Atheism in Australia.

[weemadando]

The Age has recently had a real run of back and forth in the editorials on the topic of religion and atheism and I feel that it's part of a wider debate that more and more people are weighing in on. I've been meaning to post this for a while, and now it's just grown beyond what one thread can feasibly contain in inlined quotes. So here's the selection with a note.


God is good just be sure not to take him too literally - Joe Hockey's editorial on why literal interpretation of the Bible is a bad idea.

Why didn't you say that before Joe? - Reaction to Joe Hockey's speech.

A plague of Atheists has descended and Catholics are the target - a nice long scree on why those fucking Atheists are such hateful and mean swine who are going to go to fucking hell because they say mean things about Catholicism. All written by the Vice Chancellor of the Australian Catholic University.

The new crybaby theists - a reply to the above article.

Celebrity Atheists expose their hypocrisy - the usual anti-Atheist bullshit, including the classics like Hitler being atheist.

Atheists are good humans too - a reply to the above, rebutting many of the claims and making some good points.


This is a spread of just some of hte editorial content from the past fortnight in ONE newspaper in Australia. I really think that the whole "Black Mass Altar is actually a fucking carpark bollard" bullshit has brought forward in many people's consciousness just how crazy and potentially dangerous and disruptive the fundamentalists in Australia really are.

[Frank Hipper]

Perhaps, in the Celebrity Atheists Expose Their Hypocrisy article, Dvir Abramovich could have just possibly noted that Ayn Rand was an atheist too?

I'm sorry he finds the label "delusion" insulting, but it is the term for believing in something that can't be shown to exist.

[mr friendly guy]

The funny thing about these people who go on about how calling their beliefs delusions is insulting, a lot of them go along saying evolution is just a theory. We can note two things from such people.

1) they are not interested in debating the evidence, only in how polite we treat them.
2) they don't even apply the politeness rule to others, since saying evolution is just a theory is plainly insulting and wrong (since its both a fact with a theory to explain the facts, and there is nothing JUST about a scientific theory as opposed to the layman's use of the word). Ergo they are also hypocrites. In other news water is wet and the sky is blue, except in Sydney.