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\n6:58 What do India and Australia have in common? Religious nutters who want to allow discrimination in adoption decisions. Mother Theresa’s order is getting out of the adoption game as new laws allow potential adoptive parents who may be single, divorced or separated.
\n9:23 A weather report from Syria. It’s warm and sunny and perfect for launching fighter jets.\u00a0 Russia has joined the game and everyone is upset as apparently, the USA\u00a0are always the “good guys” and the Russians “the “bad guys”.
\n13:47 Need your Catholic marriage annulled? Good news, it just got easier. But … these annulments are just a sham. We discuss the incredible annulment of Joseph Kennedy’s marriage to Sheila Rauch.
\n19:34 Jarryd Hayne was at a Hillsong conference and blamed the Jews for killing the Jewish Jesus. We investigate who really killed Jesus. It turns out that the Velvet Glove was at least 20% responsible for the death of Jesus.
\n27:03 Kristina Kennealy. She says her Catholic faith and gender influenced her decisions. on atheist politicians. ” … I have often wondered about atheist politicians. Surely the logical conclusion to atheism is nihilism, in which case, why bother engaging in political activity, trying to improve the lives of your fellow citizens and make the world a better place? Which politician is scarier: the one who insists there is ontological meaning and transcendental purpose to our lives, or the one who denies objective truth and believes that existence is ultimately a useless void?”
\n33:13 The TPP has been agreed and it is up to the member countries to pass the necessary legislation. We explain some of the dangers of the TPP.
\n47:28 The problem with religious tolerance.\u00a0Suddenly we are in the land of bumper-sticker postmodernism, where truths are perspectival and no one can be objectively wrong. Like the unity of all religions, the validity of all religions is a lovely sentiment (Coexist!), but it is dangerous, disrespectful, and untrue. Dangerous, because it means people will be less likely to fight against injustices and falsehoods that are underwritten by religion.\u00a0Disrespectful, because authentic respect involves caring when others\u2019 beliefs go wrong, not just letting them believe whatever they want. And untrue, because basic logic tells us that “God condones slavery” and “God forbids slavery” cannot be equally valid claims.
\n54:44 Radicalisation and what can be done. A sense of not belonging comes from running parallel societies
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\nThe Anglican Church wants to import the crazy USA bakery gay marriage argument into Australia.\u00a0click here
\nWhat do India and Australia have in common? Religious nutters who want to allow discrimination in adoption decisions.\u00a0click here\u00a0and\u00a0click here
\nA weather report from Syria\u00a0click here
\nNeed your Catholic marriage annulled? Good news, it just got easier.