Apologetics
Christian Art and pornography
Mark wrote: Some Christians I know thought Rembrandt’s “Danae” which showed an exposed breast was pornographic. Some other Christians I know thought Rembrandt’s pen and ink drawing of two people having sex was pornographic (“The Great Bed”) .,..probably because the woman has three arms if you examine the drawing closely. 😉 Rembrandt was a Christian […]
The gospel and Australian culture
Not quite established: Ross Langmead A paper given at the Gospel and Culture Network (GOCN) Consultation, Techny, IL, October 17-19, 2002 and published in an edited form in The Gospel and Our Culture 14.3&4 (Sep/Dec 2002), 7-10 In varying ways the Christian churches in Western countries which have been established by the state are losing […]
Values in Video Games
Video games have become an $11.7 billion dollar industry in America — currently generating more revenue than movies. But the content of many best-selling video games are full of explicit sex and violence, leading many parents and lawmakers to call for new crackdowns. Kim Lawton looks at the controversial debate over the values being promoted […]
Malcolm Fraser’s Online Petition
Malcolm Fraser becomes Australia’s latest cyberactivist A Just Australia today welcomed the online petition, initiated by former Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser, against the detention of children and families. Mr Fraser has launched this campaign to provide opportunities for as many Australians as possible to register their opposition to the detention of children. “The ongoing detention […]
Cartoons and religious vilification
The question was raised yesterday by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a Washington-based civil rights group, in an e-mail to its membership. Hart and his syndicate say no — that a simple, straightforward joke is being misconstrued. That may well be true, but the 73-year-old cartoonist’s history of evangelizing his Christian beliefs through his […]
How do we know what we know?
From another thread… “the conclusion is always there ready-made before the thinking process; the thinking does not serve, as in the rational realm, to arrive at a correct conclusion; rather, it serves to confirm an already existing irrational conclusion and to rationalize it. This is generally called “prejudice”; what is overlooked is that this prejudice […]
The voice of God
I heard the voice of God once – it went “Vrooooom!” – or maybe it was just the lawnmower. – age 11
Religious Vilification: behind the news
Let us all pray 14nov03 LET me tell you how two Christian pastors came to be on trial after discussing Islam in church, in a case that’s so far cost them $100,000. This will show how our shiny-eyed Equal Opportunity Commission can cause more religious strife than it solves. And helps kill free speech in […]
Hard-core addiction
Porn is more accessible and more fashionable than ever. But its prevalence masks an inherent emptiness, say experts and users. Many believe the men who rely on it are living a dangerous lie. There’s an episode of Friends – “The One With The Free Porn” – in which Chandler and Joey discover they have tuned […]
Church & State, gay marriages, and Mary Magdalene
Religion and Ethics Newsletter Following is a brief outline of the stories Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly will be covering this week. Every Friday evening, new stories are uploaded to the Web site at http://www.pbs.org/religion. ————————————————– Cover Story: Supreme Court Argument: Church and State Ever since Washington was admitted to the Union in 1889, the separation […]
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