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INTERNATIONAL

Being disinterested in Djokovic
- Binoy Kampmark
- 20 September 2023
3 Comments
Novak Djokovic's on-court triumphs are undeniable, yet off-court controversies spark widespread debate. Navigating the complex interplay of admiration, critique, and understanding becomes essential in grasping the narrative of this unparalleled yet enigmatic champion. Can we disentangle his sporting prowess from off-court controversies?
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Bushfires demand response-ability
- Bronwyn Lay
- 23 October 2013
5 Comments
Human land practices and increasing temperatures alter the earth, and are influenced by politics, law, philosophy and economics. In Lisbon, Western philosophy sought to sever God from nature; now we pretend that the fusion of humans and nature doesn't exist. The term natural disaster shouldn't be trusted. It is superstitious to think humans and nature aren't locked in a reciprocal relationship with political and ethical responsibility.
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EUREKA STREET TV

Rebuffing the religious right
- Peter Kirkwood
- 16 November 2012
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EUREKA STREET TV

Rebuffing the religious right
- Peter Kirkwood
- 16 November 2012
Obama's election win was a rebuff to America's ultra-conservatives, including the religious right. Extremists in this camp see the Second Coming as imminent, and view God as vengeful and violent. John Dominic Crossan has spent his adult life trying to lead Christians to a more thoughtful and educated view of the Bible.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Plagued by mice and climate change deniers
- Brian Matthews
- 10 June 2011
7 Comments
Considering the severity of South Australia's mice infestation and earlier plagues of locusts, you can be forgiven for feeling positively biblical. Many Australians, some in 'high places', need climate change to demonstrate its presence with such murderous, repeated efficiency.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Osama bin Laden's wasted life
- Brian Doyle
- 17 May 2011
25 Comments
Imagine the same man, rather than consumed by hate, alert instead to humour, to the power of mercy, apology, simplicity, conversation, common ground. Imagine what he might have done for the religion he loved, to which he instead did more damage than anyone else in history.
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AUSTRALIA

Earthquakes, poets and God
- Michael Mullins
- 21 March 2011
13 Comments
Most of us vehemently reject claims such as that made by FoxNews' Glen Beck, that the Japan earthquake was the work of a vengeful God. In his Quarterly Essay last week, David Malouf gives a nuanced reading of the position that Beck has bastardised.
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RELIGION

On blaming God for swine flu
- Andrew Hamilton
- 06 May 2009
15 Comments
An American priest reportedly claimed that swine flu was God's punishment for sin. The idea that God might use natural disasters to punish people is repugnant. But at first glance the Scriptures do seem to represent God as doing just that.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

The storycatcher charged with finding stories that matter
- Brian Doyle
- 15 May 2007
5 Comments
Brian Doyle said 'no' to an editor's request in the aftermath of September 11: "The only proper thing in your mouth at such a time is prayer." His kids had to reflect back to him: "Well, dad, you are always lecturing us about how if God gives you a talent and you don’t use that talent that’s a sin."
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ARTS AND CULTURE

The purest of pleasures
- Gillian Bouras
- 04 July 2006
Or is it? Gillian Bouras gardens in Greece.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

The dance goes on
- Gillian Bouras
- 23 April 2006
Forty years after she first saw the film Zorba the Greek, an Australian in Greece takes a second look and finds herself deeply shocked
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Keywords: Vengeful God