That Christianity, and Judaism, demand a secular, or at least dualist society where church and state are separate, was the theme of Father Robert Sirico at the CIS’s Acton Lecture last night. (The CIS doesn’t have a transcript or speech notes up, but you can get a flavour of […] Continue Reading…
July 22, 2008 | Graham
Christianity as a protector of the secular society
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July 20, 2008 | Graham
Pascal’s wager and Sunday truths
One of the most commonplace arguments in support of action on global warming is a variant on Pascal’s wager. Pascal’s wager is the proposition that one ought to believe in God, because the detriment in not believing is so immeasurably larger than the cost of believing that one would […] Continue Reading…
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July 20, 2008 | Ronda Jambe
Portraits in Pixels
It’s cold in Canberra, much is afoot, much of it boring. But it’s raining, and that’s always good news. I’ve just dropped a dear friend off at the airport, knowing we probably won’t see each other for maybe 5 months. During that time we will both be overseas, […] Continue Reading…
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July 12, 2008 | Graham
…not to shine in use…
When I came to Australia as a five year old there were a few continuities in my life apart from the language. One of those was Alistair Cooke and his “Letter from America”. It was broadcast by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, I think on a Sunday afternoon. The […] Continue Reading…
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July 12, 2008 | Ronda Jambe
I do not like thee, Cardinal Pell
I do not like thee, Cardinal Pell
The reason why, you know full well.
And please believe the words I tell:
If there were one, you’d rot in hell.
Snap, snap! Time for all those leaders of the church, of all denominations, to call for the removal of this odious man.
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July 12, 2008 | Graham
Al Gore – coming to an opera house near you
If Peter Combe could turn Snugglepot and Cuddlepie, that founding myth of the Australian conservation movement (perhaps second only to The Magic Pudding) into an opera, why shouldn’t the Italians turn An Inconvenient Truth, the founding myth of Warming Hysteria, into one?
Which is apparently what they are doing.
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July 11, 2008 | Graham
What about 1066 and all that?
NSW school students apparently are not compelled to learn about the Holocaust. It says something that we are agonising over this fact. The Holocaust was a terrible chapter in human history, but in terms of essential information it isn’t top level for me, anymore than it appears to be […] Continue Reading…
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July 08, 2008 | Graham
In Defence of Online Opinion
Clive Hamilton and I had a vigorous exchange of views in On Line Opinion. We’re drawing the line on OLO at that. But we have been receiving some pieces that deserve consideration. This piece by Marko Beljac is worth publishing, and we’re giving it air here. There may be […] Continue Reading…
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July 08, 2008 | Graham
Traveston a greenhouse problem?
You know an issue has gone too far when it becomes a reason for everything. Greenhouse emissions have just about reached that place.
A report in today’s Courier Mail says that the Traveston Dam should not go ahead because it will produce 400,000 tonnes of CO2 per annum.
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July 07, 2008 | Graham
Problems with Garnaut
There is a fundamental problem with most carbon-trading schemes. They are fairly good at coping with emissions (at least in theory), but not so good at coping with natural abatement. One way of looking at the Greenhouse issue is to argue about whether we have an emissions problem or […] Continue Reading…
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