So it looks like in the washup of World Catholic Youth Day, it's cost
the State of New South Wales (sorry...you and me as taxpayers) in
excess of $100M. Not a bad 'handout' to another privileged religious
organisation:
http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/youth-day-100m-over-budget/2008/11/26/1227491594599.html
Originally posted by John Attwater
............ Celebrating Science and Reason..............
Wednesday, 26 November 2008
Monday, 17 November 2008
New book - The End of Biblical Studies
Anyone interested in biblical scholarship might like to read a review of the latest book by Hector Avalos at http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6354
Avalos is a respected Havard trained biblical scholar at Iowa State. Here's the general thrust of his latest book: "... academic biblical scholarship has clearly succeeded in showing that the ancient civilization that produced the Bible held beliefs about the origin, nature, and purpose of the world and humanity that are fundamentally opposed to the views of modern society. The Bible is thus largely irrelevant to the needs and concerns of contemporary human beings.... Avalos argues that our world is best served by leaving the Bible as a relic of an ancient civilization instead of the 'living' document most religionist scholars believe it should be. He urges his colleagues to concentrate on educating the broader society to recognize the irrelevance and even violent effects of the Bible in modern life."
Originally posted by Russell Hobson
Avalos is a respected Havard trained biblical scholar at Iowa State. Here's the general thrust of his latest book: "... academic biblical scholarship has clearly succeeded in showing that the ancient civilization that produced the Bible held beliefs about the origin, nature, and purpose of the world and humanity that are fundamentally opposed to the views of modern society. The Bible is thus largely irrelevant to the needs and concerns of contemporary human beings.... Avalos argues that our world is best served by leaving the Bible as a relic of an ancient civilization instead of the 'living' document most religionist scholars believe it should be. He urges his colleagues to concentrate on educating the broader society to recognize the irrelevance and even violent effects of the Bible in modern life."
Originally posted by Russell Hobson
Monday, 10 November 2008
Clean feed or Church feed?
The Federal government plans to censor the internet down to the level of
a 5 year old child. Senator Conroy is basing this on a
Church-circulated petition that he brought to parliament: Petitions to parliament drove ALP’s Internet filtering policy
Originally posted by Ian Woolf
Originally posted by Ian Woolf
The Rapture Is Coming!
A great list of all the times in history that the world was supposed to
end, as well as details as to what they did about it, and what happened
to the believers after the world kept on existing :)
Originally posted by Tiffany Day
Originally posted by Tiffany Day
Sunday, 9 November 2008
Dangers of religion
These two stories further illustrate why religion is dangerous:
Originally posted by Dr Kay.
Marcus Brigstocke - Comedy Genius
Probably the funniest atheist rant in existence :)
Originally posted by Tiffany Day, updated youtube URL
Originally posted by Tiffany Day, updated youtube URL
Friday, 7 November 2008
Critical Mass
Critical Mass is the blog of Alan and Rachel. Sydney Atheists are proud to have Critical Mass as a major contributor.
You can see all the Critical Mass content at http://www.sydneyatheists.org/critical_mass
Or, visit the original site at http://criticalmasspodcast.blogspot.com/
Originally posted by Ian Woolf
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Tuesday, 4 November 2008
Sunday, 2 November 2008
Critical Mass Podcast
Critical Mass podcast MP3
On the show are Anthony, Ian, Dave and Alan
We talk about
Also, Dave does the topical song, 'On the buses'
Check it out now!
On the show are Anthony, Ian, Dave and Alan
We talk about
- What the Sydney Atheists have been up to
- What we're all about
- Religion invading schools
- Kevin Rudd's argument from design
- The London buses
Also, Dave does the topical song, 'On the buses'
Check it out now!
Podcast #1 out now!
The first Critical Mass podcast is available now!
You can get to it via this site,
or you can just download the file here (high quality 47 MB) or here (med quality 23 MB)
On the show are Anthony, Ian, Dave and myself
We talk about
Also, Dave does the topical song,On the buses 'Freethought Bus'
Check it out now!
You can subscribe to it by clicking the feedburner link at the top of the page.
Originally Posted by Alan Conradi
You can get to it via this site,
or you can just download the file here (high quality 47 MB) or here (med quality 23 MB)
On the show are Anthony, Ian, Dave and myself
We talk about
- What the Sydney Atheists have been up to
- What we're all about
- Religion invading schools
- Kevin Rudd's argument from design
- The London buses
Also, Dave does the topical song,
Check it out now!
You can subscribe to it by clicking the feedburner link at the top of the page.
Originally Posted by Alan Conradi
Saturday, 1 November 2008
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