A post by Glenn caught my eye the other day and I have not been able to stop thinking about it as despite knowing that Glenn knows what he is talking about in this field, I just am struggling to believe his numbers. It really is proof-positive of the socialist extent of Labour’s policies in […]
Entries from October 31st, 2008
Statism and Wealth Re-Distribution
October 31st, 2008 10 Comments
Tags: Bad Policy · Elections · Glenn Peoples · Statist Mindset · Wealth Re-Distribution · Welfare
Is Abortion Liberal? Part 2
October 27th, 2008 27 Comments
In my previous post, Is Abortion Liberal? Part 1, I argued that liberals who support the non-initiation of force principle can support abortion only on two grounds; (a) the fetus is a person but its existence inside the mother without her consent constitutes a form aggression, and hence, the mother’s action of killing it is […]
Tags: Abortion · Classical Liberalism · David Boonin · Feticide · Francis Beckwith · Liberalism · Libertarianism · Michael Tooley · Peter Cresswell · Rodney Hide
Exams Loom: Signing Out for Now
October 25th, 2008 3 Comments
My last lecture of the year was taped yesterday, my first final exam in 8 years is on Thursday (whatever happened to study week?) so I am signing out of the blogosphere until my last exam on 5 November. My Labour weekend will be nothing but intense study. I am not stressed though as I […]
Tags: Law Studies · NZ Blog Rankings
New Zealand Christian Blog Rankings for September 2008
October 25th, 2008 13 Comments
Extrapolating from Tumeke’s Semptember 2008 stats, the top 10 Christian Blogs* in New Zealand are: NZ Conservative (24) The Briefing Room (30) Something Should Go Here, Maybe Later (36) MandM (77) Samuel Dennis (80) Gavin Knight (91) Contra Celsum (94) Put up Thy Sword (115) Say Hello to my Little Friend (a.k.a Beretta Blog) (128) […]
Some Autobiographical Remarks: How I Discovered Christian Philosophy
October 23rd, 2008 6 Comments
Increasingly so of late, I find myself in conversations, in the receipt of email requests or blog comments asking where to begin and how to expand one’s Christian philosophical understanding. I have been asked to recommend books and places to study and to share my own journey in this area. I started my studies at […]
Tags: Alvin Plantinga · Apologetics · Bruce Reichenbach · Faith and Reason · Paul Helm · Philosophy of Religion · Richard Swinburne · Steve Kumar · Thomas Morris · William Lane Craig
Answering the New Atheism: Invitation to a Thinking Matters Event
October 23rd, 2008 2 Comments
Taken from Thinking Matters – Events & Announcements: Answering the New Atheism Dr Steve Kumar Dip Theo, BA, M Div, PhD When: Tuesday 28 October Time: 7.30 – 9.30pm Where: Bethlehem Community Church Center – 183 Moffat Rd, Bethlehem Cost: Free Event Format: Live Presentation followed by Q&A and discussions In this presentation, Dr Kumar […]
Tags: Apologetics · Events · Steve Kumar · Thinking Matters
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.
