Rational
Economic Humanism
Promoting
Economics as a Humanist Moral Science
EC
Economic Communications
Humanism is ethical atheism. Secularism
is political Humanism. Secular solutions are needed now!
This page provides also links to various articles by Dr Perkins on economics, humanism
and rationalism. Some articles have been published elsewhere, in which
case an appropriate citation can be found at the end of each article. Otherwise,
they may be cited as Economic Communications, Occasional Papers.
They are ordered here chronologically, but classified by subject.
"In times of universal deceit, telling the
truth is a revolutionary act" - George Orwell
Religion, morality, welfare and humanism
- The
immorality of religion. Australian Humanist, No.66, Winter 2002
- The
economic cost of religion. Australian Humanist, No.68, Summer 2002
- Economics
and humanism. Australian Humanist, No.69, Autumn 2003.
- Humanism
and morality. Australian Humanist, No.69, Autumn 2003.
- Universal
Statement of Moral Obligations.
- Book
review: Atheism, Morality and Meaning, by Michael Martin. Australian
Humanist, No.74, Winter 2004
- The
Great Fraud against Humanism. Australian Humanist, No 77, Autumn 2005
- Peace
Prosperity and Propriety: Is Religion Really Good?. The Australian
Rationalist, No.71, Spring 2005
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Modernisation, multiculturalism and fundamentalism. The Australian Rationalist, No.72,
Summer 2005-2006
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Creating a better Australia: reinventing secularism.
Australian Humanist, No. 82, Autumn 2006.
- Should
religions be tolerated?. Talk presented to the Atheist Society, Melbourne,
10 October 2006
- The
Need for Global Secularism. Australian Humanist, No. 85, Autumn 2007
- The
Need for Secular Multiculturalism. The Australian Atheist, No 2, March-April
2007.
-
Atheism and Secularism
. Talk presented to the Unitarian Church, Melbourne, 3 February 2008.
Hear talk.
- The Relevance
of Darwin Day. Talk presented to the Atheist Society, Melbourne, 12 February 2008.
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Religious Instruction In Schools. Victorian Humanist, Vol 47 No. 4, May 2008
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Supernatural Privileges. D!ssent, No. 27, Spring 2008
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Mass delusions and their consequences. Online Opinion, 4 November 2008
"Faith is believing what you know ain't so" -
Mark Twain
Problems of Islam
"Forecasting is hard, paricularly about the future"
- Anon.
Energy & global warming
Postings to email discussion groups
CAHS
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Selected Archive
Songs
Humanist
songs
Links
Atheist Society, Melbourne
Humanist Society of Victoria
Rationalist Society of Australia
Atheist Foundation of Australia
Secular Party of Australia
A world transgressed: "We would have been
forced to occupy Baghdad and, in effect, rule Iraq...there was no viable
'exit strategy' we could see, violating another of our principles. ...
Going in and occupying Iraq, thus unilaterally exceeding the United Nations
mandate, would have destroyed the precedent of international response to
aggression that we hoped to establish. Had we gone the invasion route,
the United States could conceivably still be an occupying power in a bitterly
hostile land." President GHW Bush, from his memoirs "A World Transformed",
on why he did not invade Iraq following the liberation of Kuwait
in 1991.
The Atheist Advantage: Lose your false hope
and gain freedom from false fear and false guilt.
A Humanist motto: Do your best, for
yourself and for others.
"I am against religion because it teaches
us to be satisfied with not understanding the world. "Richard Dawkins
"We swear by the Southern Cross to stand
truly by each other and fight to defend our rights and liberties."
Eureka oath, 1854.
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