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Thursday, 07 October 2010
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Article by Cameron Spink
Advertisements seem to have the ability to take what is promiscuous and make it fashionable. This has been happening for many years. So perhaps it is no surprise that the boundaries keep getting pushed further back.
The latest example of this is by Lynx deodorant, a subsidiary of Unilever who have their finger in a lot of pies. There are two products that really seem to struggle to sell themselves, judging by their advertisements. The first is beer. With restrictions upon what they can actually show in advertisements beer advertisements usually combine the nonsensical with the hilarious.
However, in many ways deodorant advertisements take the cake for stupidity. For instance, the regularly played Brut Code advertisements try to sell their product by giving men advice such as “boardies over budgies”. While such a message is both stupid and completely irrelevant to the use of deodorant it is one step up from the advertisement that merely has a robot picking up things that are perceived as manly. But neither of these are as demeaning as the “spot and share” Brut code which blatantly states that a man should point out a hot, scantly-clad woman to his mates so they can drool over her as well. Talk about selflessness.
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Read more [The Lynx Lodge]
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Wednesday, 06 October 2010
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Article by Cameron Spink
The National School Chaplaincy Programme (NSCP) was introduced in 2006 by the federal government with John Howard at the helm. Now secular groups are trying to claim that the program is unconstitutional and are seeking to test its constitutional validity with a High Court Challenge. I say bring it on.
Ron Williams is the man bringing the challenge and his contention is based upon section 116 of the Australian Constitution which states:
The Commonwealth shall not make any law for establishing any religion, or for imposing any religious observance, or for prohibiting the free exercise of any religion, and no religious test shall be required as a qualification for any office or public trust under the Commonwealth.
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Read more [The Constitutionality of Chaplaincy]
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Article by Cameron Spink
'My underlying motive was the desire to help individuals who could not help themselves...such considerations should not be regarded as inhuman. Nor did I feel it in any way to be unethical or immoral...I am convinced that if Hippocrates were alive today he would change the wording of his oath...in which a doctor is forbidden to administer poison to an invalid even on demand...I have a perfectly clear conscience about the part I played in the affair. I am perfectly conscious that when I said yes to euthanasia I did so with the greatest conviction, just as it is my conviction today that it is right.'
This article seeks to present seven reasons why Christians should not support legalising euthanasia. The points presented are condensed arguments from two articles “If people were dogs & other false arguments for euthanasia” and “Thou Shalt Not Kill - The Christian Case Against Compassionate Killing”. This article is meant as an introduction into one side of the debate regarding euthanasia and both linked articles are much more comprehensive resources.
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Read more [Judas and the penitent thief: the fallacy of euthanasia]
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Thursday, 30 September 2010
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Article by Cameron Spink
I have three examples for you today of the Church falling by the wayside as other worldviews overwhelm this nation.
The first is a reasonably well-known example. Adelaide is known as the city of churches. However, in recent years there have been several documented arrests of street preachers for “breaching the peace”. In theory, such an action should be deemed unconstitutional because of the freedom of religion clause (section 116). In reality the interpretation of this section of the constitution does not occur in this way.
Instead the police are able to waste tax-payers money arresting Adelaide’s street preachers only for these bung charges to be defeated later on. This oppression signifies an atheistic movement to quash truth and undermine the biblical worldview. For an American example of similar proportions read the article the four arrested at the Arab Festival.
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Read more [The Slumbering Creature]
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Thursday, 30 September 2010
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I decided to defer my comments on euthanasia to someone who has been critically responding to this ethical issue for years. With Bob Brown pushing for a law change this is certainly relevant reading.
The Death Party Springs Into Action
Article by Bill Muehlenberg
"It appears that the party of death never sleeps. Already the Greens have introduced their pro-death bill into Federal Parliament. Bob Brown argued that most Australians support voluntary euthanasia. But I suspect most Australians in fact may not have a clear understanding of just what the euthanasia agenda is all about.
They are certainly not getting the full story from the pro-death lobby. There are many misconceptions and myths out there that need to be dispelled. One is that this will in fact be entirely voluntary, with no pressure or coercion. But this is just wishful thinking.
The truth is, the right to die implies a duty to kill. Let me explain. We live in a rights-mad culture. Everyone is demanding a right for this or that. But there are no rights without corresponding duties. An officially sanctioned right must be backed up by the legally enforced means to ensure those rights can be carried out. Thus if society goes down the path of legalised euthanasia, this right to die will lead to its necessary corollary, the duty to kill.
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Read more [The Death Party Springs Into Action]
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Thursday, 23 September 2010
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Fascinating news in yesterday's newspaper suggested there may be some scientific proof for the parting of the red sea. This is obviously not the first time a fellow Christian has claimed a biblical event has scientific validity. Although evidence for our beliefs are not required this article is an interesting topic to think about and discuss.
Red Sea may have parted for Moses like in the bible, just not by his hand, says study
Herald Sun, September 22, 2010
"A NEW study published today suggests Moses may indeed have been able to lead his followers out of Egypt between walls of water.
In the story told in the Bible and Koran, "Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the Lord caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all night."
In reality, wind, hydrodynamics and the unique topography of the Nile Delta may have had the same effect - with the same miraculous results for the Israelites....
Otherwise, one of the study's authors claims: "The simulations match fairly closely with the account in Exodus."
In that account Moses and the Israelites are driven from Egypt by the Pharoah's army, which pursues them across the Red Sea only to be drowned when the waters return to their natural state."
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