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» 22/12/2015 10:33:29 PM Phillip S, I. Think you'll find that the recent report that Aidan referred to showed that .....
» 22/12/2015 10:20:14 PM Runner, you still wrongly equate secularism with antheism. Secularists are not necessarily.....
» 11/11/2015 9:13:16 PM This article is a thinly disguised attempt to show that a course about feminism and a scri.....
» 19/08/2015 4:27:05 AM Runner, was that really you advising somebody that he could continue in his blind ignoranc.....
» 8/08/2015 12:10:47 AM There is a difference, not apparently appreciated by the author, between books being banne.....
» 9/02/2015 5:42:15 PM Sorry — "Rhrosty"......
» 9/02/2015 5:40:40 PM Gosh Hasbeen, are you really that distraught at the realisation of what Mr Abbott's govern.....
» 2/01/2015 2:42:54 PM "because only the religious can understand religion." I think I get your drift .....
» 30/12/2014 10:28:19 PM Thank goodness we have someone like David to protect us from bullies. Could he please no.....
» 30/12/2014 8:08:51 PM "'Theologians' are often pretty good at this nonsense also." Runner, this is an.....
» 24/12/2014 5:00:22 PM The author poses what could appear to some as good questions when he asks: 'So, can ther.....
» 22/12/2014 3:18:20 PM Whoops! 6000......
» 22/12/2014 3:17:23 PM Now Runner, let me guess. Any lab that reports the age of a rock as greater than 600 years.....
» 22/12/2014 12:10:20 PM Good grief!.....
» 30/10/2014 8:24:54 PM Runner, if you are worried that the end of Christianity will cause the end of the golden r.....
» 12/08/2014 11:40:52 PM "The word equal is a nonsense when speaking of men and women. In case anyone did not .....
» 11/08/2014 9:28:32 AM "However, his Christianity did not seem to comfort him or rein in his adulterous beha.....
» 29/03/2014 2:33:02 PM Chris Lewis Those of us who find economics arcane but who nevertheless try from time to ti.....
» 6/02/2014 10:45:52 PM Runner, we care all waiting for your proof that evolution is a myth......
» 28/01/2014 11:08:11 AM Prompete, love your satire but a word of warning: you need to make it a bit more obvious t.....
» 22/01/2014 12:50:26 PM Jardine, you have poured so much of yourself into your comments that I feel I should try t.....
» 21/01/2014 11:42:12 AM Runner OK, I give in. Yours really is bigger than mine......
» 20/01/2014 7:57:06 PM Dear Runner, Thank you for illustrating so beautifully my contention that religious and ot.....
» 20/01/2014 5:45:07 PM Jardine: "I don’t think it’s true that the ordinary punter has, in practice, any dete.....
» 19/01/2014 10:21:45 PM Jardine, an important difference between a religion and a state is that whereas the member.....
» 19/01/2014 7:57:56 AM Jardine, I'm not sure what you mean by a belief system. If you mean a set of beliefs about.....
» 17/01/2014 9:46:22 PM Candide: "Regardless of whether a person believes in a particular religion,…" If.....
» 31/12/2013 11:11:38 AM "Howard was right, they did do what they thought was right at the time. Attempts to s.....
» 16/12/2013 10:12:13 PM Having become depressed by the incidence of comments on this site that indicated just how .....
» 19/11/2013 9:29:12 PM Anti-green, I think srhtf is an acronym for "obscenity" really hits the fan. I'm.....
» 19/11/2013 2:22:30 PM Not only in forums like this, but in letters to newspapers (especially regional ones), it .....
» 4/11/2013 1:18:12 PM Hasbeen … nominal determinism?.....
» 28/10/2013 9:48:49 AM I got only as far as, "This is not a rational construct although it is not irrational.....
» 3/06/2013 11:06:35 AM "I was prepared to accept some of your other points as matters of opinion but to sugg.....
» 24/05/2013 12:28:09 AM "The homosexual lobby's argument that a same-sex relationship is equal to a heterosex.....
» 23/05/2013 11:53:23 AM Carfax wrote: "Would david f agree to taxpayers, who chose use non-government schools.....
» 24/04/2013 7:00:31 PM In my recent post, I wrote, "So, mate, we would all very much prefer that you stop be.....
» 24/04/2013 6:51:33 PM In response to the author's comment: “We and the universe have no purpose. We and it are s.....
» 23/04/2013 5:55:18 PM Dear Hasbeen Take your point. Sort of. I was a public school teacher converted into a HO t.....
» 15/04/2013 12:06:24 AM At last I think I'm getting the idea. Every time you add another private school, you incre.....
» 12/04/2013 11:10:13 PM Shadow Minister, if you think that the reason most private schools strive to avoid having .....
» 19/03/2013 11:55:34 PM The only improvement needed in Banjo Paterson's comment was rendering it in verse. <In.....
» 18/03/2013 10:49:35 AM The author's describing himself simply as a research fellow at the Centre for Independent .....
» 15/03/2013 9:32:34 AM I suspect that one of the reports that Mr Turner referred to is the one at http://onlineop.....
» 4/03/2013 9:27:13 AM Ah Spindoc, and having voted for them, what if they don't?.....
» 4/02/2013 9:38:26 AM It's hard to know what different writers mean by "Christian ethics" when even su.....
» 27/01/2013 11:06:56 AM Constance (continued) <"And do you not see the implication of your admission that .....
» 27/01/2013 11:04:54 AM Constance <"Do you have evidence to support this or are you happy just to spit out.....
» 26/01/2013 2:02:40 PM Shockadelic: <All the atheist articles I've seen abusively attack faith/religion itself.....
» 26/01/2013 1:45:52 PM Saltpetre: <We wouldn't necessarily send our thanks to God for a promotion, or for doin.....
» 25/01/2013 7:58:41 PM Pericles: <Can I conclude that I touched a raw nerve somewhere, GlenC?> No, actuall.....
» 24/01/2013 9:43:24 PM … continued This continuation had to await the passage of 24 hours. Pericles also wrote:.....
» 24/01/2013 12:59:38 PM Pericles, you wrote: <Perhaps, Glen C, if you cannot frame the question without a snee.....
» 23/01/2013 9:24:44 PM Randomguy wrote: 'Evolution has the issue that no-one I have heard of (please correct if I.....
» 23/01/2013 8:21:30 PM Pericles wrote: "I consider that these sneering, ultra-cheap shots against people wit.....
» 23/01/2013 7:53:52 PM (a) "We should not confuse the practice of religion with the practice of faith.".....
» 29/11/2012 2:06:01 PM Kevin Donnelly's final 'sentence', "Schools that are already achieving world's best r.....
» 28/11/2012 10:59:02 PM "Religion is broader than your definition. Unitarianism and Buddhism do not require a.....
» 27/11/2012 2:25:18 PM YuYutsu, I'm trying hard to work out what you are trying to make us understand. "Rub.....
» 27/11/2012 11:27:43 AM RevDek, (still listening?) critics do not claim that religious schools exist purely to inc.....
» 26/11/2012 10:31:13 PM Many have urged abolishing the tax concessions that are automatically granted to religions.....
» 26/11/2012 5:21:49 PM RevDek predicts that "Removing grants to Church Schools would place an unbearable bur.....
» 23/11/2012 7:03:44 PM DD I'm sure I,ve recently come across two or three presumably well researched articles tha.....
» 16/10/2012 10:58:04 PM If you tell children that you can guarantee that Jesus loves them and answers their prayer.....
» 3/10/2012 10:57:39 PM I thought that same sex couples could enter into civil unions that accorded them the same .....
» 20/09/2012 1:09:52 PM Alan: Apology accepted. Thank you......
» 20/09/2012 12:05:36 AM Alan, thank you for maintaining as long as you did the effort required to discuss this com.....
» 18/09/2012 12:28:35 AM Tony, I have to confess to having had quite a few goes at thinking up a word that sounds a.....
» 16/09/2012 4:08:09 PM AA, me again. I meant to question your statement, "Certainly, back then, fewer people.....
» 16/09/2012 10:30:54 AM AA, I was about to say that "foisted" was your word and I was merely responding .....
» 15/09/2012 10:13:01 PM AA wrote: "Not really, Glenn (sic). The opposite, in fact. Legislation was foisted on.....
» 15/09/2012 1:34:02 PM Revised post to fix a couple of errors: I believe that Individual is right and that Poiro.....
» 15/09/2012 1:27:25 PM I believe that Individual is right and that Poirot is missing the point. Supporters of gay.....
» 5/07/2012 11:30:12 AM What Mirrabella did at the time is miles less relevant and miles less worrying than what s.....
» 23/06/2012 10:28:39 PM Cohenite, if you are arguing that making everybody prosperous and educated will reduce the.....
» 3/05/2012 1:54:47 PM Cohenite: "The day I see one of these minority groups take on Islam I'll take them se.....
» 29/04/2012 10:54:11 AM Dear Simon Do you think you could manage to re-write your article so that it spoke in my v.....
» 22/04/2012 10:55:43 AM Runner For your own sake, please stop commenting. Everyone is laughing at you......
» 19/04/2012 1:02:36 AM Trav, You tease us by saying that Benn98 twice begged the question and then not telling us.....
» 18/04/2012 12:28:29 PM Dear Lexi As the Americans say (they don't get everything wrong) you're welcome. I guess t.....
» 17/04/2012 2:09:06 PM Runner I know this is throwing good money after bad but I just have to have one more go at.....
» 17/04/2012 11:00:36 AM Dear Lexi I'd love to be able to buy you a coffee somewhere gentle. I suspect knowing you .....
» 15/04/2012 11:02:47 PM On re-reading my last post, I'm reminded that in the Pell v Dawkins Q&A debate, Cardinal P.....
» 15/04/2012 10:42:20 PM … The reason I played the good news and bad news game with how God could explain to that h.....
» 15/04/2012 10:41:06 PM Dear Lexi My apologies for only just know stealing a moment to see if you had responded to.....
» 13/04/2012 10:21:59 PM Lexi: "For many people, the idea that human beings evolved from lower forms of life d.....
» 11/04/2012 9:21:57 AM This article begins with the question begging, "What is life for?" and travels o.....
» 8/03/2012 10:17:59 AM A start to redress the utterly unchristian situation in Victoria that cynically offers par.....
» 19/02/2012 1:12:16 AM Martin ibq Warriq, your response to my simple question (note, it was only a question, not .....
» 17/02/2012 8:55:29 PM Has anybody considered what Catholic women think about this? While 100% of Catholic priest.....
» 9/02/2012 2:40:28 PM Why do I think that the author will be regarding most of the comments so far as pretty goo.....
» 13/01/2012 6:54:09 PM Carfax: "If advocating choice for all families and better opportunities for all child.....
» 13/01/2012 12:50:15 PM There is one rule that every school should have to observe under pain of losing its operat.....
» 6/01/2012 10:23:27 AM "I can recall two mysterious experiences myself at bushfires many years ago, times wh.....
» 2/01/2012 2:31:21 PM Filip. Do'h! I hate myself for not having noticed the obvious connection with your real n.....
» 1/01/2012 5:55:29 PM Filip I did explain why I felt unqualified to assess Phil Cullen's arguments before NOT pr.....
» 30/12/2011 10:10:00 AM I'm too long retired to be able to make an informed, up-to-date comment on this representa.....
» 2/12/2011 9:54:28 PM … But Mrs Gora's understanding seems to be that ethics is a process of getting acquainted .....
» 2/12/2011 9:53:39 PM Montgomery, I don't understand your point. You say, " GlenC, I have to wonder if you'.....
» 2/12/2011 10:18:21 AM It's unfortunate that so many people feel unable to disagree with somebody without insulti.....
» 2/12/2011 9:48:35 AM Thank you Mishka Gora for your respectful and inoffensive correction when you said, ".....
» 1/12/2011 4:45:36 PM The author and others seem to assume that working out the best way to behave in a given di.....
» 1/12/2011 4:03:24 PM Pericles, while you are objecting, please allow me to join you......
» 28/11/2011 9:59:40 PM I'm not sure that Yuyutsu has got it right in saying that the ultimate insolence is to poo.....
» 23/11/2011 10:37:36 AM The title, "Applied Christian Ethics" is bemusing. Could the author please follo.....
» 23/10/2011 10:51:39 PM Actually, Trav, I don't think I'm the one who missed the point. You seem to assume that th.....
» 20/10/2011 4:32:50 PM Philo Thanks. You actually have reduced the number of things I (stupidly) worry about. But.....
» 20/10/2011 4:29:18 PM Trav and others You suggest that there should be no constraints on the teaching of any si.....
» 20/10/2011 4:07:00 PM Can someone please explain what the last post (by McReal 11:19 today) was prompted by or i.....
» 18/10/2011 10:28:31 PM Could we all please agree that that it's "it's" when we mean "it is" a.....
» 18/10/2011 9:51:23 PM Thanks to David Pollock. I'll admit to not knowing what "margin of appreciation".....
» 3/10/2011 2:15:54 PM Sells: "I agree with the author but not for the reasons he gives." … How superio.....
» 29/09/2011 11:37:07 PM I plead guilty to ignorance of all things economic but I thought I did know what "imm.....
» 29/09/2011 11:06:38 PM Taking Diver San seriously is a risk but let's assume he seriously believes what he says. .....
» 19/09/2011 9:26:04 AM To, "What are the chances of the Vatican accepting the principle of evolution by natu.....
» 25/08/2011 12:08:07 AM RObert You had about twenty wrong apostrophes in your first post this morning but none in .....
» 15/08/2011 3:00:17 PM Early on, Peter Hume asserts, "The advantage of supplying goods by profit and loss is.....
» 5/08/2011 12:19:37 AM Surely this is Pauline rising......
» 27/07/2011 9:13:31 AM Pericles Would you also say that if people feel inclined to describe themselves as married.....
» 4/07/2011 11:48:11 AM Chris Gollis places all his eggs in one tiny frail basket when, by going back 30 years, he.....
» 15/06/2011 12:46:32 PM "His strategy to dramatically upgrade Australia’s standing in middle power diplomacy .....
» 2/05/2011 11:10:03 PM Like most people I know, I don't care a fig if people of the same sex want to live in a re.....
» 29/04/2011 1:32:00 PM "How dare anybody tell us who we should sleep with, who we are to marry, what we do w.....
» 22/04/2011 10:52:15 AM “All the claims against Christ posted here are done in ignorance”. So that settles that, t.....
» 31/03/2011 1:13:03 PM "Hopefully less killing of babies will be one outcome." Actually, Runner, it w.....
» 10/03/2011 1:09:05 PM Hasbeen It might be true that what worries the author is not worth worrying about, and tha.....
» 4/02/2011 10:26:33 AM Weareunique, you say that when confronted by a need for assistance to survive a physical t.....
» 3/02/2011 1:46:05 PM If people facing a cyclone were offered a choice of a church full of believers praying for.....
» 2/02/2011 10:57:28 AM Istvan, you said, “Prayer is akin to contemplating, or concentrating one's mind of how thi.....
» 29/01/2011 11:22:56 PM Crabsy You wrote, “Glen, devote time to trying non-empirical perception. You play recorder.....
» 28/01/2011 9:47:40 PM Crabsy You said, “Thus, while science is invaluable in the exploration of empirical realit.....
» 17/01/2011 9:24:36 AM Shrode advises that we should “do what we can where we can and leave the rest to the mercy.....
» 10/01/2011 3:15:41 PM I won’t be supporting any proposal for a popular election for a head of state for a few re.....
» 5/01/2011 11:42:10 AM Shrode: “funny there's mention of human rights but the issue of abortion is never mentione.....
» 28/12/2010 6:57:33 PM Ausjude writes, “Ah but the Bible has more historical evidence to back it than most histor.....
» 19/12/2010 7:26:07 AM One under god and others: Your comments would be much easier to read if you wrote “you’re”.....
» 17/12/2010 11:17:56 PM AlGoreisRich, you said to Johnny Rotten: <You funny boy....you STATE the 'doctrine'..&q.....
» 16/12/2010 7:15:22 PM Loveday and Runner I proposed that we should have a comprehensive course about religion wi.....
» 16/12/2010 10:09:50 AM Dear LB Loveday You wrote, “Surely you jest. Teachers trot out baseless "truths".....
» 15/12/2010 8:21:36 PM Dear ALGOREisRICH “Children are not forced into such classes.. so why worry?” But they are.....
» 8/12/2010 4:03:25 PM Dear Runner Intelligent Christians must be wishing that you would stop blaming god for our.....
» 2/12/2010 2:42:43 PM "She worked as a legal researcher in privacy and e-commerce before taking up her curr.....
» 27/11/2010 3:16:35 PM Re bombing the NKs with food and stuff: yes, if it has to be got in via the regime, it mig.....
» 27/11/2010 11:37:26 AM How wrong can an old guy be. When I read, "A case for humanitarian intervention".....
» 22/11/2010 12:34:39 PM Apologies to Mr Haddad for misspelling his name and to ALGOREisRICH for assuming that he h.....
» 22/11/2010 12:24:21 PM Mr Hadad does not say in his brief biography that the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine .....
» 21/10/2010 5:36:17 PM DIS <In your second sentence you wrote "you or I". Surely you meant "you.....
» 19/10/2010 9:00:06 PM "It is nevertheless true that some people find benefit in taking particular saints as.....
» 14/10/2010 9:47:37 AM If the question really was as Vanna says — "If someone had 24 green apples and 12 red.....
» 28/09/2010 6:56:20 PM Atman Would that laughable failure as a government be the one that made Australia the envy.....
» 28/09/2010 3:41:51 PM Is my perception awry or do posts that descend to near-hysterical, personal insults come m.....
» 28/09/2010 12:32:12 PM Ibbit It's not certain, from your comment, that you have a good sense of balance where Mr .....
» 25/09/2010 9:37:58 AM Mindless Cruelty wrote, “But fundamentalist atheists are just as ignorant and dangerous as.....
» 10/09/2010 5:56:09 PM Ink Blot Sorry to have been off the air all day. Fridays are wall to wall recorder teachin.....
» 10/09/2010 5:31:23 PM Jennifer Wilson asks, "Is there some reason I don't know about as to why the churches.....
» 9/09/2010 4:10:47 PM Ink Blot Either I didn't make the point very well or you missed it. I'm not opposed to tea.....
» 6/09/2010 3:29:56 PM CJM: My question was of little significance to the author's topic and asking it was probab.....
» 6/09/2010 11:26:05 AM "There are a thousand ways of being a Muslim in every day life, just the same as ther.....
» 30/08/2010 10:17:29 AM Pericles, thanks for making the effort I couldn't manage......
» 26/08/2010 6:04:41 PM Socratease, how did you conclude from my questions that I was a sympathiser? And with whic.....
» 26/08/2010 2:09:37 PM Many people feel uneasy when confronted by young adults wearing hoodies, especially when t.....
» 25/08/2010 9:21:51 AM In a recent discussion in a U3A class, there was a difference of opinion regarding whether.....
» 24/08/2010 12:06:19 PM Elise, when you write "If [threatening people with hellfire in the afterlife] is a fo.....
» 16/08/2010 1:44:38 PM [Deleted - off topic]......
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» 12/08/2010 11:36:45 PM Runner> "Simple observation of creation speaks clearly of a Creator. Your faith le.....
» 12/08/2010 1:54:55 AM Diver Dan: Suppose you were to discover that some of your closest and best friends were ho.....
» 12/08/2010 1:12:31 AM Runner Almost all of the world's recognised biological scientists, plus the Catholic, Angl.....
» 27/07/2010 11:03:18 PM Jedimaster: I’ve just this evening happened across this discussion and have to say that yo.....
» 16/07/2010 11:17:19 AM @"The child-oriented ones, who want their pupils to turn up anxious to learn and enjo.....
» 10/07/2010 2:32:31 AM “My first issue was to relate it back to Glen’s article on ethics, and to see why he felt .....
» 8/07/2010 2:30:22 PM @Leigh. "The Greens rely for their votes on the young and on the irrational. Most peo.....
» 7/07/2010 3:57:49 PM @ Gordo Pollo: The nuns certainly did not mention Ipsum Esse Subsistens to me, or anything.....
» 6/07/2010 5:08:24 PM @Dan S de Merengue: We must be reading different authors. My strong impression is that the.....
» 6/07/2010 10:34:03 AM @ Richie 10: You make it clear that people who do not follow the teachings of Christ have .....
» 4/07/2010 5:08:26 PM Proxy Sorry; have to dash off on grandfather duty. But quickly, as I said, if there is goo.....
» 4/07/2010 12:32:53 PM PROXY, While I (hope I) don’t share what CJ Morgan calls your extreme homophobia, I too ex.....
» 3/07/2010 11:44:04 PM PROXY, You said that I, “… thrice referred to same-sex activities in an article about teac.....
» 2/07/2010 5:29:27 PM Proxy If, as you say, my article made it clear that my “concept of ethics involves teachin.....
» 2/07/2010 10:33:05 AM Gordo Pollo: I don’t think I made a straw man error. I did not suggest that all, or even m.....
» 16/06/2010 12:22:37 PM Being a lousy typist, I find it smart to draft my comments in Word or similar and give the.....
» 16/06/2010 11:39:58 AM Runner Still waiting for your answer: why is what people do in private that hurts nobody y.....
» 15/06/2010 6:39:12 PM Runner Sorry to have not waited upon your reply but other duties called. Please don't pres.....
» 15/06/2010 2:44:48 PM Runner The ethicist on last night's Q&A, Peter Singer, issued a challenge. He asked why co.....
» 30/04/2010 5:55:47 PM AJP, TBC and grateful, please don't stop now......
» 28/04/2010 1:56:06 PM Trav My apology for my unbalanced comment: “What children should be taught is that there a.....
» 28/04/2010 12:21:40 PM Nairbe My wife outlived my daughters’ young adulthood; just! I cannot begin to imagine how.....
» 27/04/2010 10:52:55 AM Vanna, you might be the one with the misconception. The article on which you comment was e.....
» 26/04/2010 12:39:26 PM Aka and nairbe Aka, actually, my schools did a very good job — except in English, Maths an.....
» 26/04/2010 12:57:24 AM In 2008, I ran a 9-week U3A discussion of Richard Dawkins’ “The God Delusion”. I’d read a .....
» 24/04/2010 5:18:15 PM Nairbe You got me. I should have said “race” as you realized. I wonder why did not respond.....
» 24/04/2010 4:17:44 PM Runner I can’t be sure whether you mean to be taken seriously but in case you do, I have t.....
» 24/04/2010 3:14:25 PM Sorry Crabsy. Spent all day yesterday playing the recorder and/or encouraging others to pl.....
» 24/04/2010 2:40:04 PM My analogy was intended to illustrate three different classes of decision that parents mig.....
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