Archive for 'The Competition'
Infantile Religion
“A Guide to Grown-Up Thinking” in the latest New Internationalist (Big Babies issue) asserts that society has become infantile and that this is reinforced by politics, consumerism and religion. But by dismissing religion wholesale, they are also dismissing forms of religion that would help us to grow up. Must we throw the baby [...]
Posted: October 5th, 2007 under Social Justice, The Competition.
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The bankruptcy of Atheism
Last night I went to see Alister McGrath give his talk The Bankrupcy of Atheism at UQ. His talk was rebuttal of Richard Dawkins’ The God Delusion and followed his new book The Dawkins Delusion?. Points of interest for me were the discussions of whether religion is bad for us and where is [...]
Posted: October 2nd, 2007 under Big Questions, The Competition.
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Enter the atheists
I’ve just finished reading Ken Mcleod’s excellent post on 21st Century Atheism from back in July. I only recently found Ken’s blog and I’ve been working my way through the 30 or so links from that post to a lot of discussion of the so called New Atheists and their books (you know: God [...]
Posted: September 7th, 2007 under Big Questions, The Competition, The Institution, Culture.
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Pentecostalism and Me
How much are you loving the fundamentalist christian plotline in Home and Away at the moment? I’m guessing that if you’re a pentecostal, you’ve got mixed feelings about it. It’s good to see a show tackling some of the issues that fundy christians face but also insulting to see them portrayed as naive [...]
Posted: July 11th, 2007 under The Competition, The Institution, Culture.
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Smithology
One blog is just not enough for me. When I started blogging, I wanted to make a space for me to put philosophical musings on the meaning of life and god and stuff. I also wanted to present a view of Christianity that was alternative to the conservative right wing American expression that [...]
Posted: February 8th, 2007 under Offtopic, The Competition.
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Holy Hip Hop
Still listening to Safran. They had the Brotherhood on who are a muslim hip hop group – I can’t find much about them online. They were pretty interesting to listen to.
I’ve noticed lately at least one other religious hip hop / reggai act getting airplay: Matisyahu (see this link also) . [...]
Posted: September 20th, 2006 under The Competition, Blasphemy.
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Is Islam Australian?
The religion report was pretty good last week (I’m catching up) with a debate around John Howards singling out of the muslim community in Australia for refusing to learn english. Some Muslims have agreed and other have been annoyed that it is leveled at muslims and not other ethnic groups.
The Religion Report – 6 [...]
Posted: September 16th, 2006 under The Competition.
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