{"title":"Finding Common Ground","authors":"R. Norman","doi":"10.17226/1617","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17226/1617","url":null,"abstract":"The emergence of a cultural phenomenon called 'New Atheism', based on rational thought and actions and created as a counter to religious terrorism and the concept of creationism, is discussed. It is suggested that humanists following New Atheism need to find common ground with religious people, while ignoring incompatible issues, and work with them to create a better world.","PeriodicalId":444085,"journal":{"name":"Australian Humanist, The","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131185141","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Genealogy of Jesus","authors":"D. Morris","doi":"10.1163/2589-7993_eeco_sim_00001401","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/2589-7993_eeco_sim_00001401","url":null,"abstract":"Many of you will know the story of Job in the Old Testament in which it says, 'one day the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan came also among them.' We should remember that this was written long before there was a New Testament telling about the birth of Jesus. At the time God evidently already had a number of sons, of which Satan was one. Not only was Satan a son of God, but evidently the most favoured of them all, since the rest of the chapter chortles about how he and God had themselves a jolly good sport tormenting the hell out of poor old Job over a period of years. Who the other sons were it doesn't say, and we can assume that they got less than their share of godly attention. Let us now turn our attention to the New Testament.","PeriodicalId":444085,"journal":{"name":"Australian Humanist, The","volume":"93 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115575797","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Competition and Co-operation","authors":"Valerie Yule","doi":"10.4324/9780203138267-15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203138267-15","url":null,"abstract":"A speaker on ABC Radio National's Life Matters asserted that without competition there would have been no human progress. This is historical ignorance. Most human progress has been through co-operation. The worst damage has been through competition.","PeriodicalId":444085,"journal":{"name":"Australian Humanist, The","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123333516","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Democracy and equality","authors":"P. Barrett","doi":"10.1163/9789004423107_006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004423107_006","url":null,"abstract":"Believers or atheists, generous or tight, Hero or coward, black, yellow or white, Female or male, fully grown or a child, Those of vast wealth or the desperately poor, At the end we're all equal. We are all shown the door...","PeriodicalId":444085,"journal":{"name":"Australian Humanist, The","volume":"359 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115959688","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On secular education","authors":"Stevie Modern","doi":"10.1093/nq/s4-xi.281.402d","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/nq/s4-xi.281.402d","url":null,"abstract":"At its annual general meeting in May this year, the Council of Australian Humanist Societies (CAHS) voted in support of volunteer ethics teachers entering public schools and teaching ethics programs to students as a secular alternative in religious education. The motion was put to the meeting by the NSW Society with the support of the Humanist Society of Victoria. The motion was opposed by the Queensland, Western Australian and South Australian Societies. Here is why the motion is a grave mistake, and why Western Australia moved its own motion against it.","PeriodicalId":444085,"journal":{"name":"Australian Humanist, The","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116291505","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}