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 […]
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Contra Mundum: Confessions of an Anti-Choice Fanatic
January 5th, 2010 76 Comments
Tags: Abortion · Contra Mundum · David Boonin · Feticide · Investigate Magazine · Peter Singer · Selection
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
St Matthews in the City: Progressive Irrationality
December 19th, 2009 33 Comments
It was a typical chilly Dunedin morning. I was standing in line at the Otago University Post Shop, about to send an important document overseas, when the student in front of me, oblivious to his audience, announced to the girl beside him “I’ve got a doll of Jesus in my car, I have tied a […]
Tags: Bad Reasoning · Glyn Cardy · Joseph · Mary · St Matthews in the City · Theology
Another Climate Change Science Hockey Stick Graph
December 16th, 2009 19 Comments
Spotted this over at Hitting Metal with a Hammer in The real climate hockey stick revealed and had to have it: It really raises questions of sustainability.
Tags: AGW · Climate Change · Climategate · Global Warming · Hockey Stick Graph
Madeleine on TV Tonight on Abortion & Parental Consent
December 15th, 2009 Comments Off on Madeleine on TV Tonight on Abortion & Parental Consent
Part two of the television panel discussion Madeleine participated in on parental consent/notification for abortion airs on Pacific Viewpoint tonight, Wednesday 16 December, on Stratos TV (Freeview 21 & Sky Digital 89) at 8:00 pm. Part one can be viewed online here. We’ll put a link up on this blog to the online video of […]
Tags: Abortion · Bev Adair · Pacific Viewpoint · Paul Hutchison · Reverend Tavale Matai'a
Rangiora New Life College, Religion and Discrimination
December 13th, 2009 14 Comments
On Wednesday I flew to Christchurch for an interview regarding a religious education (RE) teaching position in a Catholic School. On having the interview and receiving the subsequent rejection email, it was clear what the reason I did not get the position was: I am a protestant, the school has a particular Catholic ethos that […]
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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.
View Episode 2 Pacific Viewpoint TV Panel on Abortion & Parental Consent Here (Feat. Madeleine)
December 17th, 2009 17 Comments
Episode two of the television panel discussion I participated in on parental consent/notification for abortion is now available for viewing online here at Pacific Viewpoint TV. (Episode one can be viewed here). The show runs for 30 minutes; in this episode I appear as a panel member (last time I was an audience member). Panelists […]
Tags: Abortion · Bev Adair · Cushla McNabb · MandM on Video · Pacific Viewpoint · Paul Hutchison · Reverend Tavale Matai’a · Setita Millar · Sex Education · Ula Sangyum