David Nichols, it was nice of you to support my comment above but as a member of the Atheist Foundation, I have to point out your ambition to 'support religion' for the purpose of supporting the business of the 'Atheist Foundation' & the receipt of my membership & donation each year.

"When religion supports and promotes intuitive knowledge, some find it impossible to look further. Religion has been wrong so many times about intuition one would think it would create a suspicion in most people that religion may be wrong about creationism also."

This is a your perspective about another persons thought's & does not always capture the whole reason behind why one would deny the religious reasoning about a certain subject, as there may be a more specific issue relating to the religious political directive of the subject in question. It is as you state, "intuitive knowledge" & I can only presume it is therefore not based on the fact's of science.

Hello Atheistno1,

Not sure what you mean about ambition to support religion. You will have to be clearer. The day that religion is removed from children’s education as indoctrination and faith decisions not supported by evidence are no longer made in parliaments, is the day you won’t be a member of the Atheist Foundation of Australia Inc as it will no longer exist.

Your subscription pays its way and nothing more. No one benefits financially from it or from the donations, people make. There are no paid positions in the AFA and all personnel are volunteers.

Maybe you can clarify what you are implying.

Why not drop me a line at head office so I know to whom I am talking.

David

David Nichols, I think you understand the statement I made very clearly. What is preached amongst the congregation is not always the view behind the politics of the administration, or the direction the administration needs to take in order to obtain certain political goals. As a true Atheist but not a new Atheist, or any other new sales catch phrase I can be tagged with, there is no such thing as God & religion is therefore irrelevant. This brings me to the point that, faith decisions are not supported by evidential fact & although they are supported by governments, I won't be buying another years membership from your organization. Besides, I've read the repetitive rhetoric in every issue of the Atheist news but the fact remains that, I am an Atheist with the views of an Atheist & it's your position to make that a viable business. I do not have a problem with that because it is a capitalist approach but I would rather put my money into the Humanist Association, as it supports the law for human right's & not self centered capitalist ideology in my opinion. Science is an obtainable knowledge so is Atheism.

Kind regards, Matthew Meurer.

Atheistno1,

Sorry, I’m still at a loss as to what you are on about. And you haven’t written to me to identify yourself.

I find that more than strange.

If you have some kind of problem with the AFA or me, then you should be writing to the AFA Committee instead of writing through a public forum.

Proof of membership in the AFA would help.

David

Oh David, how pretentious, have a look at the signature & refer to my account. Besides, it still seems to be a common practice for you to pretend you don't know someone & that they don't exist & I thought that was just a cowardly political ploy by the Rudd mafia.

My mistake, Matthew, now I know who you are, missed your name. I tend to speed read irrational posts. Yes, good luck with finding another group that suits your personality.

David