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Entries from May 11th, 2009
Tuesday Night: Religion in the Public Square
May 11th, 2009 1 Comment
Don’t forget tomorrow night’s event from the Thinking Matters Auckland series on God, Morality and Society, Dr Glenn Peoples speaking on Religion in the Public Square: Be there or be square!
Tags: Apologetics · Events · Thinking Matters
Sunday Study: Sodom and Gomorrah Part I
May 10th, 2009 13 Comments
In the comments section of The Inconsistent, Condescending, Paternalism of Left-Wing Feminism, Anna wrote: Something I’ve been deeply disturbed about since childhood is the Sodom & Gomorrah tale – specifically, the offering of the virgin daughters to satisfy the hordes of men outside the house. On the face of it, this looks like a negation […]
Tags: Old Testament Ethics · Sunday Study · Theology
Mother’s Day
May 10th, 2009 5 Comments
Happy Mother’s Day to my mum, to my fellow blogging mum friends Lucyna, Pen, Stephanie, Lydia, Liz, Ele, Busted Blonde and the Hand Mirror girls and to all the other mums out there. What do you give the rather political, blogging-mad, therefore somewhat a-typical, mum? Well my kids nailed it well. This morning I received: […]
Tags: Mother's Day
Christian Blog Ranking Report for April 09 – HalfDone
May 9th, 2009 5 Comments
Here are the top 10 NZ Christian blogs based on HalfDone’s NZ blog stats for April; these stats make up part of the calculations for the MandM top 10 NZ Christian Blog rankings for April 09: MandM 4 NZ Conservative 6 Something Should Go Here, Maybe Later (HalfDone) 11 MacDoctor Moments 18 Keeping Stock 22 […]
Number 4
May 8th, 2009 Comments Off on Number 4
HalfDone’s April stats are out. Scrubone ranks all New Zealand blogs that “post items interesting to the general public. This is pretty much most things outside of strictly “this is what I did today” style blogs.” I have copied the top 10 below, the other 250 or so can be seen here. I will run […]
Tags: NZ Blog Rankings
John W. Loftus on The Christian Illusion of Moral Superiority Part II
May 8th, 2009 5 Comments
In my previous post, John W. Loftus on The Christian Illusion of Moral Superiority Part I, I argued that Loftus’ position was based on a confusion between ontological and epistemological foundations. I will now address his arguments against divine command theory. Loftus’ Arguments Against a Divine Command Theory After misconstruing the divine command theory as […]
Tags: Alvin Plantinga · Atheism · Divine Command Theory · God and Morality · John Loftus · Robert Adams · William Wainwright
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.
