Yet Another Indigenous Government Agency!

Ho hum. Here we go again. Yet more taxpayers money is to be squandered setting up a 128 black person organisation to advise the government how to spend money on the 300,000 odd people who identify as being black. (Some are more white than black, but they still get handouts).

There has been a plethora of government agencies set up to service a small minority within the Australian community. The last, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission was deemed to be a failure because it had board members who had been convicted or accused of criminal activities and it was full of nepotism.

As I've said before; as long as we keep telling everyone that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians are different, special and disadvantaged, nothing will change. Governments need to forget all this special advisory group bullshit and begin treating all Australians equally.

The Australian Government and the State and Territory Governments are racist governments because they provide special programs to a group of people in Australia based on their race. It's not doing them or anyone else one iota of good.

If you want to read more about this please read the article in The Australian.

More Waste by Australian Government

While the rest of the world is busting its butt to learn English, the language of science, education, business etc, the Australian Government has announced it will squander $9.3 (AUD) million helping retain languages spoken by a handful of people in Australia.

According to the report in the Australian Labor Party's web site:

The Government's new approach to preserving Indigenous language comes as a report found that of the 145 Indigenous languages still spoken in Australia, 110 are at risk of disappearing.

The National Indigenous Languages Survey Report 2005, revealed that the languages under threat are now spoken by only small groups of people, mostly over 40 years old and are at risk of being lost.

How does this expenditure make sense? There are many old languages that have disappeared and nobody cares because we have alternative languages ... like English, which is the National language in Australia. For heaven's sake, even the archaic Roman Catholic church gave Latin the flick decades ago.

When there are hospital queues that a gazelle couldn't jump over, shortages of renal dialysis equipment, research funds for science and medicine have dropped off, our schools and police systems need a boost, how the hell can the idiots in government waste $9.3 million on languages that will do nobody any good?

It just never gets any better.

Atheism is "In", Religion is "Out"!

Did you know that there are increasing numbers of atheists in all countries? Buddhists by definition, of course, are atheists ie, they don't believe in God. In many muslim countries there is a death penalty for apostasy ... denying religion, so while there are many atheists in those countries, they don't dare admit it. (These muslims are forced to follow Islam under penalty of death ... so much for an ultruistic God).

Richard Dawkins, one of the world's free thinkers is leading a campaign to get atheists to be more proactive in announcing their rejection of religion and the concept of God.

The campaign is called the "Out Campaign" and you can read Dawkins' introduction here.

I have a friend, a scientist, who reminded me that while the scourge of religion has resulted in millions of deaths throughout human history, atheism has not.

It's true, you don't hear of atheists firing rockets from one country to another, or of taking out people as they suicide bomb.

Religion is one of the most evil forces devised by humankind. It's true, some good has been done in the name of religion. There also have been some beautiful works of art, architecture and music, but the damage religion has done far outweighs the good.

I feel that the worst aspects of religion are that it stifles human intellect, creates the belief of personal guilt, suppresses women (and men), and only serves the interests of those people who benefit from it.

The unthinking millions who blindly follow this or that religion perpetuate myths that have never been and connot be substantiated. If you believe in original sin, virgin birth, miracles, that a God sits on a throne listening to the prayers of six million people, dispenses justice and ultimately judges us for being born human, you are deluded. It's time for a wake up call!

I don't really care what you believe. You can believe in the Tooth Fairy if you wish, but I do ask you to consider your belief and how damaging religion is to humanity and the planet. Perhaps with some solid research, discovery and introspection, you will find the truth. I hope so, for the good of all of humanity.

The sooner we get rid of religion, the sooner we can go forward in peace and harmony.