In “Diatribe: To All Da Haters” (originally entitled “Queers and Destiny: Who Hates Who”) an article published a few years ago in Critic (the student magazine of Otago University) I wrote the following: … If teaching that homosexual conduct is wrong is akin to racism or propagation of apartheid, then the aforementioned religious organisations are […]
Entries Tagged as 'Barack Obama'
Chai Feldblum: “We Should not Tolerate Private Beliefs”
January 27th, 2010 4 Comments
Tags: Barack Obama · Chai Feldblum · Freedom of Conscience · Freedom of Religion · Homosexual Conduct · Religion in Public Life
Obama Holds Diplomatic Talks With a Raging Wildfire
January 7th, 2010 3 Comments
A friend of ours shared this with us on New Years Eve – it is classic! Obama To Enter Diplomatic Talks With Raging Wildfire
Tags: Barack Obama · Humour · The Onion
ACORN, Planned Parenthood and the Power of One (Well Two Really)
September 26th, 2009 4 Comments
When the officials don’t care or are turning a blind eye and the media are not interested, the average citizen can feel a bit powerless in the face of injustice and corruption at the state level. One often wonders what one do do? In the age of the blogger it turns out one can do […]
Tags: ACORN · Barack Obama · David Farrar · James O'Keefe · Planned Parenthood · US Politics
Barack Obama and Martin Luther King’s Dream
November 15th, 2008 2 Comments
A generation ago Martin Luther King stated he had a dream: that people should be judged on the content of their character, not the colour of their skin. Fast-forward to the current day and thousands are celebrating the fulfilment of this dream in the election of Barack Obama as US President. There is an irony […]
Tags: Barack Obama · Martin Luther King · Race Relations · US Politics
Debate ’08: Obama Girl vs Giuliani Girl
September 12th, 2007 1 Comment
You have to see this to believe it!
Tags: Barack Obama · Humour · Rudolph Giuliani · US Politics
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.
