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» 21/11/2016 10:03:23 AM "This is a poorly-written scattergun of ideas that is trying to pretend to be a reaso.....
» 21/11/2016 9:35:08 AM Transgender dysphoria is more than biology of genitalia, Lyle. Transgender dysphoria is s.....
» 19/10/2016 11:09:14 AM Big Nana, a key issue is when a scripture/SRE session is on, the kids are not allowed to d.....
» 19/10/2016 8:59:08 AM That probably should be The Oxford online dictionary defines evangelise as: "conver.....
» 19/10/2016 8:57:12 AM Yes, Evangelising = Proselytising The Oxford online dictionary defines evangelise as: &.....
» 19/10/2016 8:47:37 AM There seems to be an opportunity to attract kids to the Christian denomination that usuall.....
» 5/09/2016 6:27:18 PM Quote >> "One Sydney study found that only 2.8% of patients in a palliative car.....
» 25/08/2016 7:36:34 PM Australia houses old deteriorating nuclear bombs. They need to be buried......
» 31/05/2016 11:34:52 AM phanto, "speech reasonably likely ... to offend, insult, humiliate, or intimidate an.....
» 31/05/2016 11:04:02 AM The Abbott govt decimated Australia's developing renewable energy industry - to the detrim.....
» 31/05/2016 10:46:53 AM Repeal of Section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act is not about free speech or liberal.....
» 19/04/2016 10:09:06 AM To add to what Bren said - the 2014 Budget and the Knights 'n' Dames thing were absolute s.....
» 11/04/2016 12:24:55 PM "The relentless war on carbon is justified by the false assumption that global temper.....
» 6/04/2016 8:55:43 AM Don't forget the supreme narcissist - Kevin.07 and the lesser ones - Kevin Andrews, Cory .....
» 25/03/2016 11:08:28 AM Loudmouth lauds Peter Costello today Friday, 25 March, 9:59am " .. There is one law .....
» 25/03/2016 10:29:24 AM Armchair Critic, It's not 'political correctness'. It's a combination of live-and-let-live.....
» 24/03/2016 5:20:32 PM Loudmouth, I mean homosexuals are people. and Yes, I think the proportion of people who ar.....
» 24/03/2016 5:20:24 PM Loudmouth, There is, of course, no advocacy for paedophilia in any school system. As far .....
» 24/03/2016 5:10:57 PM Raycom, that alleged article is supposed to have been written over 30 yrs ago in the 1980s.....
» 24/03/2016 12:57:06 PM ttbn, The proportion of people that are fearful of or irrational about homosexuals is prog.....
» 24/03/2016 12:53:58 PM lol runner. The paedophile State is the Vatican......
» 23/03/2016 1:28:53 PM "Rest assured, there is no discrimination in law against gay people." Yes, ther.....
» 23/03/2016 1:25:11 PM Garry Johns wrote - "In its pastoral letter, “Don’t Mess With Marriage”, the Australi.....
» 23/03/2016 1:18:41 PM Tolerance for the left includes every perversion known to man and the devil. The only thin.....
» 23/03/2016 1:16:48 PM I actually thought that with what is happening in Europe that resources would be directed .....
» 22/03/2016 10:39:09 AM Siliggy, the green-house effect is not just due to CO2. I don't understand your points ab.....
» 22/03/2016 7:39:04 AM think I've worked out where the gender theory misrepresentation comes from (and hence the .....
» 22/03/2016 7:23:49 AM " If this El Nino is followed by a strong La Nina, then the pause will be back. This .....
» 21/03/2016 2:08:18 PM lol The substance of the title of this article is not addressed in the body of it. Yes, C.....
» 16/03/2016 9:03:00 AM The OT shifts terminology for a single figure between man, lord, angel, and Lord --eg. Zec.....
» 15/03/2016 6:47:11 PM Treating women as incubators is pretty repulsive too, runner......
» 15/03/2016 9:08:04 AM Many physicists do not seem to understand environmental or biological sciences or systems......
» 15/03/2016 9:04:46 AM My understanding is that combined Federal-govt funding and State-govt funding of private s.....
» 15/03/2016 6:56:56 AM Rhys, it's not a dichotomy of 'women's right to chose' v 'valuing life'. Many decisions to.....
» 14/03/2016 11:47:29 AM "mining can only take place where sufficient concentration of ore is present" --.....
» 14/03/2016 10:59:05 AM What is wrong with Gonski & the NDIS, Hasbeen?.....
» 14/03/2016 9:29:19 AM Agriculture should trump mining. Always. As should fair discourse in politics.....
» 13/03/2016 2:19:24 PM lol. Abbott didn't roll Turnbull on his own; the Liberal conservatives did, and there was .....
» 8/03/2016 9:03:00 AM "... the fact that many, many other people in more senior positions in the Catholic h.....
» 7/03/2016 8:08:18 PM I'm intrigued with the "transcript of the interview in which [Pell] terminated Searso.....
» 2/03/2016 11:54:29 AM Prebs replied - "Lack of respect for whom? The AFL?" That is highly disingenuou.....
» 29/02/2016 3:10:17 PM The corrupt do not deserve a 'right' to silence ......
» 29/02/2016 3:08:50 PM Prebs (today, 29 February, 12:55:48 PM) says " the majority ... [should be] the foc.....
» 26/02/2016 12:08:43 PM Runner, perhaps you might read all of this - http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/polit.....
» 26/02/2016 12:06:56 PM . The issue is not that "there was such '*a major section' of our school population ......
» 23/02/2016 10:04:13 AM Donnelly says - " ..there is nothing stopping primary school children looking around .....
» 23/02/2016 9:59:46 AM "What happens when kids stop believing in fairies? They will have to completely re-as.....
» 23/02/2016 9:55:01 AM The concern about the Safe Schools program is faux; and is, ironically, bullying......
» 10/02/2016 12:48:19 PM Secularism's "meaning over time has changed and has come to refer to a realm that exc.....
» 5/01/2016 6:26:45 PM This person calls himself a rationalist. How is it 'rational' to waste his time rabbiting .....
» 24/12/2015 1:43:36 PM <Quote> "Yes we have witnessed freedom from religion over the last 40-50 years......
» 8/12/2015 11:32:59 AM "Cats still don't produce dogs and certainly apes don't produce humans" -- becau.....
» 8/12/2015 11:08:58 AM runner, Evolution was a theory in the 19th century. Evolution was proven in the 20th centu.....
» 8/12/2015 11:06:05 AM Digging up millions of tonnes of fossil-fuels daily and combusting them daily, over a coup.....
» 2/12/2015 9:55:44 AM Hi Joe. Because the norm is 'marriage' - it's also still the ultimate in commitment. As .....
» 1/12/2015 11:17:30 AM Theology has been surpassed and surplanted.....
» 1/12/2015 11:09:25 AM "In my view there is no reason a same-sex marriage cannot also be a bodily and spirit.....
» 21/11/2015 8:57:13 PM From the Booklet - "marriage includes an emotional union, but it goes further than t.....
» 12/11/2015 8:21:46 AM "Feminism .. commits the very thing it set out to supposedly eradicate: sexism. &qu.....
» 11/11/2015 6:45:42 PM Very few people "think of proselytizers as those slightly unhinged and unwashed chara.....
» 11/11/2015 6:39:22 PM lol^ communism is not a religion ... ... just as feminism is not an ideology or proselyti.....
» 29/09/2015 12:55:35 PM This is a ramble about nothing substantial. This is an illogical non-sequitur - "If .....
» 16/09/2015 11:16:56 AM After the ALP established the roll-out of their FTTP NBN (including negotiating the establ.....
» 10/09/2015 10:11:22 AM " I refer to the human right of all women to equality and not to be an commodity to b.....
» 4/09/2015 1:17:37 PM There are appeals to nature. Many married couples engage in oral sex. "It's not nat.....
» 4/09/2015 1:11:28 PM " Women, young women and girls need to be supported in refusing ... actions that are .....
» 4/09/2015 9:46:47 AM "John. I think we've ruled out bestiality, polygamy, incest and underage sex. ".....
» 4/09/2015 9:35:08 AM >> "Union between people of the same sex that flout the laws of nature by engag.....
» 28/08/2015 8:37:43 AM There is a cost in not reducing carbon emissions (but it is not 'extinction'). Of course .....
» 31/07/2015 10:25:37 AM Every event Syd Hickman criticizes Adam Goodes for in this article is to do with race or p.....
» 24/07/2015 7:31:45 AM It wasn't only pagans that performed child or other human sacrifice: the story of Abraham .....
» 22/05/2015 11:01:01 AM Cardinal P--- ?? Cardinal Pant/s ?.....
» 22/05/2015 10:36:48 AM The division of gestation into trimesters is arbitrary and seems to be decreasingly releva.....
» 24/04/2015 10:33:04 AM JBowyer; those are the names of the fallacies; that refer to poor logic; as does non-sequ.....
» 23/04/2015 10:06:02 AM Most, if not all, of the things that John Robertson has listed are not consequences of atm.....
» 23/04/2015 9:56:46 AM "There is growing recognition that GHG emission do not pose a threat of dangerous or .....
» 22/04/2015 6:52:53 AM "Surely I, as a tax paying citizen, deserve the benefit of government funds to educat.....
» 22/04/2015 6:51:34 AM . This deserves highlighting >>>> . "... the amount given by government.....
» 22/04/2015 6:43:43 AM Hasbeeb; I'm referring to current 21st century society......
» 21/04/2015 2:18:42 PM well McCackie, my child attended a NSW public primary school without a hint of bullying, a.....
» 16/04/2015 7:38:48 PM . "the intolerance of secularism" Posted by runner, Thurs, 16 April; 4:13:39pm .....
» 16/04/2015 2:02:34 PM Runner, what about Matthew 10 ? 21 Brother will deliver brother over to death, and the fa.....
» 16/04/2015 9:15:23 AM "Many Muslims in Australia find themselves caught in the middle of two cultural tradi.....
» 16/04/2015 8:58:58 AM * to the detriment of the operations and *aims* in Afghanistan ........
» 16/04/2015 8:57:53 AM The everlasting legacy of George W Bush, John W Howard, and Tony Blair. They were justifi.....
» 23/03/2015 1:04:07 PM The 'shape' of God has always changed: The Christian era is, overall, one of the more pers.....
» 23/03/2015 12:38:23 PM . Access to both biological parents, and their wider families, should be provided for all .....
» 18/03/2015 11:33:36 AM . It would pay to also read Paul Duffill's account published on this forum yesterday - ht.....
» 5/02/2015 1:11:35 PM > "Chris ... Your idea of disadvantage is I'm sure entirely different to mine, so .....
» 21/01/2015 10:56:33 AM Chris Ashton is, in my view, right to point out Islam is a basis for all these terrorist a.....
» 21/01/2015 10:18:36 AM "The author is right." Posted by Suseonline, Saturday, 17 January 2015 11:56:56.....
» 21/01/2015 10:13:35 AM The only reason there is a debate about "reforming" or repealing 18C is b/c Andr.....
» 3/01/2015 9:17:18 AM word salad, Timmy. Again "The Christians among [the Egyptians] are worshippers of Se.....
» 2/01/2015 10:21:28 PM "As for the word "Christ" and again if I do not misrecall, this is not a na.....
» 2/01/2015 9:57:00 PM "Again, no mention of Jesus." Actually that's wrong - " ... while painti.....
» 2/01/2015 9:51:52 PM Tim: "Unless, of course, you actually look at the contexts in which these vaguely-sim.....
» 1/01/2015 10:38:15 PM Bird" "Authors like Josephus, Pliny the Younger, Suetonius, and Tacitus from the.....
» 1/01/2015 7:59:52 PM McReal: "There are plenty of assertions the Pauline epistles and the Gospels are mid-.....
» 1/01/2015 7:19:51 PM "Lastly, Tacitus Annals 15 does not refer to Jesus; only Chrestians (sic) following a.....
» 1/01/2015 6:54:38 PM Mad Rabbi et al, As the point under discussion is the existence of a human Jesus as the co.....
» 31/12/2014 1:33:37 PM Timmy, quote> "OR, the reference in *Antiquities* XVIII.3.3(!) is ALL interpolati.....
» 31/12/2014 12:42:17 PM Tim O'Neill "The scholarly consensus is actually that [if] the reference to Jesus in.....
» 31/12/2014 9:13:15 AM " Authors like Josephus, Pliny the Younger, Suetonius, and Tacitus from the late firs.....
» 11/12/2014 12:35:51 PM oh, my bad; you can't be a school chaplain if you're a youth worker or social worker.....
» 11/12/2014 12:34:14 PM runner, Are you alluding to the increased way this govt is contracting religious organisat.....
» 11/12/2014 11:53:12 AM "First, to clarify, only a few colleges actually train priests. Most colleges train p.....
» 10/12/2014 10:02:18 AM My point about the Howard-Costello tax cuts are highlighted by these articles - http://ww.....
» 10/12/2014 9:43:56 AM Comparing Aus to Sth Korea & the USA is interesting - Sth Korea is a much smaller country.....
» 6/11/2014 8:54:34 AM "Morris tells us that Carrier proves the Gospels are “pious fraud” and the independen.....
» 21/10/2013 3:20:50 PM "After 25 years of warnings about global warming, all Lynn can point to is a set of b.....
» 12/09/2013 9:50:45 AM "The dichotomy of the real and the ideal coincides with the creedal language of the v.....
» 7/09/2013 5:32:06 PM ""You could also have added that the feminists and 'Progressives' who are pushin.....
» 6/09/2013 11:42:22 AM A referendum is not a suitable way of determining issues of rights or equality as, ethical.....
» 6/09/2013 9:25:57 AM "schools do not have to choose a Christian chaplain. A local committee decides what r.....
» 6/09/2013 8:59:36 AM "Same-sex marriage does lead to same-sex parenting and there is a huge issue in my vi.....
» 6/09/2013 8:45:51 AM "humiliation"? "ostracising"? Nah. One could just as easily say Matt .....
» 5/09/2013 1:49:06 PM ""Can't deny simple logic that if a person has a 'homosexual gene' that then the.....
» 5/09/2013 10:31:53 AM "I think we can call this the first 'gay marriage' election, if Rudd loses it will cl.....
» 16/08/2013 12:25:45 PM >> Alan, you are pushing the labor party line ... sigh... again. >> "De.....
» 16/08/2013 10:41:58 AM Australia should have much better transport systems - better urban freeways, better region.....
» 12/08/2013 8:58:32 PM "" "An argument was introduced by Duns Scotus (1266-1308), derived from Ari.....
» 13/05/2013 10:26:34 AM Tony Abbott - the Defendant, again......
» 2/05/2013 7:35:21 PM What's worse, Runner: bestiality or priest child-sex-abuse?.....
» 2/05/2013 5:52:42 PM Kacz, today, 2 May 10:59:13am Yes, Singer has also philosophized about infanticide......
» 2/05/2013 8:04:24 AM Using a lapse of judgement by a likely Foxtel middle-manager AND an advertising exec or tw.....
» 10/04/2013 8:22:11 PM "God, heaven and the angel of the annunciation" are, logically and truthfully, p.....
» 7/03/2013 10:21:00 AM > "The thrust of my letter was Daffy's presuppositions. You did not address these .....
» 7/03/2013 8:00:24 AM Are you telling us that one who has been an historian at Macquarie University, Dr. Paul Ba.....
» 28/02/2013 3:49:04 PM A. This is an interesting list as the start of a discussion of dating Paul - http://www.fr.....
» 28/02/2013 9:26:45 AM runner, the truths include 1. heaven & hell are merely unproven propositions 2. there is.....
» 27/02/2013 5:23:54 AM "Then He also shall say to those on the left hand, Depart from Me, cursed, into everl.....
» 6/02/2013 7:44:58 AM The world is a wonderful & beautiful place, despite all the negativity frequently preached.....
» 2/01/2013 11:11:36 AM Religions do receive public money by way of grants; and tax exemptions & tax deductions - .....
» 2/01/2013 8:36:40 AM Correction - the proportion of 'Religion-affiliation-Not-Stated' nationwide in the 2011 Au.....
» 2/01/2013 8:02:59 AM "With over 22 per cent of the population reporting as having 'no religion' in the 201.....
» 19/11/2012 9:35:55 AM "" Why our brain is influenced by biology is obvious - it's part thereof. ".....
» 16/11/2012 1:28:29 PM david f, Friday, 16 Nov 9:11:24am I agree that christianity, or any other religion, is No.....
» 16/11/2012 9:09:24 AM exactly George, which is why I added the "in the West" qualification. Marxism &.....
» 16/11/2012 7:49:07 AM >> ""During this interview, I asked '...what was the reason you decided to.....
» 16/11/2012 7:38:27 AM "" >> The 21st century is going to be the last century for all Christian f.....
» 16/11/2012 7:00:48 AM Yuyutsu deserves credit for acknowledging that Jesus may not have existed: "Whether .....
» 24/10/2012 8:20:37 AM 'cohabiting couples are less likely to stay together' I see "cohabitating couples&qu.....
» 22/10/2012 3:51:50 PM Raycom, The philandry aspect did cross my mind. However, I think Tony Abbott is on shaki.....
» 22/10/2012 12:29:00 PM Raycom Attacking or hating a couple of men is not misandry......
» 3/10/2012 7:07:21 AM cohenite, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 9:53:55 AM One of my brief points was around the fact t.....
» 2/10/2012 9:03:50 AM A consensus is "defeated" by one bit of 'evidence'? There's an "AGW rule&q.....
» 18/09/2012 9:16:36 AM An appeal to emotion is fallacy, especially when applied as a de-facto appeal for belief i.....
» 7/09/2012 8:42:50 AM "Readers would be advised to look up Elizabeth Warren, current candidate for the US S.....
» 13/08/2012 5:41:48 PM ""The faith is based around the life and death of a guy who suffered the most ex.....
» 8/08/2012 9:40:10 AM I tend to agree with JohnBennetts, especially with the simplistic bare assertions in passa.....
» 8/08/2012 7:52:54 AM Climate science and predictions about future changes in climate, regionally or totally, ar.....
» 6/06/2012 11:54:30 AM "McReal ... Do you mean (by your second statement) that homosexuality is due primaril.....
» 5/06/2012 6:03:40 PM >> "The day we cut marriage adrift from the rock of nature, from the mammalian .....
» 5/06/2012 5:50:01 PM individual (Tues 5 June, 4:37:40 PM), I agree that "Homosexuality is a natural pheno.....
» 5/06/2012 12:52:25 PM Beaker, There is virtually no evidence that homosexuality has a significant genetic basis .....
» 5/06/2012 11:13:28 AM Pat G, homosexuality is part of 'nature's design' too, as it is innate......
» 5/06/2012 11:07:22 AM "Marriage was institutionalised to protect not only society from the nonsense of thin.....
» 5/06/2012 10:50:19 AM ""Same-sex couples acquiring babies through surrogacy must dliberately decide to.....
» 5/06/2012 10:19:36 AM Isn't it amazing that comments about an article about verification of medical science have.....
» 3/06/2012 8:10:12 PM Ascension - how does that work?.....
» 3/06/2012 6:26:44 PM <<Yuyutsu, this article has nothing to do with religion, so why bring it up? @ Marti.....
» 25/05/2012 5:48:18 AM Yuyutsu, regarding your comments about my assertion religion is a lot of politics, is the .....
» 23/05/2012 4:15:19 PM >> ""religious groups should concentrate on religion, not waste their time.....
» 23/05/2012 10:13:20 AM Proposing that homosexuals seek to destroy marriage by wanting to be married), and also se.....
» 23/05/2012 10:09:49 AM stevenlmeyer, I did briefly think of non-Christian traditions of polygamy, such as Mormoni.....
» 23/05/2012 8:21:48 AM There is not the tradition of polyamory though, is there Bill; just the tradition of same-.....
» 22/05/2012 12:40:47 PM runner, Do you view all science as 'pseudo-science'? Is there a category of schools &quo.....
» 17/05/2012 10:41:11 PM "By definition 2 men = a motherless family. If two men set out to INTENTIONALLY acqui.....
» 17/05/2012 1:07:01 PM ""Any consenting man (hetro, bi, gay), of legal age, can marry any consenting wo.....
» 17/05/2012 9:33:26 AM Excellent article. The generalisations of 'Doctors for the Family' about homosexuality ar.....
» 17/05/2012 9:14:36 AM kids with same-sex parents are well adjusted ... http://theconversation.edu.au/dont-believ.....
» 17/05/2012 9:10:59 AM Dr Dunjey, You have an obligation to rationally review all information about a subject - e.....
» 16/05/2012 3:31:40 PM "How come we allow 2% of the population to generate so much angst for the other 98%?&.....
» 15/05/2012 3:23:21 PM runner, anal sex and STDs has nothing to do with parents interactions with kids (well, vir.....
» 15/05/2012 11:35:58 AM runner kids with same-sex parents are well adjusted ... http://theconversation.edu.au/don.....
» 10/05/2012 8:30:59 AM One would hope cohabitation is more than "about sex" in *any* relationship; marr.....
» 10/05/2012 8:29:59 AM >> "Cohabitation is about sex, let's not be confused." << One would.....
» 27/04/2012 8:30:45 AM The propositions that 1."Christianity has been the focus and font of moral and ethic.....
» 25/04/2012 11:18:03 AM Stalin was, personally, a devout Christian, too. He probably did suppress his seminary-tra.....
» 25/04/2012 11:08:34 AM >> "... the point is all science proceeds from a faith position of some kind (a.....
» 24/04/2012 8:26:23 AM " .. the theory of natural selection, like all theories, is made whole by applying pe.....
» 22/04/2012 10:44:32 AM Experience: I tried to 'cure' gay people http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2012/apr/.....
» 22/04/2012 9:07:04 AM "Was Jesus Gay?" ... http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2012/apr/20/.....
» 22/04/2012 8:51:21 AM oops, the "revision" did not like the atypical characters - Adelphopoiesis (or .....
» 22/04/2012 8:46:42 AM Same sex marriage has been a part of Christianity - Adelphopoisis - and that may account f.....
» 20/04/2012 7:53:27 PM >> "The study of sexual-orientation change efforts to date, shows that some peo.....
» 20/04/2012 6:57:21 PM . A key point is that the testament of almost all homosexual persons is their homosexual.....
» 20/04/2012 6:48:16 PM Raycom, Elton John was probably gay before he entered a heterosexual marriage. It is poss.....
» 19/04/2012 1:40:49 PM >> "I find it incredibly ironic, the law of unintended consequences, that the c.....
» 17/04/2012 6:52:17 PM runner, What do you call your form of thinking and your expression of that thinking?.....
» 17/04/2012 10:08:40 AM >> 'In the 1960’s we had the cultural revolution which brought with it cohabitation,.....
» 17/04/2012 8:27:28 AM Well done, David, on attending and writing so fully beforehand and so soon afterwards. You.....
» 16/04/2012 8:44:15 AM >> "When we dispense with the old argument about the existence of God as supern.....
» 13/04/2012 9:36:45 AM >> "".. the thing that really interests me, almost from a sociological per.....
» 13/04/2012 9:25:43 AM >> "What is the origin of the universe?" * There are a number of theories .....
» 5/04/2012 7:07:49 PM >> "McReal – you say that: “expectations are a collective”. So are you saying t.....
» 5/04/2012 6:59:44 AM >> ""McReal – you say that morals “are more than preferences. They are exp.....
» 4/04/2012 10:05:51 AM " .. established "social norms and mores" via now long-standing traditions .....
» 4/04/2012 7:08:11 AM >> "Atheists just don't understand what religion is all about. Atheism means th.....
» 3/04/2012 6:57:18 PM >> " .. if atheism is true then everyone is absolutely free to do whatever they.....
» 28/03/2012 6:25:32 PM <<Humanists do not divide cities into "humanist" and "non-humanist&qu.....
» 28/03/2012 1:54:41 PM Yes, Josephus. Christian Humanism is[a form of religion]. But, non-Supernatural Humanism .....
» 28/03/2012 9:27:51 AM Religions invoke belief in "the supernatural", Humanism doesn't - it just invo.....
» 18/03/2012 4:59:13 PM > "About any matter there is only one truth." Posted by Michael GO, Sunday, .....
» 15/03/2012 12:15:29 PM So, there are "groups that are operating in our society" who want to over-ride t.....
» 12/03/2012 12:40:39 PM > "Admit a God [First Cause], and you introduce among the subjects of your knowled.....
» 11/03/2012 7:48:57 AM We either agree on the realities of the world, as outlined over many years in various lite.....
» 10/03/2012 8:43:44 AM runner, there have been tens of thousands of organic chemicals interacting in a myriad of .....
» 9/03/2012 8:45:46 PM > "McReal, > "If you can't see that biology points to design you are eithe.....
» 9/03/2012 9:55:07 AM runner, Friday, 9 March 2012 9:10:41 AM You keep making category errors - the BIG BANG .....
» 9/03/2012 9:51:25 AM Saltpetre, Friday, 9 March 2012 5:10:15 AM I think the over-arching subject should be phi.....
» 8/03/2012 5:14:43 PM runner, Evolution is verified by the way DNA works, and the manifestations of that. GOOD .....
» 8/03/2012 12:28:58 PM no doubt the good Dr is happy for the children to be exposed to the idiotic faith based ev.....
» 3/03/2012 6:50:22 AM The irony is that commentary about that article is that some commentators are saying by co.....
» 2/03/2012 3:40:13 PM Stephan, Fri 2 March, 12:46pm I haven't made any attempt to "try to defend baby kill.....
» 2/03/2012 8:42:38 AM "... the straightforward science that life begins at conception, something almost as .....
» 1/03/2012 3:49:36 PM "The fact that embryos are now being destroyed does not mean it is morally licit.&quo.....
» 1/03/2012 3:42:39 PM Further to Bill Muehlenberg's comments taking capital punishment seriously - " .. N.....
» 1/03/2012 3:18:02 PM jcgirl1979, Thurs 1 March, 2:21pm - a few comments on a blog-thread, so you say - ".....
» 21/02/2012 10:54:40 AM "everyone is morally free to do whatever they want." Posted by JP, Tuesday, 21 F.....
» 21/02/2012 10:15:35 AM progressive?pat, All they are doing is using govt funding to encourage all organisations (.....
» 21/02/2012 10:07:53 AM "expose the adamic nature and we can't have that can we." Posted by runner, Tues.....
» 21/02/2012 7:48:39 AM de Botton is not the new messiah, he's just a very naught .. prat.....
» 21/02/2012 7:39:46 AM Half of all pregnancies in the USA are unplanned. Half those unplanned pregnancies are ter.....
» 21/02/2012 6:10:52 AM "If God made us, then what He says will be in our best interests. The overwhelming ev.....
» 18/02/2012 5:08:14 PM Suseonline, Saturday, 18 February 2012 4:34:25 PM Melinda Tankard-Reist does Not seek to .....
» 18/02/2012 4:56:56 PM Otokonoko, Saturday, 18 February 2012 3:30:27 PM It depends on context and fullness of in.....
» 18/02/2012 3:11:42 PM "The right of someone to follow their conscience is not dependent on whether they're .....
» 18/02/2012 8:34:04 AM "anyone who wants to support liberal abortion laws simply does not want to face simpl.....
» 17/02/2012 1:09:16 PM The thing about "Tony Abbott as health minister who's faith appeared to be impacting .....
» 17/02/2012 10:30:11 AM nice of you to portray the exact opposite meaning of my post, diver dan. I don't care wha.....
» 17/02/2012 8:16:14 AM " .. concerns of the 'normal man' .."?? " .. irrelevance, “La Femme”.".....
» 17/02/2012 7:48:49 AM There are situations where one's belief system does not matter, but there may be situation.....
» 15/02/2012 8:19:07 PM "What is at stake here is the truncation of her [MTR's] identity and politics for the.....
» 15/02/2012 1:10:03 PM "Elsewhere http://wheelercentre.com/dailies/post/8e2f5fb15b3a/ I have talked about wh.....
» 14/02/2012 10:41:10 PM Killarney, it is you that seems to miss some points. Firstly, hardly anybody is attacking.....
» 14/02/2012 7:23:13 PM Also, empathy and altruism are not ethics, or terms or processes interchangeable for ethic.....
» 14/02/2012 7:15:25 PM The author, Petra Bueskens, concludes "certainly being for women’s freedom, equality .....
» 5/01/2012 5:13:54 PM Celsus, a Roman, had this to say, in the 2nd century "Jesus, on account of his pover.....
» 5/01/2012 5:46:22 AM Raycom, it does not imply that, it just negates the simple proposition that Stalin and his.....
» 4/01/2012 7:23:34 AM Yes, the Reformation challenged the Catholic Church's supremacy, but only on theological g.....
» 3/01/2012 4:03:27 PM . Greece had a rich history before Christianity .... ......
» 3/01/2012 6:51:26 AM The High Court reasoning his here - see Recommendation 14* at the end http://www.cdi.gov......
» 1/01/2012 12:54:52 PM runner, do you realise "Scientology" has nothing to do with science? health pro.....
» 31/12/2011 7:45:03 PM . There has been, and still seems to be, Scientology stuff on Meryl's website http://shop.....
» 29/12/2011 8:26:52 PM "If you want to silence the Meryl Dorey's of the world you have to start by asking yo.....
» 29/12/2011 5:47:24 PM runner, the odd anecdote is not evidence. Moreover, it remains to be proven the childs l.....
» 29/12/2011 7:31:52 AM ""Despite her anglicised name, Kellie Tranter does not even look like an Austral.....
» 28/12/2011 8:44:15 AM "" ... i feel..jesus as a real person..[not god] for me wether he actually lived.....
» 28/12/2011 7:25:18 AM The real question of whether Jesus existed, is not a spiritual issue, yet it ought to be a.....
» 22/12/2011 5:31:03 AM GrahamY, I was alluding to how the Coalition forces (mostly US forces) were so overwhelmin.....
» 21/12/2011 4:03:25 PM "would the Atheist Foundation of Australia have considered inviting the ... Joseph St.....
» 18/12/2011 5:25:14 PM GrahamY, Many regulars logging on for Monday's articles will assume there have not been an.....
» 18/12/2011 1:57:46 PM . "idealist"?? - hardly. Hitch was more a realist, though did have some views th.....
» 17/11/2011 12:44:41 PM " .. the proponents of AGW ... have engineered statements from prestigious bodies to .....
» 17/11/2011 8:22:31 AM " .. climate is too complex to be modelled in detail. The best you can is estimate ge.....
» 16/11/2011 7:58:56 AM GrahamY, "Falsifiability" might work early in a theories 'life', yet a theory ca.....
» 7/11/2011 8:25:30 PM ""The climate changes, always has, always will .. and right now is getting warme.....
» 6/11/2011 8:18:36 PM " the current scientific understanding of a Big Bang " Posted by David Palmer, S.....
» 4/11/2011 12:33:32 PM As far as climate change goes ... 1. Look at first principles - a. Lots of fossil fuels h.....
» 4/11/2011 7:58:46 AM Science simply needs good scientists - looking at particularl scenarios and problems from .....
» 4/11/2011 7:33:13 AM Yes, the theological notion of free-will is a myth. But, we mostly do have choices, includ.....
» 3/11/2011 8:13:55 AM Elder abuse is a significant concern and those who rail against deserve support and praise.....
» 27/10/2011 11:03:09 AM The Christian Taliban are coalescing to seek to have more influence. Especially in the Coa.....
» 27/10/2011 10:30:40 AM Many agree, King Hazza. It's likely the Coalition would have romped in last time if they .....
» 27/10/2011 8:21:16 AM stevenlmeyer, Wed 26 Oct, 11:04:53pm It's not just the Jews that have been persecuted by .....
» 26/10/2011 9:41:06 PM Formersnag, Wed 26 Oct, 5:48:12pm There are may reasons for separation of church/religion.....
» 26/10/2011 1:55:23 PM A well structured article. "One of the duties owed to 'Caesar' by the church is to b.....
» 23/10/2011 6:00:53 AM Another Dawkins-should-debate-Craig article - http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/beli.....
» 23/10/2011 5:51:25 AM "The difference between science and philosophy, is that science requires proof, where.....
» 22/10/2011 10:31:40 AM A state may profess a religious faith but still accept pluralism. Posted by shawn, Sat 22.....
» 21/10/2011 9:30:46 AM Note the comments below Dawkin's piece. Especially the reference to Craig's debating style.....
» 21/10/2011 9:13:34 AM Perhaps what Richard Dawkins says, as he did yesterday, might be relevant http://www.guard.....
» 20/10/2011 6:13:26 PM Madeleine Anamele GrahamY .. et al The 3 Laws of Thought are "fundamental axiomatic .....
» 20/10/2011 6:01:08 PM Posted by Philo, Thursday, 20 October 2011 4:13:53 PM Yes! Thank you for that! Kind Regar.....
» 20/10/2011 10:27:05 AM GrahanY, I posted in the wrong thread - http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?artic.....
» 20/10/2011 7:11:19 AM GrahamY He refuses to discuss evidence around God, and uses red-herrings and rhetoric all.....
» 19/10/2011 9:40:56 PM GrahamY, Wednesday, 19 Oct, 3:24:36pm Pls see my post @ 7:34:13am re Craig's ability to m.....
» 19/10/2011 10:02:41 AM Atman, The 'probably no God' thing came about for the bus signage because ... >> &.....
» 19/10/2011 8:06:22 AM Pablo Jiménez Lobeira uses equivocation in the final paragraph to skew the concept of neut.....
» 19/10/2011 7:34:13 AM A key issue is William Lane Craig's debating style - it seems he uses a mix of bare assert.....
» 10/10/2011 9:30:45 AM In saying "This is a truly grotesque process that has no relationship to our democr.....
» 7/10/2011 8:06:26 AM Claiming "the Bible directly and profoundly contributed to the rise of the West".....
» 6/10/2011 6:23:05 PM Christopher Hitchens was horrified to learn Mother Teresa espoused suffering - suffering i.....
» 5/10/2011 10:25:46 AM "the number of deaths quoted are horrific until you compare them with the murder of u.....
» 5/10/2011 10:22:56 AM "a new better world is possible; where diseases etc are overcome and we work toward t.....
» 4/10/2011 6:20:49 AM " ... the church should declare itself free from state financing." Posted by S.....
» 30/09/2011 8:08:12 AM "Statistics on divorce only prove the lack of commitment and prejudice of people in h.....
» 19/09/2011 1:09:54 PM Raycom, Monday, 19 September 2011 11:39:38 AM Yes, the current theories about cosmogenesi.....
» 14/09/2011 11:33:21 AM ".. the gay marriage lobby ... has very effective talking points: that marriage curre.....
» 1/09/2011 5:51:33 PM >> ""Marriage is the act of the male sperm uniting with the female ovum.&q.....
» 31/08/2011 7:18:07 PM . Re " .. evidence that children growing up in same-sex marriage turn out to be well-.....
» 31/08/2011 11:00:22 AM Kids need both a father and a mother - time and again my high school students who have one.....
» 31/08/2011 9:48:41 AM "It is a fallacy to argue that because a child in one household has abusive parents, .....
» 31/08/2011 9:16:17 AM @ Mollydukes, Wednesday, 31 August 2011 8:56:51 AM - Excellent post!! especially this - &.....
» 31/08/2011 8:43:20 AM Antiseptic, The trouble is, people often decide to vote along party lines rather than by e.....
» 31/08/2011 8:32:11 AM Marriage is a societal creation. Redefining marriage to include gay and lesbian couples w.....
» 30/08/2011 7:47:25 PM . AntiSeptic, Speciation, in a macro-evolutionary sense, may be "a fairly trivial ph.....
» 30/08/2011 1:45:57 PM Evolution happens to populations and their entire collection of genes, by a number of mech.....
» 30/08/2011 10:13:24 AM . "Reification ... the treatment of abstract concepts as realities." The way re.....
» 26/08/2011 6:50:52 AM . "the increasing failings of heterosexual parenting ..." Please discuss ......
» 26/08/2011 6:48:03 AM vanna, so what? Expecting "a" homosexual or "a" female writer (feminis.....
» 25/08/2011 10:30:43 PM "" ...the homosexual marriage lobby groups are after the children." Posted .....
» 24/08/2011 11:29:34 AM vanna, I do Not demonise all fathers; I do Not demonise many fathers. I am one. I just ca.....
» 24/08/2011 9:54:22 AM vanna, ""the continuous demonisation of fathers, and the equation is now comple.....
» 24/08/2011 8:51:42 AM vanna, The absence of fathers, and the reasons for that, is a separate. Fathers absence i.....
» 22/08/2011 1:57:05 PM StraightTalk Hardly anybody wants Bert and Ernie to get married - they are virtually asexu.....
» 20/08/2011 5:59:54 PM Formersnag, Philo wet al Duplicitous conspiracy proposals, such as weird cohabitating one.....
» 19/08/2011 9:19:13 PM ""there is a natural way for [homosexuals] to have children. Let them marry the .....
» 18/08/2011 7:00:45 PM hetrophobia - so bad. "Many of my friends in *the Fatherhood and men’s movement* cal.....
» 17/08/2011 12:59:25 AM Trav, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 10:28:55pm Bare assertions are ones without substance - the.....
» 16/08/2011 7:50:56 PM , The assertion that fatherlessness had a role in the UK riots is a bare, unsubstantiated .....
» 16/08/2011 7:48:38 PM " .. the coming together of two different substances to produce an independent and se.....
» 16/08/2011 9:11:44 AM The comments of a single "well known' Family Law Court Judge mean Nothing without obj.....
» 14/08/2011 4:14:09 PM Philo, You misrepresent what I said, which was about "instruct[ing] a child in a sing.....
» 14/08/2011 9:41:37 AM Philo, That Ammonite said on this forum that "One does not have to offer a fairy tal.....
» 13/08/2011 6:26:31 PM I wouldn't have a problem with chaplains if they were part of a well-rounded team of socia.....
» 13/08/2011 1:33:29 PM "Perhaps we have to then rip fathers out of families and God out of Schools and watch.....
» 13/08/2011 8:44:11 AM Formspring, I presume your reference to 17% and 83% is a reference to non-Christians and C.....
» 12/08/2011 4:29:45 PM Tony wasn't just "passing the buck back to us, under a simplistic slogan that the pub.....
» 12/08/2011 2:23:50 PM The chaplains "must be Christian to get the job and then they must deny this to perfo.....
» 12/08/2011 10:04:17 AM Tim is right to say it is a false dichotomy whether chaplains *or* counselors are employed.....
» 27/07/2011 3:44:18 PM pip66, Wed, 27 July, 2:16:56pm You can write Atheist in the open boxes, under Religion (.....
» 27/07/2011 8:40:14 AM Pericles, Tues, 26 Jul 7:22:51pm It is more a question that appears to be answered ".....
» 25/07/2011 6:19:38 PM rational-debate, There may not be much inspiration from simply being with out god (a/theis.....
» 7/07/2011 11:27:59 AM In 2002, "Rebekah Brooks was present at a meeting with Scotland Yard when police offi.....
» 14/06/2011 7:24:02 AM Did the Aboriginal spirit triumph in those instances?.....
» 1/06/2011 9:34:00 AM runner, Would you be concerned if you had anyone's approval?? You also seem to constantl.....
» 1/06/2011 7:42:04 AM LanceL, There are a number of issues around the whole situation and your commentary on it.....
» 31/05/2011 9:56:06 PM "You won't get a lot of disagreement from me on those two points. The whole idea was .....
» 31/05/2011 2:36:12 PM "McReal, and some others, is painting all chaplains with the same brush and this is p.....
» 31/05/2011 7:03:47 AM LanceL. How dare you skew and extend my point - about YOUR communication style - to me bei.....
» 30/05/2011 10:58:49 PM LanceL, Monday, 30 May 2011 9:16:35 PM Your whole preceding post is just special pleading.....
» 30/05/2011 2:14:51 PM Lance, The debate is about an unbalanced scenario, so the debate will reflect that. The s.....
» 27/05/2011 7:03:39 PM To outline the need to review and change classification laws makes the ensuing statement &.....
» 26/05/2011 6:24:06 PM "Jesus made it clear that you are either for Him or against Him." runner, Thursd.....
» 26/05/2011 7:31:21 AM The truth is that the word "pollute" has been redefined by the pro-AGW Atman, Th.....
» 26/05/2011 7:15:54 AM Trav, Wednesday, 25 May 2011 7:35:57 PM Of course not all worldviews are equally valid .......
» 25/05/2011 7:45:16 AM There is no doubt the stories of Jesus engender a number of emotions and feelings in His f.....
» 23/05/2011 11:45:20 AM partTimeParent, Religions by definition invoke a supernatural claim, so these are not reli.....
» 20/05/2011 7:34:37 AM For example, a cartoon from a SRI class was published with the headline “Teacher fury over.....
» 17/05/2011 5:16:18 PM runner, None of those are achievements and none are sought......
» 17/05/2011 5:11:15 PM “Father, forgive them, they know not what they do…” ... ... was not in the first bibles -.....
» 14/05/2011 1:38:19 PM "Mendel's theories were ignored for decades after publication, possibly as they were .....
» 12/05/2011 7:55:17 AM >> "I don't know about you, but I think if I fell ill, I'd be relying on scient.....
» 11/05/2011 1:31:11 PM "As far as I'm concerned it is not the churches imposing their opinions on secularist.....
» 10/05/2011 11:03:31 AM Tess, constructive roles in Afghanistan and Iraq for the sake of those countries and thei.....
» 10/05/2011 7:37:16 AM Yes, Bush and his caliphate did make bin Laden bigger. Particularly by being arrogant in .....
» 10/05/2011 7:32:05 AM Evolution was validated by the modern evolutionary synthesis in the 1940s when a few put t.....
» 8/05/2011 7:58:31 PM "Yes he does live in a pluralistc society, so should not society respect his choices .....
» 8/05/2011 11:36:29 AM Re Tacitus on Jesus, Christ, and "Chrestians", What Tacticus wrote is frequentl.....
» 7/05/2011 5:00:18 PM There is virtually no support for a historical Jesus outside the 4 canonical gospels - jus.....
» 6/05/2011 3:31:13 PM "In secular countries like England, the US, and Canada, Christians are already being .....
» 5/05/2011 9:09:31 PM ""I realise that many do want religion taught objectively, but I am also acknowl.....
» 5/05/2011 8:11:04 PM "Do you want a generation of passive clones that just do what everyone else does and .....
» 5/05/2011 4:05:59 PM Houellebecq et al, Many 'secularists' are happy to have general religious education (GRE).....
» 4/05/2011 7:08:07 PM Shockadelic, Wednesday, 4 May 2011 6:34:30 PM SRI/E is not entirely voluntary, though. Th.....
» 4/05/2011 10:43:55 AM Nick the view the absence of a a relgious chaplain (Christian or Muslim) would lead to &qu.....
» 4/05/2011 8:42:54 AM "Just three parents and a few militant secularists " - a lobby group, Rob? &quo.....
» 4/05/2011 8:35:43 AM " ... the truth that one cannot understand Western literature without understanding t.....
» 3/05/2011 10:50:14 AM Saltpetre, sorry meant ID......
» 2/05/2011 6:28:34 PM @ Saltpetre, Mon, 2 May, 1:59am Thanks for your elaborate discussion of the short retort .....
» 1/05/2011 9:45:21 PM "natural selection doesn't mean dog-eat-dog, it means who is fittest to survive and p.....
» 30/04/2011 3:40:02 PM ".... we should be asking how tolerant is a minority lobby determined to redefine an .....
» 30/04/2011 3:36:54 PM SamSaid, Reasoning is more like 'formal argument' and critical discussionas a means of di.....
» 29/04/2011 6:59:08 AM "even science as clever as it seems to be can only insert genes [chromosones]..into .....
» 28/04/2011 7:04:19 AM runner, Stalin remained religious all his life, especially having a moment with God while .....
» 27/04/2011 12:51:33 PM @ Senior Victorian, Wednesday, 27 April 2011 12:28:40 PM I would concur, with some qualif.....
» 26/04/2011 7:36:17 PM "There can be no compromise to one's religious beliefs," The church's "ab.....
» 25/04/2011 5:30:17 PM @ Jim Wallace ACL, @ Monday, 25 April 2011 7:52:20 AM & 8:23:15 AM What really is the sig.....
» 24/04/2011 11:21:32 PM link for the previous post http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features.....
» 24/04/2011 11:20:49 PM "forgive them not they know no what they do?" Posted by Tristan Ewins, Sunday, 2.....
» 22/04/2011 10:29:43 PM http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/22722 Posted by runner, Friday, 22 April.....
» 22/04/2011 9:20:52 PM "The corrupt nature of mankind justifies all sorts of abomination which is coverered .....
» 22/04/2011 7:47:20 AM "infested by crime and welfare dependent prone ethnic groups who want to get into the.....
» 21/04/2011 6:47:46 PM "According to the booklet published by the Australian Government - "Becoming an.....
» 21/04/2011 6:22:24 PM "Like the Prime Minister Julia Gillard, ACL does however believe that marriage betwee.....
» 13/04/2011 10:53:58 AM I do think western Imperialism has been and is a scourge on the developing world, but disa.....
» 13/04/2011 7:01:35 AM LEGO, Stating you are racist and then claiming you 'express rational ideas' is as about a.....
» 12/04/2011 7:35:28 PM Gaddafi orders storm of Benghazi as UN meets 'Moamar Gaddafi has told Libyan rebels his a.....
» 12/04/2011 7:21:30 PM "The Euro-American attack on Libya has nothing to do with protecting anyone" Th.....
» 11/04/2011 2:32:40 PM runner, Monday, 11 April 2011 1:23:30 PM There is, or was, no child to need compassion. .....
» 7/04/2011 1:56:09 PM promote what views, runner - that rape without regret is OK? That pregnancy as a result of.....
» 6/04/2011 9:26:31 AM Philo, There is no indication I can see that the author has had an abortion herself. Yo.....
» 4/04/2011 9:58:28 AM "This demonstrated that the decisions these Gay men made was purely of their mind and.....
» 4/04/2011 7:16:46 AM " if God had intervened ... how would any of our extended families, friends and the c.....
» 2/04/2011 3:27:20 PM David, I would equally contend that there are religious people who call themselves secula.....
» 2/04/2011 1:36:29 PM correction/addition there are not those *who* explicitly use "secularism as an offen.....
» 2/04/2011 1:28:36 PM "those who use secularism as an offensive weapon to curtail the right of, say, religi.....
» 2/04/2011 6:09:54 AM Philo (Friday, 1 April 2011 6:18:08pm) Proposing God is "the idea of accountability .....
» 1/04/2011 3:23:53 PM David Palmer, 11:23:28am Yes, religious persecution has been going on ever since religion.....
» 1/04/2011 10:05:43 AM " .. I would not use the argument against euthanasia that "palliative care can e.....
» 1/04/2011 9:52:10 AM Many perceive Secularism as a negative, when it can also be a positive by allowing an equa.....
» 1/04/2011 8:10:50 AM I agree religiousness and spirituality can be viewed individually and as group-think, alth.....
» 31/03/2011 11:45:49 AM @ Tess Lawrence, today 10:41:31am Cheers. "One of the salient lessons learned throu.....
» 31/03/2011 10:25:21 AM Tess Lawrence, today 9:57:27am Thanks for the prompt response. My views on Kristina havin.....
» 31/03/2011 9:28:30 AM Opal Office? I thought you might be advocating Kristina knock Palin out of a tilt at the W.....
» 30/03/2011 6:41:43 PM >>...it's not drawing that long a bow to assert a causal relationship from the latte.....
» 25/03/2011 7:28:30 PM " the number of unborn that the ungodly kill every year in this nation fr outweighs t.....
» 12/03/2011 12:22:40 PM Yes, runner, darker skin people are evolutionarily superior to whiter skin people, includi.....
» 12/03/2011 5:53:25 AM Lego, I would like to retract my agreement about your definition of racism and subsequent.....
» 11/03/2011 6:07:39 PM stevenlmeyer, Fri 11 Mar, 1:52:22 PM I'm not sure multiculturalism is pushed for the sake.....
» 11/03/2011 3:43:27 PM "The very act of having a border to your country is an act of" ... statehood or .....
» 11/03/2011 6:20:11 AM Lego In relation to a few tens of thousand of years of human civilisation, it is only in .....
» 10/03/2011 10:22:05 AM "the only crime of the players has been to have casual sex with her. ..." @ benk.....
» 9/03/2011 5:16:50 AM (1Co 6:9-10) runner, Tues, 8 March, 12:15:02 PM The King James Version of the Bible tran.....
» 4/03/2011 3:16:27 PM Wow! The lack of empathy for the Palestinians is palpable......
» 4/03/2011 5:59:46 AM Dan S de Merengue, Thursday, 3 March 2011 10:26:48 PM Way to miss the point entirely, Dan.....
» 2/03/2011 6:52:30 AM Spin - that is all that religion and it's adherents have......
» 19/02/2011 10:46:23 AM ""In my view, the Greens hate Christianity because the parties leader is a homos.....
» 18/02/2011 8:33:03 AM Rhian, Thursday, 17 February 2011 3:22:28 PM North Korea has a cult of religious personal.....
» 11/02/2011 1:28:58 PM The proposal that homoeopathy is a primitive form of vaccine is a false one - it is not. .....
» 11/02/2011 7:50:50 AM A good couple of articles, with more links in them http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfre.....
» 8/02/2011 8:50:30 AM The figure of 80% in favour probably comes from polls conducted through on-line media. Op.....
» 7/02/2011 6:13:36 PM One thing that has intrigued me is repeated claims in news.com.au and its subsidiaries tha.....
» 7/02/2011 6:09:02 PM ""I also stated on the ABC a week before Yasi arrived that I thought there was a.....
» 7/02/2011 11:15:05 AM "It is true local people have a lot of good local knowledge but other experts may hav.....
» 7/02/2011 8:31:14 AM "Were those AGW activists claims made about conditions expected now in 2011, or at so.....
» 6/02/2011 2:11:01 PM rpg, Yasi was Not a Category 3 when it crossed the coast: it was a Cat 5 when it hit Miss.....
» 5/02/2011 6:55:25 PM "" AGW activists claimed that Global Warming would bring about an endless drough.....
» 5/02/2011 6:45:13 PM Gods sense of humour varies for His different sects. Conversely, their sense of humour a.....
» 5/02/2011 6:33:26 PM correction - Attempts to standardise education across the states nationwide are to be appl.....
» 5/02/2011 6:30:59 PM The private v public debate is generally unproductive as rational-debate says. It seems f.....
» 2/02/2011 8:59:46 AM The best hope for the aspirations of the people of Egypt and other Middle east autocracies.....
» 28/01/2011 10:19:14 AM ALGOREisRICH, Thursday, 27 January 2011 8:25:28 PM The DSMs are determined by the America.....
» 14/01/2011 2:41:54 PM It would seem appropriate to move dwellings and other buildings from the flood plains of R.....
» 2/01/2011 10:40:37 PM Moreover, the earliest biblical description of the resurrection appearances of Jesus (Paul.....
» 2/01/2011 10:40:17 PM AndrewFinden "Could you also please explain why a created myth would contain so much .....
» 2/01/2011 10:27:57 PM A. "If your argument stands on the Tacitus reference" Of course it doesn't - th.....
» 2/01/2011 5:36:43 PM AndrewFinden 1. The issue is not the spellings, and I do not contend there are errors. Th.....
» 1/01/2011 5:17:16 AM >> The core of your argument is: "there is scant non-biblical evidence for Jesu.....
» 31/12/2010 9:52:31 PM The core of your argument is: "there is scant non-biblical evidence for Jesus." .....
» 31/12/2010 5:58:04 AM AustralianWhig89, Thursday, 30 December 2010 1:36:37 PM The heck with federalism and the .....
» 30/12/2010 4:06:14 PM AndrewFinden Your repeated charges of ad hominem and spurious are tiresome, and laughable.....
» 27/12/2010 10:35:10 AM "Occasionally people ask why there is no record of Jesus in Roman records. The answer.....
» 23/12/2010 2:23:03 PM "" the real mystery is that someone who managed to do all those amazing things ......
» 22/12/2010 10:25:28 PM @ AndrewFinden 88 You keep trotting out a spurious ad hominem accusations, when I have no.....
» 22/12/2010 5:34:07 AM @AndrewFinden Yes, I am prepared to accept the *arguments* of some [biblical] scholars, a.....
» 21/12/2010 6:15:12 PM Yes, Josephus said something about Jesus, but the significance is vague. http://en.wikipe.....
» 21/12/2010 11:13:10 AM ""Ironically you seem to be basing your opinions on hearsay "" Posted .....
» 21/12/2010 6:55:54 AM "" .. for me as a Christian the question of whether or not Jesus trod the earth .....
» 20/12/2010 9:25:38 PM AndrewFinden, Monday, 20 December 2010 6:37:41 PM I agree Erhman thinks Jesus was a perso.....
» 20/12/2010 4:28:29 PM ""Saul (Paul) was on his way to arrest troublesome Jesus followers in Damascus ......
» 20/12/2010 10:21:00 AM crabsy 1. arguing about a poor analogy is unnecessary 2. If the appeal to the authority i.....
» 20/12/2010 5:59:12 AM "It is legitimate to appeal to an expert opinion, provided room for contradiction is .....
» 19/12/2010 8:09:07 PM Rhian, An appeal to authority is fallacious if the appeal is to the authority rather than.....
» 19/12/2010 6:21:25 AM boxgum, Saturday, 18 December 2010 9:28:24 PM Those stories are likely to be as true as H.....
» 18/12/2010 12:58:54 PM ALGOREisRICH [Saturday, 18 Dec 12:51:17 PM] Paul writes ideological epistles to followers.....
» 18/12/2010 12:52:16 PM That Josephus mentions Jesus does not point to his existence. The fact is virtually all .....
» 18/12/2010 10:37:25 AM L.B.Loveday (Saturday, 18 Dec 10:15:16 AM) There is no evidence for Jesus of the Bible ou.....
» 17/12/2010 11:53:36 AM Cornflower, I didn't 'tar all with the same brush' - I said "a (singular) rock-concer.....
» 17/12/2010 11:48:16 AM <<the adult male who (homo)sexually molests young boys is not likely to be homosexua.....
» 17/12/2010 11:41:00 AM Fine well stop teaching kids the adult fairytale of the big bang, sex education without mo.....
» 17/12/2010 11:35:03 AM ""From the article, <I was outraged. “Bloody Christians!” I hissed, “They sti.....
» 17/12/2010 10:38:05 AM ""the mental and emotional abuse of [children] having strange adults tell them t.....
» 16/12/2010 10:26:08 PM Here's a homosexual fact (sic): Men who have sex with men are 40-80 times more likely to c.....
» 16/12/2010 10:20:26 PM "The Anglican Church is a liturgical and non-confessional church. "Anglicanism i.....
» 16/12/2010 8:09:16 PM ALGOREisRICH, 6:36:16 PM Of course the Church was - and is - a tad more than morons follo.....
» 16/12/2010 11:46:23 AM diver dan As a christian, you would have to accept homosexuality is god-given to humanity.....
» 16/12/2010 10:56:57 AM L.B.Loveday, Thursday, 16 December 2010 9:57:44 AM runner, Thursday, 16 December 2010 10:4.....
» 16/12/2010 9:01:39 AM Nice use of Tu quoque, LB Loveday......
» 16/12/2010 5:26:44 AM ""Contemporary scholarship favours the view that Jesus, if he existed (and it is.....
» 15/12/2010 7:38:40 PM ""But to rid schools of well controlled RE would be sad if nothing else. Childre.....
» 14/12/2010 8:36:45 AM ... The "fundamental objective [of marriage] is the continuity/ perepetuation/ reprod.....
» 9/12/2010 4:49:42 PM runner, Thursday, 9 December 2010 1:42:23 PM That assumes a degree of clearing - optimal .....
» 9/12/2010 1:20:32 PM "Don't forget that during the bushfires some high priests of the gw faith blamed clim.....
» 9/12/2010 9:12:23 AM Proxy said: <<What sort of biological imperative drives homosexuals to plant their .....
» 8/12/2010 3:25:51 PM Just re-read Pell's diatribe - "Cardinal Pell said education was not enough to crea.....
» 8/12/2010 3:08:48 PM "To call evolution science is deceit at best ..." Posted by runner, Wednesday, 8.....
» 7/12/2010 12:21:36 PM The morality between or amongst the various churches and religious organisations are arbit.....
» 7/12/2010 12:20:01 PM JP, I think you were addressing AJ Phillips. However, you caught my attention " if .....
» 7/12/2010 11:07:57 AM runner, it generally doesn't matter what individuals think; it is what the collective thin.....
» 7/12/2010 9:14:34 AM * ""concern for those children who are deliberately deprived of their natural bi.....
» 1/12/2010 8:34:42 AM In third world countries young women are least likely to be able to negotiate abstinence o.....
» 30/11/2010 9:35:12 PM I forgot to read the url http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15047a.htm before posting, where .....
» 30/11/2010 9:27:38 PM ""First mentioned Theophilus of Antioch about A.D. 180, the Trinity was further .....
» 25/11/2010 8:27:53 AM "they want the repectability of "marriage" but be free to screw anything th.....
» 24/11/2010 8:07:20 PM @ Yuyutsu, Tuesday, 23 Nov 10:59:23 PM Y: "what about children who do NOT want to be.....
» 23/11/2010 6:36:39 PM Yuyutsu (Mon 22 Nov 5:35:59 PM) One of the key points in my post was "education auth.....
» 22/11/2010 5:21:28 PM ""Education is the duty and privilege of parents. Teachers and schools are mere .....
» 22/11/2010 12:53:19 PM "" This overlooks entirely that the policy of the Department and the strictures .....
» 22/11/2010 12:50:21 PM The ‘state education’ system is neither a state system nor a secular one. It has always be.....
» 9/11/2010 8:16:12 PM runner, correction - "backyard abortions would be practised [even] if abortion were .....
» 9/11/2010 3:34:44 PM runner, nothing is more clear than "abortion will be practised (i.e. performed) wheth.....
» 9/11/2010 12:02:48 PM runner, it is not logical to align or conflate abortion legality with gay marriage illegal.....
» 8/11/2010 10:11:31 PM "How do you define "reasoning"? Is it just what YOU agree with? Is everythi.....
» 8/11/2010 6:54:07 PM "virtually all laws are formulated on an ideological basis. It just depends what your.....
» 7/11/2010 8:37:47 PM The survey was 400 people - 200 hundred in Brisbane and 200 Rest of QLD, which would favou.....
» 7/11/2010 8:03:27 PM " So why was the case brought to trial then? The purpose of the courts is public just.....
» 7/11/2010 3:12:38 PM ""The speed with which a jury delivered a not guilty verdict in the recent abort.....
» 5/11/2010 9:14:25 AM It is a pity that the reporting of a seemingly good survey is clouded by some tangential a.....
» 31/10/2010 2:26:40 PM Danielle, Sat 30 Oct, 9:18pm Yes, let's be fair ... Australia has been a predominantly C.....
» 26/10/2010 7:33:46 PM R0bert, ALGOREisRICH, Secularism ought to be neutral on balance, and allow religion and o.....
» 26/10/2010 6:49:09 AM If you are not justified in the name of Allah, then you are not justified. This is righteo.....
» 25/10/2010 5:05:05 PM Runner, funny how you quote someone else's quote back to me; I was more philosophical abou.....
» 25/10/2010 4:10:25 PM "21.05.2011" Posted by 579, Monday, 25 October 2010 3:05:34 PM Is that another .....
» 25/10/2010 11:46:37 AM runner, the "dogma" of secularism allows the Scriptures to persist, not resists .....
» 25/10/2010 10:41:09 AM Vanna, you and people like you just don't get it, do you? Secularism is not about taking .....
» 25/10/2010 10:39:36 AM Authority from (i) the sister of a scientologist's husband, and (ii) Duran Duran, Pericles.....
» 25/10/2010 8:18:27 AM "A new way to maintain faith in a conservative church" might not include ".....
» 21/10/2010 8:56:45 AM I'm not sure the enthusiasm went beyond the quarter of Australains who are Catholic, nor i.....
» 19/10/2010 5:45:59 PM popnperish, Tuesday, 19 October 2010 2:29:36 PM The term survival of the fittest was coin.....
» 19/10/2010 9:27:16 AM Rodney Crisp has covered most issues quite well. The 'argument from ignorance' fallacy al.....
» 19/10/2010 9:02:09 AM There are some good points in Gilbert's article, but they are suppressed by conflating var.....
» 18/10/2010 9:07:39 PM Dan S de Merengue, in no way do I want my specific views about an early term fetus to be e.....
» 18/10/2010 6:42:48 PM Perhaps a fetus can be said to begin to be an individual when the love and desire of a its.....
» 18/10/2010 4:54:44 PM Rudy, I disagree abortion is killing an individual, even late term abortions for fetuses t.....
» 18/10/2010 1:16:24 PM Rudy, conception results in a zygote, which develops in 4 days to a blastocyst (of about 7.....
» 16/10/2010 6:50:31 PM Stezza et al, the nerve fibres of the "periphery" of the fetus do not transmit n.....
» 15/10/2010 6:44:25 PM runner, it is not just "the abortionist" - a service-provider - it is society as.....
» 11/10/2010 3:05:03 PM "" .. many proponents of the evolution myth would have us believe that we are im.....
» 10/10/2010 1:51:20 PM ""Really, McReal ? David G wrote on Friday: "We don't have to fill in form.....
» 10/10/2010 8:53:36 AM [quote] Just "throw Momma off the train" and let's get on with life, shall we? [.....
» 8/10/2010 10:30:50 AM "" .. to make euthanasia the priority without fixing the aged care system is put.....
» 4/10/2010 6:08:11 PM >> ""America has no separation of church and state either and people who s.....
» 4/10/2010 5:39:52 PM 2-3,000 years of theo-political sexism takes a while to shake off, Melinda......
» 1/10/2010 5:09:45 PM The title references PM Gillard, but the bulk of the article is a tirade against medical g.....
» 25/09/2010 10:01:18 PM quote ""Atheism is NOT an intellectual position, but rather, it is the non-exist.....
» 24/09/2010 6:17:48 PM runner, Origin of Species is more a historic text now we have moved beyond the Modern Evol.....
» 24/09/2010 12:37:27 PM "Stalin tried to eliminate religion and failed. What would you do differently to the .....
» 24/09/2010 9:48:04 AM I agree, OzAndy, we need common ground for education, and valid information, and not just .....
» 24/09/2010 9:02:51 AM Well said, Cathy Byrne. It is time for religion to enter the modern world by critically a.....
» 24/09/2010 8:53:48 AM You are right to mention ego, and ego and pride are what drives most, even those who deny .....
» 21/09/2010 7:07:03 AM The attacks by prominent Catholics - such as the Pope or Sydney's Anthony Fisher - on athe.....
» 17/09/2010 3:40:27 PM @ mac: of course it's not their responsibility. It probably was the Brits when they were t.....
» 17/09/2010 11:39:59 AM mac, I didn't mean lumping them together - I mean for Jordan (and Egypt) to give land for .....
» 17/09/2010 9:54:08 AM correction, omit 'when' and 'in' ... The ironies include close DNA links between Palesti.....
» 17/09/2010 9:52:02 AM I have often thought a solution to the Palestine-Israel conflict was acquire more land for.....
» 17/09/2010 9:28:05 AM The beatification of Newman has been relegated to a secondary event by Benedict/Ratzinger'.....
» 14/09/2010 7:45:21 PM inkblot, I mentioned Josephus in my brief post, so for you to command me to read widely is.....
» 14/09/2010 2:36:40 PM runner, hope he does to both!.....
» 14/09/2010 1:11:35 PM inkblot, the gospels do not meet historical standards, literary standards, or literary-sta.....
» 14/09/2010 11:45:06 AM "Kevin Rudd in the background still has power over this government, which, no doubt, .....
» 14/09/2010 11:22:45 AM ""As he prepared to martyr himself by attacking the Holsworthy army base, allege.....
» 14/09/2010 10:17:09 AM Makes one feel for Julia, with mad egomaniacs to the left, mad egomaniacs to the right, an.....
» 13/09/2010 1:46:48 PM "the belief that Megan Fox [or Brad Pitt?] is just about to ring me up for a hot date.....
» 13/09/2010 12:52:04 PM runner and think than move "If we assume that all of the estimates are of equal vali.....
» 13/09/2010 10:38:31 AM An appeal to a nebulous theory about evolutionary advantage, or appeal to tradition, will .....
» 11/09/2010 2:43:23 PM "You know, when in Rome do as the Romans do." Posted by Constance, Friday, 10 Se.....
» 10/09/2010 9:46:32 PM "Mother Theresa - and who else was there for the dying?" Posted by Constance, Fr.....
» 10/09/2010 4:29:41 PM "Hollywood along the porn industry has desensitized people to anything decent." .....
» 10/09/2010 12:42:29 PM Book burning is barbaric, especially symbolic book burning......
» 10/09/2010 11:48:43 AM ""The problem, I think, that the state has with same sex marriage is that it fal.....
» 10/09/2010 10:46:07 AM "" the Quran belongs to all people, it is part of the human treasury and the Qur.....
» 9/09/2010 5:09:33 PM runner, the word of God has changed from the Olde Testament to the New (with many Christia.....
» 9/09/2010 4:30:58 PM runner, contraception is probably un-related to teen suicide, except perhaps for those wit.....
» 9/09/2010 11:53:05 AM @ runner, god of you to acknowledge "decency promoted by secularism" - why do yo.....
» 9/09/2010 11:50:59 AM @ runner - good of you to acknowledge secularists have a conscience. Yep, need to do more .....
» 9/09/2010 9:47:14 AM "" .. in 2010, Christianity is being pushed underground. Thanks to “multicultura.....
» 8/09/2010 1:59:46 PM ""It is hilarous that most of those opposing Chaplains have no problem with thei.....
» 3/09/2010 12:57:46 PM " there exists a mountain of social science research which demonstrates that children.....
» 31/08/2010 2:04:47 PM correction ... *there* being answers at the end .........
» 31/08/2010 2:03:20 PM ""By making it about right/wrong, not freedom, atheists fall into the same trap .....
» 31/08/2010 9:58:06 AM "I am the light of the world, he who follows me will not walk in darkness" (Jesu.....
» 30/08/2010 9:45:24 AM To say "the basic building blocks of reality, at least when they’re not being observe.....
» 27/08/2010 4:23:40 PM @ JonJ - an issue with better remuneration is: will it really attract a better quality of .....
» 27/08/2010 9:40:05 AM I think the main problem is one of attracting people addicted to institutionalisation: a l.....
» 24/08/2010 2:06:52 PM "Being able to wear religious headdress is a freedom." Yes, all should be free .....
» 24/08/2010 10:48:53 AM @ The Blue Cross LOL. Considering she surmised in her Master of Theology thesis that God .....
» 24/08/2010 9:41:51 AM "Many (ALP rank and file) didn't think Keneally was a good choice for local member . .....
» 23/08/2010 8:03:03 AM Rhian, there were dozens of social and spirit-seeking experiments at the time: Gnosticism,.....
» 20/08/2010 10:50:07 AM Abbott's scheme is obscene over-indulgence and contradicts his claim to offer good economi.....
» 20/08/2010 8:00:47 AM The Greens policy on abortion will have no bearing on what happens after the election, nor.....
» 19/08/2010 1:25:14 PM Yes, Eric G, there is a paucity of understanding about the continuum of human sexuality, a.....
» 19/08/2010 1:02:52 PM @ GREENUP "electing a pro-abortion PM, with pro-abortion Greens with the balance of p.....
» 19/08/2010 11:12:06 AM I agree - ""It should make no difference what the exact cause(s) of homosexualit.....
» 19/08/2010 11:06:07 AM @ Celivia (Thursday, 19 August 2010 10:42:03 AM) I agree that homosexuality is likely to .....
» 19/08/2010 10:51:40 AM runner, Most would agree we ought to push and work for a lower abortion rate. Your fixatio.....
» 19/08/2010 10:18:07 AM What Tony Abbott could get away with doing (and to a certain extent, saying) as PM would d.....
» 19/08/2010 10:02:12 AM ""The Greens offer death to the children of unprepared mums and dads as a soluti.....
» 19/08/2010 9:53:37 AM ""I have been a Scripture teacher for a few years now and have not met Federally.....
» 19/08/2010 7:39:56 AM >""The act of homosexuality is abhorrent to the normal heterosexual majority .....
» 18/08/2010 1:46:29 PM "So it is more important to you that lesbians and gay get their latest accessory (a c.....
» 18/08/2010 11:44:19 AM " .. present absolute moral standards of your own!" Posted by Verbose Philosophe.....
» 18/08/2010 11:09:23 AM "Why save trees, if there are no people to benefit from the clean air?" Liz Unch.....
» 18/08/2010 9:02:54 AM godly values and godly policies? wrath? flood? stonings? They seem to be actions "ca.....
» 18/08/2010 7:44:13 AM " this is an extremely important doctrine!" @ Eclipse Now Rubbish - it's fictio.....
» 18/08/2010 7:23:39 AM "All the parties are secular but some reflect more than others the values of God.&quo.....
» 18/08/2010 7:15:23 AM Christianity is based on Gnostic-like epistles of Paul that invoke a lot of Old Testament .....
» 14/08/2010 9:03:53 AM >> ""... the ones who protest the loudest ...."" Celivia, Friday.....
» 13/08/2010 8:05:11 PM Proxy, your post callously reminded me that my dog turned down my proposal of marriage. Ho.....
» 13/08/2010 7:16:14 PM Someone who has received their self-righteousness because of belief in God will, at very l.....
» 13/08/2010 3:32:25 PM Stern, Friday, 13 August 2010 3:02:43 PM ""what happens between private individu.....
» 13/08/2010 9:53:15 AM Proxy, Thursday, 12 August 2010 7:13:59 PM There are a few stories about individuals like.....
» 13/08/2010 9:41:53 AM The Catholic church strongly supports Evolutionary Theory as the tools by which God works.....
» 13/08/2010 9:39:44 AM >>"Your last three definitions [of secularism] oppose the first three."<.....
» 12/08/2010 10:17:53 PM As far as secularism goes, I like the following discussion from http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/.....
» 12/08/2010 2:39:37 PM runner Soon after the initial theory of Evolution was put forward simultaneously by Darwi.....
» 12/08/2010 12:08:28 PM With reference to a "moral stand against such disgusting acts as homosexuality.".....
» 12/08/2010 11:28:49 AM david f, Thursday, 12 August 2010 11:21:40 AM Severin wrote ""This idea of a &.....
» 12/08/2010 11:20:59 AM Why all the special pleading for Christians to have something to care about? Where have t.....
» 11/08/2010 10:00:31 AM ""In 2007, Australians didn’t know about the GFC. In 2000, Americans didn’t know.....
» 3/08/2010 9:38:47 AM Spot on, Greg Lees. The filter is highly likely to be a ploy to stop free flow of informat.....
» 29/07/2010 9:30:05 AM The new paradigm is man-made, too. A compilation of the most favoured stories at the time;.....
» 27/07/2010 12:15:02 PM @ozzie: I can understand your comment starting "as a general rule ..." and 'a po.....
» 27/07/2010 9:11:35 AM The main issues with Dr Jayant Patel were the lack of oversight by the QLD Health authorit.....
» 26/07/2010 7:34:02 PM A very good article it is too, david f, finishing with reference to the constitution of th.....
» 26/07/2010 1:35:40 PM [aside] .. runner, projections about the fate of individuals born from 'pregnancies-not-te.....
» 26/07/2010 11:18:02 AM Secularism can also include religious tolerance - an equal place for all beliefs including.....
» 21/07/2010 10:11:36 PM "Homosexuals have been around for centuries which suggests it is nothing new nor anyt.....
» 21/07/2010 9:36:03 AM "" homosexuality is a perversion, and if you are part of that perversion, that’s.....
» 20/07/2010 10:48:30 PM Ken Fabos, it is not solely the responsibility of one person (the Oz PM). It is a Govt cau.....
» 20/07/2010 10:41:18 PM Rhetoric cannot solve problems, that's for sure, whether it is rhetoric for or against one.....
» 20/07/2010 10:10:50 AM ""Circle the wagons around your State; cement your convictions; prepare your fam.....
» 20/07/2010 10:02:19 AM Good economics is not just "built on on buoying economic prosperity" - it is bui.....
» 19/07/2010 5:51:21 PM Leigh, homosexuality is not a choice for most homosexuals - it is probably an innate feeli.....
» 19/07/2010 5:47:12 PM Secular can mean * separation of state and church(es) * freedom for religions (to not be .....
» 13/07/2010 10:20:58 AM ""I see religion as a safety net "The world as one." think than move,.....
» 11/07/2010 8:18:50 PM FACTS ON NOAH'S ARK Much is learned about the nature of the narrative about God from this.....
» 8/07/2010 9:37:48 AM The greens are going to have to get more credibility for mainstream politics such as econo.....
» 7/07/2010 5:04:37 PM "" they recycle John Howards Pacific Solution." Well, it is better to have.....
» 7/07/2010 11:02:17 AM When recently asked in an interview "What skills would you bring to the job [of ICC V.....
» 7/07/2010 10:08:39 AM ""In the light of the present plight of Christopher Hitchins [of having oespohag.....
» 7/07/2010 9:58:20 AM bigred, I agree with nairbe. It goes beyond testing - * it goes to the outcomes of tes.....
» 5/07/2010 7:07:09 PM @ Richie10 - I appreciate the benefits of religion such as Christianity to many who apply .....
» 5/07/2010 7:03:57 PM @ Shadyoasis (Monday, 5 July 2010 10:38:44 AM) I don't think an open letter like that sho.....
» 5/07/2010 9:51:32 AM Oh dear! Appeal to one person's "worldview" and also an appeal that one person's.....
» 5/07/2010 9:41:24 AM You doth protest too much, Melinda. When I came to Australia 22 years ago, I was amazed at.....
» 5/07/2010 7:56:53 AM Richie10, as you quoted, the Lords Prayer refers to the Father's will, although a lot of t.....
» 4/07/2010 11:02:26 PM Richie 10, "Free will" is denied by some Christian branches or denominations, pa.....
» 4/07/2010 2:44:33 PM "" .... about the broader question of why religions should be granted any right .....
» 4/07/2010 9:21:26 AM The usual narrow cannards are trotted out as bare assertions, red-herrings, false dichotom.....
» 30/06/2010 7:47:40 AM Rudd's fall has been a long time coming, and it was mostly self-inflicted......
» 28/06/2010 1:21:20 PM rexw - well said! The trend is towards secular, non-sectarian politics and any political .....
» 28/06/2010 12:08:04 PM Aspley - hardly journalists fault - more so Party machines that rewards clowns like the ru.....
» 28/06/2010 10:52:04 AM The Australian political landscape has too many opportunities for too many 'wanna-be's to .....
» 16/06/2010 5:32:54 PM @ The Blue Cross, (re Wednesday, 16 June 2010 2:33:04 PM) The predatory attitude in that .....
» 16/06/2010 2:21:58 PM @ The Blue Cross (Wed 16 June 10:24:24 AM) GRE seems to be a good balance presentation (i.....
» 16/06/2010 10:04:41 AM ""denial of access to information about faith is not, by default, secular 'prose.....
» 15/06/2010 9:16:24 PM runner, most situations have straight-forward answers. Some situations require more cognit.....
» 15/06/2010 4:14:47 PM Morals and ethics are a community issue, so go beyond parental influence when such parenta.....
» 5/06/2010 9:38:08 PM @ Formersnag - those ""who proselytise about 'the greatest moral challenge of ou.....
» 4/06/2010 11:58:52 AM ""Given the mountains of data from studies along the lines "- Religious peo.....
» 4/06/2010 10:55:01 AM Max Wallace's reference to Australia being a soft theocracy is all too relevant given the .....
» 31/05/2010 10:13:10 AM Evolution can be seen as continuation of the biological work by the premier biological con.....
» 20/05/2010 6:23:21 PM runner, Thursday, 20 May 2010 6:11:58 PM runner - it is reasonable to expect the referenc.....
» 20/05/2010 6:21:46 PM vanna, To have some rational information for some ration debate, Go back and open the lin.....
» 20/05/2010 11:47:10 AM vanna it is nutty to apply entropy overwhelmingly to geological or biological events or s.....
» 20/05/2010 11:39:11 AM The role of the pill is overstated, given the many other changes in society in the last 50.....
» 20/05/2010 10:00:51 AM Peterson, Thursday, 20 May 2010 12:56:54 AM You're point about evolution being "a to.....
» 17/05/2010 6:08:11 PM runner Can you provide some rational discussion about evolution, or data to support your .....
» 17/05/2010 11:17:11 AM Yes, Pauline has that heady mix of bitterness, fighting spirit, and manipulation. All to n.....
» 16/05/2010 10:30:51 AM ""consider that evolution is extremely poor science." runner .. Saturday, 1.....
» 15/05/2010 7:53:33 PM runner, you might like to consider the proposition that ID is bad theology - http://www.....
» 14/05/2010 12:25:47 PM The Guardian (UK) Comment-is-Free section ran a recent series of blogs on this, starting h.....
» 14/05/2010 8:34:41 AM Well stated - succinct & salient. The current and previous Popes (Benedict XVI and John-P.....
» 13/05/2010 6:31:06 PM ""McReal,You stated: "No laws will stop the informal hastening of death tha.....
» 12/05/2010 9:40:00 AM "The Remmelink Report is ...." Posted by Proxy, Tuesday, 11 May 2010 9:49:46 PM .....
» 11/05/2010 8:54:07 PM "I believe in everyone's right to top themselves. In fact, the more the merrier. &qu.....
» 11/05/2010 2:50:54 PM 'The Pope’s arrogant statement that the ill should pray to find “the grace to accept, with.....
» 11/05/2010 2:36:05 PM runner, you categorise people with a view about one thing (eg gw) as having the same view .....
» 2/05/2010 9:33:14 PM There aren't many political leaders that spent as much time in religious educational insti.....
» 2/05/2010 9:40:28 AM addendum - to elaborate on where guarding the tongue might be inappropriate - where someon.....
» 2/05/2010 9:37:58 AM If you are an atheist "what do you teach about guarding the tongue", or, if you .....
» 1/05/2010 12:17:37 PM "".. we will all face judgement, and showing true love for others means trying t.....
» 29/04/2010 10:41:34 AM "The price to be paid for a political settlement with those who want to assert their .....
» 28/04/2010 5:17:27 PM @ GordoPollo - the question was not clear, and I think the portion I quoted would suffice .....
» 28/04/2010 2:29:37 PM ""so many of them are evangelical Xtians." The Blue Cross, Wednesday, 28 Ap.....
» 28/04/2010 9:44:34 AM Mary, ""in 1990, ... The Arizona church tribunal referred the [Reverend Michae.....
» 27/04/2010 10:37:59 PM Justice for who, Gordo Pollo? The accused? The abusers? Their protectors? Or, the victi.....
» 27/04/2010 8:59:15 PM @ Proxy, Sunday, 25 April 2010 4:17:55 PM Whether a homosexual person has a high risk of .....
» 27/04/2010 7:51:24 PM TAC, to say "a sunset surely points to Someone else" and "A Mozart symphony.....
» 27/04/2010 3:45:41 PM Parents should not be the primary educators: society and the community should ensure educa.....
» 27/04/2010 1:54:14 PM Philosophy is the study of knowledge and ideas to discerne truth, logic and ethics. Philo.....
» 27/04/2010 1:51:27 PM Most estimates are that about 33% of Catholic clergy and priests are homosexual http://ww.....
» 27/04/2010 12:39:15 PM General Religious Education (GRE) is part of the curriculum in all NSW schools (Yr3?) and .....
» 27/04/2010 12:26:08 PM Mary, I too have faith in humanity; faith that it will shy away from the types of behaviou.....
» 25/04/2010 3:18:34 PM @ Proxy Religious indoctrination generally denigrates other beliefs or others' belief. Se.....
» 25/04/2010 8:33:55 AM Hasbeen (Sat 24 April 10:25:33 AM) and suzeonline (Sat 24 April 12:21:12 AM) make good poi.....
» 16/04/2010 7:44:00 PM Good article, David. One wonders what the overwhelmingly good people in the pews thought o.....
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