TopTV plans to “release a flood of filth into our communities”
Errol Naidoo says that if “TopTV succeeds in launching porn channels in SA, It will open the floodgates for other broadcasters to open the sewers and release a flood of filth into our communities”, and is leading a proposed church boycott of the pay TV channel if they do go ahead.
John Gray’s accommodationist waffle
While it’s undeniably true that what we do matters more than what we believe – given that what we do is all that anyone else ever sees – this truism can’t be deployed to evade the fact that what we believe can sometimes affect what we do.
Martin Amis on religion
To be clear: an ideology is a belief system with an inadequate basis in reality; a religion is a belief system with no basis in reality whatever. Religious belief is without reason and without dignity, and its record is near-universally dreadful.
Moral absolutism: deontology and religious morality
Defining morality as necessarily absolute and objective is an illegitimate way to privilege religious morality, even as it continues to become less and less useful to people living in a modern world. Not only less useful, but also potentially harmful.
Utter awesomeness from Rev. Peasboro
Reverend Jim Peasboro alerts us to the frightening possibility that our PC’s (he doesn’t mention Mac’s, so you trendoids are perhaps safe) may be possessed by demons.
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