A friend of ours shared this with us on New Years Eve – it is classic! Obama To Enter Diplomatic Talks With Raging Wildfire
Entries from January 7th, 2010
Thursday’s Auckland Bloggers Drinks – Toast the Whale
January 6th, 2010 1 Comment
Just a reminder of tomorrow night’s Auckland Bloggers drinks. What: Auckland Bloggers Drinks When: Thursday 7 January from 6.30pm Where: Galbraiths, 2 Mt Eden Road, Mt Eden, Auckland As Peter Cresswell said “Come along and buy Cameron Slater a drink. After paying for his lawyers, he’ll need one.” RSVP on Facebook or just turn up…
Tags: Bloggers Drinks · Whale Oil
Contra Mundum: Confessions of an Anti-Choice Fanatic
January 5th, 2010 76 Comments
If current media is to be believed opposition to legal abortion comes from misogynist fundamentalist fanatics who want to impose their religious mores onto others. This string of pejorative terms is amusing; however, it does not actually address the more crucial question of whether laws against feticide (the killing of a fetus) are just. I […]
Tags: Abortion · Contra Mundum · David Boonin · Feticide · Investigate Magazine · Peter Singer · Selection
Tales of Blog Wars and Cannon Fodder
January 4th, 2010 16 Comments
There is a war raging in the blogosphere; the war for first place in the Biblioblog rankings. Being world-famous-in-New-Zealand bloggers and TVNZ One News Anchors… We are used to putting our heads into the lion’s mouth (or at least Matt is), I find it better to just tame the lion myself… Sorry, I took these […]
Tags: Alexa · Biblioblog · Blog Rankings · Humour · Jeremy Thompson · Jim West · Joel Watts · Polycarp
Sunday Study: Joshua and the Genocide of the Canaanites Part I
January 3rd, 2010 52 Comments
Critics of Christianity often claim that the book of Joshua teaches that God commanded genocide. Raymond Bradley for example states, In chapters 7 through 12, [the book of Joshua] treats us to a chilling chronicle of the 31 kingdoms, and all the cities therein, that fell victim to Joshua’s, and God’s, genocidal policies. Time and […]
Tags: Alvin Plantinga · Brevard Childs · Canaanites · Genocide · Hermeneutics · Joshua · Kenneth Kitchen · Nicholas Wolterstorff · Old Testament Ethics · Raymond Bradley · Sunday Study · Theology · Walter Sinnott-Armstrong
A Response to The Dunedin School’s “Thinking in Tatters: Moral Relativism and So-Called ‘Counter-Examples’”
January 2nd, 2010 9 Comments
In my previous post, A Response to The Dunedin School’s “Thinking in Tatters: Moral Relativism and Hidden Objectivist Assumptions”, I addressed some criticisms levelled at a talk I gave on moral relativsm by Deane from The Dunedin School (TDS) blog. In a follow up post, which, once again, I cannot link directly too as TDS […]
Tags: Bad Reasoning · Deane Galbraith · Relativism · The Dunedin School
New Years Eve Antics: MandM – One News Anchors
January 1st, 2010 5 Comments
Last night a friend took us behind the scenes at TVNZ to watch live broadcasts of One News and Channel 7 News. As everyone was too busy partying they threw us in to anchor at the last minute. No one noticed – I mean who watches the 6-o’clock news on New Years Eve anyway right? […]
Tags: One News
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.
