re: "Religious 'freedom' bill will divide Australians, not unite us" (The Sydney Morning Herald, 2020, February 27)
Well reasoned and well said Michael Kirby. Religion is perfectly OK for determining how they choose to act in matters that concern only believers. As soon as others are affected, religious belief is not acceptable until its claims are solidly founded on objective, verifiable evidence. We allow the belief that life evolves to inform policy because that belief is solidly proven beyond any reasonable doubt, as are facts relating to the spread of viruses, which are relevant to restricting the right to free movement when a pandemic threatens. But belief in ghosts, souls, gods, afterlives and the like should be totally ignored by the law unless and until such time as those beliefs are proven beyond reasonable doubt.
The last time I checked, no such supernatural belief had any solid supporting evidence at all, absolutely zero, and in most cases it was hard to see how it could even make sense; nonsense, whatever religious zealots might hold to to be obvious, is not in fact a sound basis for making law that governs a society.
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