by NZARH Admin | Feb 28, 2014 | Journal
The NZARH strongly believes that government should be secular, neither recognising nor funding religion or other non-religious belief. We do not address individual issues arising from the Treaty of Waitangi. We note the New Zealand Human Rights Committee statement...
by NZARH Admin | Feb 28, 2014 | Journal
The new coffee house for public discussion is the Internet. It began in the early 1990’s with Newsgroups of the nascent Internet. Today it has evolved into social networking systems like Facebook and Google+ on which a reasonably large subset of the community...
by NZARH Admin | Nov 30, 2013 | Journal
Who are the New Zealand Association of Rationalists and Humanists? The New Zealand Association of Rationalists & Humanists Inc. (NZARH) is a not-for-profit organisation that exists to serve the interests of the non-religious; those who do not have a belief in gods...
by NZARH Admin | May 17, 2013 | Journal
Myth One Secularism is anti-religion. This is the myth heard most often about secularism. But it rests on a misunderstanding. Secularism is a political theory, borne of harsh experience, that religion and politics are a bad mix. The history of government-sponsored...
by NZARH Admin | Oct 5, 2012 | Journal
Sam Harris tries to make a case for objective morals in his book “The Moral Landscape” by establishing that morality is not subjective; that it is possible to know with scientific certainty what is moral and what isn’t. How does he achieve this? The...
by Peter Harrison | May 20, 2011 | Blog, Journal
In life if you only aim for what is easily achieved you will only ever achieve the mediocre. It is better to challenge yourself and fail than to sit on the sidelines and watch others take up the challenge. The fact is that we have only one life, and the only measure...
