Bethyada of True Paradigm offers us this guest post. I find it interesting because I wrote some thoughts about the New Zealand Association of Rationalist Humanist’s position on the issue of religious trusts having tax exemption in Equality or Hegemony: NZARH and Religious Trusts back in 2008. There I pointed out that humanist trusts that […]
Entries Tagged as 'Ken Perrott'
Guest Post: Does Tax Exemption for Churches Directly Cost Taxpayers?
April 17th, 2010 152 Comments
Tags: Bethyada · Charity · Ken Perrott · Tax Exemption
Contra Mundum: What’s Wrong with Imposing your Beliefs onto Others?
September 1st, 2009 30 Comments
The assumption that ‘it is wrong to impose your moral beliefs onto others’ is almost unilaterally accepted in society. Everyone knows this, only zealous religious types seem to believe that it is acceptable to try to foist their morality onto others; the concept of respecting other people’s beliefs seems to be lost on the religious. […]
Tags: Bad Reasoning · Contra Mundum · Ethics · Investigate Magazine · Ken Perrott · Leslie Cannold
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.
Three Questions for NIWA
December 8th, 2009 27 Comments
Just in from the Auckland Public Meeting: Climategate, NIWA and the ETS. When it came to light last week that NIWA‘s official temperature graph and the data on their website were at odds, the former returning an increasing temperature graph the latter a flat graph, three questions were asked of NIWA by the Climate Conversation […]
Tags: Climate Conversation Group · Climategate · Gareth Renowden · Jim Salinger · Ken Perrott · NIWA