Apologetics
Multiculturalism
28th October 2006 THE PAINFUL LESSONS OF MULTICULTURALISM By Michael Nazir-Ali, Bishop of Rochester in England (Editors comments: This article written by an English Anglican Bishop draws on the experience of Britain. We reproduce it as the lessons learnt, and points the writer makes, are pertinent to our current situation here in Australia. Let us […]
A Modern Example of Jewish Legalism
Anger as rabbis demand boy be recircumcised Barney Zwartz October 27, 2006 A BOY on the verge of his bar mitzvah was told he was not properly circumcised and therefore was not Jewish. Orthodox rabbis in Sydney said he had to be recircumcised within four days or the ceremony – which marks the transition of […]
Conscience Versus Con Science
A blog to expose, rebut, and show due contempt for the political strategy of the cloning lobby in Australia. An effective strategy whereby scientists, via a gullible media, peddle false hope and disgraceful hype to desperate patients, who then beat down the door of MPs demanding liberal legislation on cloning. Australians allowed their conscience to […]
Homosexuality – on the moon?
Note from Rowland: this website is committed to presenting varying points of view. Here’s a conservative one on this subject… ~~~ 25 October 2006 Dear Friends, Some of you may have heard about the girl (13) from Windaroo Valley State High School south of Brisbane, who failed her Health and Physical Education subject because she […]
The Crush of Paradox
Sightings 10/26/06 The Crush of Paradox — Leslee N. Johnson Rachel Corrie, a twenty-three-year-old native of Olympia, Washington, died on March 16, 2003, crushed by a bulldozer deployed by the Israeli army to demolish Palestinian homes on the border of Egypt. The bulldozer engulfed her in a wake of stones and earth, and then, shovel […]
A Little multicultural sanity in a world of bigotry and hate
A little harmony as hatred rages on – Terry Lane, The Age 22/10/2006 THERE is a program on ABC television at 3pm today that should not be missed. It is called Knowledge is the beginning: Daniel Barenboim and the West-Eastern Divan orchestra. As we well know, but are usually afraid to say out loud, the […]
The Interview
(Terry Lane was a Churches of Christ minister in Australia, currently an atheist and well-known national broadcaster). ~~~ Terry Lane “God: The Interview” (ABC; Sydney: 1993) The first Christian to be murdered by other Christians was the Spaniard Priscillian. The bishops had him beheaded in 385 because he didn’t subscribe to the right formula for […]
Atheism
Atheism is not the opposite of theism, but a separate category altogether. It is a person who does not have anything in the category of beliefs of anything spiritual or supernatural. They are human minus God(s), shall we say. Then I suppose we should look at other humans who are missing some normal property of […]
Edging closer to darkness
John Watson October 23, 2006 Nelson Mandela was a terrorist. Who says so? No less an authority than Margaret Thatcher. She would have nothing to do with him or his African National Congress, a “typical terrorist organisation”. This stand was characteristic of the Conservative prime minister, whose political impact made her an obvious choice as […]
G20 meeting next step in making poverty history
By Tim Costello and Andrew Hewett October 23, 2006 It was United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan who said, when commenting on the role of the modern economy, that the poor weren’t victims of globalisation. Rather, he said, “their problem is not that they are included in the global market but, in most cases, that they […]
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