lending her voice toward this important goal.
The Good Book
Feb 18th
Here’s Tim Minchin in fine form, putting the boot into mindless worship of the Bible:
The Good Book
This is the performance with one of my favourite Tim Minchin moments, where he messes up his playing, says “oh, that’s fucked” and plays it again while making faces at the audience.
Julian Baggini and the threat of militant secularism
Feb 17th
On 2012-02-14, Julian Baggini wrote this piece in The Guardian: Is religion really under threat? discussing in part the response of various religious leaders and politicians to the rise of so-called “aggressive secularism”. Baggini argues for neutrality as a core secularist principle. Yet he also says that we should not fight against prayers in council More >
Why I am an antitheist
Nov 16th
Can there be any doubt at all of the harm which religion causes, when it nurtures and protects assholes like this:
http://www.michaelcrook.org/2011/11/15/ashley-billasano-did-not-defend-her-virtue/
In case that link is taken down, it’s a post by Michael Crook regarding the sad case of Ashley Billasano, who by her own account put up with years of sexual abuse from her stepfather More >
Kiddie-Raping: It’s a Buddhist “Thing” too…
Jul 29th
A second lawsuit against Boa-Ubol and the temple was brought by a woman who claims the monk sexually assaulted her back in the 1990s when she was 14 and fathered a child by her
Catholic Dude backs marriage equality
Jul 2nd
“It is not the position of all Christian churches that same-sex activity or marriage cannot be a life-giving and Holy experience…”
Twats in Hats Still Want to Tell You What to Do With Your Private Parts.
Jun 30th
“If the law were to be changed so that marriage included same-sex relationships, then marriage would be no longer about children” — We know how concerned Catholic Priests are with children!
