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t employs suitably qualified youth workers and or psychologists counsellors should not be employed solely on the basis that are religious 10 yes and no this question is loaded in fact this whole questionnaire is loaded it is being presented as though a chaplain is the best only solution and offering an option to include a non faith based support worker is somehow being generous you are avoiding the whole issue it should not be about faith based versus non faith based it should be about employing the best people for the job regardless of their superstitions 11 having support workers chosen based purely on their religious leanings is discriminatory and does not enable a school to choose the best most suitably qualified person for the job 12 an administration model that provides as many suitably qualified psychologists as possible backed up by suitably qualified youth workers and where requested suitably qualified pastoral care workers 13 pooled funding 14 the current system is not innovative in any way shape or form having a system that employs religious chaplains as workers in schools harks back to the dark ages rather than the 21 century computer based delivery systems could be utilised that provide guidance and information for common problems that then link a child to a suitably qualified psychologist for rural remote areas systems such as skype could be a cheap and effective one to one delivery system for initial consultations a pool of suitably qualified support workers could be on hand to go to areas of need as required 15 why is our government even supporting a chaplaincy program in the first place surely this program is both unconstitutional and discriminatory the concept of chaplain implies a very christian centred program what about other religions and non religious children doesn t the current program discriminate against them in some way the whole nscp should be scrapped and a new secular program instigated that provides personnel who are suitably trained to look after the needs of all children in a non discriminatory non religious non judgemental non proselytising non evangelising non biased way feel free to use my responses as an aid in responding yourself additional responses can be found at the afa forum on this thread which can also be used to assist you in writing your own responses h t to askegg from godless business for the opening paragraph and information about the nscp and ideas for answers to the survey now go and fill in the survey yourself 3 comments filed under atheism religion secular tagged as chaplain nscp religion school secular survey 17 february 2011 10 35 am not religious now the mark no religion on the 2011 census take religion out of politics web site is now live check it out for lots of faqs and reasons why you should mark no religion on the 2011 census if you are no longer religious and why you should mark no religion for your children the census categorises people into age brackets the following link accesses the xls spreadsheet for religion by age for australia for 1996 2001 2006 as you ll note the first age bracket is 0 14 years old from the atheist foundation of australia s afa census no religion web site generally an adult fills in the questionnaire and may mark young and adolescent children as having a religious belief without their input the largest percentage of people who hold no religious view are in the adolescence to young adulthood range which may be as high as 50 many children have not decided which set of religious beliefs they will accept as true or thought through the ramifications of those beliefs we therefore believe it is unfair and inaccurate to label these children has belonging to a religion however if you are certain the child in question truly believes the tenets of a religion please select the appropriate option just because your child was born into your religion doesn t automatically make them a follower or believer of that religion i m no expert but i doubt any child under the age of 5 can seriously make a considered decision after taking into account all the facts and being provided with all the options about what religion they are in fact i doubt most children under the age of 14 can so please unless your child seriously claims they are a follower of a particular religion mark them as no religion on the 2011 census h t to realityrules on the afa forum for the link to the spreadsheet leave a comment filed under atheism atheist census census 2011 religion religious tagged as atheist census census 2011 religion religious 16 february 2011 3 50 pm nscp have your say the australian government department of education employment and workplace relations is conducting a survey into the national schools chaplaincy program nscp please take a few minutes and have your say you have until 18 march 2011 there s 15 questions with about a third of them just tick a box the rest require comments but you don t need to write a lot if you don t want to as long as they get a lot of replies indicating school chaplains should have some sort of minimum qualification and those qualifications being relevant to youth counselling rather than belief in imaginary beings then we have at least tried to do our bit in the campaign against the nscp program leave a comment filed under atheism tagged as chaplain nscp school survey 20 january 2011 11 02 am census 2011 uk as stated in my previous post census 2011 the uk also have a census this year and also have a census campaign on the afa forum member davo posted this great youtube video from the uk campaign apart from some of the items mentioned in the used to justify the following policies section this video is also very relevant to the australian census and the afa s census 2011 campaign watch it and leave comments particularly like to know what an equivalent one should mention in the justify the following policies section 1 comment filed under atheism census religion tagged as atheism census census 2011 no religion religion 19 january 2011 12 47 pm census 2011 as readers of my blog may remember i have discussed the australian census several times before use the search bar to review old posts and how the religion question is skewed toward people noting they have a religion when in fact many of them are actually not religious like many other countries which are having a census this year uk ireland nz campaigns are in motion to get these people to mark no religion on the census form if they are not religious the atheist foundation of australia are spearheading the campaign in australia and currently plan to have billboards across the nation in major cities stating census 2011 not religious now mark no religion and take religion out of politics the billboards will look like this click pic for full size image note i have changed my header picture to the above picture and will have it there until after the census as long as the afa don t mind they also have a nice round logo click pic for full size image the afa are asking for donations to help fund the billboards if you are interested check the afa s site for details plus they have a range of products for sale on the cafepress site to help raise much needed funds why not do your bit if you can t afford to spend any money at least spread the word there is an active discussion of the census 2011 topic on the afa s forum if you want to keep abreast with news and updates i posted the following on the site today great to see the census campaign has started up but i have an important question has the afa contacted like minded organisations eg political parties who would be interested such as the secular party of australia or the sex party or like minded organisations like the rationalist society of australia or the australian skeptics or campaigning organisations like getup whilst i m sure a billboard will have some impact to the people who see it and if we are lucky a further impact from mainstream media if they pick it up as a story having more organisations involved would surely help our cause and assist in reaching the message to a wider audience i also agree that a facebook and twitter account should be available for those who like to spread a message via online means i have sent a tweet this morning linking to the afa site apologies if the afa committee are already in the process of contacting like minded organisations well it looks like the afa committee are in the process as david replied that they have an extensive list of media outlets and other organisations they have been contacted so lets spread the message and see if we can t get a more accurate measure of the non religious in australia at this years census remember your tax dollars go toward funding various religions and their activities and the government hands out these tax dollars perhaps the government wouldn t be so inclined to spend so much tax money on religions if they found out there isn t as many religious people as they thought remember mark no religion on your census form this year and mark no religion for all your children as dawkins says children shouldn t be labelled little christians or little muslims just because that s what religion their parents follow children are too young to have formed a viable opinion as to what religion if any they are in 2011 you will be able to fill in your census form online via the ecensus you can also register to deliever and collect census forms if you are so inclined check the abs census page for information more to follow as the census 2011 and census 2011 no religion campaign progresses leave a comment filed under census religion tagged as census religion 29 september 2010 12 02 pm why do good where does the desire to do good come from bradley left a comment on my faq 1 page the ten commandments and morality as follows i just have a question not a comment if there is no transcendental being from whom we get at least some inspiration to do good where does the desire to do good come from and why would we have any preferences any way i know that certain things are just naturally disliked but what makes it uncomfortable or not to be liked rather than clog up my faq page i ve copied this to a new post so i can answer the question as well as make it easier for others to answer or comment well bradley to put it simply the desire to do good has just been bred into us the human race would not have survived if at least most of us hadn t wanted to instinctively do good how long do you think humankind would last if everyone wanted to rape steal lie cheat harm or kill not long much like you assert that certain things are just naturally disliked so are certain things just naturally liked apart from the evolution of society needing to mainly do good to each other to survive read some literature on the ethic of reciprocity which by the way was not invented by christians as some are want to believe as to why science has also found various chemicals in the brain and brain functions that indicate the desire to do good is a physical property of the body have a read of some articles about oxytoxin for example i don t know about you bradley but i find when i do something good i feel good i get a little kick out of doing something good and it makes me happy why would this be perhaps it s chemicals in the brain perhaps it s because of the knowledge that i ve made someone happy or improved their life in some way but why be altruistic which is what we are talking about when we discuss doing good things for no apparent reason or expectation of return we know that most religions cite altruism as a virtue but i don t consider that religion has a hold on altruism in fact it has been shown that many species of animals act in an altruistic manner and that there is an evolutionary explanation for altruism i consider it wholly possible to do good without any transcendental being providing inspiration anyway how would we know a transcendental being provided the inspiration could it not be that any supposed transcendental inspiration is actually our own innate goodness and inspiration that due to a lack of knowledge or a lack of thought this inspiration was deemed to have come from a transcendental being only because there didn t seem to be any other way to explain it s existence time and again science has discovered reasons for things that people thought were the actions of a transcendental being pushing the reason for a need or the possibility of any transcendental being further and further into non existence perhaps one day science will prove where the desire to do good comes from from what little i ve read they pretty well already have or perhaps there are some things that just are either way i see no reason to bring any transcendental being into the equation technorati altruism atheism ethic of reciprocity good morality religion del icio us altruism atheism ethic of reciprocity good morality religion zooomr altruism atheism ethic of reciprocity good morality religion flickr altruism atheism ethic of reciprocity good morality religion 20 comments filed under atheism beliefs christianity compassion evolution golden rule religion science tagged as altruism atheism ethic of reciprocity good morality religion 8 august 2010 7 32 pm books august 2010 just added a new page called books see header which lists all the atheism philosophy science theism and related topics books that i own and have mostly read see legend updated and current as of august 2010 most of these used to be listed in a text widget in the sidebar which has now been deleted 2 comments filed under atheism atheist books philosophy science theism tagged as atheism books ebook philosophy science theism older posts search for recent comments oggy on proof there is no god oggy on proof there is no god edd on the pros and cons of reli orrin gould on dump the a symbol rell burrell on did jesus really rise from the demoncleaner on proof there is no god 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