Here’s the next part of my countdown to the Global Atheist Convention in Melbourne in April. Dr Leslie Cannold is an author, columnist, ethicist and researcher. In 2005 she was noted as one of Australia’s top 20 public intellectuals and in 2011 she was made Australian Humanist of the Year. Her books include the award-winning The Abortion Myth and What, No Baby? Her first novel, The Book of Rachael, was published in April 2011. This is her talking at the first GAC that we had here in 2010. Continue reading
- "If we go back to the beginnings of things, we shall always find that ignorance and fear created the gods; that imagination, rapture and deception embellished them; that weakness worships them; that custom spares them; and that tyranny favors them in order to profit from the blindness of men."-- Baron d'Holbach
- What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof. -- Christopher Hitchens
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