You’re invited to a lunchtime forum to get a taste of what happens at Thinking Matters’ Tuesday seminars: What: Dr Glenn Peoples and Dr Matthew Flannagan speaking on Bringing Faith and Logic out of the ClosetWhen: Thursday 7 May 12:30-1.30 pmWhere: Lecture Room 2, Laidlaw College, 80 Central Park Drive, Henderson, West AucklandFormat: Brief talk […]
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Lunchtime Forum: Bringing Faith and Logic out of the Closet
May 3rd, 2009 Comments Off on Lunchtime Forum: Bringing Faith and Logic out of the Closet
Tags: Events · Thinking Matters
Sunday Study: Gender in Genesis a take on Adam’s Rib
May 3rd, 2009 2 Comments
In the comments on The Problem of Evil: Why does God Allow Suffering? Marc suggested that the scriptures denigrate women. In the comments on The Inconsistent, Condescending, Paternalism of Left-Wing Feminism, Anna has also raised some thoughtful questions about the scriptures and how they portray women, many of which are worth addressing. The issue, however, […]
Tags: Feminism · Old Testament Ethics · Sunday Study · Theology
Dr Glenn Peoples on Religion in the Public Square
May 1st, 2009 Comments Off on Dr Glenn Peoples on Religion in the Public Square
You are invited to the next Thinking Matters Auckland event in the God, Morality and Society winter series: What: Dr Glenn Peoples speaking on Religion in the Public SquareWhen: Tuesday 12 May – 7:00pmWhere: Lecture Room 2, Laidlaw College, 80 Central Park Drive, Henderson, West AucklandFormat: Talk followed by questions, answers and discussionCost: Free but […]
Tags: Apologetics · Events · Thinking Matters
Compulsory Membership of Student Associations Has to End
May 1st, 2009 Comments Off on Compulsory Membership of Student Associations Has to End
VUWSA (the Victoria University of Wellington Students Association) are at it again. Just last week David Farrar slammed them for their intended ANZAC day flag burning protest and this week they put Dave Crampton on notice for defamation and then retracted it at the 11th hour confessing that it was them at fault. I wouldn’t […]
MandM on Opposing Views in Religion and Society
April 30th, 2009 Comments Off on MandM on Opposing Views in Religion and Society
We were contacted a while back by Opposing Views and asked if we would consider allowing them to link to us. We had a look at their site, liked what we saw and said yes. We are now featured on their Religion and Society page as a recommended site. “Dr Matthew Flannagan” is also officially […]
Tags: Religion in Public Life
Don’t Forget!
April 28th, 2009 Comments Off on Don’t Forget!
Tonight!Thinking Matters JP Moreland on Faith and Reason at Laidlaw College at 7pm. Next Thursday 7 MayBlogger Drinks from 6.30pm at Galbraiths, 2 Mt Eden Road, Mt Eden, Auckland. See you there 🙂
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With God Anything can be Permitted: Another Bad Argument against Theistic Morality
April 28th, 2009 30 Comments
Dostoevsky’s Ivan Karamazov’s famously contended that if God does not exist then anything is permissible. Ken over at Open Parachute disagrees and goes one step further and argues that the shoe is on the other foot. Ken maintains that theistic accounts of obligation lead to an “extreme form of moral relativism” and in fact, Dostoevsky’s […]
Tags: Atheism · Bad Reasoning · Divine Command Theory · Ethics · God and Morality
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.
