In wake of the return of the stolen victoria crosses and the Police claiming they are “honour bound” to pay the thieves the promised reward not PC argues that it is permissible to lie to an agressor. The standard example in the literature (which PC utilises) goes something like this: You are hiding someone fleeing […]
Entries from February 19th, 2008
Permissible Lies
February 19th, 2008 2 Comments
Tags: Divine Command Theory · Ethics · Lucia Maria · Peter Cresswell · Theology
Jim Peron and Unbound (Not Again)
February 16th, 2008 3 Comments
We got an email earlier today alerting us to the return of Jim Peron to prominence. This was not the first email expressing this concern that we have had in the past few months, in fact the number we have received is surprisingly high given we thought the issue had gone away back in 2005 […]
Equality or Hegemony: NZARH and Religious Trusts
February 16th, 2008 4 Comments
Generally I am not a fan of Post Modern ways of thinking; frequently what I see propagated under that banner is irrational and incoherent but made to look profound through the use of sophisticated sounding intellectualised language. However, one idea often touted as “post modern” I find plausible, at least in some contexts. This is […]
Tags: Charity · NZARH · Rationalists · Religion in Public Life
Stupid Animal Welfare Moron and the Council *grr*
February 12th, 2008 3 Comments
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gz1DIIxmEE”>Trogdor
I am supposed to be online surfing trade me for summer horse covers but I am mad so I came here instead. I am mad because I don’t want to spend money on a horse cover our horse does not need and, well probably mostly, I resent being made to do so by some idiot […]
Tags: Bad Policy · City Council · Equestrian · Trogdor
Back Online
February 12th, 2008 Comments Off on Back Online
Thanks for all the emailed messages of condolences. Its been a pretty rough 10 months and the last month or so was the hardest. We are picking up our lives gradually so I guess this means we are officially back online. Madeleine
Tags: Announcements
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.
