So anti-discrimination laws do not apply if the discrimination comes from a faith based group?
Archive for the ‘Religion’ Category
The Advertiser reported this afternoon that a pair of Christian preachers, commonly seen proselytising in Rundle Mall, the central shopping district in the Adelaide CBD, had been temporarily banned. Shop owners had allegedly complained about the content of the sermons being delivered by the group, which reportedly contained offensive comments regarding Islamic people and threats of divine retribution. Furthermore, it […]
That’s right, the leader of Australia’s’ Christian Democratic Party, Rev Hon (sic) Fred Niles computer log in was used to access pornographic websites, with over 200,000 hits recorded!
Casey Luskin, the Discovery Institute writer/lackey, thinks that a certain picture of Charles Darwin published in Nature last year reminds him of a certain special someone: … the back page of the packet shows a picture of a smiling young Darwin with animals flocking about him (lizards, birds, monkeys, flowers, sponges, turtles, etc.), much like the […]
Cross-posted from Divisible By Pi. Look out, Christians — apparently universities are out to get you! Just take a look at what’s happening in Georgia right now… A counseling student has filed suit against a university in Georgia because she claims the school is forcing her to abandon her Christian beliefs in order to receive a degree. Oh no! I […]
I go to a small semi-private school in Victoria, a Christian school, supposedly non-denominational. Every fortnight we have a compulsory chapel service that runs for 45mins. Today we had Dr. Mark Harwood of creation.com come and lecture us on how the world was created. The whole thing was utterly pathetic, for 4 main reasons: 1. Yes […]
A common device new age products use is the method of keeping their descriptions wafer thin. The Secret mastered the use of getting people to read an entire book under the general guise of the powers of wishful thinking. So when a book, religion, or in this case a self help philosophy can cram in […]
Here’s a beautiful little video I’m sure you’ll all appreciate. This video is based on a small portion of the audiobook version of Carl Sagan’s Pale Blue Dot. This audiobook recording is especially delightful, if you’re fortunate enough to have a copy of it, because it was read by Sagan in his wonderous voice, not […]
