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Australian government releases "exposure draft" of religious discrimination bill
A news article: New protections for Folau-like cases in draft religious discrimination bill A radio interview with the Attorney-General: Federal Government unveils religious discrimination...
A news article: New protections for Folau-like cases in draft religious discrimination bill
A radio interview with the Attorney-General: Federal Government unveils religious discrimination legislation on Radio National
Some legal analysis: The government has released its draft religious discrimination bill. How will it work?
A Christian response: Religious discrimination bill draft released
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International Interfaith Peace Gathering: ‘We must work together or we will all fail’
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George Pell loses appeal against child sex abuse convictions, may lose Order of Australia honour
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Marxism, Buddhism and socialism
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One American import we could do without: hard-right religious conservatism
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Losing my religion at Christian camp: The way a decade at Christian summer camp both shaped and condemned views of faith and girlhood
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Hajj 2019: live updates as pilgrims begin rituals in Makkah
Hajj 2019: live updates as pilgrims begin rituals in Makkah Hajj 2019: the Islamic pilgrimage to Makkah explained Every able-bodied Muslim is meant to do the Haj once in their lifetime. Why? What...
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Excerpt from "Myth and Ritual in Christianity" by A. Watts
... The very insistence on the one historical incarnation as a unique step in a course of events leading to the future Kingdom of God reveals the psychology of Western culture most clearly. It...
... The very insistence on the one historical incarnation as a unique step in a course of events leading to the future Kingdom of God reveals the psychology of Western culture most clearly. It shows a mentality for which the present, real world is, in itself, joyless and barren, without value. The present can have value only in terms of meaning—if, like a word, it points to something beyond itself. This "beyond" which past and present events "mean" is the future. This the Western intellectual, as well as the literate common man, finds his life meaningless except in terms of a promising future. But the future is a "tomorrow which never comes", and for this reason Western culture has a "frantic" character. It is a desperate rush in pursuit of an ever-receding "meaning", because the promising future is precisely the famous carrot which the clever driver dangles before his donkey's nose from the end of his whip. Tragically enough, this frantic search for God, for the ideal life, in the future renders the course of history anything but a series of unique steps towards a goal. Its real result is to make history repeat itself faster and more furiously, confusing "progress" with increased agitation.
—Alan Watts, Myth and Ritual in Christianity. 1954
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Lawyer argues that Humanists — who believe in good without a God — get short shrift in Nevada prisons
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The anti-medical dogma of Christian Science led my father to an agonising death. Now the church itself is in decline – and it can’t happen fast enough.
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Politics complicate the hajj spiritual journey for some Muslims
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Third Crusade - The Beginning
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The disappeared, the dead, and the damned: Inside the Church Of Scientology
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The last days of John Allen Chau, the American missionary who was killed in November 2018 by the uncontacted tribe on North Sentinel Island
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Many US prisons deny Muslim inmates halal food and proper prayer
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The new, extremely online era of Christianity
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Marxism and Buddhism: Life is suffering, whether you sit under a Bodhi Tree or stand with the workers. But do the two schools agree on the remedy?
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My religious OCD convinced me God would never love me
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The Jewish case for open borders
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Inside the radical beliefs of Israel Folau's Truth of Jesus Christ Church, founded by his father Eni
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Did Israel Folau actually misquote the Bible? Hell, yes
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What is the Satanic Temple, and how did a goat-headed statue end up at the Arkansas State Capitol?
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Can animals commit crimes?
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Felix Ngole wins appeal in victory for Christian freedoms
Felix Ngole wins appeal in victory for Christian freedoms Here is the actual judgement by the Court of Appeal: PDF link This is a key paragraph (Section 5, Paragraph 10, on page 3 in the...
Felix Ngole wins appeal in victory for Christian freedoms
Here is the actual judgement by the Court of Appeal: PDF link
This is a key paragraph (Section 5, Paragraph 10, on page 3 in the document):
The University wrongly confused the expression of religious views with the notion of discrimination. The mere expression of views on theological grounds (e.g. that ‘homosexuality is a sin’) does not necessarily connote that the person expressing such views will discriminate on such grounds. In the present case, there was positive evidence to suggest that the Appellant had never discriminated on such grounds in the past and was not likely to do so in the future (because, as he explained, the Bible prohibited him from discriminating against anybody).
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Why do people say "Jesus H. Christ," and where did the "H" come from?
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Why certain words are left out of our English Bibles
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How this border transformed a subcontinent | India & Pakistan
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A fundamentalist community forges a new identity: Hildale and Colorado City, born of fundamentalist LDS doctrine, are rebuilding themselves—but not without holding on to their core beliefs
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Has “Homosexual” always been in the Bible?
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Southern Baptists to confront sexual abuse and role of women in the church
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Coffee: The muslim drink
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The rise of progressive occultism
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The world’s oldest medieval map
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How Iceland recreated a Viking-age religion - the Ásatrú faith, one of Iceland’s fastest growing religions, combines Norse mythology with ecological awareness – and it’s open to all
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To fight anti-semitism, German tabloid prints cutout Kippah
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George Pell's appeal to be broadcast live on Supreme Court website
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The Uniting Church is facing growing unrest as conservative factions push for it to reverse its decision to allow ministers to perform same-sex marriages.
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Muslims of early America: Muslims came to America more than a century before Protestants, and in great numbers. How was their history forgotten?
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Abolish the priesthood: To save the Church, Catholics must detach themselves from the clerical hierarchy—and take the faith back into their own hands
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Muslim lawmakers host Ramadan feast at Capitol
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Pope Francis stops hiding from the Church’s sexual-abuse epidemic
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Ramadan: Three Muslims explain how they combine its spirituality with their busy lives
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Conservatives want Catholic bishops to denounce pope as heretic
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The powerful group shaping the rise of Hindu nationalism in India
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United Methodist court upholds Traditional Plan’s ban on LGBTQ clergy, same sex marriage
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Ignore the Poway Synagogue shooter’s manifesto: Pay attention to 8chan’s /pol/ board
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'It's amazing tatau's persisted': How Samoan tattooing withstood colonialism
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Pope Francis' homily at Easter Vigil Mass: Full text
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Fireworks and pipe bombs: How Greek towns celebrate Easter
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