Nonno
10-02-2009, 11:26 AM
"Here are the questions our panel faced this week. Tell us what your answer would be or what you think our panellists need to say.
DISASTERS - GOD & MIRACLES
Ejder Memis asked: If thousands of people dying in earthquakes can't be called 'god's punishment', then why the rescue of a person from the rubble days later is almost always called a 'miracle'?
Why should god be credited for the good act of a human being saving the life of a fellow human being, while being spared the blame for an event that humans are not responsible for? Discuss >>
IN DEFENCE OF RELIGION
Joel Brown asked: My question is to Christopher Hitchens re: religion "poisoning everything". How do you account for the aid work religious organisations (both Christian and otherwise) do in 3rd world and developing countries as well as amongst our own community with the homeless and needy? Discuss >>
EVANGELICAL ATHEISM
Jessica Langrell asked: Mr. Hitchens – you typically stereotype religious people as dogmatic and fundamentalists. How is this, when people who listen to you feel as if you are the one being dogmatic and fundamentalist in your evangelical pursuit to convert the world to atheism? Discuss >>"
"ROMAN POLANSKI
William MacKenzie asked: Does talent excuse pedophilia? What are the panel's opinions on the Roman Polanski situation? Discuss >>"
More at source: God, Sodomy and the Lash | Q&A | ABC TV (http://www.abc.net.au/tv/qanda/txt/s2695716.htm?clip=rtmp://cp44823.edgefcs.net/ondemand/flash/tv/streams/qanda/qanda_2009_ep27.flv)
DISASTERS - GOD & MIRACLES
Ejder Memis asked: If thousands of people dying in earthquakes can't be called 'god's punishment', then why the rescue of a person from the rubble days later is almost always called a 'miracle'?
Why should god be credited for the good act of a human being saving the life of a fellow human being, while being spared the blame for an event that humans are not responsible for? Discuss >>
IN DEFENCE OF RELIGION
Joel Brown asked: My question is to Christopher Hitchens re: religion "poisoning everything". How do you account for the aid work religious organisations (both Christian and otherwise) do in 3rd world and developing countries as well as amongst our own community with the homeless and needy? Discuss >>
EVANGELICAL ATHEISM
Jessica Langrell asked: Mr. Hitchens – you typically stereotype religious people as dogmatic and fundamentalists. How is this, when people who listen to you feel as if you are the one being dogmatic and fundamentalist in your evangelical pursuit to convert the world to atheism? Discuss >>"
"ROMAN POLANSKI
William MacKenzie asked: Does talent excuse pedophilia? What are the panel's opinions on the Roman Polanski situation? Discuss >>"
More at source: God, Sodomy and the Lash | Q&A | ABC TV (http://www.abc.net.au/tv/qanda/txt/s2695716.htm?clip=rtmp://cp44823.edgefcs.net/ondemand/flash/tv/streams/qanda/qanda_2009_ep27.flv)