SCHOOLS in Australia which would rather have a secular welfare officer rather than a religious chaplain can now do so, following changes made to the country’s controversial national school chaplaincy programme. The amendment was announced by Schools Minister Peter Garrett – and, according to this report, among the first to applaud the move was Essendon [...]
WHILST applauding “long overdue” Australian government reform initiatives for mental health, the Atheist Foundation of Australia Inc has expressed some some reservations regarding the appointment of Monsignor David Cappo to oversee these reforms as head of the national Mental Health Commission. The Foundation points out that Cappo – appointed Vicar-General in 2000 and who is [...]
WHEN someone in the counselling game starts mouthing off crap that runs contrary to modern medical knowledge – especially with regard to sexuality – my immediate response is to ascertain whether their thoughts are tainted by religion. They invariably are. But for the life of me I was unable to determine what particular strand of [...]
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WHEN you’ve had a long, hot, arduous day, the very last thing you want to hear is this. I was preparing a tortilla just 15 minutes ago when Charlie the Hamster singing the Ten Commandments came at me via Talk Radio Europe. If I’d been standing on my 31st floor balcony when the assault began, [...]
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MORALITY among young Iranians is going down the spout, with water fights being the latest manifestation of the Islamic republic’s descent into decadence. But Ahmadreza Radan, Tehran’s deputy police chief, is determined to knock the trend on the head: We have announced earlier that water fights and breaking the norms are forbidden … Â and the [...]
A GAY senior at the University North Carolina has been slung out of a group he has been part of since his freshman year. The reason, according to Psalm 100 chief Blake Templeton was that Will Thomason was removed for his opinions about homosexuality, not for his sexual orientation — his views had clashed with [...]
The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
