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Keywords: Post-Modernism

RELIGION

Losing certainty, keeping faith
- Barry Gittins
- 14 April 2022
1 Comment
As a kid, all I wanted was answers. As soon as I’d get one, I’d chase the next. Nowadays, I’m happy with holding onto questions. Rephrasing, examining, thinking. The answers I have don’t always add up, and my mania for meaning, for definitive proof, is abating. I am increasingly aware that all of us, regardless of creed, creditworthiness, consciousness or credentials, lack definitive answers to life’s mysteries.
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RELIGION

Rediscovering truth in a post-truth world
- Jānis (John) T. Ozoliņš
- 03 February 2022
24 Comments
As if the Covid-19 pandemic has not been testing enough, modern life has never seemed more difficult than it does at present. We are bombarded on all sides by masses of information, misinformation, expert opinions, and the relentless, strident voices of social media browbeating us into accepting the dogmatic conclusions of leading influencers.
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RELIGION

Storming the atheist ethic
- Neil Ormerod
- 27 April 2010
3 Comments
The Melbourne Storm salary cap scandal indicates a major ethical breach somewhere within the club. Perhaps their senior executives might benefit from the NSW trial of school ethics classes.
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AUSTRALIA

A Gen X view of Obama as fiction
- 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

Downsizing as a form of modern asceticism
- Paul Collins
- 13 June 2007
8 Comments
We live in a world where the dogmas of economic rationalism and consumerism rule supreme. Rather than physical penance, today's asceticism involves a deliberate downsizing and an abandonment of infinite expansion as the measure of success.
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RELIGION

Power of polemic is self-perpetuating, but not persuasive
- 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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RELIGION

Churches could hold key to salvation for the Left
- Clive Hamilton
- 24 December 2006
2 Comments
The error of post-modernism, which grew out of the broad academic left and now dominates Western society, is that it has no metaphysical foundation for a moral critique. From 31 October 2006.
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AUSTRALIA

Questioning the limits to freedom
- Michael Mullins
- 30 October 2006
5 Comments
No advocate of democratic freedoms has defended Sheik al-Hilali's right to compare immodestly dressed women to uncovered meat. The message is that promoting freedom is often—but not always—a valid means of recognising values that enhance individual and collective humanity.
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RELIGION

Churches could hold key to salvation for the Left
- Clive Hamilton
- 30 October 2006
17 Comments
The error of post-modernism, which grew out of the broad academic left and now dominates Western society, is that it has no metaphysical foundation for a moral critique. The churches remain the repository of the deeper understanding of life that once motivated some elements of the left.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Dan and Mel get religion
- Michael McGirr
- 11 May 2006
While Dan Brown and Mel Gibson can draw a crowd, Michael McGirr finds their stories still miss the mark.
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AUSTRALIA

A tale of two cities
- Don Gazzard
- 11 May 2006
Don Gazzard visits the national libraries of France and Britain.
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Keywords: Post-Modernism