AFA President Michael Boyd spoke with the Reverend Bill Crews on 2GB about church groups picketing abortion clinics, as raised in our recent 40 Days for Harassment Media Release. The audio can be found at this link. By 4579456345
The Atheist Foundation of Australia is proud to support Think Inc’s An Evening with Sam Harris Tour. In the current social and intellectual landscape, Sam Harris is a valuable and vigorous agent of rational thought, where evidence thrives and evangelicalism...
AFA President Michael Boyd spoke with the Reverend Bill Crews on 2GB regarding a new survey from the UK that shows that religious and spiritual needs rank last for those facing the end of life. The audio can be found at at this link. By 2
Sydney Atheists and the Atheist Foundation of Australia (AFA) have partnered in a billboard campaign on Sydney’s M4 motorway. The billboard was unveiled this week at Homebush West, where it will be seen by over 100,000 drivers and their passengers each day for the...
The Atheist Foundation of Australia is excited to be bringing Robin Ince – Happiness Through Science to Australia in April 2015. Best known for presenting the BBC radio show The Infinite Monkey Cage with physicist Brian Cox, Robin’s recent tours include the Uncaged...
It is usually when men are at their most religious that they behave with the least sense and the greatest cruelty.
Ilka Chase
I'm an atheist, and that's it. I believe there's nothing we can know except that we should be kind to each other and do what we can for other people.
Katharine Hepburn
It's an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don't try to make it posthumous.
Gloria Steinem
Religion is a by-product of fear. For much of human history, it may have been a necessary evil, but why was it more evil than necessary? Isn't killing people in the name of God a pretty good definition of insanity?
Arthur C. Clarke
Hast thou reason? I have.
Why then dost not thou use it?
For if this does its own work,
what else dost thou wish?
Marcus Aurelius
Truth in matters of religion is simply the opinion that has survived.
Oscar Wilde
Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.
Bertrand Russell
I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.
Richard Dawkins
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
