Apologetics
Academic Christians versus the Population-at-large
[1] >> ‘Argumentum ad populum’ is the argument that a majority belief is a true belief. I’m saying simply that majority belief is firstly evidence, and secondly raises a presumption of some merit for the belief. In opinion polls we determine a majority belief on a matter. One would not assume that the majority belief […]
Winning the Peace by Losing the War
Dec. 24, 2006 By Harry T. Cook Not so very far from the territory in which the evangelist Luke imagined the half-slumber of shepherds being interrupted by celestial voices singing something about peace on Earth . . . not so far way from there even now as on a darkling plain / Swept with confused […]
Aceh, Indonesia: A struggle commences over Sharia Law
– ———————————————————————— ———————————————————— ACEH: A STRUGGLE COMMENCES OVER SHARIA ———————————————————— On Monday 11 December, an estimated 85 percent of Aceh’s 2.6 million eligible voters cast their ballots in the autonomous province’s first gubernatorial elections since the peace agreement signed in Helsinki, Finland, in August 2005 that ended 30 years of conflict with Jakarta. The result […]
Religious Vilification Case (Mark Durie)
Friday, December 15, 2006 7:56 AM The Supreme Court of Victoria has overturned the earlier religious vilification findings by Judge Higgins against Daniel Scot, Danny Nalliah and Catch the Fire. The Supreme Court judgement can be read at: http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/vic/VSCA/2006/284.html This judgement criticizes Judge Higgin’s legal reasoning, and also his specific findings about what Scot said […]
Court Orders Vilification Retrial
Barney Zwartz, Religion Editor December 14, 2006 – 11:30AM “http://www.theage.com.au/ffximage/2006/12/14/nalliah_narrowweb__300x450 ,0.jpg”Pastor Danny Nalliah Two Christian pastors found to have vilified Muslims under Victoria’s religious hatred law won their appeal and hailed the decision as a victory for free speech. The Court of Appeal ordered the case to be reheard at the original tribunal, before a […]
Religious Vilification Case – update December 2006
The Supreme Court of Victoria has overturned the earlier religious vilification findings by Judge Higgins against Daniel Scot, Danny Nalliah and Catch the Fire. The Supreme Court judgement can be read at: http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/vic/VSCA/2006/284.html This judgement criticizes Judge Higgin’s legal reasoning, and also his specific findings about what Scot said at the Catch the Fire seminar. […]
Christmas and Capitalism
…from three little boys born in Africa… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwY1MLUbk5s …during their first trip to a major chain store in America.
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Liberal bishops face evangelical backlash
By Jonathan Wynne-Jones, Sunday Telegraph Last Updated: 1:14am GMT 10/12/2006 Liberal bishops who support homosexual priests are to be barred from entering some churches and money intended for Anglican coffers will be withheld. In a dramatic escalation in the Church of England’s civil war over homosexual clergy, scores of evangelical churches will break their historic […]
Against Coercion
Sightings 12/11/06 Against Coercion — Martin E. Marty Two events this season led me to go back to the Sightings archive, to a column dated October 29, 2001 (“Listening to Lactantius”). Giving evidence of our passion always to be current, we cited Lactantius from the years 302 and 303, because what he wrote then spoke […]
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