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INTERNATIONAL
- Binoy Kampmark
- 29 August 2012
27 Comments
Sanity assumes purpose and responsibility; insanity its absence. This is hardly applicable to Breivik. His critique of Islam suggests a radical and violent conservative response. Conservative, Christian radicalism, that is not anti-Semitic, is on the rise in Europe, and Breivik is its foremost proponent.
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RELIGION
- Andrew Hamilton
- 27 July 2011
18 Comments
It is impossible to explain how one human being can make plans to kill and maim others, and coldly carry them through. Everything suggests the perpretrator of the killings in Norway had imbibed ideas that showed no respect for empathy with people as unique individuals.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Juliette Peers
- 06 August 2010
6 Comments
The Power Without Glory
trial ought to be read as a high-profile
and long lasting punishment meted out to traitors to a so-called
Australian normality. Frank Hardy's acquittal
and the campaign to defend his novel partly belong to mid 20th century
Australia's strong anti-Catholic undertow.
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ENVIRONMENT
- Neil Ormerod
- 08 January 2010
3 Comments
Many conservative
Catholics are sceptical about global warming. For them
environmentalism is the new communism. This echoes the paranoia
of the '50s and '60s are clear, when anyone with an interest in social
justice was suspect. September 2009
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 01 October 2009
9 Comments
It is testament
to the virility of Che Guevara as a revolutionary symbol that, with the 'Che Christ', his image is used
to augment the understanding of Christ as a social radical. A new biopic takes Che as far from myth and symbol as possible.
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ENVIRONMENT
- Neil Ormerod
- 04 September 2009
20 Comments
Many conservative
Catholics are sceptical about global warming. For them
environmentalism is the new communism. This echoes the paranoia
of the '50s and '60s are clear, when anyone with an interest in social
justice was suspect.
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RELIGION
- Andrew Hamilton
- 07 November 2008
10 Comments
All ideologies, including religions, can rot. They can neglect the view of the human world on which they are based and focus simply on implementing the consequences of their ideas. When this happens the costs in human misery are great.
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AUSTRALIA
- Bronwyn Lay
- 06 November 2008
6 Comments
If you see some Generation X’s out there in the street, smiling like drunk cats, forgive them their madness - it’s been a long time coming. We are letting our inner lives blend with the polis. We know it might all be fiction but like fiction; it makes us feel less alone inside.
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RELIGION
- Chris McGillion
- 21 February 2008
3 Comments
Cuba’s post-Castro leadership will need to come to terms with the fact that the revolution cannot answer all of life’s questions and that religion in general — and the Catholic Church in particular — has a legitimate role in supplying its answers without interference from the State.
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RELIGION
- Andrew Hamilton
- 12 December 2007
2 Comments
Pope Benedict's encyclical Spe Salvi assumes the fragmentation of hope in today's world will not be
addressed simply by the secular world adding God to its limited hopes.
Instead it involves the nurturing of a Christian imagination that overcomes the
breach between divine and human.
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RELIGION
- Neil Ormerod
- 03 December 2007
The second encyclical from Benedict XVI is not what many expected. Benedict is drawing us to a deeper level of reflection, building a solid foundation. What he builds upon this foundation we are yet to see.
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RELIGION
- Andrew Hamilton
- 13 June 2007
10 Comments
The much commented-on recent books by Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens have reintroduced a broad brush anti-religious polemic. It has much in common with religious polemic against the secular world.
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