Apologetics
Would Polanski get a pass if he were a paedophile priest?
It’s hard to watch France’s political and cultural elite rush to support filmmaker Roman Polanski against extradition to the United States on a decades-old sex charge and not wonder exactly how they interpret the national motto “libert ©, ©galit ©, fraternit ©.” It’s tempting to ask whether they’re defending the liberty to break the law and skip town, […]
Science and religion are a match made in heaven
The Glad Scientist A Vatican astronomer explains why science and religion are a match made in heaven by Dan Falk Installed on the second floor of a small building on the summit of Arizona’s Mount Graham, Guy Consolmagno is multi-tasking. He’s checking email on his laptop and listening to the Penguin Cafe Orchestra on his […]
The Character of Muhammad
1.He was very human He felt scared at night and snored when he slept “One night the Prophet was unable to sleep and said, “Would that a righteous man from my companions guarded me tonight.” Suddenly we heard the clatter of arms, whereupon the Prophet said, “Who is it?” It was said, “I am Sa’d, […]
Christians in the Hadith
(i) Khadija took Muhammad to her cousin after Muhammad had his first revelation “Khadija then accompanied [Muhammad] to her cousin Waraqa bin Naufal bin Asad bin ‘Abdul ‘Uzza, who, during the Pre-Islamic Period became a Christian and used to write the writing with Hebrew letters. He would write from the Gospel in Hebrew as much […]
Waleed Aly, People Like Us
A review of Waleed Aly ¯ ¿ ½s People Like Us ¯ ¿ ½ How arrogance is dividing Islam and the West (Sydney: Picador, 2007) 277pp RRP $32.95 Reviewed by Barry Peters. Wesley College has done its job well. This exclusive Melbourne private school has produced another star graduate in the Muslim lawyer Waleed Aly. Accused by an internet blogger […]
Institutions
From a newsgroup friend: Interesting idea, institutions eventually killing the very thing they set out to perpetuate. Some believe a constant state of cynicism and revolt must be nurtured. Organisational theories have abounded of late–cybergames like “The Sims” and “Dungeons and Dragons” are based on the concept of building a virtual parallel reality from the […]
Intelligent Design
Sent by an online friend: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitzmiller_v_Dover_Area_School_District The main expert witness for the defense was Michael Behe. Dover testimony (2004). In Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, the first direct challenge brought in United States federal courts to an attempt to mandate the teaching of intelligent design on First Amendment grounds, Behe was called as a […]
Agnosticism
From Wallace Arthur’s Creatures of Accident (2006), chapter 20, “Big Questions”, pages 231, 232. …But with regard to realms which, by definition, permit no examination and thus provide no evidence, I find nothing to guide me. I see no more reason for a rational scientist to be a committed atheist than to be a committed […]
Sexuality and its Expression: With Special Reference to Homosexuality
Graham A Cole reprinted from Pressure Points: Papers presented to the EFAC Australia Consultation, 27-30 July 1993 For the purposes of this paper, sexuality is defined as that complexity of thoughts, feelings, bodily changes and behaviours that surround the human capacity for one flesh union and which is grounded in human biology.1 So defined, sexuality […]
Institutions
My Facebook status today: In a Masters’ degree (social psychology) I learned that all institutions are inherently degenerative (RKMerton); the evil in institutions is greater than the sum of the evil of the individuals within them (RNiebuhr). So how do pre-institutional …’people movements’ stay focussed/healthy? Not by institutional control, but by listening to prophets (mavericks […]
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