“Everyone who is arrogant of heart is an abomination to the Lord; be assured he will not go unpunished.” Proverbs 16:5 Robert Richter is one of Victoria’s most experienced and renowned criminal barristers. But was it a mistake not to call George Pell to give evidence in his trial for sexually assaulting two choirboys at […]
Original Sin
The Genesis story and the Augustinian interpretation of original sin Original sin holds that everyone is born sinful. We all have a built-in urge to do bad things and disobey God. According to the teaching, original sin is the normal spiritual and psychological condition of human beings. Even a newborn baby, who hasn’t done anything at […]
The Leap of Faith- Reza Aslan on ‘God’
Summary: There is either a God who cares about us, or an animating spirit that does not care, or creation is an accident. But the difference between an animating spirit that does not care about us and the accident theory seems negligible. Believing in a “God” that might just as easily be described as “nature’ […]
Random thoughts on the passing of a small animal
Lucy, our cat, was a weakling. She was the runt of her Devon Rex litter and Devons are on the runty side to begin with. Plus she had suffered an allergic reaction to a vaccine as a kitten. This left her with a chronic nasal condition. She was a snuffller. When we bought her sister Evie, the breeder asked us to take Lucy as […]
Get High With A Little Help From Your Friends
No matter what the teachings of the various religious prophets- Moses, Jesus Christ, Muhammad and Buddha- history shows that the spread of the world’s most successful religions was often assisted through support from powerful or rich friends of the religion and through military conquest. Judaism Moses is regarded as a leading prophet for the Jewish religion […]