Bethyada from True Paradigm writes: I have read a few posts on the ‘one less god’ proposition. Stephen F Roberts originally put it, “I contend we are both atheists, I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Guest Posts'
Guest Post: One Less God
May 18th, 2011 92 Comments
Tags: Bethyada · Douglas Wilson · Guest Post · One Less God · Pluralism · Sam Harris · Stephen Roberts
Guest Post: Tim McGrew defends “The Argument from Miracles: A Cumulative Case for the Resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth”
May 9th, 2011 50 Comments
A little while back we published a post linking to some talks by Tim McGrew on Undesigned Coincidences in the Gospels. For some bizarre reason this post of ours prompted fellow kiwi blogger Deane Galbraith to write a post on the Bulletin for the Study of Religion, linking to our post, on the separate topic of Tim [...]
Tags: Bayesian Probability · Deane Galbraith · Guest Post · Lydia McGrew · Probability of the Resurrection · Resurrection · Tim McGrew
Guest Post: Does Tax Exemption for Churches Directly Cost Taxpayers?
April 17th, 2010 152 Comments
Bethyada of True Paradigm offers us this guest post. I find it interesting because I wrote some thoughts about the New Zealand Association of Rationalist Humanist’s position on the issue of religious trusts having tax exemption in Equality or Hegemony: NZARH and Religious Trusts back in 2008. There I pointed out that humanist trusts that [...]
Tags: Bethyada · Charity · Ken Perrott · Tax Exemption
Guest Post: Tim Wikiriwhi Reviews The Great Waitangi Debate (Uncut)
February 10th, 2010 33 Comments
On Waitangi Day, Saturday 6 Feb, TV One aired “The Great Waitangi Debate” on their Marae Program in which Matt and I were audience members. Panelist Tim Wikiriwhi (who won the MandM award for being the most inflammatory speaker of the day) has submitted his review as a guest post. Other blogs have published bits [...]
Tags: Eq · Guest Post · Mare · Tim Wikiriwhi · Treaty of Waitangi · TV One · TVNZ
Guest Post: The Common Good – An Emergent Phenomenon
November 12th, 2009 13 Comments
This guest post comes from Nyokodo of And All These Things…. Catholic social teaching stresses that civil government should seek the common good. This post contains some critical commentary as to how to understand and apply the common good. The documents of the Church and the writings of most socially minded scholars are replete with [...]
Tags: Common Good · Guest Post · Nyokodo · Public Policy
Guest Post: Israel – Definitely One Subject Where One “Size-R” Does Not Fit All!
October 27th, 2009 15 Comments
This guest post, part of open mic week(s), is a long, uncharacteristically straight-forward and very interesting submission from Jonny King on Israel. Israel – Definitely One Subject Where One “Size-R” Does Not Fit All! Warning! Reading this could induce uncontrollable urges to spontaneously desire sleep! Recommended for Insomniacs and other freaks! Now I thought that [...]
Tags: Hamas · Israel · Jonny King · War Ethics
Guest Post: The Rise and Fall of the New Zealand Christian Blogosphere
October 24th, 2009 7 Comments
ScrubOne has gone back through the New Zealand blog rankings over the past year and documented the rise and fall of the Christan blogs to see if the launch of the MandM Top 10 NZ Christian Blog rankings has had observable impact. (This guest post is part of open mic week(s)) A lot of people [...]
Tags: Guest Post · NZ Blog Rankings · ScrubOne
Guest Post: Dan Brown’s History of Science
October 23rd, 2009 135 Comments
This guest post was submitted by Dr James Hannam. Dr Hannam is a UK based historian with degrees in physics and history from the Universities of Oxford and London and a PhD in the history of science from the University of Cambridge. He blogs at Quodlibeta. The film adaptation of Dan Brown’s Angels and Demons [...]
Tags: Christian History · Dan Brown · Faith and Reason · Guest Post · James Hannam · Religious History · Science and Religion
Guest Post: No Official Religion in God’s Own?
April 6th, 2010 124 Comments
David Simpkin is a Hamilton based lawyer with an interest in church-state issues. He studied law at the University of Auckland and holds a BA majoring in history and political studies. David is married to Susan and has a infant son, Caleb. He attends Whitiora Bible Church in Hamilton. David writes: As a holiday weekend that coincides with [...]
Tags: David Simpkin · Freedom of Religion · Guest Post · Human Rights Commission · Religion in Public Life · Religious History · Rights and Freedoms · State Religion