Apologetics
Australian Politics: Long-running scandal threatens Rudd
The Sunday Telegraph Long-running scandal threatens Rudd By Piers Akerman Saturday, August 18, 2007 at 10:45pm AT the beginning of last week, the Howard Government’s appointment of Queenslander Susan Kiefel to the highest court in the land embodied the best principles of the administration of the law. At week’s end, in the same state, the […]
The Perversity of denying genocide
ANDREW G. BOSTOM: 01:00 AM EDT on Wednesday, August 15, 2007 THE CAMPAIGN sponsored by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) to combat bigotry and celebrate diversity (“No Place for Hate”) has sparked bitter resentment in Watertown, Mass., a Boston suburb whose 8,000 Armenian-Americans make up nearly 25 percent of the population. Local Armenians do not object […]
Why I Joined Radical Islam in Britain, What I Saw and Why I Left
The Islamist: Why I Joined Radical Islam in Britain, What I Saw and Why I Left Waleed Aly, Reviewer August 21, 2007 Ed Husain’s account of his time with radical Islamists will give many opportunities for easy quotation, but it should be read far more critically than that. Literary success is guaranteed for whistle-blowing reformists […]
Debunking the myths of sex and politics
(Can anyone see the flaw I think I see in these statistics?) John Watson August 17, 2007 MEN are more promiscuous than women. Almost every survey, in every country, finds men have more sexual partners than women. A recent US Federal Government study concluded the average heterosexual man had had seven female sex partners; his […]
Scepticism in Science
Listen Now – 11082007 (August 11, 2007) Nigel Calder suggests in some fields the establishment prevents people with differing views being heard. He cites examples, including sceptics to climate change. Transcript This transcript was typed from a recording of the program. The ABC cannot guarantee its complete accuracy because of the possibility of mishearing and […]
The Australian Government and Aborigines
Soundings A forum for analysis and debate on issues of religion, ethics and public policy in Australia and internationally No. 59 – 16 August 2007 John and Mal’s excellent emergency by Rod Benson On 21 June Prime Minister John Howard, along with the Minister for Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, Mal Brough, announced that […]
The Sacred and the human = apologetics, atheism
The sacred and the human August 2007 | 137 Today’s atheist polemics ignore the main insight of the anthropology of religion—that religion is not primarily about God, but about the human need for the sacred. As Ren © Girard argues, religion is not the cause of violence, but the solution to it Roger Scruton Roger Scruton […]
Critics of the status quo are the prophets of our time
Let us listen to those brave enough to speak the truth Philip Freier August 14, 2007 Critics of the status quo are the prophets of our time. WHO are the prophetic voices in our society? Last week a religious lobby group set up a webstreamed engagement with John Howard and Kevin Rudd. They were quizzed […]
Colonizers
Wisdom from a netfriend: *All* the European colonists started from the premise that human beings could “own” land; the indigenous peoples from whom they “bought” the land didn’t think that way in the first place. Land as private property was – well, rather like thinking of air as private property. Imagine extraterrestrial aliens coming in […]
The Last Atomic Bomb
August 12, 2007 By Harry T. Cook The text of a speech given by Harry T. Cook before members of the Detroit Area Peace With Justice Network in Berkley, Michigan on August 9, 2007 In the documentary “NO END IN SIGHT,” one sees a news clip of Donald Rumsfeld’s resignation speech with Rumsfeld sucking up […]
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