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A Labor Intellectual's Plan To Rebraid Our Frayed Social Fabric - Andrew Leigh

The Joe Walker Podcast

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The Value of Religion in Community

I haven't thought through hard enough why these organisations are effective but by gosh they are. I go down to the local church that's 800 metres from my house and they have a lodge there for people with intellectual disabilities. They operate at a toy library and so people can drop in on the weekend and get toys at no cost. Do you think the new atheism movement has gone astray in its critique of religion? It can be too hard-line. And as somebody who wouldn't exist without religion, I'm well aware of the value that religion brings. So it's been a very important force in Australian and social life and I hope will continue to be in the future.

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