| 个人资料That Religious Studies W...日志列表 |  工具  帮助 |
|
1月31日 Alive and well in Canada!If you thougt Jade Goody was bad, try this for size!
More evidence that a little bit of religious education, will save careers... AftermathSo it appears the 'race row' on Celebrity Big Brother has finally started to die down, and Jade Goody has been revealed for the ignorant bigot she is. I cannot say I am sorry this has happened... Firstly, no-one should be made a celebrity on the basis of being stupid! The UK should collectively hold its head in shame for allowing Jade Goody to make millions from a 'career' based on - well, based on what? She found fame for being an idiot, and has since continued to find fame for having plastic surgery, having kids, being fat and losing weight. My God, it's as if the song 'Money for Nothing' was written just for her...
I am glad the UK is finally waking up to the idea that we should not be celebrating stupidity! Jade Goody is proof that people need to learn about other people's cultures and religions... She is proof that a lot of harm can be done in the name of religious ignorance! A lesson well learnt - I hope she always regrets not paying more attention at school!!! 1月26日 Abortion pages now updatedThe ever popular pages on abortion from www.faithnet.org.uk have now been updated, and are included here on the new site. You know, I get more comments and requests about these pages, than anything else. Maybe something tells me this is a good topic to revise for exams? Methinks - yes!
Movie review - Letters from Iwo Jima'Letters is a primarily a war film, but it is also one that which entreats us to see things from another point-of-view and question the wisdom of political leaders. For Religious Studies teachers, this film has great potential to be used in lessons. Despite its R rating, clips can be selected from it and used with great effect. In particular, I would recommend the moment when an American solider is captured, and 'interrogated' by General Tadamichi Kuribayashi. If those scenes do not cause people to debate the morality of war, I do not know what will.'
1月23日 Today is...Today is my birthday, so what better way to celebrate than by posting a revised version of my Utilitarian article:
Happy birthday to me... happy birthday to me... Oh, whatever! 1月21日 Meet Sonseere!Meet Sonseere! Having been raised as a Catholic, she converted to Judaism over twenty five years ago. In this programme you will learn about why she converted to Judaism, meet some family and friends, and share in the preparations for Shabbat.
1月18日 The freewill defense and beerAnother day, another page! Today's offering to the theological gods is 'The freewill defense (St. Augustine of Hippo)'. I like this theodicy, mainly because if is true that God created everything good, then (as Augustine says), there really cannot be anything totally bad for us in the world.
So to anyone who says drinking beer is bad for you - well, I'm having none of it - if it really is that bad, why did God create hops? Go figure!!! 1月17日 Process TheodicyToday I updated the article - Process theodicy: Creation out of chaos and the problem of evil. I must say it is good to review these articles I originally wrote for www.faithnet.org.uk, as they cause me to re-think what I believe in terms of certain theological matters. I am also reminded that often these articles were written as I became interested in a subject, and also as I worked out my faith several years ago. I think this is a good thing to do - to work out what one believes, and why. A kind of theological and spiritual 'spring-clean' (so to speak). I also think it is important to do this as very often we might be believing something, simply because we have been told it is right (or true), and not because we believe it to be so. The danger here is that there might come a time when we find this belief irrevocably challenged, and left with no-where to go in our thinking, because we had not prepared ourselves to think that there might be other (credible) alternatives to what we had be told, was true! 1月11日 Sight and soundYesterday I saw a blind guy walking along, wearing a pair of headphones listening to music... Yeah, I thought the same thing! However, I also thought why not - why should only people who can see have the pleasure of listening to music, or a podcast or whatever else whilst they are walking around? Maybe it's time someone invented a portable listening device for the blind, which does not take another of their major senses away from them? 1月5日 Richard Dawkins interviewI received word today that Richard Dawkins is willing to be interviewed for the site, so I hope to arrange for that to happen in the next week or so... I will keep you informed as to when that interview will be posted on the site! 1月3日 Blasphemy ChallengeHere is a rather futile and pointless exercise (well, as far as I am concerned):
'You record a short message damning yourself to Hell, you upload it to YouTube... somewhere in your video you must say this phrase: "I deny the Holy Spirit." Why? Because, according to Mark 3:29 in the Holy Bible, "Whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will never be forgiven; he is guilty of an eternal sin."' So the point of this exercise is to show the world of 'You Tube' viewers just how real your atheism is... Okay, but why do you have to deny the existence of the Holy Spirit? Surely this is suggesting that Christianity is the true faith? Why not commit the unforgivable sin as Islam, or Hinduism or any other faith-tradition understands it? Why select Christianity and the Bible as the touchstone for proving God's non-existence? This exercise will not 'damn your soul', unless you first assume that you have a soul which can be damned, and that hell exists (surely two things a true atheist would not believe in)? Also, if you are going to deny the existence of God, you would first need to explain who (or what) you believe God is (see God: An introduction). SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT: Hindus believe that all human souls are divine... does this mean that any Hindu who denys the existence of God, are essentially denying that they exist, as well as everyone else around them? Also, would Hindus, Muslims, Jews or Sikhs (or anyone in any faith-tradition), have to deny the existence of the Holy Spirit as well, in order to put their 'soul' on the line? 1月2日 Indy 4So as Richard Dawkins throws down a challenge to find evidence for God's existence, Lucas and Spielberg finally commit to making Indiana Jones 4. Now I ask you, which of these would you bet on happening first? Finding conclusive irrefutable proof of God's existence, or seeing Harrison Ford (64) make it through this latest (and surely last) adventure for Dr. Jones?
I'm not sure my money is on either at the moment... |
|
|
