David,

It was fascinating to read your latest article offering.

You couldn't have come across as more evangelical if you had tried.

Can't you see that your rhetoric describing the whole unfolding atheist circus sounds identical to the religious shenanigans over which you regularly delight in pouring scorn.

Funny really : )

David, thanks for the photographs. The Atheists look like folk who have some control over their lives instead of relinquishing it to a group of fraudsters who promise much but deliver nothing.

Poiret, the fact that you pour scorn on atheists suggests that you can't handle life without believing that a god of some kind sits on your shoulder. Of course, mankind has invented hundreds of gods for you to choose from.

Which one whispers to you? Perhaps they all do!

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David G,

I'm an atheist who doesn't feel the need to seek artificially constructed "euphoric" experiences fashioned in the shape of quasi-religious beat-ups.

I haven't followed this debate here closely, but I would like to
point out that an atheist lobby group of some sort, would not be
such a bad thing. For good reasons. Govt takes notice of lobby
groups and its the squeaky wheel which gets the oil.

Sadly, the Catholic Church continues to promote its dogma and it
affects non Catholics in real ways. Let me give you an example.
The WA Govt is building a new multi million $ hospital to replace
the old Swan districts hospital. They have called for tenders
to operate the hospital and Catholic Health Care have put their
hand up. Now given that they pay no taxes and can sell you a ticket
to heaven at great profit, the Catholics have a distinct advantage.
I gather they are not cheap either. A friend tells me it cost him
850$ a night at St John of God Catholic hospital. Hardly charity.

Should the Govt be foolish enough to accept the Catholic offer, there
is a problem. Any woman who decides to have her tubes tied after
popping out yet another one, will be unable to do so at the new
hospital, for it goes against Catholic dogma. This is a huge
inconvenience to patients, as any woman wanting such a choice, will
have to rebook into yet another hospital for another stay, to get
her tubes tied. This in a hospital built with Govt funds. It stinks.

Some atheist lobby group should be screaming from the rooftops about
this kind of discrimination against non Catholics, bankrolled by
us taxpayers.

You have a good point, Yabby.

>>Some atheist lobby group should be screaming from the rooftops about
this kind of discrimination against non Catholics, bankrolled by
us taxpayers.<<

Unfortunately that isn't what these folks are about, they're far too busy congratulating themselves on their Atheist Evangelical Revival Meeting to actually bother about such issues.

Regrettably, you have to go back to June 19th 2010 for the last submission made by this groupuscule. A quick glance at their web site...

http://www.atheistfoundation.org.au/

...clearly demonstrates their natural bias towards self-promotion, with twenty "look-it-me" press releases since their last serious piece of fairness-for-all activism.

Out of interest though, does the WA Government not specify the treatments and services that must be provided from a hospital that wins the business? Every government tender that I have seen - admittedly in other industries - is nit-pickingly prescriptive, and would reject out of hand any tender response that omitted a single mandatory requirement.

That, surely, is up to the voters in Western Australia to sort out.

Pericles,

Maybe the last four years of putting on two of the largest atheist conventions that have happened on the planet with the enormous amount of hours involved with that has left website matters fall behind somewhat.

Your priorities might be submissions to government but there are other ways to inform the Australian population that they are being had by religion. The AFA is obviously very effective at doing that as is seen by some of the inanity and fear induced comments emanating from a number of quarters including those that are religious.

I wonder if you might explain what the self-promotion you prattle on about is and what are the gains in that to whom or what? A sensible answer is required.

I'm still quite exhausted from the last convention and am in no mood for petty idiocy.

David