19 Apr, 2012
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...
19 Apr, 2012
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...
19 Apr, 2012
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...
19 Apr, 2012
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...
19 Apr, 2012
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...