I’m one of those people who only have second-hand knowledge of existentialist writing (though I did read Camus’s ‘Myth of Sisyphus’ – without really ‘getting’ it). But what I learned seemed to me to be positive ideas. I especially appreciated existentialism’s emphasis on personal responsibility/autonomy and its inherent humanism. But once I read up on […]
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It’s almost time now. Thursday I’m flying home to Australia, and I expect better weather than the 12C and rain that I have experienced for a week here in Bremen, where it is supposed to be summer ! I’m well enough again to be sitting in a pub and sipping Guinness, coming full circle so […]
It is somewhat more easy, at least it feels like it for me, to dismiss religions and beliefs when faced with the kind of architecture in which are hosted most of the church congregations in Australia, functional buildings that in their structure resemble the local library or pawnbroker shop. But one can’t help but experience […]
Mike Stuchbery is too kind. He patiently dismantles the rotten empty rhetoric and so-called educational materials produced by some nausea-inducing Christian zombie called Tim Clemens, who sadly at age 24 has already managed to be in a position to lie to children in New South Wales. Seriously, Mike is to be commended to have waded […]
Now, you read this and then tell me that religion does not make humans lose their mind and critical thinking capacity, and replaces them with some kind of pre-sentient mush : A Jerusalem rabbinical court recently sentenced a wandering dog to death by stoning. The cruel sentence stemmed from the suspicion that the hound was […]
Here is part of an address to the United Nations during the recent high-level plenary on HIV/AIDS on June 8-10, delivered by Archbishop Francis Assisi Chullikatt, Permanent Observer of the Holy See. You all have to take notes, copy and paste his words, and spread them all over the internet. It’s more proof that the […]
allah approved misogyny is one of many severe problems with islam which is dangerous no matter how it is packaged… the twin fogs of political correctness & ignorance must be dispersed before western society better understands this menace. even a brief review of islamic theology & history quickly exposes the deadly roots of this evil […]
Atheists Refused Advertising Space Again! Release Date: Tuesday, June 14, 2011 The Atheist Foundation of Australia is disappointed to report that an advertising company has once again refused to place its advertisements. The Atheist Foundation of Australia has contracted and paid the deposit for Billboards Australia to erect signs in most states of Australia. The […]
Fellow blogger Mike Stuchbery is experiencing some flak from the fine Christians at Access Ministries at the moment, after he used some pictures from a new graphic novel that will be used as “teaching” material in SRI classes. Mike had this to say about it : It’s a weird sort of publication, ostensibly mean to […]
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