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(82,333 posts) Sat Jul 30, 2016, 06:23 AM Jul 2016

Anti-Islam campaigners derail atheists' 'tick the truth' census project

POSTED FRI 29 JUL 2016, 5:56PM
Updated Fri 29 Jul 2016, 6:20pm
By Shalailah Medhora

The Atheists Foundation of Australia has been trying to get people to stop marking their birth religion down on next month's census (which is basically a compulsory survey of the entire Australian population) if they no longer practice that religion.

The foundation's President, Kylie Sturgess, told Hack that the group was not telling people to abandon Christianity, but wanted people who weren't religious to fess up to it.

"If you're a Christian, awesome! Tick that box," Kylie says. "Just try and tick the truth."

But the campaign has faced backlash from some people who are opposed to Islam.

http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/programs/hack/anti-islam-campaigners-derail-atheists'-census-project/7673872

http://atheistfoundation.org.au/

http://censusnoreligion.org.au/

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