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October 21st, 2007 by hayesy
Apparently its ruining Australian Idol’s “streed cred”.
From today’s Sun Herald:
“Australian Idol finalists have been gagged from talking about Christianity.The final six, who made a public appearance at Sydney’s Motor Show yesterday, may not answer questions about their religion or personal beliefs.
Channel Ten’s publicity team, acting on instructions from the show’s maker Fremantle Media, has cancelled media interviews that broach the subject.”
and:
“Although no wrongdoing has been proved … television chiefs are concerned about the effect of the stories on the “street cred” of the show.”
Read the rest of the article here. What do you think? Good decision, bad decision? And what’s with ‘wrongdoing’? What would you do if you were a finalist?
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October 19th, 2007 by hayesy
Semi-controversial preacher Mark Driscoll offers to preach a sermon on any question we ask.
Of course, since he can’t possibly answer them all, you can vote for which questions you want him to answer. The top 9 win.
Sounds like a brilliant idea to me.
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October 18th, 2007 by hayesy
Christopher Hitchens, a controversial atheist author, recently proposed genocide – executing Muslims!
Fellow atheist PZ Myers has written a scathing account:
Basically, what Hitchens was proposing is genocide. Or, at least, wholesale execution of the population of the Moslem world until they are sufficiently cowed and frightened and depleted that they are unable to resist us in any way, ever again.
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This whole last third of his talk had me concerned about the first part. He had just told us in strong terms about the failures of religion and its detrimental effect on our culture, and now he was explaining to us how the solution in the Middle East was to simply kill everyone who disagreed with you.
Read the rest of his summary here (or the entire blog entry here).
My thoughts:
Richard Dawkins asks, on page 278 of The Dawkins Delusion:
“By contrast, why would anyone go to war for the sake of an absense of belief?”
Earlier on the same page, I think he may have answered his own question. You decide:
“Even more plausible as a motive for war is an unshakeable faith that one’s own religion is the only true one…”
Or an unshakeable faith that, say, atheism is the only true one, perhaps?
Finally, one of my reactions is this: at least he is consistent. If there is no absolute moral law, what is wrong with his suggestion?
(h/t Craig)
