Some Contrasts between Science & Religion and Atheism & Religion

  SOME CONTRASTS BETWEEN SCIENCE AND RELIGION    Science  Religion 1 is based on objective factual evidence which is subject to verification  is based on subjective ‘divine’ revelation which cannot be verified 2  is dependent on...

Sinking with Religion

  Let us momentarily put aside the arguments that are for or against the idea of a god existing. Why don’t we have a look at the world as the world is with an impartial view? Imagine we are contemporary historians evaluating the broad picture of the...

Retrograde Religion

  Inquisitions, Crusades, slavery, stoning to death, fundamentalist terrorism, abortion clinic bombings and such like are well known parts of past and present history resulting directly from and because of religious fervour. As dreadful as these occurrences were...

Religions and Tolerance

  The inevitability of religions began in the circumstance of ancient primitive humanity’s ignorance of the natural world. Long ago, Kant suggested that humans invented gods because of their need for them. The notion of gods assisted the invention of...

Religion in Secular Schools

  An AFA Committee member, who has been concerned by the access granted to Christian Options in the Area School in his district, alerted us to the attempt by the Schools Ministry Group (SMG) to appoint a chaplain in this school. Our approach to the Principal has...