# Roundup: School chaplains, being good, edgy Europe

> There are two arguments at play: whether you can have a religious test for any Commonwealth office and a battle over federalism.

4 August 2011 · News

Canonical: https://insights1.uca.org.au/articles/roundup-school-chaplains-being-good-edgy-europe/

## [High Court challenge to school chaplains](https://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2011/s3284072.htm)

There are two arguments at play: whether you can have a religious test for any Commonwealth office and a battle over federalism.

## [Can you can be good without God?](https://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/forum/2011-07-31-atheism-morality-evolution-religion_n.htm)

Though both moral and immoral behaviours can be *promoted* by religions, morality itself — either in individual behaviour or social codes — simply cannot come from the will or commands of a God.

## [Forward Christian Europe!](https://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/politics/4936/forward_christian_europe!_/)

If Breivik is insane, then his insanity lies in taking fully to heart the widely fluctuating language of an existential threat to our freedom and life, a Manichean vision of an uncompromising evil fighting a good that has to be equally unsparing in warfare.