What an appropriate day for the publication of this rubbish article.

May the 4th be with you.

@Bojanco re. "The high priests of 'secularism' in schools, academia, entertainment, media and politics preach and advocate a 'religion'" etc. etc.

It's a funny old argument that Bojanco uses here; attempting to tar secularism by imbuing it with the trappings of... religion! Priests are bad now are they? Bit of an own goal there, I'd say.

Fine. So if you want religion taught at school, and you think the religion of secularism is being taught there, then what's your problem? Go away. You've got nothing to contribute here then.

Oh, but I see you've put 'secularism' and 'religion' in those little quotation marks, haven't you? So you really think there's no such thing as secularism, and if there were it wouldn't REALLY a religion anyway? But it's expedient for you to call it a religion just while you put up your little 'argument' here (such as it is). I see what you've done there.

Talk about wanting to have your cake and eat it too!

What a counter-productive article. Its just a stream of name-calling, straw men and mis-representation. It makes no attempt to persuade or engage with other points of view. What is the point of it? People who already agree with the sentiments expressed might get a brief thrill, like a Gold Coast supporter when Ablett lays a good tackle. But everyone else will just think Rob is loopy.

"It is a simple fact that culture derives from who or what a society values most." Indeed. That would be freedom. And the attendant responsibility of freedom is tolerance.

This is a really simple issue. Making an opt-out student sit at the back of the classroom during SRI is plainly a violation of their parent's wishes. If humanists want to provide an SRI class for their kids who are currently made to twiddle their thumbs, then let them! Our taxes are being spent to prevent kids learning in schools. Totally daft!

Notice a theist needs to fly a plane into a building or blow

themselves up to be regarded as “militant” and yet all an

atheist need to do is speak their mind.

I’m sorry, but until the author - or anyone here who has posted

a comment sympathetic to the article - can demonstrate, in any

way, the truth of ANY religious claim, your arguments are all

irrelevant.

Yep, null and void - every one of them.

That you can’t understand this simple fact speaks volumes about

your rational thought processes, or lack thereof.

It all comes back to reason and evidence, people.

So until any of the theists here can do us the courtesy of

presenting enough evidence and reasoned argument to justify

their slagging-off at people with legitimate concerns about

people and establishments who haven’t yet presented any evidence

or reasoned argument, I’ll look forward to some more asinine

irrelevancies and total inability to differentiate between

political beliefs and religious beliefs like this:

“By the way how did Red Russia turn out? Just curious.”

(http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=11980#2056

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Now that is some A-class stupidity!

I have just been reading this thread and it is one of the nastiest and most abusive that I have seen for a while. I will start deleting comments if you can't express yourselves more civilly.

Graham Moderator

The author of the article set the tone.