Apologetics
For those against Jews
For those against Jews ….. Don’t ever visit the Statue of Liberty…the words on the base, “Give me your tired, your poor…” was written by a Jew named Emma Lazarus. Whatever you do, don’t ever allow anyone in your family to take the polio vaccine…it was developed by a Jew named Jonas Salk. Don’t watch […]
Religion & Ethics Australia Digest [35]
Religion & Ethics Australia Digest A weekly public affairs review from the Centre for Christian Ethics, Morling College No. 035, 29 April – 5 May 2005 ² edited by Rod Benson News & opinion Abortion Australia’s latest abortion figures are “a national disgrace” according to Sydney Catholic auxiliary Bishop Anthony Fisher, who added that Australia […]
A Creationist/Inerrantist view of the Bible
Notes from Don, from aus.religion.christian ‘Scripture cannot be broken’. I’m afraid I cannot see what you are on about. Even modern eyes can understand what it means, while Gill provides a deeper Jewish understanding that further strengthens what an English reader would understand. And this is in the context of Jesus’ repeated teaching that Scripture […]
Readings on Church and State
Sightings 5/4/05 Readings on Church and State — Martin E. Marty With all the stir about “church” and “state” these days, a friend asked for a brush-up reading list for summer. I was glad to work that up, and thought it might be of interest to Sightings readers — a bonus issue, if you will. […]
What is Science?
(Posted by Mark Tindall): science Science is first and foremost a set of logical and empirical methods which provide for the systematic observation of empirical phenomena in order to understand them. We think we understand empirical phenomena when we have a satisfactory theory which explains how the phenomena work, what regular patterns they follow, or […]
This Side of Theocracy
Sightings 5/2/05 This Side of Theocracy — Martin E. Marty In last week’s U.S. News & World Report, Michael Barone reassured readers that the United States is not “headed toward a theocracy …. [W]hether the United States is on its way to becoming a theocracy is actually a silly question” (“Faith in Our Future?” April […]
Religion & Ethics Australia Digest [32]
Religion & Ethics Australia Digest A weekly public affairs review from the Centre for Christian Ethics, Morling College No. 032, 8-14 April 2005 ² edited by Rod Benson News & opinion Aboriginal & indigenous issues A push by John Howard to overhaul Aboriginal land rights could run into constitutional difficulties and lead to massive compensation […]
Beware the religious invasion of our polity
Perspective Terry Lane April 17, 2005 Right. Just one more thing about the consequences for us of American imperialism driven by hubris and justified by exceptionalism. Brian Rotman in the London Review of Books sums up American chosen-ness thus: “. . . in America, where every dollar bill proclaims the nation’s trust in God, where […]
Religious Vilification: a small but significant victory
12 April 2005 A small but significant victory Dear Friends, By now some of you may have heard that the UK Blair government has decided to drop its proposal for a law against inciting religious hatred after considerable opposition in the House of Lords and a public outcry from community groups including the Barnabas Fund […]
Phlebotomy
Phlebotomy: The Ancient Art of Bloodletting The practice of bloodletting seemed logical when the foundation of all medical treatment was based on the four body humors: blood, phlegm, yellow bile, and black bile. Health was thought to be restored by purging, starving, vomiting or bloodletting. The art of bloodletting was flourishing well before Hippocrates in […]
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