This from Occupy Democrats: This from the Unites States Founding Fathers: When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature […]
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An Interesting Comparison
February 4th, 2016 5 Comments
Tags: Bad Reasoning · Christian History · Declaration of Independence
Yet Another Lawyer Agrees: Marriage Amendment Act Bill is an Affront to Freedom of Religion and Belief
March 13th, 2013 22 Comments
Barrister Ian Bassett has given another opinion describing the risks to freedom of religion and belief of Louisa Wall’s Marriage Amendment Act Bill if it is enacted in its presently proposed form, which would include this amendment: “Without limiting the generality of subsection (1), no celebrant who is a minister of religion recognised by a religious […]
Tags: Freedom of Religion · Gay Marriage · Grant Illingworth · Ian Bassett · Louisa Wall · Marriage Amendment Act Bill · Marriage Equality · Paul Rishworth · Rachael Wong · Same Sex Marriage
Matt on the Waitangi Tribunal, Confessional Confidence on “The Panel” – with Craig Heilmann
July 20th, 2012 Comments Off on Matt on the Waitangi Tribunal, Confessional Confidence on “The Panel” – with Craig Heilmann
If you tuned in to Radio Rhema at 11:45am (NZ time) on 19 July 2012 you would have heard this blog’s Matthew Flannagan and Craig Heilmann discuss topical issues such as the latest with the Waitangi Tribunal and whether priests should disclose crimes to police after confession, among other issues, on “The Panel” on Pat Brittenden mornings. You […]
Tags: Craig Heilmann · Pat Brittenden · Radio Rhema · The Panel
Matt on “The Panel” on Pat Brittenden Mornings – with David Slack
June 26th, 2012 Comments Off on Matt on “The Panel” on Pat Brittenden Mornings – with David Slack
If you tuned in to Radio Rhema at 11:45am (NZ time) on 26 June 2012 you would have heard this blog’s Matthew Flannagan and David Slack discuss topical issues such as the plight of the South African grandmother who may be forced to go back home, and also, the last few days of TVNZ Seven, among other […]
Tags: David Slack · Pat Brittenden · Radio Rhema · The Panel
Contra Mundum: Pacifism and Just Wars
July 5th, 2011 27 Comments
Comedian Bill Maher recently berated Christians for being hypocrites for supporting military action against terrorists in his “New Rules” segment on the U.S. TV show Real Time (transcript here). Jesus, Maher contended, was a pacifist; “Jesus lays on that hippie stuff pretty thick. He has lines like, “do not repay evil with evil,” and “do […]
Tags: Bill Maher · Contra Mundum · Investigate Magazine · Just War · Pacifism · War Ethics
Easy Dupes: Amina Abdallah Arraf al Omari “Gay Girl in Damascus”
July 3rd, 2011 7 Comments
Narratives are powerful. They control what we identify as significant data or facts, how we empirically apprehend the data, what interpretations and shades of significance we place upon the evidence, and the conclusions drawn. Absolute objectivity is impossible. Only relative neutrality and disinterestedness are possible. The cut of our jib determines the winds we catch […]
Tags: Amina Abdallah Arraf al Omari · Gay Girl in Damascus · Homosexual Conduct · Islam · Israel · Palestine · Paula Brooks · Syria · Tom MacMaster
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.
Michael Huemer on Wokeness
September 8th, 2025 Comments Off on Michael Huemer on Wokeness
Political Philosopher Michael Huemer weighs in on the question: what is wokeness? I have been known to describe the essence of wokism as “reverse bigotry”. In the past, various forms of bigotry were common: prejudice against blacks, against women, against gays, against transgender people, and more. Wokism proposes, rather than to eliminate bigotry, to reverse […]
Tags: Michael Huemer · Political Correctness · Political Philosophy