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 […]
Entries from April 30th, 2009
MandM on Opposing Views in Religion and Society
April 30th, 2009 Comments Off on MandM on Opposing Views in Religion and Society
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 
Tags: Events
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
PJ O’Rourke on Perfect Form: A Review of Guidelines for Bias-Free Writing
April 27th, 2009 3 Comments
Given that PJ O’Rourke will be speaking in Auckland this week (see details, Invisible Hand versus Visible Fist) I thought I would share this gem with you; it is a rant by PJ O’Rourke on politically correct language, Perfect Form: A Review of Guidelines for Bias-Free Writing. It is so funny that it is hard […]
Tags: Humour · Political Correctness
Sunday Study: The Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard
April 26th, 2009 7 Comments
“If something nice happens to somebody else be happy for them and not angry for yourself.” This is one of those concepts we try to drum into our kids when we talk about good sportsmanship, not being jealous when watching a sibling open their birthday presents or when one gets an invite somewhere exciting that […]
Tags: Sunday Study · Theology
Go on and Rubberneck
April 26th, 2009 3 Comments
In case you have noticed and wondered at the recent flurry of arrivals from Kiwiblog in the Live Traffic Feed you might click here and then once on the page use “control f” then type in “abortion” and then read the defamatory statement about me (and Matt) and the ensuing debate that began on Friday. […]
Antony Flew v William Lane Craig debate “Does God Exist?”
April 26th, 2009 3 Comments
In 1948 Bertrand Russell and Frederick Copleston debated the existance of God on the BBC radio. That debate was considered the definitive debate of that generation. Fifty years later, to commemorate this debate, a debate re-examining the arguments for and against the existence of God was arranged between William Lane Craig and Antony Flew before […]
Tags: Antony Flew · Debates · Philosophy of Religion · William Lane Craig
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.
