I saw Dr. Michael Cullen speaking in on TV3 last night. What he said was interesting because it highlights a tension I have often noted in liberal views of sexual morality . The issue was as follows: A school had hired a teacher. This teacher however had advertised on an internet adult site for a […]
Entries Tagged as 'Current Events'
Benson-Pope
July 27th, 2007 1 Comment
Benson-Pope is someone that the more closely you observe him the more his slimy, smarmy, bullying, bullet-dodging just pisses you off. Until recently I used to live in Dunedin so I have had a few encounters with Mr Benson-Pope a.k.a. panty slut boy and have crossed swords with him politically and know other people who […]
Tags: David Benson Pope · Labour Party
Kiwisaver or why I am not a centrist
July 9th, 2007 1 Comment
A little while ago a friend and I were discussing New Zealand politics with an American associate. My friend spoke of how he was an economic centrist and I informed him I was not. The topic got to kiwisaver, a policy with which he agreed. I thought his comments were interesting. Basically he cited anecdotal […]
When Rationalists Implode
July 2nd, 2007 7 Comments
In 2002 I (Matt) publicly debated Dr Bill Cooke from the New Zealand Association of Rationalist Humanists (NZARH). I enjoyed the debate immensely and am confident that I won it. No one whom I know who has watched the debate disagrees with me on this. I was surprised at the time how weakly the arguments […]
Tags: Atheism · Bill Cooke · Craig Young · NZARH · Paul Litterick · Rationalists
Dixie Chicks, Free Speech and the Flat Earth Society
February 13th, 2007 Comments Off on Dixie Chicks, Free Speech and the Flat Earth Society
One irritating feature of the contemporary media is the credence they give to the views of celebrities. There is often a kind of unwritten assumption that because a person is a good actor or singer, his or her views on politics, morality and ethics somehow carry more weight.Case in point is the enthusiastic reporting of […]
Tags: Bad Reasoning · Dixie Chicks · Freedom of Speech · George Bush · Historical Ignorance · Iraq
Arrest Likely in Kahui Case
January 3rd, 2007 Comments Off on Arrest Likely in Kahui Case
Finally the police seem a step closer to making another arrest in the Kahui case if the Sunday News is to be relied on… This case needs to be solved. The guilty should show some remorse and come forward but then that would be expecting them to have spines and some integrity. So go the […]
Tags: Kahui Twins
Saddam Dead
December 30th, 2006 Comments Off on Saddam Dead
At 4pm Saddam Hussein, the Butcher of Baghdad, was executed. Saddam deserved to die. I do not think anybody believes he was innocent of serious crimes. This dictator murdered and tortured thousands of innocent people including women and children. I have had the misfortune of reading some of the accounts of Saddam’s atrocities from firsthand […]
Tags: Capital Punishment · Saddam Hussein
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.
