religious fundamentalists reach new low with bushfire comments

I really wanted to believe that this was fake when it was first emailed to me – but no, there it is on the Catch the Fire Ministries website: Pastor Danny Nalliah, leader of that esteemed fundamentalist Christian…

unscientific superstition quietly gaining influence in australian schools

The Age reports on the pressing issue of the growth of independent schools teaching from a faith-based curriculum in Australia.  Presenting religious indoctrination in the Howard era clothing of “choice”, some such schools are teaching creationism in science…

no ape in 08: i !heart huckabee

FYI, Mike Huckabee, potential Republican presidential candidate and by extension potential President of the United States, has this to say about creationism (and the fact that he believes in it):

If you want to believe that you and

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govt still meeting with extremist Christian group, rabid anti-Islamic ‘thinker’

Repeating the mantra that members of parliament meet with Australian citizens “all the time”, it has emerged that the Government’s links to the extremist Christian sect the Exclusive Brethren remain as strong as ever. As mentioned previously (

an atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support

There’s quite an interesting post here about this article in the LA Times, in which the Times’ religion reporter William Lobdell describes finding and then losing his faith in the process of reporting on the subject.…

ham update 2: ham-related art, and more legal details

Further to previous posts (one, two), here’s some great “Jesus with the little dinosaurs” art (thanks to KO):

Meanwhile Legal Eagle points to this article on the actual details of the legal battle in the Ham v Anti-Ham lawsuit.

it is more important to force raped women to have children than to stop murder and torture: god

Those wacky funsters at the Vatican are at it again – this time they’re misrepresenting Amnesty’s new policy regarding abortion and instructing Catholics not to support the organisation. Amnesty’s position is that women who are pregnant as a result of…

ham update: ham sued by anti-ham offshoot of church of ham

You will recall our friend Ham, curator of the Creation “Museum”, from the story about dinosaurs with saddles – he who told us that T-Rex ate grass until “the fall” and other such nuggets of wisdom.

It seems…

fundamentalist threatens NSW members of parliament

The double standards on display in relation to this story are fascinating. A religious leader threatening members of the New South Wales parliament with holy consequences if they vote for a particular piece of legislation:

Catholic politicians who

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exclusive brethren under investigation for election advertising

The Electoral Commission has finally referred the matter of the Exclusive Brethren cult’s involvement in the funding of pro-Government election ads at the last election to the Australian Federal Police.   A company linked to the cult spent more…

god presents: dinosaurs with saddles

You have probably heard about this by now: evangelical Christians will today open a “Creation Museum” (or, ‘moron magnet’, as this blog eloquently puts it) in the USA. Rather than being designed along the lines of a giant…

stacked ABC board forces network to show documentary promoting idiotic non-science

You may or may not recall that over the last few years, the federal government has carefully stacked the ABC’s board with right wing nutcases, including Keith “we never did nuffink to the Aborigines, it was like that…

little girls deserve cancer because I’m uncomfortable with sex

This story is a typical example of the amazing moral contortions that reactionary social conservatives seem to be able to perform to justify interfering with, and indeed harming, others to satisfy their own arbitrary and irrational beliefs.

As…

an atheist’s point of view

This first blog entry by Atheist’s Wager contains a very interesting take on religion.

talk about a life of brotherly love, show me someone who knows how to live it

This blog post is a fantastic comment on something very mysterious: why so many Christians spend so much time ranting and raving about homosexuality and abortion, which are barely mentioned in the Bible, and so little time doing something about…