A common theme appeared in the comments section of my Investigate Magazine article, Contra Mundum: What’s Wrong with Imposing your Beliefs onto Others? Commenters suggested I had not addressed the standard liberal conception of the role of religion and public life, the view that no law should be based on premises that not all reasonable […]
Entries from September 9th, 2009
Recyling: Rawls on Religion and Public Life
September 9th, 2009 Comments Off on Recyling: Rawls on Religion and Public Life
Tags: John Rawls · Nicholas Wolterstorff · Philosophy of Religion · Recycling · Religion in Public Life · Selection
Philosophy Carnival XCVI
September 8th, 2009 Comments Off on Philosophy Carnival XCVI
The Philosophy Carnival XCVI is now online. Matt’s posts: Tooley, Plantinga and the Deontological Argument from Evil Part I and Tooley, Plantinga and the Deontological Argument from Evil Part II are featured. There are a number of other interesting reads also linked to so head on over and check them out.
Tags: Philosophers' Carnival
Sunday Study: Interpreting the Sixth Commandment Part I
September 6th, 2009 5 Comments
One of the most well known biblical commands is the sixth commandment of the Decalogue (according to protestant enumeration). This commandment occurs in the 20th chapter of the book of Exodus and the fifth chapter of the book of Deuteronomy. In its most well-known rendition, the King James Version (KJV), this commandment states “thou shalt […]
Tags: Old Testament Ethics · Sunday Study · Ten Commandments · Theology
Christian Blog Ranking Report for August 09 – HalfDone
September 6th, 2009 2 Comments
Here are the top 10 NZ Christian blogs based on HalfDone’s NZ blog stats for August; these stats will make up part of the calculations for the MandM top 10 NZ Christian Blog rankings for August 09: MandM 5 NZ Conservative 10 Something Should Go Here, Maybe Later (HalfDone) 13 MacDoctor Moments 18 Keeping Stock […]
Monday Night: John Boscawen, Bob McCoskrie and Jim Evans on Amending s59
September 4th, 2009 5 Comments
Fresh from Facebook’s “5000 Demanding Anti Smacking Law Change” group is this invitation: ACT MP John Boscawen is holding a series of public debates on the smacking referendum result and how his bill to amend S59 will bring the legislation into line with public opinion. John Boscawen will be holding the first debate in Phil […]
Tags: ACT Party · Bob McCoskrie · Events · Jim Evans · John Boscawen · Parental Freedom · Phil Goff · Referendum · s59 · Smacking
Sunday Study R 13: Romans, Revelations and the Role of the State
September 4th, 2009 6 Comments
In a previous post, Sunday Study: 666 The Number of the Beast, I exegeted Revelation 13’s infamous reference to the mark of the beast, in that post I argued that the first beast is a reference to Rome; a world empire, built on seven hills that ruled over all the nations of the earth at […]
Tags: Hermeneutics · Hitler · Role of the State · Sunday Study · Theology
A common objection to belief in the God of the Bible is that a good, kind, and loving deity would never command the wholesale slaughter of nations. In the tradition of his popular Is God a Moral Monster?, Paul Copan teams up with Matthew Flannagan to tackle some of the most confusing and uncomfortable passages of Scripture. Together they help the Christian and nonbeliever alike understand the biblical, theological, philosophical, and ethical implications of Old Testament warfare passages.
A Review of Last Night’s Boscawen, McCoskrie, Evans, Baldock Meeting UPDATED
September 8th, 2009 46 Comments
Last night’s meeting with John Boscawen, Bob McCoskrie, Jim Evans and Larry Baldock on amending s59 of the Crimes Act to decriminalise the use of reasonable force for the purposes of parental correction was encouraging. The main themes I came away with from each speaker were: John Boscawen – ACT Party MP John Boscawen has […]
Tags: Bob McCoskrie · Fitzgerald v Muldoon · Jim Evans · John Boscawen · John Key · Larry Baldock · Referenda · s59 · Smacking