We know, from several studies, that the more happy and content people are with their lives, and the safer their society is, the less likely they are to be religious. We also know that the more educated people are, the less likely they are to be religious. If anyone wants to dispute these facts, I can dredge up the studies, but that's not what I'm ( Read more... )

Just watching the Intelligence Squared debate between Christopher Hitchens and Stephen Fry versus an african archbishop and a British MP who left the Anglican church when they started ordaining women and is now a confirmed catholic ( Read more... )

There's a large percentage of Australians, it seems, who fall into the category of "apatheist" - those who just don't care about religion, even though they nominally consider themselves a member of a religion.

Consider this: In the 2006 Census, 18.7% of people in Australia stated they had no religion. However, the Australian Bureau of Statistics' ( Read more... )

This article is written in in pure "reporter" style. It's impossible to guage the author, Kathryn Jones' true feelings on the subject matter ( Read more... )

via fred_bear, vonne and others,

So now we have our own "God is punishing you because the country is doing things I disagree with" religious nutbag. As if the world needs more like the Westboro Baptist fundie wackaloon arseholes.

News post here

Religious wackjob's original posting here

I'm so glad my life was not llike this:

Click to view

Religion just has too much of a protected status. Enough that someone getting angry because of absurd religious beliefs can be almost excused for stabbing a man to deathThis happened in Tumut!  Tumut! That's like, an hour or two's drive away from here ( Read more... )

Just been reading about a man who died in South Australia a few years back. Ain't superstition grand ( Read more... )

Just been reading this discussion of a survey given to young Christian men.  Sickening (the survey results, not the blog post ( Read more... )

From this article:

( Cut for length )