Keywords: Richard Dawkins
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 19 March 2010
4 Comments
The challenges and opportunities are to fund equitably all
networks in education and to ensure that robust morale and community
engagement are hallmarks of all parts of the network, including state
schools and emerging schools such as Muslim schools.
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RELIGION
- Tim Roberts
- 12 March 2010
31 Comments
An ego-driven, take-no-prisoners approach dooms atheism to remain an exclusive club. Only by forming alliances with the moderate religious community will atheists be able to preserve the elements of society they value most, such as freedom of enquiry and the separation of Church and State.
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RELIGION
- Andrew Hamilton
- 05 March 2010
35 Comments
Australia's first Global Atheist Convention will feature such speakers as Richard Dawkins, Philip
Adams and Peter Singer. I look forward
to it with the same tempered gloom that would descend upon me if a
convention of Christian evangelists came to town.
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RELIGION
- Herman Roborgh
- 09 October 2009
3 Comments
Modern atheists in the West and modernist Muslims in Islam are both abusing religion. Their discourse about God has been influenced by the popular demand for
scientific empirical verification, and they have lost confidence in the
ability of figurative language to open a way to truth.
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EUREKA STREET TV
- Peter Kirkwood
- 09 October 2009
15 Comments
Christopher Hitchens appeared on Q+A last week with Frank Brennan and others to debate questions of belief. Hitchens was a sharp debater, relentless in pointing out the flaws in fellow panelists' arguments. But Brennan was a worthy opponent.
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RELIGION
- Neil Ormerod
- 05 October 2009
37 Comments
Hitchens, like The God Delusion author Richard Dawkins, views belief in God not just as quaint, but as a sign of intellectual
bad will. The age of muscular evangelical Christianity has been replaced by the age of muscular evangelical atheism.
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MEDIA
- Adam McKenna
- 27 July 2009
6 Comments
As we continue to become tools of our tools, we risk mistaking online social networking for social capital. Social networking is widespread because humans are social animals, and technology has changed the way we live, interact and seek to interact.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Charlotte Clutterbuck
- 24 March 2009
2 Comments
Dawkins would say I am deluded .. in a world unhoused, split between .. those who think they know everything .. those who think they know there is nothing.
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RELIGION
- Andrew Hamilton
- 08 May 2008
8 Comments
Literary festivals introduce us to new writing. They rarely celebrate the old, for nothing is older than an old book. The works of St Augustine challenge our instinctive assumption that new wisdom supersedes old wisdom.
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RELIGION
- Peter Hodge
- 03 April 2008
2 Comments
Not all behaviour that offends religious beliefs amounts to vilification. However, when freedom of
expression results in incitement to religious hatred,
a line has been crossed.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Andrew Hamilton
- 31 October 2007
1 Comment
For Richard Dawkins, excitement about the visible world leads only to analytical questions. The task of those who oppose this view is to describe the richness of the alternative.
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RELIGION
- Scott Stephens
- 05 September 2007
4 Comments
Western Buddhism and Pentecostalism are sometimes criticised as self-indulgent forms of religion. Is Bishop Spong's Christian humanism any different?
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