Rights aren’t always right

Friday, June 12th, 2009 Posted in Current affairs, News | 4 Comments »

What do you have a right to? Free speech? A vote? A fair trial? Well, in Australia, none of these. If you thought you did, you may have been watching a little too much Law and Order. Because, like Britain, ...

Hard-heartedness makes you stupid

Sunday, April 19th, 2009 Posted in Books, Current affairs | 5 Comments »

Check out this paragraph from Richard Dawkins' book "The God Delusion." "A common argument, attributed among others to C.S. Lewis (who should have known better), states that, since Jesus claimed to be the Son of God, he must have been either ...

vulnerable

Wednesday, February 18th, 2009 Posted in Current affairs | No Comments »

Thinking more about the bushfires and floods that have devastated our country recently…  It’s pretty hard for us, in civilised Australia, to comprehend something so terrible happening to us. Sadly, we’re used to hearing about such natural disasters and their human ...

unborn

Wednesday, February 4th, 2009 Posted in Current affairs | No Comments »

Last week I listened to podcast and one of the stories was about how they are developing technology to screen unborn babies for autism. This allows parents to choose to continue the pregnancy or terminate. The man interviewed was a ...