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» 7/02/2010 8:20:04 PM Mitchell, I think Elliot was very much of the tradition where an ‘Enlightenment’ flaw repl.....
» 7/02/2010 9:50:48 AM I guess , Mitchell, if one is to subscribe to 'hard materialism', which claims that the on.....
» 5/02/2010 8:29:19 AM Mitchell, The Enlightenment project wasn’t cast in a single slab. Its ‘hard component’ co.....
» 3/02/2010 6:59:12 AM On November 10, 1619, in the course of a real mystical crisis, Descartes caught a glimpse .....
» 22/01/2010 8:44:53 AM I totally agree Pericles, “Science, and scientific disciplines, do not rely upon dogma of .....
» 21/01/2010 9:34:41 AM Pericles, I’m claiming the medieval Church held the prevailing ‘scientific’ view of the ti.....
» 20/01/2010 10:33:08 PM Pericles, “…that your suggestion, that the church was scientifically correct because of Ga.....
» 16/01/2010 6:56:31 AM Pericles, In answer to your final objection, i.e. your allusion to objectivity: The follow.....
» 14/01/2010 2:38:21 PM Pericles, Glad we’re perhaps agreed on what “tacit knowledge’ isn’t. You stated (in your.....
» 14/01/2010 8:28:05 AM Pericles, Your 'cut’n’ paste’ presumption in this instance is wrong. An implied presumpti.....
» 12/01/2010 2:31:36 PM Sancho, “Looking at the meal you've made of Schroedinger's cat...” On the contrary I think.....
» 12/01/2010 1:38:36 PM Rusty, I have a strong and healthy respect for Richard Feynman who states in his 1990 hook.....
» 10/01/2010 11:22:20 PM …cont’d Rusty, In short, I’ve not tried to dodge anything but have been willing to accept .....
» 10/01/2010 9:22:52 AM bushbasher, Perhaps you’ll find, somewhat, in my reply to Pericles and Rusty as to why I b.....
» 9/01/2010 1:29:30 PM Pericles, I’m not kidding at all – you’d go beyond mere superficial argument if you read a.....
» 8/01/2010 2:38:52 PM Squeers, I agree with your observations – pure transcendentalism largely turns out to be a.....
» 8/01/2010 5:40:27 AM Rusty, Current scientific figures now live “in times when to not publicly profess a religi.....
» 6/01/2010 9:50:50 PM Sells, For some reason, and again, you appear to seriously strike a nerve – emanating from.....
» 7/12/2009 8:09:22 PM George, Thanks for your well considered, thoughtful response. I find it interesting that T.....
» 5/12/2009 9:22:24 AM George, My understanding is that Tillich, with his ‘theistic objections', is acutely awar.....
» 3/12/2009 8:47:11 PM Oliver, I identify, if not share in Tillich’s belief, where the source of the “courage to.....
» 3/12/2009 7:09:02 AM Oliver, I’ll certainly grant you your persistence. As you correctly surmise, Tillich has h.....
» 19/11/2009 9:53:54 PM Oliver, With our many exchanges here, I find it rather surprising you make the assumptions.....
» 18/11/2009 9:11:27 PM david f, I’m generally amazed at the layered complexity of historical event – where some d.....
» 18/11/2009 9:04:09 PM Oliver, Yes, my apologies, I’ve been a bit on the busy side – so, here goes... Western se.....
» 16/11/2009 5:52:48 AM I find David to be essentially correct in his synopsis. Once the "apostle of the gent.....
» 15/11/2009 7:18:02 PM Oliver, At first glance, the two myths you mention (Eve and Pandora) show woman as the &q.....
» 14/11/2009 4:47:38 PM "Can one justify the non-Christian religions whilst still accepting the non-literal f.....
» 14/11/2009 1:33:08 PM Oliver, Naturally, if there are a large number of people openly professing their Christian.....
» 13/11/2009 2:20:08 PM Oliver, Tillich, the chaplain, had to bury the dead. As the violence of the war intensifie.....
» 13/11/2009 11:09:09 AM Dear david f, Jesus appeared to place a balance between the avoidance of conflict (somewha.....
» 12/11/2009 12:42:45 PM Oliver, Tillich was a Chaplin in the trenches of WW1 and came to the realisation a certain.....
» 12/11/2009 6:32:26 AM Oliver, “… the catch is, we don’t know if a given fabrication is aligned to God or is just.....
» 11/11/2009 11:17:40 AM Oliver, So far, so good, with your 1st. four sentences… but here’s where I’d diverge, 'the.....
» 10/11/2009 10:26:09 PM Sells, I guess in response to your last post on this thread, we should take ‘first things.....
» 9/11/2009 6:14:58 AM Oliver, “Were Christians to accept panentheism, it would be a radical departure from the p.....
» 8/11/2009 7:48:48 AM Oliver, To clear things up, I was referring to,and within a Christian context, panentheism.....
» 7/11/2009 9:29:16 AM Squeers, You ask something that anyone bound to a particular religion or doctrine should .....
» 6/11/2009 9:53:38 AM Squeers, “no ontology or ethic will nurture a race of paragons..” In our self-determinati.....
» 4/11/2009 8:51:30 PM bushbred, Actually, I made mention of the Donation you speak of here: http://forum.online.....
» 4/11/2009 5:15:42 PM Grim, Whilst you might attempt to trivialize any mention of Nazism as mere hyperbole (God.....
» 3/11/2009 11:51:26 AM Grim, True, I am“fond”of reiterating another’s belief or opinion - their acknowledgement c.....
» 2/11/2009 2:44:48 PM spidoc, I guess I’d have to agree in that, “spirituality is the only measure of self knowl.....
» 2/11/2009 10:35:32 AM Grim, You say, “Ultimately, ethics and morality are about survival” – here you appear to b.....
» 1/11/2009 2:24:21 PM sells, I haven’t stated anywhere, “that he [Tillich] was the greatest 20th C theologian”......
» 1/11/2009 10:24:09 AM ‘You can have “data” and you can have “information” but you “use” knowledge’, is precisely.....
» 28/10/2009 10:24:49 PM Dear david f, Go back to my post of almost a couple hours ago and hover your mouse pointe.....
» 28/10/2009 9:18:49 PM Dear david f, I think you may have missed my original reply, (refer: http://forum.onlineo.....
» 26/10/2009 5:58:51 AM Seano, Your most recent post concerning Hollingworth and "God save the Queen!" .....
» 25/10/2009 5:27:17 PM Dear David, The following (direct link) sums up something of my approach to the NT, made i.....
» 24/10/2009 11:28:46 PM Sells, As I’ve acknowledged, theology is important and I’ll put some weight on one of the .....
» 24/10/2009 9:47:41 AM Squeers has brought Terry Eagleton into the conversation – he “probably [is] a Christian” .....
» 23/10/2009 1:38:03 PM Dear david f, The comedian Josh Kornbluth, a son of atheist Marxists who grew up in the Wa.....
» 23/10/2009 9:58:27 AM Really Peter who’s insulting who, when you call “morons” those who might stand up to a sel.....
» 23/10/2009 9:34:58 AM Here we see a gross political imbalance within the United Nations Human Rights Council (UN.....
» 23/10/2009 7:37:49 AM Grim, Your last comment, “..I sincerely doubt the majority of Americans vote for a Preside.....
» 22/10/2009 4:49:55 PM Dear david f, Something from your heritage, which I find particularly applicable to the id.....
» 22/10/2009 1:18:28 PM bushbasher, Conservative Evangelicals despise Richard Dawkins while actually believing in .....
» 21/10/2009 4:10:25 PM Oliver, As far as hypotheses go, it certainly has been and probably will continue as so,.....
» 21/10/2009 1:54:31 PM Pilger is an ideologue and his discourse is generally delivered in black and white terms -.....
» 21/10/2009 12:44:39 PM It’s interesting to note how Richard Dawkins calls himself a "post-Christian atheist&.....
» 19/10/2009 6:59:27 AM Dear david f, I guess I've abandoned many of my early childhood beliefs – i.e. my naturall.....
» 18/10/2009 3:46:56 AM cont’d… Nondualistically, the name of God is "I AM". I AM is both transcendent G.....
» 17/10/2009 9:40:43 PM George, Firstly, I think we can separate faith from religion/ theology (even if related)......
» 16/10/2009 10:32:45 PM George, In some respects I tend to take a strong cue from social scientist, Peter Berger,.....
» 15/10/2009 12:51:37 PM "You know, if tomatoes were horses, we'd all be having pumpkins for breakfast." .....
» 15/10/2009 11:21:30 AM George, “Transcendence” and “immanence” are dualistic concepts, and I find they lack coh.....
» 14/10/2009 12:35:32 PM George, I guess if we’re to speak in theological terms, we can say evolution is a developm.....
» 13/10/2009 9:14:32 PM George, I guess if all existence is to be reduced to only the physical (or material), inte.....
» 13/10/2009 10:03:23 AM George, To put into perspective “rapidly moving”, I’d suggest 100 years duration is quite .....
» 11/10/2009 10:12:34 AM George, I think Martin Rees is certainly correct, and I think contemporary science is rapi.....
» 10/10/2009 8:55:48 AM Grim, I’m sure, as we age, we tend toward the humbling conclusion, “No one has all the ans.....
» 3/10/2009 10:21:40 PM Grim, I’ll preface my reply firstly by saying, perfect faith is only for perfect fools for.....
» 3/10/2009 12:57:40 PM Grim, I think you touch on something which underlies the problem of the natural and supern.....
» 30/09/2009 11:27:54 PM david f makes interesting comment on von Braun – a ‘converted to, born-again Christian’. B.....
» 26/09/2009 8:39:17 AM Strangely, a more militant and secular view focuses on the ‘illegitimate’ birth of science.....
» 25/09/2009 7:41:32 AM AJ, In a previous post (http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=6784#103223).....
» 24/09/2009 7:22:08 AM Grim & david f, I can only concur with your comments. No matter how much any of us might .....
» 22/09/2009 7:03:21 AM david f, You are quite correct in your facts - Rabbinic Judaism also rejects any connectio.....
» 21/09/2009 7:01:49 AM david f, "A communicant of any religion can take a quiet pride in their faith without.....
» 20/09/2009 10:02:46 PM david f, In 1938, Gandhi was asked in an interview, "What about the Jews? Are you pre.....
» 19/09/2009 7:36:43 PM Oliver, The “ Pauline-Constantinian aberration which grew-up in his name” was as much a re.....
» 19/09/2009 5:31:35 PM david f, “Everything Jesus said cannot be ascribed to the Jewish religion. “ – True enough.....
» 19/09/2009 1:57:43 PM David f, What you say is essentially true – Jesus would not have existed it weren’t for th.....
» 8/09/2009 11:38:56 PM George, I guess much of our understanding is owed as to how we interpret things – how we c.....
» 7/09/2009 9:09:48 PM George, Neither do I wish to enter a debate on the Reformers of the 16th century rejecting.....
» 6/09/2009 12:28:29 PM George, The “feminization process’ to which I referred is the radical pendulum shift (reac.....
» 5/09/2009 4:16:47 PM Sells makes a point and perhaps a little ironically would agree with the "impossible&.....
» 5/09/2009 8:35:53 AM The civilised man is man with no distinction. His greatest attribute is that he remains to.....
» 3/09/2009 11:35:04 PM Oliver, Deism is essentially a rationalistic religion, which assumes that all men naturall.....
» 3/09/2009 1:46:37 PM Thanks Grim, I appreciate your comment and likewise, Cheers......
» 2/09/2009 11:23:23 PM Dan, I’m more than content to suffer the ‘error’ of my observation and would certainly ech.....
» 1/09/2009 11:29:10 PM Dan, You really should learn to read what people write and not misquote them, thus present.....
» 30/08/2009 12:23:13 PM You raise an interesting counter-point Grim. Not only do ‘scientific’ creationists general.....
» 22/08/2009 6:07:16 PM Pericles, As with many of our labels, there are shades of grey – ‘Atheism’ is no exception.....
» 22/08/2009 11:14:59 AM Pericles, Despite my ‘clarifications’, causing you further confusion, I’m glad you appear .....
» 20/08/2009 10:46:29 PM bushbasher, When you say, “ … he[sells]creates all the angst of an unswattable march fly”......
» 18/08/2009 5:40:07 PM Grim, Faith actually enables one to escape a deeply rooted paradigm. Pericles, “The argum.....
» 17/08/2009 9:08:29 AM Fractelle, I fail to see how I’ve “spoilt” anything by a complimentary association of two .....
» 16/08/2009 2:32:40 PM “Do we really need the concept of a God (or many Gods) to make us human?” - A fully balanc.....
» 16/08/2009 8:26:35 AM Sells, Whilst we certainly don’t agree on all matters, it is true to say crabsy and I give.....
» 3/08/2009 5:15:09 PM david f, Initially, to address your second observation from the Milgram experiment,i.e.- “.....
» 3/08/2009 12:38:31 PM david f, You make reasonable distinction between religion and culture for, while often in.....
» 20/07/2009 1:10:03 PM I entirely agree with Andrew Baker when he says, “The multifaceted characteristics of scie.....
» 9/07/2009 8:42:55 AM In reality, it is not so much in the risks, collectively, that we fail to take but more, i.....
» 5/07/2009 4:49:37 PM It would be my criticism of ‘evangelicals’ also waterboy, where faith becomes a retreat in.....
» 2/07/2009 7:35:43 PM I guess my point, Sells, was that Gregory of Nyssa was particularly accommodating for his .....
» 2/07/2009 8:55:32 AM Sells, Your ‘thesis’ on risk-taking/ risk aversion, as has already been commented on here.....
» 18/06/2009 9:11:47 PM Oliver, It is not in dispute that, “..Islam not only experienced a “golden age” of scienc.....
» 17/06/2009 9:57:55 AM Oliver, Karen Armstrong, as a former Catholic nun and now religious historian certainly g.....
» 16/06/2009 11:23:10 AM Constance, It is more a matter of metaphysics that pertain to our statements about what “.....
» 14/06/2009 10:08:52 AM Grim, The article ‘Why The Peaceful Majority Is Irrelevant’ in your link is salient in ma.....
» 13/06/2009 6:28:19 PM Sells, I didn’t expect the baggy cap I placed on you to be much of a fit for size – more, .....
» 12/06/2009 11:31:18 PM Pericles, Rather than accusing technology of having “allowed destruction”, a far broader .....
» 9/06/2009 11:45:50 PM Oliver, Where scientism is used in an approach giving the implication of having authority.....
» 7/06/2009 10:51:22 PM George, No need to apologise – if our conversation cannot offer a challenge without offen.....
» 7/06/2009 12:30:39 PM Glofindel, It is interesting you note Spong who, interestingly, describes himself as a “b.....
» 6/06/2009 9:15:05 PM Glorfindel, I wouldn’t expect an ‘outsider’ to express the essence of Catholicism; rather.....
» 6/06/2009 10:16:51 AM George, Without wishing to place too much of a damper on the Catholic-Muslim dialogue and.....
» 4/06/2009 10:05:13 PM George, Christian Zionists certainly have a strong focus in advocating Israel, however, th.....
» 3/06/2009 11:39:28 PM Glorfindel, Whilst I’ll agree, Islam, as currently depicted, has an ugly shop front, the .....
» 2/06/2009 5:46:08 PM Thanks for the link George, I meant all Christians who bear the ESSENCE, as you say, of a .....
» 2/06/2009 10:59:20 AM Firstly, I think we need a little historical perspective. An old Jewish myth about an &quo.....
» 31/05/2009 12:23:29 PM A secularist society and government doesn't necessarily insulate Australia degenerating in.....
» 25/05/2009 5:49:13 PM Oliver, My assumption is that where Christians have literal belief in the soul it follows.....
» 17/05/2009 6:25:57 PM Oliver, Perhaps it's best to ignore the terra incognita shown by UOG, but your polite resp.....
» 16/05/2009 8:34:35 PM Oliver, Polanyi, as with Popper, defended the metaphysical conception of “a reality underl.....
» 6/05/2009 9:46:03 AM An interesting last post Sells, something almost reminiscent of the Polanyi quote. An int.....
» 30/04/2009 10:49:07 PM Oliver, Thanks for your reference to Polanyi and Prosch - I haven’t come across either of.....
» 28/04/2009 10:40:01 PM bushbasher, Firstly, Pericle’s opening comment, “..it was actually meant to be an insult” .....
» 28/04/2009 7:42:53 PM Pericles, Most, if not all of my comments are not aimed to be personally vindictive, which.....
» 27/04/2009 1:50:33 PM bushbasher, A shortcoming in the 'Age of Reason’, for some people, are that the various tr.....
» 27/04/2009 12:20:22 PM I doubt very much Flew would actually cherry pick any of the religions in order to become .....
» 26/04/2009 1:09:43 PM Undoubtedly, Nietzsche was a megalomaniacal philosopher of culture with penetrating psycho.....
» 23/04/2009 10:34:18 AM I’ll try to put it a little more simply. Collectivism or communitarianism is defined as ro.....
» 22/04/2009 5:40:22 PM "You suggest that Australian culture is less varied than that of an Asian country.. &.....
» 22/04/2009 10:19:15 AM Bugsy, There’s a vast amount of literature available on the defining of culture and its co.....
» 20/04/2009 10:11:28 PM david f, I guess I have similar romantic leanings to you but realise (as you undoubtedly d.....
» 19/04/2009 12:40:37 PM ..cont’d The conception of the modern and imaginative hedonism perhaps explains, to a cer.....
» 19/04/2009 12:36:41 PM david f, I’m highly appreciative of your post and agree, there are dangers inherent in in.....
» 16/04/2009 4:11:42 PM Sells, Clearly, we no longer live in the same intellectual, ecclesial and cultural world o.....
» 15/04/2009 8:39:59 PM Sells, Although raised within Christian Orthodoxy, with certain Lutheran flavour, I’ve gro.....
» 13/04/2009 12:28:51 PM Fractelle, “...it is the decent and humane thing to do. It is civilized..” True, and from .....
» 13/04/2009 8:54:12 AM Glorfindel, Whilst your concern for conformity to the Wesleyan Quadrilateral may seem prud.....
» 10/04/2009 11:12:05 PM Sells, I guess we need to understand the myriad of ways in which both Christians and non-C.....
» 9/04/2009 12:12:12 AM The conversion of Constantine the Great assured the church a privileged place in society a.....
» 5/04/2009 3:54:25 PM For many here, Sells presents a type of paternalism where freedom is suspended and the rig.....
» 3/03/2009 11:01:18 AM I think understanding the gross inefficiency of transforming any material (e.g. coal or nu.....
» 3/03/2009 7:52:51 AM George, I agree, formal procedure is important – scientific and mathematical discovery nee.....
» 1/03/2009 5:19:37 PM Bushbred, I’m not sure whether you’ve lost the thread or not. Your concerns about the Midd.....
» 1/03/2009 11:24:09 AM George, Just to further clarify. My understanding of the Catholic sacraments is they emerg.....
» 27/02/2009 3:49:46 PM George, I’m certain, if the current challenge to RCism is based on “straw-man” like princi.....
» 26/02/2009 10:25:56 AM George, Your first point indeed is not the issue, nor is it one I mentioned. I was referri.....
» 24/02/2009 2:59:02 PM Pericles, I’m certainly glad we can come to an entire agreement on the observations I've m.....
» 24/02/2009 11:39:53 AM George, As we have moved to a secular government and society, I can happily accept your de.....
» 23/02/2009 7:59:16 AM George, Thankyou for your long and thoughtful response – but I do continue in failing to u.....
» 21/02/2009 7:51:14 PM George, It wasn’t my intention to ‘pigeon-hole’ your mode of Catholic belief but your post.....
» 21/02/2009 9:27:25 AM George, Thomas Hobbes perhaps describes your view on being Catholic quite well. He wrote .....
» 20/02/2009 1:21:42 PM "Who are the victims here?" Within perhaps the next few years a good chance abo.....
» 20/02/2009 9:51:12 AM As with the rest of mainstream society, the church reflects this and is a dysfunctional fa.....
» 20/02/2009 8:14:13 AM SJF, Your stance is surprisingly close to that of the Jewish orthodox rabbis. Their warnin.....
» 19/02/2009 10:09:31 AM Despite Tanveer Ahmed’s thoughtful piece, I cannot help but wonder at the underlying theme.....
» 16/02/2009 9:05:22 PM As you say, Bushbred, more wisdom and understanding are needed, and as Kant surely implies.....
» 16/02/2009 9:35:28 AM Bushbred, True, SJF and I appear to have definite and differing views on Israel’s legitim.....
» 15/02/2009 11:47:55 AM SJF, Naturally, “Hezbollah and Hamas have no obligation to understand the ‘tikkun’ any mor.....
» 15/02/2009 8:51:36 AM SJF, A mockery is made of Judaism where the concept of “betzelem elohim” is corrupted; a p.....
» 14/02/2009 7:25:33 AM ‘Regional Nuclear War Could Devastate Global Climate’ – Science Daily (Dec. 11, 2006) The.....
» 13/02/2009 4:41:41 PM The authors of ‘An agenda for Obama : Comments’, give the Obama administration’s highest p.....
» 13/02/2009 7:51:32 AM Dear socratease, As initially expressed in my previous post, ‘the Whole Bible is fill’d wi.....
» 11/02/2009 6:07:18 PM socratease, Blake said that ‘the Whole Bible is fill’d with Imagination and Visions’. Whe.....
» 10/02/2009 3:36:18 PM No not interred... as legend would have it, it gets worse – he was consumed: “So, having o.....
» 10/02/2009 1:29:52 PM Dear david f, How can I not accept such heart-felt apology? You generally write very intel.....
» 9/02/2009 2:09:01 PM david f, To the ‘devout Catholic and author’ G.K. Chesterton and his overview add the find.....
» 9/02/2009 12:20:10 PM david f, Of all the great ideas, the idea of God has always been and continues to be the o.....
» 8/02/2009 12:24:32 PM david f, I wouldn’t imagine, even for a moment, you believe that John Lennon’s utopia, one.....
» 7/02/2009 12:56:01 PM david f, Whatever the motivation behind the Balfour declaration it was, as with ‘self-dete.....
» 7/02/2009 9:27:21 AM david f, I have a similar understanding and would agree, “…ethnic nationalism breeds oppre.....
» 6/02/2009 10:46:13 AM sharkfin, I agree, the illegal settlements are a blight on Israel’s credibility, but, and .....
» 5/02/2009 9:46:17 PM Sharkfin, You demonstrate a kind of pragmatism which offers very little for the sense of a.....
» 5/02/2009 2:28:24 PM Oliver, I entirely agree, the patterns 'found in Christianity are evident in other religio.....
» 3/02/2009 5:36:22 PM I think david f has explored the Jewish ‘problem’ admirably and with quite some equanimity.....
» 29/01/2009 7:39:17 PM mac, We appear to be talking a little past each other as I’m not sure how you get the idea.....
» 29/01/2009 12:08:35 PM Nice euphemism mac, I was offering more a critique on 'the modern liberal democratic secu.....
» 28/01/2009 6:18:50 PM RobP, I think there is a partial truth in the 'golden age myth', where there were perhaps .....
» 28/01/2009 11:59:05 AM mac, I believe we should understand egalitarianism and how the secular west cannot come to.....
» 27/01/2009 5:14:45 PM mac, Your first point. Yes, I should have said, "Nation states characteristically WER.....
» 27/01/2009 11:24:09 AM Andrew, The ‘crux’ of the problem, prior to 1948, was the failure of most countries (weste.....
» 27/01/2009 7:49:47 AM You give a certain reality Yuyutsu, expressed from a secular viewpoint. It is not religiou.....
» 24/01/2009 8:20:42 PM Yuyutsu, You perhaps travel to a slightly different drumbeat to that of David f, but never.....
» 21/01/2009 7:50:22 AM Aldous Huxley, in his ‘Brave New World’, was contemptuous not only of an old Capitalism, b.....
» 15/01/2009 9:39:53 AM David, Again, I’ll be unoriginal and join with George in his excellent response to your ve.....
» 14/01/2009 7:38:08 AM David, I take heart, in a strange way, from Friedrich Nietzeche, the famous atheist and ar.....
» 13/01/2009 11:13:27 PM George, waterboy et al, Symbolic representation combined with Tilich's, “who are willing t.....
» 5/01/2009 2:31:54 PM crabsy, My suggestion here (re: Mary's procreation) is merely speculative - not an attempt.....
» 5/01/2009 7:56:05 AM David, The pure empiricism of Sigmund Freud has certainly led to an insightful observation.....
» 3/01/2009 3:36:52 PM Sells, One of the fallacies some feminists often use is, "If God is male, then the ma.....
» 3/01/2009 9:00:16 AM George, The 'Pope's favourite rabbi', Jacob Neusner writes, " We are in for interest.....
» 1/01/2009 7:23:42 AM waterboy, Plato is relevant only in terms of creating a foundational idea or 'Form', the b.....
» 31/12/2008 2:40:47 PM waterboy, Your last post was obviously addressed to Polycarp (perhaps you were a little bl.....
» 29/12/2008 10:38:11 AM Waterboy, By traditional masculinity I mean the stereotypical focus on strength without vu.....
» 28/12/2008 11:01:03 AM Waterboy, The Eastern 'yin' and 'yang' add a neglected (in the West?) aspect to an integra.....
» 10/10/2008 8:52:10 AM George, As "never" speaks of infinity, I wouldn't wish to be quite so definite......
» 9/10/2008 8:51:49 AM david f, Becoming increasingly nearer without ever quite meeting is a nice distinction yo.....
» 9/10/2008 8:13:35 AM david f, The essence of Tikkun Olam, or repairing the world, is a continuing and growing p.....
» 6/10/2008 10:37:07 AM cont’d… Evil is one of the deepest and most central problems of human existence - a proble.....
» 6/10/2008 10:31:49 AM david f, The Servant mâšîah (from Isaiah) or 'anointed one', when read in context appears .....
» 4/10/2008 10:25:38 AM ...cont’d Enforced political Christianization solved the problem of the heathen and the ‘m.....
» 4/10/2008 10:22:25 AM david f, I agree, and think our PM is a good essayist but also a little less versed in the.....
» 2/10/2008 11:47:04 AM david f, A couple of my friends are self-acknowledged atheists and, I guess a little ironi.....
» 1/10/2008 4:22:36 PM Bushbred, The original tragic mistake was that no Western or European nation would or perh.....
» 1/10/2008 12:06:19 PM Some Graffiti for Intellectuals: • Geography is interesting, particularly where names ca.....
» 1/10/2008 10:14:26 AM david f, The biblical morality you mention appears as chaotic, by modern standards – howev.....
» 30/09/2008 8:27:59 AM david f, You exhibit a 'critical realism' - Judaic thought certainly takes serious account.....
» 28/09/2008 11:16:11 PM david f, I think the shelf-life analogy is a good one, but I think some hard distinction h.....
» 28/09/2008 11:11:53 PM George, I only question the "hybrid religion" in the moses.creighton article. ‘C.....
» 27/09/2008 10:54:00 PM david f, Thanks for your corrections. I appreciate the personal perspective you’ve given a.....
» 27/09/2008 10:50:54 PM George, The slogan, “Jews for Jesus” has a connotation that easily strips the integrity fr.....
» 26/09/2008 8:24:03 PM It may come as a surprise to most that many Jewish people, prior to WWII and the Nazi regi.....
» 26/09/2008 2:09:05 PM ..cont’d Eastern European Jews were inspired by Karl Marx, and the idea of the equality of.....
» 26/09/2008 2:02:17 PM david f, The morality in “not killing” certainly doesn’t need Christianity to uphold it (o.....
» 25/09/2008 12:02:47 PM david f, As with 'natural selection', I think there is the danger for us to generalise too.....
» 24/09/2008 9:45:01 AM david f, Whilst we both agree on the basis for “randomness” in the universe, our approach .....
» 22/09/2008 2:22:37 PM david f, When biologists employ random sampling and probability along with the nature of g.....
» 22/09/2008 12:07:10 PM david f, Your exegesis appears lacking as it neglects even basic rabbinic interpretation......
» 21/09/2008 11:31:07 AM cont’d… Kant’s ‘Categorical Imperative’ had its basis resting firmly in the biblical langu.....
» 21/09/2008 11:26:50 AM david f, I quite believe you when you say, “Supernatural belief or its lack has nothing to.....
» 17/09/2008 9:21:34 AM Dan, Whilst I don't pretend to give an estimate of Sell's faith or second guess his though.....
» 16/09/2008 11:32:41 PM david f, The reality, as you say, is there exists within Israel a second class citizen. Th.....
» 15/09/2008 6:29:31 PM Pricillian, Sells is certainly a ‘nice guy’ and also diametrically opposed the views of Da.....
» 15/09/2008 5:18:42 PM david f, Thank you for the David Vital’s, ‘A People Apart' recommendation’ – I’m sure it .....
» 14/09/2008 4:54:40 PM O.K. David, you correctly point out the term ‘anti-semite’ as being coined by the German a.....
» 14/09/2008 12:25:03 PM David f, Whilst I have no reason to doubt the historicity of your last post, the underpin.....
» 13/09/2008 1:38:30 PM Exactly All, paradigm shifts are not law but more a 'theory' and once 'falsified' can also.....
» 13/09/2008 9:43:58 AM Interesting All, Your link suggests weak states also threaten liberty and not just ones th.....
» 12/09/2008 10:17:32 AM George, I can only but essentially agree with your last post. You may be interested to vie.....
» 11/09/2008 10:15:07 AM George, Your, “An absolute truth, or Truth, is directly unattainable..." basically al.....
» 10/09/2008 10:09:32 AM George, You bring to mind the original Aristotelian idea: "The investigation of the t.....
» 9/09/2008 8:52:22 AM Dan, In our ancestral environment it didn’t cost anything to have a false positive, to ass.....
» 8/09/2008 11:09:56 PM Quite so Bushbred, the Gospel stories have a genuine appeal – they are the first theologic.....
» 8/09/2008 8:44:31 AM EVO, It was certainly a lack of imagination the churchmen involved in the 1616 ban on Cop.....
» 7/09/2008 10:54:21 PM EVO, It has always been a part of my tradition where it is important to question the prete.....
» 7/09/2008 8:29:12 AM A bog on Christian-indocrination. It speaks for itself.. http://blogpond.com.au/2007/08/31.....
» 6/09/2008 1:02:38 PM Bushbred, I understand grief as something intensely personal… two years ago, for you, undo.....
» 5/09/2008 1:31:41 PM Sells, I believe you’ve provided some clarity in your last post. There are some here who w.....
» 5/09/2008 8:42:40 AM Jacques Derrida recounts Jakob Freud placing two circum-inscriptions on his son Sigmund: t.....
» 4/09/2008 12:31:34 PM George, Sure, there are times anything stands to be corrected - Berger included, and might.....
» 3/09/2008 11:24:47 AM Bushbasher, It is a limited perception of Dan’s, through also his simplistic illustration,.....
» 3/09/2008 8:50:11 AM Rather an amusing video Ronnie (‘Why Don't Bees Go to Heaven?'). Kevin Rudd’s sophism conc.....
» 2/09/2008 10:47:09 AM Frank, In any religion, including the Christian one, some use fear, misogyny, intolerance .....
» 1/09/2008 7:09:42 PM Do not take this as a cop-out Frank, but, just as I understand evolution to have begun wit.....
» 1/09/2008 5:28:41 PM George, "first of all thank you for continuing with this debate that is very rewardin.....
» 1/09/2008 10:29:53 AM George, Willem Drees (Theology Dept.Leiden University, Netherlands) holds a view where the.....
» 31/08/2008 8:21:39 PM George, We are both agreed in our sense of the Divine, but in terms of “…EVERYTHING assume.....
» 31/08/2008 6:47:51 PM All, The Hebraic-Christian and Hellenistic traditions certainly underpin Western civiliza.....
» 30/08/2008 3:20:43 PM A silly myth ? :) Obviously not Polycarp. It remains the greatest of myths and it continue.....
» 29/08/2008 10:55:38 AM George, You speak of a ‘reality’ which I would term as a spiritual one – i.e. it is a trut.....
» 28/08/2008 11:49:10 AM Dan, Your last post is indeed rather “curious”. A Healthy skepticism certainly does not al.....
» 28/08/2008 1:16:58 AM George, If Kevin was referring to the "part of Reality that is transcendent" the.....
» 27/08/2008 11:14:15 AM Having some involvement with the property industry I’m aware of the report, "Assessin.....
» 27/08/2008 9:13:30 AM K£vin, Miracles and magic (i.e. the supernatural) are theologically problematic because o.....
» 26/08/2008 11:37:22 PM You’re quite right George, there were many aspects to the Spanish Inquisition holding equa.....
» 26/08/2008 8:52:39 AM K£vin, Like other educated Jews in his day, Jesus was faithful to the Law of Moses, learne.....
» 25/08/2008 8:07:57 AM The question of divorcing science from religion is rather a mute point – it has become mor.....
» 21/08/2008 11:36:12 PM George, I didn’t think what I’d expressed had implied the integration of theology and poli.....
» 21/08/2008 11:56:10 AM I agree George, there can be a pervading Marxist element in “loving your neighbor” when ap.....
» 20/08/2008 10:56:53 AM cont’d… It should be evident, a new religion cannot spread independent of its historic mil.....
» 20/08/2008 10:51:11 AM Thanks for your response George, I believe your mention of ‘state of mind’ becomes quite r.....
» 19/08/2008 9:45:17 AM There is one thing glaringly obvious in the absence of free-trade and a truly globalised e.....
» 18/08/2008 2:02:54 PM ...cont'd That spirit of scientific research which had gradually developed among the Greek.....
» 18/08/2008 1:59:21 PM George, you make a fine point, “As I understand it, it points to the limits of philosophic.....
» 16/08/2008 11:35:32 AM Dan, An integration of theology and science gives us something closely relating to “creati.....
» 15/08/2008 1:53:49 PM Waterboy, George has beaten me to it. Religion and science are certainly distinguishable, .....
» 14/08/2008 10:50:36 PM Ironic, George, because in 2005 (NYT) Cardinal Christof Schonborn described evolution as &.....
» 14/08/2008 1:37:09 PM HarryG & AJ, I find your reaction to the Fundamentalism encountered here as quite legitima.....
» 2/08/2008 9:43:48 PM …cont’d The absolutism, as represented for example in the classic traditions of Judaism an.....
» 2/08/2008 9:34:19 PM George, Thanks for highlighting V V Raman. I’ve found him to be of some interest. In an in.....
» 1/08/2008 8:38:14 PM ..cont’d I believe Nietzsche’s nihilism reveals the urgency of this highest and broadest h.....
» 1/08/2008 8:35:38 PM George, It seems our ‘Shadow Minister’ certainly supports the view 'the Catholic Church is.....
» 31/07/2008 1:04:57 PM I agree George, as people we do often talk past each other – due often to the nuance of la.....
» 30/07/2008 10:53:09 AM Hello George, To give a sense of, or, to put into context McBriens ‘liberalism’, we can p.....
» 29/07/2008 9:54:08 PM Certain criticism of the Catholic Church is perhaps made from shallow observation, where t.....
» 29/04/2008 6:14:16 PM Oliver, Whilst respecting its premise, I'm fortunate to feel free of most authority - cert.....
» 29/04/2008 9:26:36 AM How the roots of modernity has clothed our ideals relates to our Western view and Christia.....
» 27/04/2008 9:36:24 AM You touch on an important area, George - to which one might allude the principle of faith......
» 25/04/2008 11:20:47 PM Oliver, Quite amusingly, through her 'pesher' technique, Thiering claims that Jesus lived .....
» 24/04/2008 12:06:26 PM Waterboy, The subject of Jewish-Christianity, the middle ground between rabbinic Judaism a.....
» 23/04/2008 11:34:39 AM My understanding of the historical Jesus (if this is possible), Oliver, is one needs to un.....
» 20/04/2008 8:52:23 PM Hello Oliver, In regard to a so-called inequality within the godhead, one can perhaps fals.....
» 13/04/2008 10:33:51 AM George, I'm not sure there is any real distinguishing between theolgocial or biological ID.....
» 12/04/2008 8:54:04 AM George, I would agree, our principles are aligned. My issue, however, is more a focus on t.....
» 11/04/2008 11:28:31 AM Well spotted on the Marxist dialectic, George, where "..the ideal is nothing else tha.....
» 10/04/2008 12:21:03 PM It is interesting we bring Ghandi into the discussion because he needs to be properly unde.....
» 10/04/2008 9:52:39 AM If we are to rely totally on our own perception, observations and reasoning we naturally a.....
» 7/04/2008 8:03:27 PM The German V-2 rockets in London in 1944, because of their untargeted promiscuity, and lac.....
» 6/04/2008 10:06:16 PM Ginx, Yes surely, it is rather contentious Israel promptly emerged as a functioning state .....
» 6/04/2008 12:42:00 PM I have to agree with Paul and further add, the vitriol of certain posters here blind them .....
» 16/03/2008 8:20:20 AM Stephen, I would not simplify the cause of major world conflict to be merely economically .....
» 14/03/2008 3:28:58 PM Prominent Islamic thinker Said Nursi (1876–1960) stated that, if there is a clash, it is b.....
» 14/03/2008 8:18:58 AM "Can the United Nations be reformed?" I think the question is answered well by i.....
» 12/03/2008 8:23:38 AM In returning to the subject at hand (perhaps with equal sleight). If it is 'writings' we a.....
» 10/03/2008 1:42:46 PM Wobbles, One should also note, if early Ebionite Christianity wasn't "left behind&quo.....
» 10/03/2008 10:34:30 AM In terms of historicity, Danielle would be closer to the truth. There is little doubt, Jes.....
» 5/03/2008 2:43:25 PM ..cont’d Qur'an and Biblical fundamentalists say, "The conflict will be there as long.....
» 5/03/2008 2:05:40 PM Over time, I’ve see-sawed from being bemused to sometimes irritated at the approach of Jeh.....
» 4/03/2008 2:27:51 PM Pericles, “Would you ask the same of Christians in a secular society, that they denounce “.....
» 4/03/2008 12:15:26 PM Pericles, I'll quite agree, "it is possible to admit that all religions are not equal.....
» 3/03/2008 2:21:59 PM Let's use a bit of simple logic.. for those calling for a 'fair' dialogue and those wishin.....
» 3/03/2008 11:28:56 AM David Palmer is certainly insightful with his article and correctly calls the dialogue inv.....
» 2/03/2008 10:39:38 AM I guess it is a degree of emphasis George, where our personal salvation is not the goal bu.....
» 2/03/2008 10:15:01 AM Sells at least has a point. We are not becoming less religious, as some people might argue.....
» 1/03/2008 3:02:06 PM Waterboy, I believe your emphasis on community is correct - the Bible presents a 'salvatio.....
» 28/02/2008 1:18:02 PM ..cont’d The term Ebionite (from Hebrew 'Evyonim) means "Poor Ones" and was take.....
» 28/02/2008 1:12:56 PM George, As we are agreed, knowledge is an important pre-requisite for understanidng - so w.....
» 26/02/2008 8:41:21 PM George, Obviously my intent was not to be patronising - sorry if it sounded that way. Neit.....
» 26/02/2008 6:45:15 AM George, Communism, as an imposed form of Marxism has been proved fundamentally flawed in i.....
» 24/02/2008 4:47:36 PM I would agree Roch, a fundamental delusion is our sense of separation from the world we ar.....
» 23/02/2008 7:49:58 AM Roch, Given the current state of the world, the arrival of a "noosphere" seems a.....
» 23/02/2008 7:02:05 AM More obscure is the fact last Wednesday, President Ahmadinejad defiantly vowed that Iran h.....
» 21/02/2008 10:53:05 PM ...Cont'd A common religious explanation within Christianity has been that God made the wo.....
» 21/02/2008 10:50:33 PM Unlike Galileo, Teilhard was able to survive without recanting his unorthodox view. Basica.....
» 20/02/2008 12:45:16 PM Sells, It is not Western tradition which has led to Pantheism (the idea that God is the en.....
» 18/02/2008 5:02:17 PM Untutored mind, The "damage that could occur by a lie" is indeed quite relevant.....
» 18/02/2008 1:44:19 PM ...Cont'd I also rather quite like the Zen model - which is neither pantheistic nor lackin.....
» 18/02/2008 1:41:29 PM George, Whether one ascribes to Christianity or not, the Trinitarian doctrine was certain.....
» 17/02/2008 8:33:37 AM George, I'm highly appreciative of your candid reply and the consideration you give in our.....
» 15/02/2008 8:13:42 PM What you seem to have ignored, Lev, is the progression of thought originating from Schlüze.....
» 15/02/2008 4:59:02 PM Hotrod, Understanding the cause of anti-Semitic behaviour within the Middle-East and globa.....
» 15/02/2008 1:51:47 PM ..Cont'd These challenges are hardly revolutionary but certainly appear as a major improve.....
» 15/02/2008 1:47:27 PM George, Perhaps 'Rock the Boat' is a poor use of metaphor. The prime motivation for most i.....
» 14/02/2008 3:18:18 PM Lev, Whilst it is correct to infer a cultural commonality between modern peoples originati.....
» 14/02/2008 12:04:09 PM Martin, Firstly, as I take the Bible to be neither rat-poison or a bowl of soup so there's.....
» 14/02/2008 9:02:55 AM Martin, If you are going to call up the spirit of Origen you should be aware, Origen's ide.....
» 13/02/2008 9:18:11 AM Quite right George, '...rocking boats is, on its own, a negativist approach' - but its som.....
» 12/02/2008 11:13:34 PM The UN, in 1948 with its declaration of Universal Declaration of Human Rights, had a basic.....
» 12/02/2008 4:42:33 PM Some basic knowledge of the Balfour Declaration of 1917 and US President Truman's diplomat.....
» 11/02/2008 11:07:57 PM Perhaps I've made my point George, as the language we use will always be inadequate for th.....
» 11/02/2008 12:03:37 PM George, Rather than to merely go to the self limiting 'pre-postmodern' I'd prefer the anci.....
» 10/02/2008 11:11:53 AM Cont'd.. Interestingly enough, ardent atheist Richard Dawkins has also seen through the so.....
» 10/02/2008 11:09:12 AM Sells, I think you are too dismissive of Newton. There appears little doubt Newton arrived.....
» 8/02/2008 4:19:58 PM George, As mentioned by Altizer (Absolutely New Space, 2007), Newton's thinking helped set.....
» 8/02/2008 1:02:54 PM Sells, In 'How does God exist' you express , 'Christian atheism consists in a retrieval o.....
» 7/02/2008 11:07:36 AM Sorry, The above post belongs to another thread......
» 7/02/2008 11:05:11 AM George, On the surface, the theology of Altizer may appear as rather depressing or sad wi.....
» 7/02/2008 10:37:13 AM George, On the surface, the theology of Altizer may appear as rather depressing or sad wit.....
» 6/02/2008 5:43:04 PM I quite believe you , Peter, when you cite atheism as being close to Christianity. Perhaps.....
» 5/02/2008 7:53:51 AM Like many others here Boazy I find you incorrigible in your certainty - but alas, you'll p.....
» 3/02/2008 4:36:28 PM ...cont'd I find many a-theists to be not only highly evolved examples of intelligence, b.....
» 3/02/2008 4:30:56 PM We perhaps need to refer back to the implied premise of this discussion, i.e. John Gray's .....
» 27/01/2008 12:28:56 PM The challenge issued by "Seek the truth - come whence it may, cost what it will".....
» 12/01/2008 8:11:11 AM waterboy, I referred to the term 'creation science' in the context as you used it - and p.....
» 11/01/2008 7:20:20 AM It does really need to be conclusively stated (ad nauseam), "creation science is an o.....
» 4/01/2008 7:56:01 AM I can acknowledge some overlap, George, in our posts as we perhaps share a similar Gestalt.....
» 2/01/2008 10:38:05 AM I believe the polemic offered by bushbasher, sancho, myself and others certainly don't red.....
» 1/01/2008 10:14:51 AM "Bushbasher and Relda are still beating this ‘fact of evolution drum" - not to m.....
» 30/12/2007 9:22:01 PM Dan, Your reaction is what I'd expected. I'd hoped for your critical thought, devoid of re.....
» 29/12/2007 1:36:46 PM Your last paragraph is the most telling, Dan, for you confuse scientific truth with your o.....
» 28/12/2007 7:35:51 PM The Catholic Church, in a turn around, has embraced the general principles of evolution in.....
» 27/12/2007 9:47:49 AM When one wavers from a logical critique to a purely subjective belief in a divine interfer.....
» 25/12/2007 10:58:17 AM .. and a merry Christmas to you too bushbasher. Despite our perhaps differing views on the.....
» 24/12/2007 10:20:49 AM Bushbasher, Yes, the sun example was Dan's and you criticised it - quite fairly I thought......
» 24/12/2007 7:38:20 AM Richard Dawkins, the envoy intellect for many atheists, appears to have a problem only wit.....
» 11/09/2007 11:47:59 AM Another way of putting it, xoddam, is there are many who, for whatever reason, are not res.....
» 11/09/2007 10:14:56 AM With current world expectations, the greatest future problem is that too many people will .....
» 9/09/2007 1:49:19 PM True, colinsett, my statement is largely unsupportable, as an ‘overestimation of evidence’.....
» 9/09/2007 9:35:41 AM Thomas Homer Dixon’s article on societal collapse is perhaps worth reading, “..Being ready.....
» 6/09/2007 3:15:22 PM Unfortunately, I have to agree with you Pericles and enkew... carbon trading is likely to .....
» 4/09/2007 5:39:10 PM As far as civilization goes, Yindin, Sigmund Freud (a deceased European Elder) wrote, “The.....
» 3/09/2007 10:13:28 AM Thanks for your clarification on ambiguity David, but I don’t think Amanda Gearing wished .....
» 2/09/2007 1:10:15 PM David Boaz, Whether you meant to say it or not, the implication, as with your counterpart.....
» 2/09/2007 10:57:47 AM Lester Thurow is a well recognised academic in the field of management theory, his quote i.....
» 1/09/2007 9:21:42 AM So this doesn’t merely become another exercise in Islamaphobia, I’ll quote the following f.....
» 31/08/2007 12:48:15 PM Undoubtedly, perhaps a little ironically, the quite fathomable logic behind the ideal of M.....
» 30/08/2007 5:47:42 PM xoddam, Science (or from the Latin "scientia," meaning knowledge) is an observer.....
» 30/08/2007 12:04:25 PM Hmmm... I would have thought calling someone a liar for a differing opinion shows very lit.....
» 28/08/2007 10:37:44 AM "Host Cultures Prevail" – as a solution? It ‘aint’ so simple David ... Well kno.....
» 26/08/2007 11:46:35 AM “It all depends upon your definition of multicultural.” – Quite so. Culture, In its symb.....
» 24/08/2007 5:07:01 PM Hmmm…What a cock up….is it just incompetence or a bit of politicking? You gotta feel a li.....
» 24/08/2007 3:03:56 PM Kwame Appiah ( N.Y. Times) in an interesting article, refers to culture, globalization and.....
» 2/02/2007 10:30:20 PM bennie, You condemn the basis of Judaic Christian morality on a flawed part of western cul.....
» 30/01/2007 6:30:09 AM ...Come to think of it bennie, on the subject of ‘being nice to each other’, one of the mo.....
» 28/01/2007 2:29:45 PM SHONGA, "Thou shalt not kill" and "Love thy neighbour etc.” are bound toget.....
» 28/01/2007 2:07:20 PM Coach, Your suspicion extends to the entire religion of Islam and in your view, is entirel.....
» 27/01/2007 6:12:58 PM maracus, We sound a little touchy...perhaps a little blustery - hard to say, but I guess y.....
» 27/01/2007 1:38:27 PM Maracas, Maybe the old question, Could Hitler have been stopped by a massive sit-in with g.....
» 26/01/2007 2:00:45 PM Cont’d.. The Gandhi of 1893, a conventional caste Hindu, fresh from caste-ridden India whe.....
» 26/01/2007 9:23:37 AM Interesting quote from Churchill on Ghandi. Let’s perhaps dispel a few of the myths held b.....
» 26/01/2007 7:44:26 AM Coach, Read my posts and you'll find I have engaged with various issues - a variance of op.....
» 25/01/2007 5:21:50 PM Cont’d... .As with the Bible, by emptying the Qur'an both of its historical and moral con.....
» 25/01/2007 5:19:56 PM Although most of us are tempted at times, personal attacks on OLO are generally a waste of.....
» 25/01/2007 1:44:33 PM As you correctly observe, Coach, “We aren’t on the same page” – my approach is different a.....
» 24/01/2007 3:47:51 PM cont'd.. The Rushdie controversy in 1989, helped prompt the establishment of the so called.....
» 24/01/2007 3:45:41 PM TRTL, The comparisons you pose are valid. I’d suggest however, very few people appreciate .....
» 24/01/2007 10:45:13 AM Coach, The Abraham story appears to strongly suggest the imperative to submit totally to t.....
» 23/01/2007 10:38:18 AM It is laudable Syed says of the Muslim community (when living in a multicultural, multieth.....
» 22/01/2007 9:45:37 AM Coach, Not only is your slip showing, I fear your pants are falling. Need I remind you of .....
» 21/01/2007 1:10:55 PM Unable to come to terms with the violence of our own religious heritage, we have increasin.....
» 20/01/2007 6:01:29 PM Oliver, In riposte to a challenge, I ask, in similar fashion of the Greek polemic, "A.....
» 17/01/2007 7:49:43 PM Cont’d… The faith, as expressed by Niebuhr, led to both that of a peacemaker and defender .....
» 17/01/2007 7:48:45 PM George, “..a belief in Christ's resurrection is indeed pointless and futile if taken outsi.....
» 15/01/2007 6:10:51 PM Oliver, We are the reflection and, for the purpose of this discussion, 'God' is the object.....
» 15/01/2007 5:46:26 PM Mirko has written a basically logical article of reasonable consistency. I guess the real .....
» 15/01/2007 4:46:00 PM Kieran, In your ‘hang-up’ you describe a deep-seated “teddy” or comfort factor prevalent, .....
» 14/01/2007 6:51:31 AM Yes George, I believe we do - in our ignorance......
» 13/01/2007 9:49:46 PM Our myths are to be more than treasured – "Science must begin with myths and with the.....
» 10/01/2007 5:58:52 PM Ah! By George! Here’s the dilemma. What is the nature of the original Christian ‘experienc.....
» 9/01/2007 10:23:25 AM Oliver, The words, "My God, my God! Why have you foresaken me?" culminate in the.....
» 8/01/2007 4:01:56 PM In his parable, ‘The madman’(1882), Nietzsche gives a diagnosis of his time. What it serve.....
» 7/01/2007 5:47:14 PM West, the final sentence of my last post suggests a ‘belief’ or ‘non-belief in God’ as bei.....
» 6/01/2007 5:15:51 PM West, the mind of a healthy sceptic can inform, “The true-believer syndrome merits study b.....
» 6/01/2007 8:55:10 AM The last hundred years of theological thinking inherited two main lines of theological pur.....
» 31/12/2006 5:18:38 PM “Religionism and the scientific leagacies of Newtonian mechanics, don't/won't see the full.....
» 31/12/2006 7:56:19 AM Oliver, Your questions barely scratch the surface. Perhaps dig a little deeper. Look at th.....
» 26/12/2006 7:10:49 PM Er..Boxgum, You were basically correct in one of your assumptions… however, on the other, .....
» 25/12/2006 10:24:04 PM The Christian Science Monitor conducted a survey in America to detail the type of God peop.....
» 24/12/2006 1:32:12 PM Shmuel, Ancient narrative literature makes clear that from birth to death the Hebrew woman.....
» 24/12/2006 10:48:20 AM West, If you are to disagree with me you should firstly at least understand what is being .....
» 23/12/2006 9:10:28 PM West, Darwinian theory has offered some insight into an explanation of our existence, wher.....
» 21/12/2006 10:06:55 PM West, I know the following from Rupert Sheldrake, British Biologist and author, is likely .....
» 16/12/2006 9:30:55 AM Boxgum, Concerning ‘myth’ I believe you make some pretty relevant comment. Recently I came.....
» 14/12/2006 6:28:56 PM Ah! Sells. Good to see your response. How I’m seen is nay for me to say. Perhaps just a ve.....
» 14/12/2006 3:33:47 PM One should perhaps admire Sells for taking on the ‘evil’ and idolatrous nature of seculari.....
» 7/12/2006 12:24:59 PM Sells, I should point out nowhere have I said Islam and Christianity are similar – they ar.....
» 7/12/2006 10:20:22 AM BD, Rather than claiming the ‘same’ culture has produced a belief in one God I’m saying t.....
» 6/12/2006 1:17:48 PM “I for one, actually think that nobody wants to really do anything about climate change.” .....
» 6/12/2006 12:45:44 PM One thing Kevin Rudd certainly has over Kath or Kym is his far higher IQ. Hopefully, the .....
» 6/12/2006 8:24:33 AM Oliver, The basis of your dialectic seems to waver between a distinct humanism and somethi.....
» 4/12/2006 11:07:16 PM Hawaiilawyer, Nice to know you can look beneath the literal and guess at other layers of .....
» 4/12/2006 2:48:43 PM Brain Drain, A bit of history with regard to common links and culture relating to the Kor.....
» 4/12/2006 9:59:22 AM “Despite all the changes, China's fundamental weakness is still the overextended, self-app.....
» 4/12/2006 9:37:09 AM I think wildcat and DB have basically surveyed the situation well, with a few good surviva.....
» 3/12/2006 5:33:42 PM Let’s religiously follow some NT writings for the ‘bible believer’ – to the letter: · The.....
» 30/11/2006 10:09:24 PM bennie, Argumentum ad baculum (Latin: argument to the cudgel or appeal to the stick) – nar.....
» 29/11/2006 11:14:36 AM Hawaiilawyer, The Gospel according to John was probably written for Hellenized Jews. The u.....
» 28/11/2006 8:06:12 PM Oliver, Thanks for the mention of KA. I found this quote from Karen Armstrong (a "fre.....
» 28/11/2006 7:08:53 AM It amuses me to think, those so condemning of Gnosticism are often peering over a Gnostic .....
» 27/11/2006 11:36:43 AM Braindrain, I think you’ve made some thoughtful comment with regard to Gnosticism. It cont.....
» 23/11/2006 6:44:23 AM Keiran, The antithesis of imperfection is an absolute. Our ‘perfect’ ideal, however, is a.....
» 22/11/2006 10:32:57 AM I quite agree with Robert Russell when he says, “….we are moving into an era of radically .....
» 21/11/2006 9:46:02 PM It is a fair enough proposition to suggest the human mind can have little grasp on infinit.....
» 20/11/2006 1:06:59 PM In order to understand theological thinking we must first apprehend its construct. To borr.....
» 7/11/2006 1:41:13 PM Actually West, the solution proposed was meant to be a little more final, as in detonation.....
» 7/11/2006 12:51:59 PM Good on ya doogs and simon bedak, Those who believe there are many farmers living lavish .....
» 4/11/2006 1:42:24 PM David, You may not agree with Col, but in a political democracy such as ours he is quite c.....
» 2/11/2006 6:23:33 PM So, Tao, you wish a revolution - perhaps similar to the American one (the Civil war). You'.....
» 2/11/2006 9:17:44 AM Many merely find comfort in the statistics substanting their own position. One set of stat.....
» 2/11/2006 8:39:34 AM Tao, Perhaps you've read this - I recently came accross it. Has this any parallel with a M.....
» 30/10/2006 11:20:57 AM FH, “...the fuss in the media (all TV channels, front page newspapers, magazines, radio a.....
» 30/10/2006 8:52:50 AM I find the following quite narrow, patronising (if believable) and one could also easily a.....
» 28/10/2006 10:35:11 AM Correct Tao, I do place certain mysticism on the prophetic aspect within Marxism and equal.....
» 27/10/2006 7:11:39 PM Interesting Biblical reference James, however, the Marxist model can parallel beyond this,.....
» 24/10/2006 9:03:47 PM Tao, Perhaps rise to the plate and consider this… Marx envisioned the abolition of all s.....
» 24/10/2006 9:47:11 AM Tao, You’re obviously in awe of Marx and Marxist theory. It’s not for me to dissuade you......
» 23/10/2006 10:26:37 AM You are quite right Cotter, statistics do tend to straight-jacket people. They can serve a.....
» 22/10/2006 11:16:19 PM Tao, it seems I’ve ruffled some feathers, Bentham believed pleasure, or the avoidance of .....
» 21/10/2006 5:35:26 PM Col, I gather you’re O.K. with the new workplace agreement reforms because your argument s.....
» 21/10/2006 10:57:34 AM Bashir, from your article ‘Silencing the watchdog’ “Despite their sweet talk and their mo.....
» 21/10/2006 8:47:11 AM cont'd.. Marx’s utopia in effect became oppressive,” the revolutionary dictatorship of the.....
» 21/10/2006 8:45:45 AM Karl Marx maintained, workers in a capitalistic economic system become trapped in a viciou.....
» 20/10/2006 6:14:43 PM Here are some sobering stats – please don’t shoot the messenger. “Sexual abuse rates are .....
» 19/10/2006 11:05:33 PM Col, So we aren’t talking at cross purposes, the principles underpinning the changes to t.....
» 19/10/2006 2:01:45 PM Feminist authors White and Kowalski put an interesting slant on things, they suggest that .....
» 19/10/2006 11:37:34 AM Col, The condition of “fairness” has its subjectivity in the maxim “Do unto others…” - tha.....
» 18/10/2006 3:30:13 PM Sorry Cotter, but I find you way off the mark. If the best interests of the child are to b.....
» 18/10/2006 12:24:27 PM This may be an interesting read, “These Boots are Made for Walking: Why Most Divorce Filer.....
» 18/10/2006 9:01:21 AM I think you’re basically correct in your assumptions DB. We live in a hyper-sexualised soc.....
» 17/10/2006 11:09:48 PM By and large, the early women's movement pressed for the removal of the social barriers an.....
» 15/10/2006 11:37:29 PM Coach, Your typifying of all Muslims as believing in, or having sympathy with an ideology .....
» 15/10/2006 10:47:49 AM Hello again Col, Markets have certainly grown since the dawn of civilisation, but do we d.....
» 15/10/2006 7:58:52 AM Col R, “…the world can work in one of two ways, either the “rollercoaster” and potential “.....
» 14/10/2006 10:26:48 AM The following, written by a Muslim, illustrate just how fuzzy the borders are. A Muslim ca.....
» 13/10/2006 9:11:41 AM Col R, Currently we're experiencing good economic times - consumer spending and inflation .....
» 12/10/2006 5:55:12 PM One of Kim’s main goals in so aggressively displaying North Korea’s missile capacity is to.....
» 12/10/2006 1:42:06 PM Unfortunately, those on the left, by and large, have lost a lot of their democratic appeal.....
» 12/10/2006 1:18:10 PM The IR 'reforms' are basically lowering our safety net. Ultimately the result will be a la.....
» 12/10/2006 10:27:06 AM A though provoking article Roger where you imply the current global polarisation it is not.....
» 11/10/2006 2:00:38 PM DB, “From this point on, my post is simply the cold hard brutal and honest voice of human.....
» 11/10/2006 10:00:19 AM Perhaps on agreeing, the pope owes no apology, lets reflect a little on his argument. The .....
» 10/10/2006 2:43:43 PM I agree, the pre- Renaissance contribution of Islam is well undersold, Fellow Human. The .....
» 10/10/2006 9:46:55 AM Your article gives a good perspective. Many, who have demanded a Papal apology, have betra.....
» 7/10/2006 10:20:07 PM “Rural Australia generates about half of national export revenue, despite having only arou.....
» 7/10/2006 10:58:44 AM This needs repeating, the fact is, that every rising civilization has been imperialistic, .....
» 6/10/2006 12:21:52 PM The entry into Iraq undoubtedly expressed a certain high level of naiveté with its lofty i.....
» 6/10/2006 10:00:19 AM It is far less glamorous and painstakingly slow to end the 'allure' through treating a cau.....
» 30/09/2006 11:19:09 AM foundation, It seems the urban 4WD’ers have reason to also feel mildly offended as well –.....
» 29/09/2006 1:57:13 PM “…and if every government dollar was returned to the community that paid the taxes then th.....
» 29/09/2006 12:41:49 PM I'm a recent entrant to uni as a mature age external student - the abolishment of compulso.....
» 29/09/2006 10:16:36 AM The decentralisation polices pursued by the Whitlam Government between 1972 and 1975 attem.....
» 28/09/2006 4:33:55 PM The result of an ideology is to often bring about a result at all costs. The Roman histori.....
» 28/09/2006 2:47:06 PM Many displaced Christians in the West are often people in search of a more plausible philo.....
» 27/09/2006 7:13:34 PM Historians have noted the “lifting of the veil” in 1973, where the nuclear-capable Jericho.....
» 27/09/2006 3:03:29 PM A few important pointers on critical thinking: · True critical thinking is higher-order t.....
» 27/09/2006 11:08:51 AM “As violence is not compatible with Christianity, is it not beholden to all Christians to .....
» 27/09/2006 8:55:32 AM You’ve defined a part of the argument well agnostic, Let’s apply a little critical thinki.....
» 26/09/2006 10:05:46 AM Oliver, Something the UN seems to have managed is its consensus on family: · The family i.....
» 26/09/2006 9:50:31 AM mjpb, Haven't had the dinner invite yet :) - might have to stay with the 'pub-talk'. Like.....
» 25/09/2006 2:42:28 PM A couple of points Nahum, Firstly, no extremist whether Ian Paisly, the IRA or an Islamist.....
» 25/09/2006 10:50:03 AM The following article is interesting because it shows the naiveté of meddling and interfer.....
» 25/09/2006 10:37:07 AM Some quite lucid points you make mjpb, The Pope (even if I'm not a Papist) is a part of &q.....
» 25/09/2006 9:48:30 AM “In short, people most anxious to believe in a “highly involved” god - in spite of a compl.....
» 25/09/2006 9:26:40 AM Nahum, K£vin: I find it rather curious my second paragraph drew little comment (or intell.....
» 24/09/2006 12:41:37 PM K£vin, No religion, institution, nation or country, for that matter, is beyond criticism o.....
» 23/09/2006 12:09:58 PM Nahum, The degree of understanding required here is to appreciate the measure and nature o.....
» 22/09/2006 3:16:29 PM I guess most haven’t as yet understood the precise nature or context of the polemic the Po.....
» 21/09/2006 6:34:32 PM Shorbe, I’m suggesting a strong democracy and its constitution need representation via a s.....
» 21/09/2006 9:56:27 AM You are one of the moderate voices within Islam Irfan, The Pope, known as a scholar and i.....
» 20/09/2006 5:50:48 PM Oliver, Socialisation throughout the ages has occurred traditionally through family. Fami.....
» 20/09/2006 3:06:38 PM Shorbe, I find your comments quite pertinent. I believe there are a great core of modera.....
» 17/09/2006 12:12:23 PM The Qur'anic description of man and woman in marriage: "They are your garments/ and y.....
» 13/09/2006 6:12:11 PM A fair enough response, Irfan. Your profile shows you as 'Aussie' as anyone and with a bit.....
» 13/09/2006 10:16:45 AM Shorbe, you make some valid points, Re: the deism of the American founders, free speech an.....
» 11/09/2006 11:39:20 AM “Learn about us, know about us, assimilate with us as far as possible. Intermarry with us,.....
» 11/09/2006 10:58:25 AM I’m glad you mentioned values Irfan because they can be the basis to unite rather than for.....
» 11/09/2006 10:05:20 AM Good article Kevin. It is only through the establishing our own identity we have any hope .....
» 10/09/2006 3:48:21 PM Sorry for the error Snout, Here’s the correct link: http://forums.muslimvillage.net/index......
» 9/09/2006 11:03:59 PM "The following Muslim Organisations collectively denounce the statements made by Shei.....
» 9/09/2006 1:18:09 PM Ultimately, ones deeds will eventually betray true motive (or true nature) – until then it.....
» 8/09/2006 8:43:04 PM Nayeefa, as an individual, appears sincerely well meaning – harmless in fact, as with many.....
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