Atheist Foundation of Australia
Our Aims
- To encourage and to provide a means of expression for informed free-thought on philosophical and social issues.
- To safeguard the rights of all non-religious people.
- To serve as a focal point for the community of non-religious people.
- To offer verifiable information in place of superstition and to promote logic and reason.
- To promote atheism.
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Census No Religion Campaign
The next Australian Census will be held on Tuesday 10th August 2021 and we need it to accurately reflect what Australians truly believe. So, when you’re filling in the census and you come to the question on religion, this is your chance to think carefully and decide whether you still see yourself as religious.
If you don’t see yourself as religious anymore, this census, mark ‘No Religion’.
Do Not Divide Us Campaign
Everyone should be able to go about their lives free from discrimination.
But the Morrison Government is writing laws that would see people discriminate against their fellow Australians in ways that will affect all of us.
Australia is a great country and we need your help to stop these invasive laws and to keep Australia free from discrimination.
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Our Philosophy
The Atheist Foundation of Australia recognises the scientific method as the only rational means toward understanding reality. To question and critically examine all ideas, testing them in the light of experiment, leads to the discovery of facts.
As there seems to be no scientific evidence for supernatural phenomena, atheists reject belief in ‘God’, gods, and other supernatural beings. The universe, the world in which we live, and the evolution of life seem to be entirely natural occurrences.
No personality or mind can exist without the process of living matter to sustain it. We have only one life – here and now. All that remains after a person dies is the memory of their life and deeds in the minds of those who remain.
Atheists reject superstition and prejudice along with the irrational fears they cause. We recognise the complexity and interdependence of life on this planet. As rational and ethical beings we accept the challenge of making a creative and responsible contribution to life.
Would I lie to you?
Sydney or thereabouts? Come to a night of fun, pitting two panels discussing religion, atheism, philosophy against one another:
Would I lie to you?, Thu, Dec 9, 2021, 7:00 PM
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Thu, Dec 9, 2021, 7:00 PM: 'Would I lie to you?' is a battle between two panels of three people, one representing Sydney Atheists, the other representing various Sydney Universities.This is a game shoEven Christians can be fired. The new Bill may just empower religiously led institutions to sack people for hidden issues, but claim them as religious reasons:
My ‘sin’, of being gay, got me legally fired
www.smh.com.au
A Christian school fired me because of my belief that a person can be a Christian and be gay. But I’m not aware that the school ever dismissed staff members on account of other “sins”.All three main monotheistic religions state that homosexuality is a sin punishable by death. Though Islam is the only religion that still executes homosexuals for being who they are, this new bill will give religious employers the right to fire non-hetrosexual employees. Back to the seventh century for Australia.
Can we please have a bill that protects me from religion? Seems the god bothering crowd can condemn me, call me 'worthless without god's grace' (pick the god of your choice here), tell me that I'm off to hell if I don't do what god says (which is pretty ill-defined), yada yada yada, and that's all OK. Abuse and degrading behavior from the religious towards the non gets a free ticket that wouldn't be entertained in reverse.
All the conversation surrounding this bill is about christianity. Can't wait for the reaction when moslems start discriminating on religious grounds.
You guys need to find the teacher that was sacked a while ago from Caloundra Christian college. She wasn't gay but had a baby out of wedlock so they fired her. It's not just gays they'll use it for.
Serious question. What is the criteria for starting your own religion in Australia? Could be lucrative if it's easy.
Church and State:
i expect some religion to fire someone for eating prawns (shrimp).
Salvation Army Volunteer recruitment site demands you agree to Christian Values.... I said "NO" because abusing children en mass is not for me.
always found it bewildering that gay men worship a god who believes they should be killed.
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Whether you lean to the left, right or centre, please WRITE to your local FEDERAL politician and object to the proposed Religious Discrimination Bill IMMEDIATELY
We don't let our politicians know often and loudly enough!
there are already discrimination laws shielding religious beliefs.
Its a real issue for the future. That this backward belief stuff could prevail again and hold up genuine progress. How do we continue to let this belief stuff divide us.
This should not be a sword or a shield. It just shouldn't be. If you have to wonder what this legislation is trying to fix, then you wonder what the real agenda is.
I'm thinking of founding m own church, the FU Church, and I'm working on my statement of belief. At the moment I have, "I believe you can just..." I think two more words'll do it.
Sadly my Federal Member is Peter Dutton 😔 He doesn't care what his constituents want
Done. I dare say my email won’t be read though.
I would but I'm in Pearce so it wouldn't even get read. 😡 Even the Labor Candidate for Pearce makes sure her gold Cross on a chain is always sitting perfectly in every photo op. While CP has to go, the alternative is still a Christian. 😢 They're everywhere.
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And away we go:
Religious Australians to get protection to make ‘statements of belief’
www.smh.com.au
Australians will be able to make statements of religious belief under the protection of federal law, with warnings people could lose jobs because their sexuality is at odds with someone’s faith.If an organisation refuses to employ someone because of their sexual orientation, how is that NOT vilification. Wake up Australia, we are under siege.
So I get to state my belief as well, like all religions are fake.
We need our own Motohiro so we can criticise religion while using a false religion as a shield. www.odditycentral.com/news/japanese-parody-religion-exists-only-to-give-believers-a-reason-to-say...
Funny....I'm pretty sure he also committed to a federal ICAC but I don't see him too enthused about introducing that bill....
Surely the onus is on the faithful to prove that god exists in the first instance if the bill is to be taken seriously.
This Bill is so tangled up with different statements it looks like anything goes as long as you are a Christian. Lawyers picnic.
So in other words, people can't make unrestricted statements of belief unless they are endorsed by an organised religion. Blatant discrimination.
Why does one group of people have the protection of law to vilify another group?
Are they now forcing us to have faith?!
So an organisation that sprooks that GOD loves everyone and “I’m a good Christian so I’m a good person” lobbies to get a law passed so the can be discriminatory 😂🤪🤪 oh the hypocrisy and don’t get me started on pedophilia. How people support these corrupt criminal organisations is beyond me
Couldn't read the article, but does this mean medical professionals will be able to withhold treatment because it "goes against their deeply held religious convictions"?
“A note to the draft bill says a “moderately expressed religious view that does not incite hatred or violence” would not constitute vilification.” The problem with a point like this is that a majority of opinions expressed by religious views ARE harmful, not just being held and acted upon but expressed as a “statement”. Even if you preface your statement to “I believe” it still vilifies people based on your beliefs. It shouldn’t have to incite hatred or violence to be counted as a violation. The mere expression of said belief in the presence and or direction to a person/group should be enough to be a violation. To hold a belief is not the same as to express a belief. It sounds like the bill is trying to protect the religious to hold such beliefs. But I don’t see it preventing vilification with its current wording.
Easy everybody, it’s a double edged sword. An atheists sincerely held belief will also have to be respected yeh? Surely the rest of us can refuse to hire Christian’s because of their sincerely held beliefs about women and homosexuals and it will be just as valid. I won’t hire you cos you are a bigot, that sort of thing. Or we can all join the church of Satan and it becomes my belief vs yours. Moot.
Well thank goodness for the Noosa Temple of Satan. Cause you know, what is good for the goose is good for the gander and those folks that believe in fairytales can’t have it both ways.
"Is not malicious and does not vilify or harass" excludes much of the text in the monotheistic religions. This shit will hit the fan, and the federal government will be cleaning the room up for years.
It my belief that Scotty's a complete wanker dickhead. So sue me
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Here is my statement of belief. I believe that Christofasicts are weaponising Christianity to dehumanise others.
Question: Has there been any noise from Labor to overturn this BS should they win the next election?
Legalised mysoginy, sexism, homophobia...
And do we get reciprocal protections for statements of disbelief?
Not just "religious Australians" that would be discriminatory.
With the Religious Discrimination Bill back on the table, it might be time to revisit what it might mean for all Australians. Legislating the ability to discriminate against others on religious grounds opens the door for people to discrimate against you. Impartial, objective, secular laws protect everyone, including the religious. Do not divide us.
dontdivideus.com.au/ #dontdivideus
This Bill is appalling and should not be tolerated in any form.
What about the other way around?, a Christian driving the car, with an Atheist wanting a lift?. l don't think the bill covers that.
If the driver's objection is to the pork, and not the person carrying it, maybe there is no discrimination occurring?
How many wars have been caused over religion?
As gay students should not be expelled from their schools and teachers should not be sacked from their jobs, taxpayer funded, religious backed schools, hospitals, aged care facilities, charities and other organizations should not be allowed to sack or deny people employment.
“You don’t need protection if you’re planning to be decent and kind.”
#DontDivideUs
www.theguardian.com
This religious discrimination bill is designed to let the churches be nasty: nasty to children, to employees of the faiths and nasty in the pulpitThe religious discrimination bill is a bill that will protect religious people and institutions from being treated the way religious people and institutions treat others. The proposed Bill should be renamed the religious privilege bill.
Give it the option of restrictive employment rights or losing its tax-free status. That should settle the argument once and for all.
how can you discriminate against something that does not exist?
Free us from the heavy chains of dogma and lies.
It’s disappointing that a worthwhile conversation is buried in the outlandish rhetoric, strawmanning and demonising this article engages in. This issue has nothing to do with shame. The question is simple: Do organisations have the right to select and maintain employees based on the organisation’s values? The answer to that question is complicated since multiple rights start to come into conflict with one another. Regardless of where a person stands on this issue I just wish we’d get the tone of the discussion right.
Isn't the hashtag for the coalition of Australian secular and free-thought organisations' Don't Divide Us campaign, #DontDivideUs, rather than #DonotDivideUs? dontdivideus.com.au/
100%
All churches should be banned as terrorist organisations.
About time religion is being called on its shit
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The proposed Religious Discrimination Bill could allow anyone to be discriminated against. #dontdivideus
Media release: Coalition of freethought organisations warn against a divisive Religious Discrimination Bill - #DontDivideUs
Media release: Coalition of freethought organisations warn against a divisive Religious Discrimination Bill - #DontDivideUs
A coalition of freethought and pro-secular organisations that campaigned against the initial drafts of the Religious D...
dontdivideus.com.au
Preacher: We Can Ignore Climate Change Since Jesus Will Soon Fix Everything.
Preacher: We Can Ignore Climate Change Since Jesus Will Soon Fix Everything
I can't believe we have to share a planet with these people.
friendlyatheist.patheos.com
2021 Census completed, thanks to @timminchin for the wee reminder of choosing #NoReligion #Census21.
It’s true. #NoReligion does not necessarily mean you disbelieve the claim a “god” exists. The @Census21 campaign is not about maximising the number of atheists, but obtaining a true reflection of Australia’s religiosity. #2021CensusAU
In the 2021 census, those who identify as Christian will likely dip below 50%. But Mark Stephens from @cpx_tweet says Australia has always had a contested relationship with religion, and “no religion” doesn’t necessarily equate with atheism. #Census2021
https://www.smh.com.au/national/has-australia-lost-its-religion-or-merely-its-affection-for-institutions-20210804-p58frj.html
I'm trying to figure out why Margaret Court's church received half a mil in JobKeeper whilst public unis did not receive a cent. I have two degrees and a grad dip and still, this perplexes me.
