Prayer petition; religious lobbies in NSW; Dawkins to Hirsi Ali

Published: Fri, 11/17/23

RSA Daily

For atheists, rationalists and secular humanists in Australia

Saturday, November 18, 2023

Rationale, the magazine of the Rationalist Society of Australia

Good morning ,

It's early, I know, but I couldn't sleep last night. My gorgeous man has gone off to the US for Thanksgiving and, while I will be flying out to join him after the Secularism Australia conference on 2 December, the house feels empty - despite Jordie trying to comfort me by presenting a (dead) mouse at 3am in the morning.

So just another couple of weeks ...

Lead stories

Call to end long-standing religious tradition in Australia's parliament

Yahoo News (of all things!) reports on a parliamentary petition to replace the exclusively Christian Lord's Prayer with something more inclusive. RSA is mentioned: "Our institutions ought to acknowledge and honour [our] diversity in the highest of our democratic institutions, our parliaments"

New religious lobby group pressures Minns government over gay conversion laws | Rationalist Society of Australia

It's confusing - there's "Faith NSW" and the NSW "Faith Affairs Council". One is lobbying the other to stop gay conversion laws. Guess what the outcome will be???

Open letter from Richard Dawkins to Ayaan Hirsi-Ali

"Dear Ayaan

As you know, you are one of my absolutely favourite people but . . . seriously, Ayaan? You, a Christian? You are no more a Christian than I am..."

Other stories of interest

US Catholic bishops reaffirm ending abortion as 'pre-eminent priority'

Ahead of gun violence and terrorism...

Andrew Tate converts to Islam!

Ayaan Hirsi Ali converts to Christianity as misogynist 'influencer' Andrew Tate converts to Islam, asserting that "conservative Islam is the only religion that truly embraced “traditional” values and gender roles".

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