#secular — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #secular, aggregated by home.social.
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A masterclass in responding to critique:
This video explores whether spirituality can exist without God, the supernatural, or religion, it explains why figures like Sam Harris, Carl Sagan, and Alain de Botton still use the language of spirituality — and why reclaiming those concepts from religion may actually strengthen secularism rather than weaken it
https://youtu.be/LHBmH38ZGZ4?si=3x0TSwNJHILVY74n
#spirituality #BrittHartley #atheism #secularism #spiritual #atheist #secular
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A masterclass in responding to critique:
This video explores whether spirituality can exist without God, the supernatural, or religion, it explains why figures like Sam Harris, Carl Sagan, and Alain de Botton still use the language of spirituality — and why reclaiming those concepts from religion may actually strengthen secularism rather than weaken it
https://youtu.be/LHBmH38ZGZ4?si=3x0TSwNJHILVY74n
#spirituality #BrittHartley #atheism #secularism #spiritual #atheist #secular
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A masterclass in responding to critique:
This video explores whether spirituality can exist without God, the supernatural, or religion, it explains why figures like Sam Harris, Carl Sagan, and Alain de Botton still use the language of spirituality — and why reclaiming those concepts from religion may actually strengthen secularism rather than weaken it
https://youtu.be/LHBmH38ZGZ4?si=3x0TSwNJHILVY74n
#spirituality #BrittHartley #atheism #secularism #spiritual #atheist #secular
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A masterclass in responding to critique:
This video explores whether spirituality can exist without God, the supernatural, or religion, it explains why figures like Sam Harris, Carl Sagan, and Alain de Botton still use the language of spirituality — and why reclaiming those concepts from religion may actually strengthen secularism rather than weaken it
https://youtu.be/LHBmH38ZGZ4?si=3x0TSwNJHILVY74n
#spirituality #BrittHartley #atheism #secularism #spiritual #atheist #secular
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A masterclass in responding to critique:
This video explores whether spirituality can exist without God, the supernatural, or religion, it explains why figures like Sam Harris, Carl Sagan, and Alain de Botton still use the language of spirituality — and why reclaiming those concepts from religion may actually strengthen secularism rather than weaken it
https://youtu.be/LHBmH38ZGZ4?si=3x0TSwNJHILVY74n
#spirituality #BrittHartley #atheism #secularism #spiritual #atheist #secular
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Welcome to the 16 May 2026 edition of the NSL Weekend Wrap, your weekly round-up of news and views on Australian #secular issues! #auspol #secularism
Coming up this week...
Friday delivered an unlikely political trifecta. Before 10am, the Full Federal Court dismissed Giggle for Girls' appeal in Tickle v Giggle, confirming two acts of direct discrimination and rejecting the argument that the Sex Discrimination Act's protections don't extend to transgender women. By the end of the day, Shadow Treasurer Angus Taylor had announced amending that same Act would be a first-term Coalition priority, and Nationals MP Alison Penfold had announced her own legislation to strip some trans protections. ADF International, the US-based religious legal organisation that backed Giggle's case, has now lost that argument twice.
The Plymouth Brethren Christian Church, under parliamentary investigation for alleged covert electoral interference on behalf of the Coalition in 2025, issued an edict to members to purge their homes of all animals. Some pets have already been put down. What the edict reveals is the absolute authority the sect exercises over members' private lives, and prompts obvious questions about the religious exemptions and charity status that allow it to operate with almost no external scrutiny.
And from Victoria: four parties seeking to contest November's state election — with names calculated to attract left-leaning voters — appear to share infrastructure and operators linked to Avi Yemini and Monica Smit, with the stated aim of directing preferences to One Nation. Democracy as a product to be gamed, no doubt with implications for pro-secular and progressive policy in Australia.
https://www.nsl.org.au/columns/weekend-wrap-for-16-may-2026/
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Welcome to the 9 May 2026 edition of the NSL Weekend Wrap, your weekly round-up of news and views on Australian #secular issues! #auspol #secularism
The Royal Commission into Antisemitism and Social Cohesion has held its first week of public hearings in Sydney, and the testimony was both specific and systemic. Holocaust survivors afraid to wear the Star of David. A Jewish teacher who feared for his life at the Sydney Mardi Gras. Children asking their school psychologist, "Why do they hate us?" These are not abstract statistics; they are the human cost of vilification being treated as a matter of robust debate rather than a concrete harm.
Meanwhile, a separate and persistent form of institutional obstruction was documented this week in the aged care sector. Go Gentle Australia's national report found that 73% of major aged care providers either block Voluntary Assisted Dying or fail to disclose their position to residents, and that 66% publish no information at all about availability of VAD despite it being legal in every Australian state. Religiously operated facilities are disproportionately represented among the obstructers.
On LGBTQI+ rights, this week delivered both progress and exposure. New South Wales passed landmark hate crime legislation expanding protections for LGBTQIA+ people, the Latham vilification ruling continued to generate parliamentary fallout, and a 47-year-old Western Australian man was charged with distributing thousands of anti-LGBTQ+ flyers across Perth — in a state that still has no vilification laws protecting LGBTQIA+ people. That gap is not an oversight; it's a choice.
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Welcome to the 9 May 2026 edition of the NSL Weekend Wrap, your weekly round-up of news and views on Australian #secular issues! #auspol #secularism
The Royal Commission into Antisemitism and Social Cohesion has held its first week of public hearings in Sydney, and the testimony was both specific and systemic. Holocaust survivors afraid to wear the Star of David. A Jewish teacher who feared for his life at the Sydney Mardi Gras. Children asking their school psychologist, "Why do they hate us?" These are not abstract statistics; they are the human cost of vilification being treated as a matter of robust debate rather than a concrete harm.
Meanwhile, a separate and persistent form of institutional obstruction was documented this week in the aged care sector. Go Gentle Australia's national report found that 73% of major aged care providers either block Voluntary Assisted Dying or fail to disclose their position to residents, and that 66% publish no information at all about availability of VAD despite it being legal in every Australian state. Religiously operated facilities are disproportionately represented among the obstructers.
On LGBTQI+ rights, this week delivered both progress and exposure. New South Wales passed landmark hate crime legislation expanding protections for LGBTQIA+ people, the Latham vilification ruling continued to generate parliamentary fallout, and a 47-year-old Western Australian man was charged with distributing thousands of anti-LGBTQ+ flyers across Perth — in a state that still has no vilification laws protecting LGBTQIA+ people. That gap is not an oversight; it's a choice.
Click below for full content.
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Welcome to the 9 May 2026 edition of the NSL Weekend Wrap, your weekly round-up of news and views on Australian #secular issues! #auspol #secularism
The Royal Commission into Antisemitism and Social Cohesion has held its first week of public hearings in Sydney, and the testimony was both specific and systemic. Holocaust survivors afraid to wear the Star of David. A Jewish teacher who feared for his life at the Sydney Mardi Gras. Children asking their school psychologist, "Why do they hate us?" These are not abstract statistics; they are the human cost of vilification being treated as a matter of robust debate rather than a concrete harm.
Meanwhile, a separate and persistent form of institutional obstruction was documented this week in the aged care sector. Go Gentle Australia's national report found that 73% of major aged care providers either block Voluntary Assisted Dying or fail to disclose their position to residents, and that 66% publish no information at all about availability of VAD despite it being legal in every Australian state. Religiously operated facilities are disproportionately represented among the obstructers.
On LGBTQI+ rights, this week delivered both progress and exposure. New South Wales passed landmark hate crime legislation expanding protections for LGBTQIA+ people, the Latham vilification ruling continued to generate parliamentary fallout, and a 47-year-old Western Australian man was charged with distributing thousands of anti-LGBTQ+ flyers across Perth — in a state that still has no vilification laws protecting LGBTQIA+ people. That gap is not an oversight; it's a choice.
Click below for full content.
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Welcome to the 9 May 2026 edition of the NSL Weekend Wrap, your weekly round-up of news and views on Australian #secular issues! #auspol #secularism
The Royal Commission into Antisemitism and Social Cohesion has held its first week of public hearings in Sydney, and the testimony was both specific and systemic. Holocaust survivors afraid to wear the Star of David. A Jewish teacher who feared for his life at the Sydney Mardi Gras. Children asking their school psychologist, "Why do they hate us?" These are not abstract statistics; they are the human cost of vilification being treated as a matter of robust debate rather than a concrete harm.
Meanwhile, a separate and persistent form of institutional obstruction was documented this week in the aged care sector. Go Gentle Australia's national report found that 73% of major aged care providers either block Voluntary Assisted Dying or fail to disclose their position to residents, and that 66% publish no information at all about availability of VAD despite it being legal in every Australian state. Religiously operated facilities are disproportionately represented among the obstructers.
On LGBTQI+ rights, this week delivered both progress and exposure. New South Wales passed landmark hate crime legislation expanding protections for LGBTQIA+ people, the Latham vilification ruling continued to generate parliamentary fallout, and a 47-year-old Western Australian man was charged with distributing thousands of anti-LGBTQ+ flyers across Perth — in a state that still has no vilification laws protecting LGBTQIA+ people. That gap is not an oversight; it's a choice.
Click below for full content.
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Welcome to the 9 May 2026 edition of the NSL Weekend Wrap, your weekly round-up of news and views on Australian #secular issues! #auspol #secularism
The Royal Commission into Antisemitism and Social Cohesion has held its first week of public hearings in Sydney, and the testimony was both specific and systemic. Holocaust survivors afraid to wear the Star of David. A Jewish teacher who feared for his life at the Sydney Mardi Gras. Children asking their school psychologist, "Why do they hate us?" These are not abstract statistics; they are the human cost of vilification being treated as a matter of robust debate rather than a concrete harm.
Meanwhile, a separate and persistent form of institutional obstruction was documented this week in the aged care sector. Go Gentle Australia's national report found that 73% of major aged care providers either block Voluntary Assisted Dying or fail to disclose their position to residents, and that 66% publish no information at all about availability of VAD despite it being legal in every Australian state. Religiously operated facilities are disproportionately represented among the obstructers.
On LGBTQI+ rights, this week delivered both progress and exposure. New South Wales passed landmark hate crime legislation expanding protections for LGBTQIA+ people, the Latham vilification ruling continued to generate parliamentary fallout, and a 47-year-old Western Australian man was charged with distributing thousands of anti-LGBTQ+ flyers across Perth — in a state that still has no vilification laws protecting LGBTQIA+ people. That gap is not an oversight; it's a choice.
Click below for full content.
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It's that time again! The religious homophobes are actively trying to invade secular homeschool spaces to tell us how we're all going to hell.
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Welcome to the 2 May 2026 edition of the NSL Weekend Wrap, your weekly round-up of news and views on Australian #secular issues! #auspol #secularism
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Welcome to the 2 May 2026 edition of the NSL Weekend Wrap, your weekly round-up of news and views on Australian #secular issues! #auspol #secularism
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Welcome to the 2 May 2026 edition of the NSL Weekend Wrap, your weekly round-up of news and views on Australian #secular issues! #auspol #secularism
