See this clip for yet another President of the United States who supports human embryonic stem-cell research but has no clue what he is talking about. Bill Clinton says he thinks the issue has become “too politicised” and we should be like him and “hand it back to science.” He says this despite having repeatedly […]
Entries Tagged as 'Bad Reasoning'
Bill Clinton on "Un-fertilised" Human Embryos [UPDATED]
March 13th, 2009 10 Comments
Tags: Bad Reasoning · Embryocide
Madeleine Playing in the Sandpit
March 3rd, 2009 3 Comments
There is a great exchange on KiwiBlog in the comments section here where Madeleine takes to task some of the other commenters on biblical interpretation. Her ability to render the arguments to stupidity with ease and a nice dose of dry humour thrown in is very amusing and worth a look. She has a gift. […]
Tags: Bad Reasoning · Hermeneutics · Humour
Springbok Hypocrisy
February 19th, 2009 5 Comments
It is a bit rich that one of the reasons the South African rugby council are citing as an obstacle for the Springboks to be able to play the New Zealand Maori Rugby team is that the Maori team are “selected along racial lines.” Apparently “the council forbids South African rugby teams playing against opponents […]
Tags: Bad Reasoning · Rugby
Irritating Ads
February 16th, 2009 4 Comments
Have you ever thought about those TV commercials that target drunk driving? You know, if you have had a few then take a taxi, sleepover, get a sober mate to drive you home. Also those ones that the fire brigade do; don’t drink and fry, if you are having a few drinks then order in […]
Tags: Bad Reasoning
More on Christians and Bigotry
November 30th, 2008 13 Comments
Matt’s post on the practice of throwing the bigot label at Christians as a method to silence debate got me thinking. Some of my thinking came out in the comment I wrote on Half Done and in Matt’s comment in the original post but I still feel I have more to say. I’m someone who […]
Tags: Bad Reasoning · Religion in Public Life
Why am I a Bigot?
November 26th, 2008 16 Comments
I am a Theologian with a strong background in Philosophy; apart from Philosophical Theology, my particular area of interest is Ethics. Given this, I often post my thoughts and reflections on moral issues of various persuasions on this blog. I have discussed the morality of warfare, whether it is sometimes permissible to lie, the morality […]
Tags: Bad Reasoning · Ethics · Feticide · Homosexual Conduct · Religion in Public Life
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.
The Inconsistent, Condescending, Paternalism of Left-Wing Feminism
February 25th, 2009 26 Comments
What do these two pictures have in common? The Hand Mirror oppose both as forms of oppression against women. In the first one the woman is being “belittled”, “denigrated”, made the subject of “idiot chauvinism“, in the second, the woman’s clothing choice is “silly” and her “sexuality is being controlled by her father“. Now look […]
Tags: Bad Reasoning · Feminism · The Hand Mirror