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» 24/03/2012 5:36:30 PM If only nine per cent of final year high school students now are doing a foreign language,.....
» 17/03/2010 5:47:48 PM "If God doesn't exist, then everything is permitted." - Dostoyevsky, The Brother.....
» 5/03/2010 1:08:48 PM Bushbred: I'd like us to be able to keep our powder dry. But Islamism may not let us do .....
» 5/03/2010 12:47:06 PM Interesting article. We don't know enough about Turkey, and I suspect neither do Western E.....
» 1/03/2010 11:56:11 PM Bushbred: I also fear war in the Middle East. David Pryce-Jones’ book “The Closed Circle:.....
» 28/02/2010 10:43:26 PM Bushbred: No, I'm not Israeli, not a drop of Jewish blood. Fourth generation (Anglo-)Aust.....
» 27/02/2010 9:44:58 PM John Pilger says in his article: "violence had failed to achieve Israel’s ends and ha.....
» 19/02/2010 12:46:03 AM I'm bewildered at how poorly equipped youngsters are today to analyze their own English la.....
» 12/02/2010 10:22:30 PM My Protestant church lacks grand inspirational art and I agree with Sells that that's a pi.....
» 9/02/2010 12:00:35 AM I'm currently learning Chinese (using simplified characters). Twenty years ago I did a yea.....
» 1/02/2010 10:46:24 PM Philip Tang: Thank you for your excellent posts and links. I also won't be posting more on.....
» 1/02/2010 10:24:23 AM HFR It's bad enough posting a silly diatribe which reveals historical ignorance and a mad.....
» 30/01/2010 11:18:51 PM In a paper delivered in Brisbane, BUDDHIST monk and Honorary Professor at Griffith Univers.....
» 30/01/2010 3:41:37 PM On the reference to Luke chapter 19. Twisting words of scripture to make a deliberately m.....
» 29/01/2010 11:32:28 AM <Conclusion of quotes from ED HUSAIN, The Islamist, chapter on Saudi Arabia> ".....
» 28/01/2010 11:47:40 PM Unlike Judaism and Christianity, Islam exalts violence and hatred. On sex, it is Freud in .....
» 28/01/2010 11:20:07 AM "It may be that Western culture will indeed go: The lack of conviction of many of tho.....
» 26/01/2010 1:00:05 AM Pericles. I have a strong view of the difference between good and evil. I criticise evil .....
» 22/01/2010 12:22:25 PM Pericles: I am not corroding Western society - its corrosion is coming from two sources: .....
» 22/01/2010 12:34:29 AM Pericles. You accuse me and others of rednecked rabble-rousing, lack of balance and hypo.....
» 20/01/2010 10:39:59 PM I am sick of people making excuses for Islam - for its violence, obscurantism, barbarity t.....
» 5/01/2010 7:43:52 PM Good analytical article Graham. I'm a values voter and a Christian, evangelical Protestant.....
» 4/01/2010 5:06:51 PM Battlelines very credibly defends the need to respect the best values and institutions of .....
» 3/01/2010 10:15:35 PM such as the miracles and the death and literal resurrection, forfeit authenticity. They lo.....
» 3/01/2010 10:14:08 PM The trouble with too forensic Biblical Criticism, like the search for the historical Jesus.....
» 29/12/2009 11:00:33 AM Lovely whimsical article. Bravo, Tanveer! I *am* a Christian, and take it seriously, and .....
» 25/12/2009 6:04:31 PM Speaking of the false prophets to come after him, Jesus said "By their fruit you will.....
» 25/12/2009 6:03:31 PM Ho Hum and other aggressive atheists demonstrate again, in 2009, the point that John's gos.....
» 22/12/2009 11:03:41 PM Most of the comments on this article reflect a left-liberal desire to condemn Israel, out .....
» 12/10/2009 5:53:15 PM Sharkfin: I'm appalled by the selfish and short-sighted nihilism in your comment: ".....
» 8/10/2009 11:01:57 PM This time I agree with Runner - one loving father and one mother is a a good recipe for se.....
» 17/09/2009 1:21:51 PM We see plenty of evidence of both in the "moderate and reasonable" statements ma.....
» 17/09/2009 1:10:24 PM Irfan: Thanks for interesting and conciliatory article. There'd be no hint of "clash .....
» 13/09/2009 7:13:02 PM Slasher, I agree that when economic rationalism means reducing all values to dollars and c.....
» 11/09/2009 11:03:23 PM I disagree vehemently with Marko’s analysis, while agreeing that branch-stacking is abhorr.....
» 7/09/2009 4:06:07 PM In support of the end comment in last posting by Dougthebear: “The alleged ‘humanist mora.....
» 6/09/2009 10:36:33 PM CJ Morgan and others: A factual clarification. Money spent by the churches on evangelism,.....
» 4/09/2009 9:02:35 PM Nick Earls: All valid reasonable points. A pity that Islam hasn't moved out of the deser.....
» 2/09/2009 7:39:16 PM NICK EARLS I wasn't an academic but for 30+ years a Canberra public servant, with degrees.....
» 1/09/2009 10:42:29 PM SQUEERS: I can be judgmental, but also amenable to persuasion :-) Sure of myself? Scepti.....
» 30/08/2009 2:42:42 PM >if we lived in a less exploitative world Every political ism and ology and every relig.....
» 29/08/2009 10:56:07 PM Gee, Squeers, you're a bit hard on the "ignorant bourgeoisie" being entertained .....
» 27/08/2009 7:05:27 PM Pmac So you're a “white non-religious Australian woman” unhappy at the “total lack of any.....
» 27/08/2009 6:04:50 PM Interesting article, Jay. I can't imagine how drearily prosaic must the inner person be, w.....
» 17/08/2009 7:20:42 PM Davidf: Why do you so spoil for a fight? I said "Christians are enjoined to be salt .....
» 16/08/2009 4:18:27 PM Davidf: You say "Theists with knowledge of the suffering inflicted by zealous evange.....
» 15/08/2009 9:13:15 PM I commend readers to (Bishop) Tom Frame’s article “Godless nation no longer beggars belief.....
» 9/08/2009 10:24:31 PM CJ Morgan: I didn't attack Orhan Cicek at all. I said if all Muslims were like him, there.....
» 9/08/2009 6:38:15 PM Bushbasher. I generally play the ball and not the man. However your postings are so unfai.....
» 8/08/2009 12:14:08 AM I agree with CJ Morgan that this is an encouraging article, for its embracing of Muslim in.....
» 29/07/2009 11:34:04 AM I'm a bit astounded at suggestions that OLO is necessarily heavily slanted to the right. I.....
» 24/07/2009 11:09:26 AM Abbreviated texting is seen in other languages too - in Indonesian I've seen 'trims' for '.....
» 22/07/2009 7:32:00 PM Nursel, I hate to say it, but your article is absolute crap. Why do you feel the need to .....
» 17/07/2009 12:21:06 PM I'm among the polled 85% of Queenslanders against selling off our State assets. The State .....
» 15/07/2009 2:50:54 PM Eight days since the last post (mine), and still only two posts altogether. That seems to.....
» 13/07/2009 3:56:05 PM It doesn't matter what WE call them. Islamists will still talk among themselves of jihad, .....
» 12/07/2009 2:40:42 PM Wow - CJ Morgan and Sancho, I'm on the same side as you! Nice posting about your business .....
» 7/07/2009 3:26:25 PM Terrible to say it, but Zimbabwe is only an especially egregious present example of an alm.....
» 6/07/2009 6:21:07 PM Very difficult, isn't it? Gareth Evans recently rated the danger from North Korea as far g.....
» 5/07/2009 3:21:13 PM Constance. I’m not keen on Karen Armstrong's attitude toward Islam in some later books. B.....
» 4/07/2009 1:11:52 PM Pericles. If you were "half-intelligent" enough to be able to "objectively.....
» 3/07/2009 10:59:45 PM Bushbred. Consider the following table listing some of the basic differences between West.....
» 3/07/2009 9:26:54 PM Jardine KJ. What a crashingly boring and miserable post. Everything is reducible to doll.....
» 2/07/2009 5:06:05 PM George - on the Pope and Islam: Nearly all Christians worship a Trinity: the one of which.....
» 2/07/2009 4:29:26 PM George. Sure, it is counterproductive to attack GRATUITOUSLY other people's sense of what.....
» 1/07/2009 12:27:41 PM * THE CLOSED CIRCLE: AN INTERPRETATION OF THE ARABS – David Pryce-Jones [looks at Arab cul.....
» 1/07/2009 12:11:32 PM Constance: Thanks for your honest remarks. Five years ago I decided that the standoff bet.....
» 29/06/2009 11:24:00 PM What about the huge flow of INTERNAL migration? The Age reported on April 24 this year A.....
» 29/06/2009 5:14:54 PM Pericles: "There is a less-than-zero chance that I will ever be required to find out .....
» 29/06/2009 3:05:52 PM Opinionated2. "The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. An evil soul, producin.....
» 29/06/2009 12:35:58 AM CJ Morgan: Pauline Hanson, a dead 'prophet', was a nuisance. She had little idea about wo.....
» 28/06/2009 3:30:03 PM Leigh and Pericles. You are right and not at all extremist, Leigh. I have said elsewhere .....
» 26/06/2009 2:51:59 PM Sancho. I got away from the church for about 35 years, but came back in 2002 as a deeply.....
» 24/06/2009 10:15:53 PM Sancho: "The theological minutiae of Islam versus Christianity is only of signfican.....
» 24/06/2009 3:21:19 PM Ancient Philosopher: Not Venice but VIENNA in 1683; also 1529. Bernard Lewis writes in TH.....
» 22/06/2009 11:11:57 PM Sancho. "The two religions are all but identical" ? Two issues here. First is .....
» 22/06/2009 6:05:36 PM On four visits to Indonesia I have been struck by the unfailing friendliness of people. I .....
» 21/06/2009 3:43:17 PM CJ Morgan. Yap-yapping again? How tiresome. (Folks, there's a long background to this else.....
» 20/06/2009 2:35:19 PM I agree with pelican and TRTL. It is good to seek to make a difference. Apathy is an enemy.....
» 19/06/2009 12:30:52 PM Interesting article. I recognize many PoMa or Green Idealist types - very middle class, ea.....
» 18/06/2009 10:45:14 PM After all the Right’s scaremongering about Obama ending civilization as we know it, I find.....
» 18/06/2009 10:15:09 PM This is a highly unbalanced article whose special pleading does Jake no credit. Why do yo.....
» 16/06/2009 6:40:20 PM Relda, I must read up more on Sufiism. As a shopfront it is certainly more attractive than.....
» 16/06/2009 5:45:34 PM Pericles. “Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.” - George Bernard Shaw (1856–.....
» 15/06/2009 10:50:42 PM John, Your special pleading is very boring. I don't like to see human misery anywhere, b.....
» 14/06/2009 11:25:12 PM Horus, and to anyone else it may concern :-) Caught between fire and water, and seeing an.....
» 12/06/2009 11:07:28 PM [continuation of quotes from Nick Cohen] "The contempt for universal standards of ju.....
» 12/06/2009 11:05:13 PM CJ Morgan and Pericles. Criminals eat breakfast. You eat breakfast. So you’re a criminal?.....
» 11/06/2009 1:18:44 PM Pericles, I despise your selective vision, your political correctness, your deliberate t.....
» 10/06/2009 10:38:02 PM What a disgraceful article. It is to Julia Gillard's great credit that she, from the Left.....
» 10/06/2009 7:06:00 PM George, Thanks - interesting. I love Lermontov too, 'The Angel' but especially his novel A.....
» 8/06/2009 11:03:56 PM Hi George, My degrees are in Russian Language & Literature and history and I've spent abo.....
» 7/06/2009 10:24:51 PM George, I bought and read the book by Ratzinger and Marcelo Pera "Without Roots: The .....
» 7/06/2009 9:14:55 AM Relda, I'm an 'outsider' to Catholicism. I feel revulsion at its past sins (without ignori.....
» 6/06/2009 5:18:54 PM George: Thanks for the link to John Allen's article "Remarkable congruence between P.....
» 4/06/2009 12:55:58 PM Tariq Ali in his book "The Clash of Fundamentalisms" says in a “Letter to a youn.....
» 4/06/2009 12:41:40 PM Relda: Thank you for excellent, balanced post about Sufiism. Exactly this point - the huge.....
» 3/06/2009 10:44:32 AM Nursel: I read your article "Not another wave of Islamophobia please!" of 17 De.....
» 2/06/2009 6:40:37 PM Relda: I agree with your comments about Christian fundamentalism. Spong's "Rescuing t.....
» 1/06/2009 6:45:23 PM GEORGE: I agree that reform of Christianity (Reformation and Enlightenment) came from with.....
» 31/05/2009 6:59:45 PM Anyone researching what Islam portends in Australia should read the Witness Statement by M.....
» 30/05/2009 12:43:30 PM Wobbles: I don't justify the Guantanamo incident. The guards’ Islamophobia is reaction by .....
» 29/05/2009 12:19:18 PM Cardinal Pell's article on Islam and Western Democracies is now at http://www.virtueonline.....
» 29/05/2009 12:09:26 PM Nursel, you say "What lies at the heart of this fierce opposition to the construction.....
» 27/05/2009 10:19:47 PM Alan, You're an indefatigable ideologist of the hardline "market" position. I'm .....
» 26/05/2009 9:52:33 AM One Nation: No point in anyone here feeling hostility to the indigenous (Aboriginal) peopl.....
» 25/05/2009 11:49:46 PM The issues are * Are the asylum seekers genuine refugees, or economic migrants? Europe ha.....
» 29/04/2009 11:28:44 PM I'm an evangelical Protestant but I have a lot of sympathy for Archbishop Bathersby in his.....
» 26/04/2009 10:36:22 PM If Telstra thinks it has been correct in its strategy, then it will go out of business. Y.....
» 23/04/2009 2:22:52 PM Good post, Nicholas. It's distressing how far the laissez-faire merchants besotted with Ad.....
» 16/04/2009 6:46:04 PM Pericles (sigh) I had a long series of almost totally civilized exchanges with John Passa.....
» 16/04/2009 12:23:05 PM It astounds me how people can take a disagreement over detail, or substance, personally ra.....
» 13/04/2009 11:20:52 AM RELDA: You said "At St Mary’s, the homeless are housed, the poor are clothed and fed,.....
» 11/04/2009 10:48:54 PM DAVIDF: You seem to be saying "Who's that trip-trip-tripping over MY bridge?" L.....
» 11/04/2009 2:22:15 PM RELDA: Thanks for your interesting post. The "shift from a collective belonging as wi.....
» 10/04/2009 10:04:16 PM Dear Davidf: "The devil can cite scripture for his purpose." - Shakespeare, The.....
» 9/04/2009 11:35:40 PM DAVIDF: Why so bitter and angry? You make me an Aunt Sally, although you know almost nothi.....
» 8/04/2009 6:45:23 PM Sells I read your posting on The Failure of Protestantism (7 Dec 2007) and was struck by .....
» 8/04/2009 6:00:35 PM davidf You quote Spong's citation of John 14:6 ("I am the way, the truth and the lif.....
» 6/04/2009 9:25:41 PM Congratulations Graham. I'm a fairly new poster and also contribute to your surveys of ele.....
» 6/04/2009 10:52:31 AM davidf I don't regard the past as any sort of golden age. It was in 1651 that Thomas Hobb.....
» 5/04/2009 9:40:59 PM Stickman (back on page 5 of this blog) asks "who says Western civilisation is in decl.....
» 4/04/2009 9:36:27 PM Sells would be aware of the Wesleyan Quadrilateral (term coined in the 1960s), which gives.....
» 4/04/2009 8:57:54 PM It is true that the human record associated with many religions contains much dross - into.....
» 30/03/2009 4:41:26 PM Daviy's reference to "the Jewish fear based teaching of Paul the Pharisee" perpl.....
» 30/03/2009 3:55:40 PM Peter, Your post rings absolutely true. Disregard the anti-Christian abuse from humanists,.....
» 20/03/2009 11:07:35 PM Hasbeen, Invective does not constitute rational argument. Calling Anna Bligh a dictatoria.....
» 18/03/2009 1:40:48 PM Not very often does a government get tossed out badly in an atmosphere of boredom. I see w.....
» 12/03/2009 11:02:26 AM Sancho: Your ironic "Quite unlike the Bible" shows little knowledge of the Bible.....
» 10/03/2009 9:34:25 PM Islam's tragedy is that it closed the gates of ijtihad (independent critical thinking) hun.....
» 18/08/2008 10:51:06 AM Thanks Passy - and good 1918 reference :-) No *personal* offence was intended to be given.....
» 16/08/2008 6:57:37 PM Passy - you say "Socialism cannot exist without democracy, and democracy cannot exist.....
» 16/08/2008 5:36:26 PM Passy - I am indeed "an elf-lord revealed in his wrath", fighting spiritually de.....
» 14/08/2008 10:46:35 PM Passy, you say you "value democratic rule and production for meeting human need".....
» 14/08/2008 10:42:55 PM Passy - you denied being postmodernist, but surely your statement of relativism is just th.....
» 13/08/2008 9:31:14 PM We are now paying for the mistakes which were not properly appraised at the beginning of t.....
» 13/08/2008 9:26:18 PM Hi Passy, thanks for the clarification. And the joke :-) To add to my unfinished posts: W.....
» 12/08/2008 8:59:23 PM "In a church that accepts the legitimacy of contraception, the absolute condemnation .....
» 12/08/2008 8:58:02 PM Passy - My original post was directed at John Passant, not you. I was attempting to expre.....
» 10/08/2008 6:47:59 PM What an ignorant, crapulently postmodernist, Marxist-doggerel article! The author knows no.....

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