tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-159751192024-03-04T22:49:08.792-08:00Godless GrossWhat if you don't believe, won't believe or simply can't? Whether you're a hard core atheist, heretical apostate or just a wishy-washy doubting Thomas, the big human issues of meaning, ritual, belonging, death and suffering still have to be faced. Dick Gross has written and broadcast on these issues from a godless perspective for over a decade. Join him on his blog as he wanders through the big issues of existence without a god to help him. Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger47125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15975119.post-86291443064820668762014-09-02T23:45:00.002-07:002014-09-02T23:49:20.455-07:00BE THERE OR BE SQUARE!!!!<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhi0djtonbwgwJ_WMlT0iYlIip2g8lr-oy91F6T8X4fYmMxGjkkilpfVO_USjMkVdTdIWds4KbgPsLOp9z4gdOXOKR7Pf8240iSiN-am54BB-obd2sKiZ2JTrPEnkaR53W-Ok-/s1600/Poster+4.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhi0djtonbwgwJ_WMlT0iYlIip2g8lr-oy91F6T8X4fYmMxGjkkilpfVO_USjMkVdTdIWds4KbgPsLOp9z4gdOXOKR7Pf8240iSiN-am54BB-obd2sKiZ2JTrPEnkaR53W-Ok-/s1600/Poster+4.JPG" height="640" width="498" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is consuming me at the moment. Be there or have four corners.</td></tr>
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<br />Dick Grosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10952896660861760777noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15975119.post-46523726486200064502014-08-07T13:50:00.000-07:002014-09-04T13:43:30.083-07:00Public Art or Parasitical WasteI hate to boast but whilst you may have been enduring the freezing winter days of the south east of Oz or the debilitating drought of NSW and Queensland,I have been traipsing around Spain being more churchy than thou. Because I am the crappest atheist in Chrisendom, I have an enduring passion for the Passion. There is no hymn I will not sing. There is no Cathedral I will not visit.<br />
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The Spanish cathedral movement was an extraordinary phenomenon. Communities that by modern standards were small and impoverished somehow managed to build the soaring gothic structures that bless the landscape throughout the nation. They may have lived in domestic hovels but the gothic cathedrals with flying buttresses, ornate side chapels, dazzling woodwork, some good and some corny art were the communities' jewels. The Spanish cathedrals seem to be the most consistently luminous. Remember, Spain was the super power of the fifteenth century. Enriched by New World gold, the leaders augmented that by sucking an estimated 30% of their people's resources. It led to an outrageous confection of creativity. And it wasn't just the cathedrals. In every tiny hill top village we visted, there were substantial churches with huge ceilings, golden ornamentation and classy carvings and art. <br />
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The resources required must have been onerous, particularly given that those funding the ventures knew that they would never live to see the completion of these projects. It was faith writ large.<br />
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The rational reaction of an unbeliever when confronted with this apparent excess is to rail against it. Indeed the Reformation was driven by the costs of medieval faith. Surely I must damn the priests as vain parasites and the buildings as wasteful white elephants? But I hesitate for several reasons.<br />
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First, it seems that the majority of the community at the time appeared to appreciate the wonder of their creations. Indeed without a blinding faith, I wonder if they would have been built. But they were and were probably <span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875);">the sole high cultural experience for people of that ancient time. Of course the cathedral and church movement exacerbated poverty. But it was the major source of public art. Moreover, the buildings were more than just places of worship and extravagance. They were meeting houses and gathering places. They were social glue.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875);"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875);">Secondly, they had other social functions such as communal endeavour and unity through shared purpose.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875);"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875);">Finally, these buildings and thei contents were a gift for future generations. The creators knowingly built these things for their progeny. Lives were short and so they looked a future where these wondrous buildings would be.their legacy. And what a legacy they are. They speak of a time when completely different views about faith, death communal obligation and art prevailed. The heritage and the tales they tell are powerful.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875);"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875);">So it is no surprise I feel thanks and wonder as my Spanish cathedral crawl proceeds. They literally are awesome.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875);"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875);">What do you think?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875);"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875);">Am I being too soft on the clergy or did they give their own and future generations a great gift??</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875);"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875);">Is the art dated corny crap or a luminous lesson for us today?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875);"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875);">Is it possible that only faith could have driven such creativity??</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875);"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875);">Over to you guys...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This blog is
about faith in certain religious facts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But
the sacred is of course, not the only area where faith is necessary.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are required to have faith in our car
mechanic, our doctor and of course our governments.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I have
chosen a small issue to illustrate how mistakes and lies run our lives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For those of us who cannot believe God, I say
there are many other areas where faith is not well rewarded.</span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyyRvvjYWNn6y5T6dCWsko2XBPojqnEeBLN1vgo-weRtVMdJB4dU0ayzUZwb-8gt7QbpWxsb7PYogvirb5ADK7P9rhw2GVqf6UBO2hh52-Ch5UDKvSKExcyI7wzIFMLMv57Qw7/s1600/abbott1.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyyRvvjYWNn6y5T6dCWsko2XBPojqnEeBLN1vgo-weRtVMdJB4dU0ayzUZwb-8gt7QbpWxsb7PYogvirb5ADK7P9rhw2GVqf6UBO2hh52-Ch5UDKvSKExcyI7wzIFMLMv57Qw7/s1600/abbott1.jpeg" height="400" width="299" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The toxic tax is not a tax</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">There is a
whopper of a mistake that has bought down two Prime Ministers, changed a
government and transfixed Australia for several years now – the alleged Carbon
Tax.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Carbon Tax, however, is not a
tax.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On this error, Australian
governments have been made or broken.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A former
Prime Minister has been inaccurately portrayed as a liar.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And this week this blunder has consumed our
political life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The
regulation of carbon emissions depends on two things: the price of emissions
(P) and the quantity (Q) of emissions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Since the dawn of human history, carbon could be emitted for free (P=0)
and so Q was high.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As with most things,
there is an inverse relationship between P and Q.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The lower the P is the more Q there is
demanded.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thus, we can regulate carbon
by attacking either P or Q.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One could
tax emissions which would cause the P to rise and then cause the Q of carbon to
decline.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or one could control the Q of
carbon emissions which would lead the P to rise.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Limiting Q is what an emissions trading
scheme (ETS) does and is not a tax.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>An
ETS limits the quantity and says nothing explicit about the price.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The
difference between attacking the P (tax) and Q (ETS) is both real and
political.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The real difference is to do
with certainty and flexibility.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>An ETS
gives a government certainty on the emissions heading into the atmosphere.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Q is set by the government through the carbon
pollution cap.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is set by the
government and so the government has certainty on Q.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The corporations don’t get certainty but they
do get flexibility to trade for more units.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>A tax reverses these attributes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Corporations get certainty from a tax for they can know how much they
will have to pay whereas the government does not get certainty for it is always
unclear how much corporations will lower their Q as a result of a higher
P.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But the most important difference
between a tax and an ETS is political.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The “T word” produces an odium in Western democracies that has profound,
even toxic, political implications.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The
Australian scheme introduced in the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Clean
Energy Act 2011</i> is not a tax.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In its
essence it regulates Q not P.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For
example the biggest taxpayer, the electricity generator GDF Suez, lodged carbon
units with the quantity of 25.8 million carbon units in 2012-13.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is all about Q (James Bond would be rapt).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">For the
first years, the cost of exceeding the allocated quantity by the 500 regulated
corporations is fixed and this makes the scheme look a little tax like.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But in its essence the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Clean Energy Act</i> is an ETS for it restricts Q and for a short time
fixes the cost of exceeding the carbon units allotted by the scheme.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(An addition myopically insisted on by the
Greens)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is not a tax because of its Q
oriented essence even if the price of exceeding Q is fixed for a short
time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is not even correct to call it
a short term tax/ETS hybrid.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is
driven by carbon Q and therefore is not a tax on P.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">So when
Clive Palmer and others say that they want to scrap the tax and look at an ETS
they are talking nonsense.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have an
ETS already.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Political
discourse inevitably is conducted with many bungles informing debate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The world is complex and mistakes are
common.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The mislabeling of the Clean
Energy Act as a tax is a howler.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On this
misunderstanding has swung the fate of a few governments.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We need to understand once and for all that
this tax is not a tax.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">And what do
we learn about the theory of knowledge (epistemology)?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think we learn that flawed knowledge flowers
when knowledge is difficult or hard to obtain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We don’t know about being dead so there is much faith in all sorts of weird
but consoling ideas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The economics of a
difficult subject like the pricing of carbon is inaccessible and so complete
crap dominates debate.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">What is your
view?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Do you agree
that faith flowers when the facts are hard to get?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Is faith in
the political debate as irrational as belief in God?</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Do you agree
that we have a carbon trading scheme already or am I wrong or just pedantic?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Over to you
guys…</span></div>
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<![endif]--><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I have just
read the interim report of the Royal Commission into the Institutional
Responses to Child Sex Abuse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This
inquiry needs to be extended.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I urge the
government to stump up the extra 100 mill for the necessary extension of this landmark
inquiry.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Commissioners at work.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">As the name
implies, this inquiry is concerned with <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">INSTITUTIONS</i></b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It does not examine the individual abuser as
such.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It looks at why abuse has been
tolerated by institutions and how those institutions could change.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Most of
these were faith-based institutions, followed by government institutions. Of
the faith-based institutions, 68 per cent were Catholic and 12 per cent were
Anglican.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am not saying that faith has
a monopoly on these crimes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Far from it
as Rolf Harris demonstrates.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However,
the faith based institutions were clearly over represented probably because the
people in a faith owe such a strong allegiance to their church or temple.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The results
of abuse are truly awful.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Almost nine in
10 participants reported impacts on their health, including depression,
anxiety, low self-esteem and a lack of trust in authority.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Suicide can be rife with some aggravated
abusers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Participants
also commonly reported: </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">•impacts on
relationships, such as difficulties with trust and intimacy, and a lack of
confidence with parenting;</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">•educational
and economic impacts;</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">•feeling
alienated from their peers and the community.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In short,
abuse can destroy lives.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Most
survivors had previously disclosed their abuse. On average, it took them 22
years after the onset of abuse to do so.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Most survivors reported being abused multiple
times, and some spoke of multiple offenders in the same institutional setting. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Children were also sometimes moved from one place
to another and abused in both places. Or they were abused at home, removed from
that home and then abused elsewhere, such as in foster care.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Survivors reported that they told adults in
positions of authority what was happening but those adults did nothing. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Many also reported that perpetrators were moved
from one region, diocese or state to another in the wake of complaints. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Abuse happens in a variety of institutions but has
occurred more frequently in some.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There
is an urgent need to promote what makes an institution child safe.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">The Commission received allegations of
abuse in more than 1,000 institutions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Religions top the list.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Commission is concerned with what makes a child
safe institution.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Child safe
institutions begin with leadership, governance and culture. Submissions told of
the importance of institutional governance for promoting child safety.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Save the Children Australia, for example, argued
that:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">‘... the role of governance and </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">management leadership in </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">culture is vital. There must be </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">this. Board and Executive staff </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">are powerful role models and </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">organisational culture, which can </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">and support for child safe </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">organisational culture is critical.’</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Some submissions argued that child safe governance
involves not just leadership, but also management styles that are child
friendly, open and egalitarian.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Conversely, rigid and overly hierarchical
governance disconnects those governing from regular contact with staff, parents
and children. It increases the risk of child sexual abuse going undetected.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bad institutions place more value on its own reputation
than the safety of children.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>DOES THIS
SOUND FAMILIAR?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Religious organisations often promote obedience and
the importance of respect for the hierarchy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Such notions call forth abuse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And will the Church recover? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I suspect it will.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Church will now diminish or maybe even
stop child abuse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As the current crop of
victims die out, the outrage will abate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The Church will have learned its lesson for the next 50 to 100 years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am sure it will bounce back.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the interim, this landmark study must be
funded to continue until it is completed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">What is your view?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">What do you think makes for a child safe
institution?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Is the church contrite or is it faking contrition?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Will the church recover?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Is this a moment of grace for godlessness or do we look sleazy if we act all triumphant? </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Should we continue the investigation or is enough study
so far, enough?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Over to you guys….</span></div>
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<![endif]-->I have been absent without leave. I apologise for the absence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It has been a bit of time between posts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Director, Julie Edwardson (centre) takes rehearsal with the father, Richard and daughter Kat </td></tr>
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Unforgiveable really but here is my paltry excuse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I feel bad for my loyal and loved bloggers.
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Apart from marking essays, I am engaged in a play about
death.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You may recall a play reading was
conducted in February and the full season will be run in September.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here are some photos of the cast in rehearsal
and in a cemetery.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The play uses poetry
and music to elucidate the issues of death.</div>
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Harry is dying, his wife has just died and he is desperate
to engage with his daughter Gracie, still damaged by her mum’s death. As Gracie
and Harry talk, their conversation is sprinkled by excerpts from <i>Requiems </i>by
Mozart, Verdi and Faure. Harry tries to tear Gracie from her screens to chat to
her about death through the poem, Thomas Gray’s “<i>Elegy written in a Country
Churchyard</i>” completed in 1750. He employs Dorothy Gray, Tom’s mum (herself
dead 250 years) to assist. Together they unlock the nature of death for Gracie
and for himself.</div>
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The Requiems will be sung by a quartet of Emotionworks
singers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Directed by Julie Edwardson,
this production will be performed in the St Kilda Uniting Church (near the
corner of Chapel and Carlisle Sts) in September.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I will provide you with more propaganda
closer to the event.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That is something
you can believe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Self promotion is a bit
of a personal weakness as you all know.</div>
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In the interim, you may like to re-start a conversation on
the issue of death.</div>
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Can atheism ever console those in grief or fearful of their
own inevitable death?</div>
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Can atheism ever match the ritual and music of the Church?</div>
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Are the godless forever in fear or can they be strong in the
face of the inevitable?</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The father in the play is not only stalked by death but by conflict with his daughter.</td></tr>
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Dick Grosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10952896660861760777noreply@blogger.com30tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15975119.post-30306068223586023352014-05-13T20:52:00.001-07:002014-05-13T21:29:03.204-07:00Liar, Liar Pants on Fire!<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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The Australian Federal Budget is out and several issues trouble
this godless mind.</div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>Broken Promises or Lies?</div>
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The first is the question of deceit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When in Opposition, the Australian government
made much of the broken promises of the then Labor Government.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With a righteous and seemingly misogynist
hatred of Prime Minister Gillard, they identified with the more awful and
aggressive activists who demanded that the lying bitch be sacked.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Regardless of the constitutional ridiculousness
of this attitude, it made for an acrimonious episode in Australia political
history.</div>
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Now, with no surprise in this jaded writer’s mind, the new
Abbott government has broken every major promise it made in relation to new
taxes and the non interference with the medical payments system, education,
health, the public broadcasters and etc.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The gall of this government and its unrepentant attitude is
breathtaking.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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What is the godless view on this issue?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Should we care?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All incoming governments break promises and
so with this expectation in mind, I am prepared to say that many broken
promises are within the expectation of normal and are thus moral save when they
are so grievous and so contrary to fundamental understanding about what a new government
stands for.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It that occurs then maybe
the broken promises tip into the immoral.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The morality of politics is a touchy issue.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is an arena when morality is explicitly
eschewed by political practitioners and commentators since the work of
Machiavelli.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In this Budget however, there
is something that is so directly opposed to the reasonable view of the electors
that this budget tips into the territory of the immoral.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This budget does it for me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The promises were so cynical and so obviously
going to be broken they can be seen as lies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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The government is now trying to justify itself by creating a
second lie with the fabrication of the budget emergency.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have a low debt in low growth
environment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is no debt
emergency.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To say so is being so
reckless with the truth that it feels either dishonest or the delusion of the
economically illiterate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Either way it
is of dubious ethical worth.</div>
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So I feel this government Budget is immoral and led to the
taking of power by a group of people who were prepared to promise
anything.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is saddening.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>Frittering Money on Faith</div>
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In a budget of losers, the winners include the faith
communities who have $245 million for those dodgy school chaplains.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I tolerated this in the former government
because with an atheist unmarried Prime Minister, we godless had to expect in a
pluralistic society some gesture to those of faith.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But this government is so nauseatingly godly
that this justification does not apply.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This is an immoral waste money and the precious time of kids.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God help us.</div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>Defunding Health and Education</div>
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This may shock you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The Federal government is deserting the funding field in Education and Health and I
reckon this may be moral.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The problem in
a Federation is that it is impossible to know who to blame with things
fail.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If the local hospital is crook or
the local school is an enemy of good education, which government do you
blame?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Both are involved now in these
two systems.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So it is impossible to hold
governments accountable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The system is
too byzantine and complicated.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By
pissing off, the Federal government will make it easier.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And given the impossibility of changing our
Constitution, this radical step needs to be taken.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of course it will lead to more indirect
taxation as that responsibility goes to the States.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That would be a duplicitious way of changing the GST when the government promised this tax would not be changed. But
the constitutional simplicity gained might be worth another broken promise. So perhaps, bearing in mind the constitutional problems of duplication,
blame shifting and cost complexity in the current system, this radical
step may have merit. At least Christopher Pyne gets less power.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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WHAT IS YOUR VIEW?</div>
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Was the government so reckless with the truth when promises
were made that it has been immoral during the electoral and Budget processes?</div>
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Is there any excusing those Chaplains and their $245
million?</div>
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What do you think of the Constitutional justification for
rudely interrupting health and education funding?</div>
Dick Grosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10952896660861760777noreply@blogger.com122tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15975119.post-91395200576646870472014-05-01T21:40:00.000-07:002014-05-01T21:40:51.805-07:00Latest Cab off the RankMy latest book is being published by Australia's biggest publisher of Catholic bibles and materials - Garratt Publishing. Garratt's people are clearly an ecumenical bunch.<br />
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They are producing a series of 13 novellas by different authors for upper primary, lower secondary school kids. The series looks at faith and tolerance. It started more as an interfaith exercise but the feedback from teachers was that tolerance issues were more interesting than interfaith ones. Mine is a secular and atheist approach to growing up in Jew Town, East St Kilda.<br />
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The Third Space series is designed in response to the
Australian Curriculum’s inclusion of the key elements of diversity
competence: intercultural and ethical understanding, personal and social
capability. So it is a form of faith training that is far removed from the Divinity yawn fests of my day. The kids in the stories are from wildly diverse backgrounds. Most of the authors are young. I look like I am the eldest by decades. </div>
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My one involves a boy growing
up in the Jewish quarter of East St Kilda - Melbourne’s Jew Town. His dad is an annoying weirdo, his
little sister Nell thinks she’s the Queen of the World and their two
doggies are lovable but certifiably stupid. His Jewishness is ... well ...
complicated. The streets are full of a kaleidoscope of hats which mean
different things in Jew Town. And then a girl with a scarf on her head
and a cute dog turns up and this brings frightening conflict out. There are three battle grounds, the school yard, the street and the Town Hall. Here is a link to me in my corporate tee shirt speaking on the issue. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=somBggCwuKo" target="_blank">Interview</a></div>
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Part of the story is based upon the real life tale of the anti Islamic association, the Q Society trying to have prohibited a small Muslim Friday prayer meeting in East St Kilda. I was so enraged by this attack on freedom of association at the time that the yarn made its way into the book. There is no paradox in an atheist defending the rights of religious minorities for atheists are a minorityand beliefs derived from atheism, such as Humanism, promote tolerance and diversity. </div>
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Here is a link to some more propaganda about the book <a href="https://cengage.com.au/product/title/zac-hats-in-cool-town/isbn/9781922152725" target="_blank">Propaganda</a></div>
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Dick Grosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10952896660861760777noreply@blogger.com106tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15975119.post-88246934532034215232014-04-02T17:44:00.001-07:002014-04-03T19:45:41.638-07:00Moving from Negative to Positive<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<![endif]--><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">By its very
definition, atheism is a negative force.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It is about rebuttal of an idea, not an idea in itself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The very word even has its sworn enemy,
godliness, taking up most the letters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The prefix “a” in atheism is derived from the Ancient Greek prefix
meaning without – atheos – without gods.</span>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">For much of
its early life, atheism had a big enough agenda poking out the eyes of theistic
belief.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Faith was, and still is, so
ingrained in humanity that we have been busy enough.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But in the end, it is all very well being
correct in our criticisms.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Eventually we
have to face the big dilemma.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Faiths
arose for a reason.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We poor, vulnerable
humans crave them to help with our need for solace for suffering, consolation in
the face of death, moral guidance, powerful ritual and a sense of
community.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is the challenge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have won the intellectual war on
God/s.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have diminished the power of
the sacred, particularly in the West.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>What can we throw up as alternatives?</span><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4t46rkmRUi-P73LiIDC-TQh9tsxXDkjETwneSSt5zyfAcRAuJdDHIFDCs_D238YPg4O70zj7ity7WYVz8pLFEKI-d4Ev_GDPEfceUPaedILTXzjXPF_tJSMmZsJa36nh9WpP5/s1600/Sunday+Assembly.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4t46rkmRUi-P73LiIDC-TQh9tsxXDkjETwneSSt5zyfAcRAuJdDHIFDCs_D238YPg4O70zj7ity7WYVz8pLFEKI-d4Ev_GDPEfceUPaedILTXzjXPF_tJSMmZsJa36nh9WpP5/s1600/Sunday+Assembly.JPG" height="243" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Melbourne Sunday Assembly - a godless congregation in full flight</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Sometimes
alternatives are not needed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The moral
guidance from the bible is both uncertain and archaic and has easily been
replaced by secular state based laws.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There are some uncertainties about these secular answers which are
thrashed out not in church but on talk back radio and QandA.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have Utilitarian alternatives but they are
not needed for most people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The secular
state now is the cauldron in which moral issues such as gay and lesbian
marriage are cooked and discussed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">But there
is a need for secular and civil ceremony.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We have replaced the religions in the rites of passage industry by
mimicking the religious versions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Civil
weddings are chosen by the overwhelming majority of Aussies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And secular funerals are common. There is a
discussion to be had one day about whether these secular ceremonies are as successful
as the sacred.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One could debate that the
absence of community singing and the sense that an awe inspiring God is
involved diminishes their power.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe
that is the case but I will leave that debate for another time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">My point is
that what I wrote at the start about atheism being only about negative
repudiation is not an entirely correct picture.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The civil ceremonies show that we atheists sometimes fail to recognise
that we have already dramatically changed the moral, ceremonial and cognitive
world in the West.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So it is just not
true to say that atheists are only negative even though our name implies
otherwise.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">What about community
ceremonies other than rites of passage?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A
rite of passage is a ceremony of change.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Birth, adulthood, graduation, marriage, school reunions, retirement and death
are the rites of change.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But what of the
weekly communal gathering that, although losing steam in the West, still offers
a basis for a community to gather and re emphasise common bonds and perform non
verbal rituals together?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This we have
lost with the loss of faith.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">But no
longer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A movement has arisen in Britain
that is creeping around the globe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span>The
Sunday Assembly, a group for unbelievers to connect with like-minded
individuals, is expanding from the UK to the USA and Oz.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Sunday Assembly is a godless congregation
that celebrates life. Their motto has three pillars <b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">live better</span></b>, <b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">help often</span></b>, <b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">wonder more</span></b>. They are a place
where unbelievers can gather, sing and commune with like or indeed, different
minds.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
The Sunday Assembly started when
two comedians, Sanderson Jones and Pippa Evans, realised that they wanted to do
something that had all the best bits of church, but without the religion, and with
awesome pop songs added.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
The first version of this was in January 6th 2013, and
though they weren’t expecting many people, the entire place was full. At the
next Assembly there were 300. Then they had to go to two services a day. And
now it is going global.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now there are 28
Assemblies across the world. <a href="http://sundayassembly.com/">http://sundayassembly.com/</a>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
It is almost every Australian capital city and is
growing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sydney is really humming (see <span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/mar/12/my-local-atheist-church-is-part-of-the-long-inglorious-march-of-gentrification">http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/mar/12/my-local-atheist-church-is-part-of-the-long-inglorious-march-of-gentrification</a>)
</span>and like Melbourne has its assembly on the last Sunday of the
month.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
This isn’t the first attempt at such a project.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Humanism is a <span style="color: windowtext;">movement</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_view" title="World view"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"></span></a>
which embraces human logic and consciously rejects god and faith. The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Humanist_and_Ethical_Union" title="International Humanist and Ethical Union"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">International Humanist and Ethical
Union</span></a> (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IHEU" title="IHEU"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">IHEU</span></a>)
is the world union of 117 Humanist, rationalist, organisations in 38 countries.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Humanism has foundations in Ancient Greek
philosophy and the Enlightenment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As a
movement, it has not really grabbed humans by the ontological short and curlies
but is battling on. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
In the USA, Unitarianism started in the liberal protestant
churches in the 19<sup>th</sup> century and now has godless and creedless
aspects to its faith.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It might have a
few hundred thousand adherents worldwide. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Apart from that, we godless write boring books and tedious
blogs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our community is virtual and
celebrated in the comments that follow blogs like this one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We need something more human.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
The Sunday Assemblies are new but cool.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Community singing is encouraged.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This interests me as singing is a polarizing issue.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some love it and others wince.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The British are much better at it than
Aussies, probably from the football culture that bought us “Ooh ah, Cantona”
and hooliganism.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I saw a final of the
women’s hockey when the British girls sang God Save our Gracious Queen
beautifully whereas our girls sang an inhibited, tuneless version of AAF.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The two cultures, though similar are starkly
different on this issue.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I sing in gospel
choir in a Baptist Church with a bunch of secular people so this issue of song
and faith entrances me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjS5bmYeVPXt1L9i3M4UVYNELW7DjsFvQM-uhSiWhCkgdWwqFKden-ckneRPSMt-K-KcWqsIwMF6gUMYtunMpkcDYL9LY2JZCs3Uidim39SFhvZnXw6vkOrJCiLMuh6Thz6Lcvo/s1600/Sunday+Assembly1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjS5bmYeVPXt1L9i3M4UVYNELW7DjsFvQM-uhSiWhCkgdWwqFKden-ckneRPSMt-K-KcWqsIwMF6gUMYtunMpkcDYL9LY2JZCs3Uidim39SFhvZnXw6vkOrJCiLMuh6Thz6Lcvo/s1600/Sunday+Assembly1.JPG" height="320" width="303" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kate Murray - the current Grand Poo Bah of the Melbourne Sunday Assembly</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Kate Murray the current Organiser of Sunday Assembly
Melbourne has a very sophisticated vision of the issues of ritual.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“The singing is the best part of our
Assemblies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have a rock back and sing
the best songs that everyone knows.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They
use the best of the rock genre.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Kate is
pregnant and her child will be welcomed with a naming ceremony at the
Assembly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is clear evidence of the
rise of godless community where ages and stages are lived out and celebrated.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
What is your view?<br />
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Do we need communities for the godless?</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Will the competition from the net, the media and sport crowd
out these new Sunday Assemblies?</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Can we survive and thrive without direct human contact and
ritual?</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Over to you….</div>
Dick Grosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10952896660861760777noreply@blogger.com100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15975119.post-63284263356832575202014-03-13T04:17:00.000-07:002014-03-14T15:37:27.905-07:00CHRIS O’DOWD AND HIS OFFENSIVE AGAINST FAITH<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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One of my favourite actors has
just weighed in on the godless side of things.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In a trenchant and let me add plausible attack, Chris O’Dowd, star of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Bridesmaids</i> and more importantly <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The IT Crowd</i> warns that the religions
will soon be as despised as racism.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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He contends that “<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">religious doctrine is halting human progress.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is a weird cult".<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He continues in the same vein, “For most of
my life, I've been, 'Hey, I'm not into it, but I respect your right to believe
whatever you want'. But as time goes on, weirdly, I'm growing less liberal. I'm
more like, 'No, religion is ruining the world, you need to stop!'”</span></div>
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</span>I knew why I loved that man.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just
as his career is skyrocketing in the States, O’Dowd risks losing his lustre in the
religious parts of the USA, by proclaiming his undying atheism.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He is so gutsy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And just to make sure that everyone knows he
is serious, he opines, “And you know, now America can't have a president that
doesn't say he believes in God. So we're fucked! Like, they fucked everything!<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"You wanna go and live in your
weird cult and talk about a man who lives in a cloud, you do that, but don't
(believe it). I mean, you really think that Barack Obama believes in God? No
way!" </span><a href="http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/celebrity/actor-chris-odowd-says-religion-is-unacceptable-20140308-34ded.html#ixzz2vnUaYcE2"><span style="color: #003399; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/celebrity/actor-chris-odowd-says-religion-is-unacceptable-20140308-34ded.html#ixzz2vnUaYcE2</span></a><span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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What do we think of this?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We know what Christians would argue.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They would say several things such as Terry
Eagleton said of Richard Dawkins.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let
looks at the possible criticisms.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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The first is “how can you criticize faith if you know
nothing of theology?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I assume that
Chris, despite his first name, is as ignorant of theology as I am. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, as I regard theology as a huge human
constructed edifice on the shabby foundations of faith.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To be sure, I and, I imagine Chris O’Dowd, do
not understand theology but we can look at the foundations of faith in God and form a
view.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think that is fine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One doesn’t need the propaganda of either
atheist or believer to form a view on God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>You can form a view on God without a thorough understanding of His texts
for it is an empirical view.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Either your life experience and learning
persuades you of the presence of God or not.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One doesn’t need a deep understanding of
theology.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That stuff comes after the
first view is formed in the affirmative.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So I say Chris is
safe from condemnation if indeed he is, as I hope he is, ignorant of theology. </div>
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The second criticism of Chris and other New Atheists
is that God is so transcendent that He does not need our love or belief.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He is so ethereal that he does not provide
evidence because He does not need to.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Well, that may or may not be true but it is an argument that does not shoot
Chris the messenger because it is an assertion devoid of evidence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is typical of the mindset of the faithful
that such an argument is proffered and believed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I look at that argument and think it is
merely the meandering logic of a person who believes stuff that is manifestly
made up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Others, however, will be persuaded by that argument. Such is the variety of humanity. My view is that the talk of a God who does not
care to reveal himself is merely self serving and therefore unconvincing.</div>
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The third potential criticism has more power.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Chris and the New Atheists may be accused of
attacking straw men.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are vast
numbers of innocuous, indeed wonderful believers who are not the mad
fundamentalists of our godless imagining.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Whilst there are awful rat bags and nut bags amongst the various
religions, there are so many normal, lovely people that we need to avoid
stereotyping all religious folk as evil.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It is simply not the case.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Faith
is not all bad.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some parts are
uplifting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We need to acknowledge this
and not slag off the whole segment of the community immersed in faith.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There lies a future for atheism as a minority fringe
movement.</div>
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Finally, a related criticism would be that such
adversarial positions like those of Chris and his deceased namesake Chris
Hitchins are unhelpful.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My response is that
the New Atheists have given strength to both sides.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Atheism is now a movement with a sense of
morale.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just a decade ago, it was a
disparate group of people writing boring books for each other.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Chris O’Dowd and others have made atheism so
sexy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They have been aided by the sexual
abuse scandal, the continuing religious wars and the utterly nasty weirdoes thrown
up by the various faiths.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But New
Atheists have also given great power to the faiths.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They love bagging the doctrinaire disciples
of New Atheism.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have to be careful
not to be so sure of ourselves that we display hubris.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> New Atheism is a big target. Paradoxically the </span>have pumped up the spokespersons of the churches and put God
back into the front pages.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It can be a
bit self defeating.</div>
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What is your view?</div>
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Is Chris O’Dowd your hero?</div>
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Is he creating straw men by making rednecks and
homophobes the representatives of all faith?</div>
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Is he polarizing the world setting up a battle that
gives strength to the promoters of faiths?</div>
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Over to you guys…</div>
Dick Grosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10952896660861760777noreply@blogger.com132tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15975119.post-25968946398429968832014-02-24T21:14:00.000-08:002014-02-24T21:52:14.715-08:00Karma and the Cardinal<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Going but not yet gone. Cardinal George Pell - the most incompetent leader in Chrisendom? </td></tr>
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<![endif]-->Well he’s finally going.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Cardinal Pell, the leader of the Australian Catholic Church, is being promoted to almost the very top.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>George is being kicked upstairs to be the Vatican's "Grand
Financial Inquisitor". <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://www.smh.com.au/national/cardinal-george-pell-named-by-pope-francis-to-head-vatican-finance-ministry-20140225-hvdn3.html">www.smh.com.au/national/cardinal-george-pell-named-by-pope-francis-to-head-vatican-finance-ministry-20140225-hvdn3.html</a>
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This Inquisition
unlike its Spanish predecessor is reasonably welcome.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I say reasonably because I wonder if it will
be as transparent as would be desirable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There are allegations of corruption, nepotism and dysfunction in the Vatican made
public by the Pope Benedict’s butler.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
mean, really, who cares?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So what if the
Vatican is awash with sleaze and fraud.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>That has been a centuries old tradition.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The allegations of the money laundering through the Vatican Bank by
pious war lords and prayerful crooks exemplifies how Vatican finances are remote
from both God and the good works required by the Bible.</div>
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Several issues emerge, however, from this appointment which
requires the godless to drop their repugnance and gaze in wonder at byzantine
world of Vatican finances.</div>
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The first point is the remarkable seniority of Cardinal Pell
in the catholic stronghold.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We look at
him as a doddering fool.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His public
appearances are a wonderful catastrophe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He appears remote, devoid of charisma and slow witted.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In short, his is atheism’s greatest
friend.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And yet he is a member of the
Group of 8 most senior Cardinals at the elbow of the Pope nudging him
along.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is incredible that such a low
calibre man could achieve these dizzying heights.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What this tells me is that there is a leadership
vacuum.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Catholicism is an organisation
where leadership cannot be recruited from a competitive pool of qualified
candidates.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It must recruit from a group
of elderly men with great expertise in theological and liturgical matters but probably
untrained in finance and management.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
is a recipe for disaster.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And we have
seen this disaster unfold both here in Australia and across the world.</div>
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The second thing I feel is that Australia is diminished with
the loss of Cardinal Pell.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He is such a
lumbering fool, that Catholicism in Oz must be cheering from the rafters at his
departure.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They must have wished him
dead for some time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now he disappears
into the bowels of the actuarial inquisition in Rome never to be seen again
they would hope.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I, as an unbeliever, am
gutted.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Never have I seen such a poor
adversary as dumb foolish Pell.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is a
nightmare for me that he is gone and a wonderful opportunity for Australian
Catholicism to somehow reinvent itself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Finally, Cardinal Pell’s elevation gives one pause for
thought on the Indian notion of Karma found in Buddhist, Hindu and other
eastern faiths.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Karma is a notion based
on the justice of causality.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If one is
good, then good things should be caused to happen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My rather uninformed knowledge of Karma
essentially boils down to this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If a
good/bad person has good/bad things happen, then I intone the word “Karma” even
though I think that causation has no basis in fact.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Indeed, I feel that Karma is complete
crap.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Would you say to the dying Syrian
child, “Karma kid because you were naughty”? I don’t think so.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The notion that actions and intentions lead inexorably
to a causal outcome is nonsense.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bad
things happen to good people and vice versa.</div>
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Great things have happened to Cardinal Pell and he doesn’t
deserve them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He presided over the demoralization
and decline of the Church. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Church is
a basket case when he was its leader.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Is
he fired?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do the normal processes of accountability
apply so that the buck stops with him?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>No.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Will he be subject to the
competitive pressures of the labour market and be forced to resign?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His
last task before his Roman holiday is further testimony on child sex
abuse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is a fucking joke.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Catholicism is in crisis in this country on
his watch and he gets promoted.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Kids
were abused and his record seems less than proactive in stopping the rot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No, as a leader he was appalling and should
be held accountable. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But he is promoted to
ethereal heights.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Karma????</div>
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What is your view?</div>
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Was Cardinal Pell atheism’s greatest friend?</div>
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Is his departure good or bad?</div>
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Is his departure deserved or is he being kicked upstairs to
be hidden?</div>
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Why is he so successful in Rome?</div>
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Over to you guys….</div>
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Dick Grosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10952896660861760777noreply@blogger.com65tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15975119.post-37676167153673972042014-02-17T10:22:00.002-08:002014-02-17T10:24:08.092-08:00<br />
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<br />
Dear Everyone,<br />
<br />
Sorry I have been a bit silent of late. I have a play reading of a musical play I have written which looks at secular views on death. Guaranteed to be a bit hard to attract an audience to such a deadly topic. It is at the protype stage and a play reading is happening in Melbourne on Wednesday, 19 February fortyfive downstairs. Once I survive this, more regular blogs will bloom. I hope to see some Melbournian readers at the reading on Wednesday or a more rehearsed reading on Monday 17 March. <br />
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Dick<br />
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Well what
if you don’t believe in the afterlife?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We godless suffer the weight of knowing that there is no Heaven.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our existence is terrestrial not celestial.
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Here is a
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">HARRY:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So Gracie, do you believe in the afterlife?</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">GRACE: Of course
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">HARRY: So what
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death?</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">GRACE:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t know. I don’t think about this sort
stuff like you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am not old nor am I a
death perv like you are.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">HARRY:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Can I just mention two perspectives on life
after death that don’t offend logic or science.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The only trouble is that these perspectives give only scant
consolation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">GRACE: In
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">HARRY:
Basically yes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The first is that we are
well practised in non existence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When we
cease to exist upon death we are merely returning to the state of non existence
that occurred before birth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We didn’t
exist from the beginning of time to the moment of birth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And then when we die after the miracle of
having lived we just return to our state of non existence which was not painful
but nothing.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">DOROTHY (an
innocent but godly bystander):<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Oh huzzah!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Such consolation indeed!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Non existence is fine because we are so used
to it!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That has the comfort of the rack.
</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">GRACE:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dorothy has a point Dad – it is feeble.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">HARRY:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Oh it’s lame as a one legged dog.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of course it is not that soothing for since
birth, we have had the revelation of life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Non existence seems awful by comparison.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">DOROTHY:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And what’s the second miraculous attitude to
death that doesn’t offend your logic or your science?</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">GRACE:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Don’t get your hopes up Dorothy. I get the
sense that the second will be less exciting than the first.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">HARRY:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And you’d be right Gracie.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I confess the second is ...what is the word I
am searching for?</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">GRACE:
Crap.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">HARRY:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s the one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is this: death is necessary for life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">DOROTHY:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Oh huzzah again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Oh bravo Harold! That elevates my spirit and
magnifies my soul.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">HARRY: For
our species to evolve, we needed millions of years of death of millions of
species.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So our death is making room in
the same way our predecessors’ deaths made room for us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our afterlife is lived through the opportunities
afforded to others by our deaths.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">GRACE: Dad
that is so feeble. Who cares about making room for others?</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">HARRY:
Allow me to give a trivial example.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
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Club which I declined many moons ago.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">DOROTHY:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What is cricket?</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">GRACE:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cricket is a game more tedious than you can
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">DOROTHY:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And it tickles Harry’s fancy?</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">GRACE:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He’s strangely obsessed.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">HARRY:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My membership of the club literally died when
I declined to be a member.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My nephews
who are in a decade long queue for the MCC rejoiced when told of the death of
my membership for it progresses them along the queue which today stands at
217,000 people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And indeed, in a club
overpopulated by octogenarians, my hard hearted nephews exult every time they
observe the club’s flag at half mast.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Another competitor has been liquidated and they move closer to their MCC
life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Death causes life.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">DOROTHY:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Don’t ever become a parson Harry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Your parsonage would empty within days of you
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">GRACE: And
don’t ever be a writer Dad.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You’d starve
but not in a talented Van Gogh, genius kind of way.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">HARRY:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yes these perspectives are scant comfort and
a bit cheerless.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">GRACE:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well what do you expect Dad?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Without a belief in God and Heaven, even
though they are too absurd for words, humans are doomed to have unresolved
fears of death and dying.</span></div>
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What is your view?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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If we cannot believe in the hereafter, what is left to
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What do you think of Harry’s views?</div>
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Is there anything else to assuage our fears other than
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Is denial bad?</div>
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Over to you guys…</div>
Dick Grosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10952896660861760777noreply@blogger.com94tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15975119.post-63952698752899248422013-12-22T13:33:00.000-08:002013-12-22T13:33:29.889-08:00Pope Frank the Pin Up Boy<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">As we go
into the Christmas period, we see how humanity craves a superman.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For the last two thousand years, many in the
world have been transfixed by the about to be birthday boy, Jesus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The adoration often eschews objectivity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am yet to see an ugly portrait of
Jesus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Humanity is so transfixed by JC
that all representations are as unrealistically beautiful as a fashion model
after Photoshop.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No weight problem or retreating
hair line in JC’s portraits.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Now that
need to bestow adulation on an anointed one has been transferred to His most
important earthly representative – Pope Francis I.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Frankie One is the “Time Person of the Year”
and consequently the object of op-ed pieces by opinion writers without the wit
or imagination to think up their own end of annum hero.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This blog is no exception although to be
fair, assessing religious figures is core business for this blog.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">It seems
that it is part of the human cognitive response is that we must venerate the
great and invest in those idols a magical ability to solve all of our problems
both global and individual.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Where that
person exhibits frailties, like a recent member of the Over Venerated Club, President
Obama, disappointment quickly kicks in (notwithstanding my continuing reverence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My views are not shared by many of his fellow
Americans).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaulting expectations can be
unrealistic and I expect that will soon happen to Frankie.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But for the moment, I am joining the conga
line of fans. Yep, I am the biggest sell out in the atheistic firmament.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Catholicism
is an interesting contradiction – at the same time growing gang busters in Asia
and Africa as it depletes in its traditional heartlands. The growth areas in
Africa where it is locked in a bloody struggle with Islam belies the poisoned
well of Europe, USA and Oz. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is sick
here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The sexual abuse scandal has demoralised
the congregations and demonised the vocation of priesthood.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The venality of the Vatican is appalling.
This is all well known. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The systemic
issues are woeful – archaic, complicated, irrelevant, self serving and
autocratic structures that resist reform.</span>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">My view is
that this reform aversion means you need 5 Francis like reforming Popes filling
the committees and corridors of power with armies of change junkies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If Francis is followed by a conservative,
then anything he tries will be fruitless.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>His reform agenda is still being rolled out but it is useless without at
least a 20 year program of follow up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The lovely Pope John XXIII was the Times Man (sic) of the Year fifty years
ago.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His breath of fresh air was transitory.
He was followed by Paul VI whose myopia killed off the chance of Catholicism to
be anything but the laughing stock that it is in many parts of the West. The
three conservatives following John ignored the abuse crisis until it was too
late and did nothing to challenge the Vatican with its expense, high
handedness, links to crime and odour of corruption.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The last papal Times Laureate - a wonderful man with a short papacy whose successors were distrastrous.</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Francis
interestingly the first Jesuit after 500 years of that Order’s existence, made
a number of symbolic gestures repudiating the Vatican venality.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unlike his predecessor who appeared obsessed
with the various frocks of office, he has embraced simplicity of dress,
demeanour and apartments.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This has a
symbolic power in a world where inequality (difficult to measure) seems to have
grown in recent decades.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But more
importantly it is a signal to the Vatican – the gravy train has to stop.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He has called in the auditors on the Vatican
Bank.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That is a tick. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">He has
spoken up for the environment (big tick) whilst at the same time the leadership
of the Australian Church has attacked carbon pricing.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">The ticks
also include his statements (but not much action) on child abuse, the role of
women and the need to love gays and lesbians.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Whilst he has changed the rhetoric of the gay and lesbian issue, he has
said that this is not a harbinger for rule change in his time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is clever.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He must understand that the ranks of the
Cardinals and Bishops are populated by nasty reactionaries such as Cardinal
Pell in Oz.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It will take several popes,
a couple of decades deploying similar rhetoric before the institutional change
can happen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My own modest experience
with organisational leadership is that organisations, populated as they are
with change resistant officers, will undermine reforming leaders.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One needs many reformers over many years to
see change eventuate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Asian and African
leaders, reputed to be more conservative, are gaining increasing influence in
the Church because they are the growth areas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I am pessimistic that the Church will be capable of major change in the
absence of a major crisis.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Francis has
described priestly celibacy as a matter of tradition rather than faith.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is an opening to change.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Francis will not make that change.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is bad for the church for the priestly
vocation will look to many people outside the faith as a magnet for
weirdoes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">And despite
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incremental change.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He must appreciate
that too much change threatens the whole idea of “mystery”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How can you embrace a Church which relies on
faith and mystery to underpin the rules and practices when those rules and
practices are subject to radical change imposed from the top? So the change
will need to be a sophisticated project of give and take, alteration and
conservatism.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He will need help.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Fifty years
ago, Time Magazine promoted a lovely reforming Pope as a global hero.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because of the Popes that followed, the
Catholic Church is mired in abuse, crime and sin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Will it be the same with another Times
laureate, Pope Francis?</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">What is
your view?</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Is Francis
a one off?</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">What will
it take change the Church?</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Are
individuals capable of resisting the ineluctable slide into a secularised
world?</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Over to
you...and Merry Christmas</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">When does
the moral repugnance of an artist or scientist or musician disqualify one from
enjoying their work??? </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">2013 marks
the 200<sup>th</sup> anniversary of the birth of Richard Wagner. During
November and December 2013, Opera Australia (OA) is performing complete cycles of
the four blood stained operas which make up his epic vision – the Ring Cycle.
It was booked out a year ago even though it cost well over a grand and is 17
hours of not very tuneful dirges.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">As you may know
from my last blog, I was part of cut down, sawn up version of Wagner’s Ring
Cycle for the Opera Australia Ring Festival.
It was for a cut opera company called Emotionworks. As part of OA’s Ring Festival, Emotionworks performed
all four enormous works in one hour as rock icons and gods of the late
twentieth century. This is cut opera at
its most condensed. It was really dense. For my sins, I was Garry Glitter playing the
murderous thug Hunding – a complete bastard playing a prick of a bastard. The pictures below tell the tale of how we
adulterated and butchered this endless work of 17 hours of operatic
madness. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our performance was very true to the original Wagnerian conception.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">Sadly its
brilliant creator was a virulent anti-Semite.
He was a prolific writer which included </span><span style="font-size: small;">his essay “<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Das_Judenthum_in_der_Musik" title="Das Judenthum in der Musik"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">Das Judenthum in der Musik</span></a>”<i>,
(Jewishness in Music)</i>, a nasty view on the influence of Jews in German
culture and society at that time. There is no doubt that essay “Jewishness in
Music” will taint his reputation forever. The evidence of his anti-Semitism is undeniable. Moreover, there are suggestions of a sort of
Aryan style racism emerging later in his life.</span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbp1G8AhG2CDxdN-wXJT2MRmqqb4bm1reKRHeBHTtmj30nT0lLlPgVu7PoUX-co5QyzoaPUeh046HoqW1uwETuY-NLu6jJkOqcEs2W1xyPEx4oly94x9AWM31LKNkD_jdy2eJH/s1600/Ring2013,+4.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbp1G8AhG2CDxdN-wXJT2MRmqqb4bm1reKRHeBHTtmj30nT0lLlPgVu7PoUX-co5QyzoaPUeh046HoqW1uwETuY-NLu6jJkOqcEs2W1xyPEx4oly94x9AWM31LKNkD_jdy2eJH/s400/Ring2013,+4.JPG" width="300" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One can never be too earnest in one's operatic adventures</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">But Wagner’s
main sins occurred after his death. His
music was appropriated to be an iconic part of Nazi ritual. The </span><span style="font-size: small;">Die Meistersinger (Overture)<b><span style="line-height: 115%;"> </span></b>was chosen by Hitler<b><span style="line-height: 115%;"> </span></b>to open the Nuremberg
rallies. For the music buffs, here is a recent version. <span style="line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Zcxx7fNqIs">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Zcxx7fNqIs</a>
The dramatic anthem celebrating the Ride of the Valkyries is another example of
work popular with the Nazi in war time news reels. However, it was also used for that anti war
work of <i>Apocalypse Now</i>. Which appropriation counts the most?</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">Can you
really be responsible for those who appropriate your work? Are the great composers responsible for the toilet
paper their work now promotes in advertisements around the world? The appropriation of Wagner’s work by the
Nazis was aided by the coincidence of their ideas. Wagner’s family knew Hitler. This was an appropriation that seems to have
been abetted by the coincidence of views between Wagner and the Nazis. That however is speculation by me. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">The issue of
Wagner was a pointed one in the production I was involved in. Three of the performers were Jewish. One of
the singers was a German scholar who was also a Cantor (ritual singer) at the
local progressive Jewish Temple. The cut opera was performed in the
Jewish heart of Melbourne in St Kilda. So the troubling aspect of Wagner
and his anti-Semitism had to be addressed. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">Jewish
Wagnerians from Stephen Fry to Daniel Barenboim (<a href="http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2013/jun/20/wagner-and-jews/?pagination=false">http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2013/jun/20/wagner-and-jews/?pagination=false</a>)
wrestle with this issue in this, his 200<sup>th</sup> year. At the same, many areas of Jewish life
boycott the Wagnerian Operas. My opera chose this means of acknowledging the
Wagnerian anti Semitism. We ran a
competition (which was a bit of token gesture as it was virtually invisible). This was put out before the performance:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">“Emotionworks,
wishing to acknowledge the historical blight (of Wagner’s anti-Semitism) is
running a competition. The winners receive free tickets to the cut opera
which will be performed in a boxing ring. The competition is this: </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="line-height: 115%;">What
gesture, statement or symbol can be used in the program notes, costumes or set
(although there really isn’t a set other than the boxing ring)</span></i><span style="line-height: 115%;"> <i>to acknowledge the vileness of
Wagner’s anti Semitic attitudes and legacies? Emotionworks is concerned
not to use cheap Nazi paraphernalia but does feel the need explore the
contradiction of performing tainted cultural product in a tolerant
multicultural society. Good luck!</i></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">Many would
see this as an arse covering exercise.
On the other hand, it was a public acknowledgement of the problem and
might have led to some people at least reading about and discussing the issue. Friends of mine, however, refused to come or thought it was inappropriate to celebrate Wagner's work.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">The
suppression of cultural product is very vexed.
Indeed the Nazis themselves were infamous for their cultural suppression
from book burning to the non playing of the music of Jewish composers. Cultural repression seems to be
the handmaiden of many totalitarian regimes.
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">Moreover, there
is no complete freedom of cultural expression.
We reasonably suppress by law, some culture for reasons of defamation, intellectual
theft, treason and in an effort to stymie criminal communications. We used to suppress culture where it
transgressed community standards on vulgarity and obscenity but in these coarse
times, that suppression is now too fucking difficult and is pretty fucked up (to coin a
phrase).</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">I do support the suppression of Holocaust denial because of its dangers, its divisiveness, its offensiveness, its dishonesty and its historical distortion. So clearly there are cultural and pseudo historical statements that ought to be suppressed. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">The need and
legitimacy of suppressing cultural output that is socially corrosive must
diminish over time. My view is that
Wagner’s sins should not be forgotten and should at least be publicly
acknowledged at performances of his works (as we did). But I think I would draw the line at outright suppression
in any environment except perhaps those where Nazism is particularly shocking
such as Jewish, Gypsy, Gay and say Russian circles. In some of those circles, the Nazi crimes
might still be so raw as to justify suppression.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">What is your
view?</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">Should the
creative works of nasty people be suppressed?</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">Should
creations appropriated by nasty people be tainted by that appropriation?</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">When does
time run its course so that the suppression loses relevance?</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">Over to you
guys…</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">PS Apologies for the late posting of this
blog. Being an opera tart is time
consuming business.</span></div>
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Dick Grosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10952896660861760777noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15975119.post-44897478172514231722013-11-20T23:49:00.001-08:002013-11-21T17:26:45.245-08:00The Ring Cycle and Its Mythical Foundations<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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The Ring Cycle written and composed by the nasty anti-Semite
Richard Wagner is famous for many things.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>One thing it is not famous for is that yours truly is part of a
presentation of the Ring as part of the Opera Australia (OA) Ring Cycle Festival
in Melbourne.</div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghzCVi0v9JTPyXZJX4JIIzj_0B2bra96ZCOzX8cdVaMQK6GDXeYeJroQ1IxUkM1uAAVn3RXX9kkPdV_eoV11XBBetXsWIFs0hQA9S1SMlASnIb1UtWXDX-Al8Rt64XUCtg4H92/s1600/ring2013,+5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghzCVi0v9JTPyXZJX4JIIzj_0B2bra96ZCOzX8cdVaMQK6GDXeYeJroQ1IxUkM1uAAVn3RXX9kkPdV_eoV11XBBetXsWIFs0hQA9S1SMlASnIb1UtWXDX-Al8Rt64XUCtg4H92/s640/ring2013,+5.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The version of the Ring I am in. Cher (Miss Sharry), Madonna (Justine Anderson) The King (Richard Wood) Kiss (Peter Hanway). I am Garry Glitter (at the right - not the best the character to play) who is playing Hunding (a thug - also not the best character to play). If you want to see The Ring in a Ring Spectacular, Saturday and Sunday at 5 pm this weekend and next (the whole thing for an hour and a bit) email: julie@emotionworks.com</td></tr>
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In celebration of Wagner’s 200<sup>th</sup> birthday, OA is
mounting the whole 17 hour ordeal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
Ring Cycle is a 4 opera extravaganza of helmeted women warriors (the Valkyries),
adulterous gods, incestuous siblings, incestuous nephew and aunt and heaps of gratuitous
killings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is a cult classic and the whole
season was booked out a year ago at over a thousand bucks for the tetra-logy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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But it is a funny thing to be so popular.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The story and music are inaccessible.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The story is remote from the modern world and
complex.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The operas are mainly unmelodious
recitative without any really catchy tunes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The most hummable is the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V92OBNsQgxU" target="_blank">Ride of the Valkyrie</a>s but that is the exception rather than the tuneful rule. </div>
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The rest can be a turn off.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Indeed the phrase, “it ain't over till the fat lady sings” derives from
the pain endured waiting for the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valkyrie" title="Valkyrie"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Valkyrie</span></a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Br%C3%BCnnhilde" title="Brünnhilde"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Brünnhilde</span></a> to finish off the last 5 hour song fest with a twenty
minute aria.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But the piece has survived
and thrived.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The dramatic music apart,
the power comes from the stories that make up this narrative.</div>
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Stories often have a mythic power that overcomes objections about lack of plausibility or evidence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The truth though fascinating, is never a big thing if a legend is either
loved, consoling or addresses troubling issues.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The founding fathers of sociology such as
Weber and Durkheim documented the power of the story to the troubled
human.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Durkheim in particular documented
stories that are almost identical in variety of different cultures because of their power to
console. </div>
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We see this universality of popular tales in the Ugly
Duckling.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The narrative where the downtrodden
conquers pain and oppression is found everywhere.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cinderella, Forrest Gump, most romantic
comedies, Oliver Twist (and lots of Dickens) are just some of the countless stories
that speak to us all of a mythic justice in a cruel world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In Christian liturgy, the equivalent of the
Ugly Duckling is the Magnificat where Mary’s prayer assures us that those in
suffering are raised high by God and bastards get it in the neck.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is Cinderalla and the notion of Karma,
writ large.</div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"My soul doth magnify the Lord: and my spirit hath rejoiced
in God my Saviour.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">…And his mercy is on them that fear him: throughout all
generations.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">…he hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their
hearts.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He hath put down the mighty from their seat: and hath
exalted the humble and meek.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He hath filled the hungry with good things: and the rich he
hath sent empty away."</span></i></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So the strength of the
narrative of the Ring is buttressed by the potent story lines that appeal to
those humans in search of consolation in a harsh and unjust world.</div>
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The Ring story is based on Nordic myths just like the Lord
of the Rings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here is a Durkheim/Campbell
type comparison of stories in the opera that are found in other fantasies in
European culture.</div>
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RING STORY</div>
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SIMILAR STORIES</div>
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SOCIAL PURPOSE</div>
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A magical ring that both empowers and corrupts those who wear it.</div>
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Nordic and Tolkien ring stories</div>
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A narrative about the corruption of absolute power and the inability
of power to make the powerful happy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It is both consoling to the powerless and a warning to would be
dictators</div>
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Brünnhilde is asleep until kissed </div>
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Sleeping Beauty</div>
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Don’t worry if you wait years for a bloke, someone will come along.</div>
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A magical sword only a son of Wotan the King of the Gods can extract</div>
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Excalibur</div>
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Somehow, a man born to lead will find the means to get there.</div>
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The hero Siegfried slays a dragon</div>
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St George and the dragon</div>
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There is always a hero out there to save us from shit.</div>
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The Rhinemaidens are beauteous women who live in the river Rhine and
have no sense of the cold</div>
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Mermaids</div>
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There are always inaccessible hot magical women who blokes can only
dream of. Get over it.</div>
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Pay your debts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The whole saga
is essentially a building dispute because the Gods wanted to avoid paying the
builder of their wonder home, Valhalla</div>
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Many tales of Aesop were about work and the need to do it such as the Hare and the
Tortoise. Many bible stories are about fairness and payment.</div>
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No free lunches in Wagner’s world.</div>
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Brünnhilde sacrifices her life to save the world</div>
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Jesus</div>
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Sacrifice and martyrdom are good to do. (Problematic for the godless).</div>
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Sigmund and Sieglinda are twins who have an incestuous relationship.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">They die and their heroic but dumb son is murdered.</span></div>
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Zeus and Hera Greek Gods who are husband and wife and brother and
sister – not to mention Oedipus. Lots (a pun) of biblical stories.</div>
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Incest is problematic.</div>
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The great commentators on the function of myth such Joseph
Campbell (with his 4 reasons for myths) and Claude Levi Strauss all stress the role of myths to support the social order.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Myths hold out the hope of magic, stress moral lessons and convey the
sense that we are cared for.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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For the godless like me who specialize in challenging the
stories that underpin our culture, we need to know what we have gained and lost
by challenging the veracity of our myths and legends.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our cause will be served by making those
myths that are still perceived more like Aesop tales. These fables are seen as beguiling fantasies with a messages because they are acknowledged
as fictional.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let us save the stories
but not be seduced into either accepting that they are true or that we need to
endure 17 hours of difficult music to get them.</div>
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What is your view?</div>
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What is the enduring power of myth?</div>
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Will we ever live in a world without a need for myth?</div>
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Does the bible fit well into this analysis of myth?</div>
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Over to you….</div>
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Next time - what does one do if a great artist like Wagner is a racist, sexist swine whose music was appropriated by the Nazis??? </div>
Dick Grosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10952896660861760777noreply@blogger.com154tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15975119.post-33318766178217312612013-11-07T14:03:00.000-08:002013-11-08T11:06:24.913-08:00Changing the Church<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">The challenge
of church change is considerable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What
believers love about their faiths are their immutable absolute rules and practices.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Ten Commandments written for an agrarian
bronze age world when oxen were a really big talking point are thousands of
years past their use by date.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The New
Testament is full of ridiculous rules and statements about divorce,
homosexuality and sex generally.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">The Pope
has decided to call for a Synod of Bishops, which is to have a two-stages.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>First, an Extraordinary General Assembly in
2014, intended to define the “<i>status quaestionis</i>” and to collect the
bishops’ experiences and proposals for living the Gospel of the Family “in a
credible manner” (whatever that means).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Secondly, there will be an Ordinary General Assembly in 2015 to seek
working guidelines in the pastoral care of the person and the family.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Read the whole thing at <a href="http://www.catholic.org.au/">http://www.catholic.org.au/</a> </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Will this
be a big bang or a damp squib?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Will it
enable to the Church to modernise its antediluvian views on sex or not?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Time will tell.</span><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKMXyhucGHAlHHRHB964c7fR7lz7NKKtq9jrFvsGsnHSgImDHGoQac7kujje723A7LnILiVubw_f1lBKWRbji4T6SusSNcbGevxiwZ4nZhsskbD0XCc0oJtWxldyohNkq5Sq9f/s1600/OrdainRCwomen.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="473" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKMXyhucGHAlHHRHB964c7fR7lz7NKKtq9jrFvsGsnHSgImDHGoQac7kujje723A7LnILiVubw_f1lBKWRbji4T6SusSNcbGevxiwZ4nZhsskbD0XCc0oJtWxldyohNkq5Sq9f/s640/OrdainRCwomen.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ordination of women in 2011 Anaheim California. An issue NOT countenanced in the current reform process.</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">So on the
Australian Catholic Bishops web site is a consultation document.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The document starts by stating the obvious,
things have changed in the family.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Cohabitation without marriage, same sex unions, surrogacy, mean that
certain Sacraments in the words of the Bishops, are “showing signs of weakness
or total abandonment”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can hear the
godless cheers going up now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is not
to mention other issues which are centuries old like contraception, women's ordination, priestly celibacy and
abortion.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">The debate
of the issues does not start off in a promising way because it starts with
scripture.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“</span>The citation of
biblical sources on marriage and family in this document are essential
references”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">I find that a bit of turn off to begin
with.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The document then gives a potted
history of the sacred texts that have informed the Catholic Church’s views of
sex and family.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It includes that famous
encyclical <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Humanae Vitae </i>by the
crusty reactionary Pope Paul VI which, against expectations, outlawed
contraception.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was a complete cock
up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Imagine the strife the Church could
have avoided if they had been able to embrace some change in the face of
modernity?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Imagine if they could avoid
the almost universal contravention of Catholic contraception principals by
women in the West?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What would have
happened if divorce was kosher for Catholics? The whole controversy, misery and
utter crap that have bedevilled the Church on the issue of sex would have been
starkly lessened.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Is this moment when
the Church, in the face of fundamental problems, grasps the nettle?</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">The
consultation document then moves to 9 main questions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What is to be done about cohabitation without
marriage, same sex unions, surrogacy, divorced parents and the like?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What does the Church do with the kids from
these quaintly labelled, “irregular” families?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The great unmentioned in these issues are contraception and
abortion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The latter will never be
countenanced but it is time the former got a tick.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Would that be too much change to expect? I
think it will be because the document talks about “natural” contraption and
making families more open to having more children.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These priestly men really live in a rarefied
world of their own.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">A number of
the questions have to do with education and catechism.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What do you young Catholics know and
believe?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think the problem is almost
universal ignorance and indifference to the complex liturgy and rules of their
faith.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That must a concern for the Church
and this comes out in the consultation document.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Let me
finish with a story. A close relative of mine has spent a lifetime of very
fruitful activity in the Uniting Church.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He has done a lot of good through that institution.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He is a long time widower in his late
eighties.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He wanted to hook up with a widowed
woman also in the Uniting Church.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A
wedding was not really relevant or on the cards.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are now living together with the
blessing of their Ministers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is
wonderful.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Far from being vilified and
shunned for “living in sin” they continue their rewarding and productive Church
activities without blame or censure.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Catholicism
has to see examples like this and grow from them.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Catholicism
is beginning to face its number one demon – sex.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Can it change?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What do you think?</span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;">
<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: Symbol; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Can
Catholicism reverse its change aversion?</span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;">
<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: Symbol; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">What
will it do on contraception and divorce? What about women's ordination and celibacy? </span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;">
<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: Symbol; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Will
this process be a fundamental redirection of the ship or another lost
opportunity?</span><br />
<br /></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Over to you
guys.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
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<![endif]--><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">There is
nothing that is at once both sinister and hilarious as a nation enacting regulations
based on religious dictates.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These
efforts are hilarious because they sound, to a foreigner’s ear, as the most
ridiculous laws that humans invented. Governments informed by faith ban stuff that
is innocuous (to wit the Saudi ban on women driving!). They then mandate stuff
that is moronic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And they divide
communities on the basis of irrational beliefs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But more than stupid, these rulings are sinister for these directives,
be they blasphemy or moral impositions, can entrench bigotry and lead to savagery.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFc-6_VlaRrgOFg7dutGie5TFAiJbt20EGeZac_SE8ssLLgKjSaP4tQXQgEO-xcqO2fnWyPBOf9p_6W-sGd3STtsvAjfmTner4OGArAKvrtfH-EihgGsPYgEEhB8l6jt_jzSNc/s1600/MalaysianMuslims.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFc-6_VlaRrgOFg7dutGie5TFAiJbt20EGeZac_SE8ssLLgKjSaP4tQXQgEO-xcqO2fnWyPBOf9p_6W-sGd3STtsvAjfmTner4OGArAKvrtfH-EihgGsPYgEEhB8l6jt_jzSNc/s640/MalaysianMuslims.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Beacons of tolerance capture control of a word in the fight against freedom. </td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Today we
look at a Muslim ruling but we might have looked at the cruel jailing of the
Pussy Riot Church concert in the name Christianity or the pathetic Jewish
regulations on restricting women at the Western Wall in Jerusalem. All faiths have
these disastrous lapses although at present, Islam seems over represented in
the enactment of brainless and malicious laws.</span>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">A week ago,
<span class="focusparagraph">a court ruled that only Muslims can use the word
"Allah" to refer to God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The absurdity
of this is that “Allah” is a combination of two Arabic words meaning “The God”
where “al” Is the definite article and “Lah” is a slight abbreviation of the
word for deity. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thus Allah is the God
and in a monotheistic sense, the sole god (lower case “g”).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is not only deployed by Muslims.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is the word used by Arabic and Maltese
Christians, some Sephardi Jews and other faiths with an Arabic communion such
as the Baha’i.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span class="focusparagraph"><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">In one sense I get the Judge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Outside the Middle East, the word Allah does
have Islamic overtones.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But those
overtones are not actually correct.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And
anyway, who cares?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The word is not monopolised
in monotheism by Islam and even if it were solely used in Islam, why the
problem with others talking the Allah talk?</span></span></div>
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<span class="focusparagraph"><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Malaysia is a society with three ethnicities,
Chinese, Indian and Malay (</span></span>Bumiputra)<span class="focusparagraph"><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">, who are treated differently by
their government.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Bumiputra have
racial preference through affirmative action by way of various employment and
other advantages.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This discrimination is
underpinned by the faith differences.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The </span></span>Bumiputra are overwhelmingly Muslim; the 8% Indians
are Tamil Hindus and the 25% Chinese are Buddhist with a Christian sub-minority.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This ruling is aimed at the Chinese
Christians and therefore appears to be part of the Malaysian ethnic issues
rather than a pan Islamic one.<span class="focusparagraph"><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"></span></span></div>
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<span class="focusparagraph"><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">So outside Malaysia, if is fortunate that a number
of Muslim scholars are condemning the decision.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For example, in Pakistan, the ruling has been
called insular by the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Dawn </i></span>newspaper.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Islamic theologians and some Malaysian politicians
also regard the decision with <span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">dismay.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Nonetheless,
this does shed some light on how the provincial Muslims in an otherwise modern
country view faith and ethnicity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Clearly, litigants and the judge in this case (on appeal to a State
court) felt that this matter was of such gravity that dramatic action was
needed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>More objective observers in KL
seem to be ashamed by the decision. However, it is clearly an attack on the
Christian minority’s religious freedom and therefore is disgusting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In more violent countries, such rulings
inevitably signal the legitimate hounding of Christians and other apostates by
the followers of Islam.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is incumbent
on all atheists to condemn this in the name of Christian freedom and I do so.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">In Africa,
the Middle East and parts of Asia, this ruling would be just another signal for
a religious pogrom.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This ugly decision
is bigotry writ large and is a great advertisement for atheism.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">What is
your view?</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Is this
ruling an isolated provincial mistake or evidence that supports the view that Islam
generally is intolerant?</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Is this
just an anomaly or conclusive evidence that atheism is wonderful?</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">What is it
about the combination of faith and ethnicity that leads both to brilliant
cultural diversity and murderous violence?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Will ethnicity and faith ever be separated?</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Over to you
guys... </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">The search
for the soul has found succour with Near Death Experience (NDE) crew.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I thought that I would this time look at a
piece of research that was on the souls of rats that was summarised in this
article from <a href="http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2013/08/economist-explains-6" target="_blank">The Economist </a>The NDE is
a widely documented phenomenon reported by those who are dying, but cheat the
coffin and return to life. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In their joy
and gratitude at survival TWO claims of some (almost) post mortal perceptions
are made.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These two perceptions enjoy
remarkable consistency around the world despite different circumstances,
dispersed locations, varied causes of extremis and diverse cultures/beliefs of
the nearly dead.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This constancy of image
does lend credit to the argument that the soul is emerging from the corpse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The two NDE perceptions are illusions of either
walking towards a bright light or floating above the room the nearly dead are
nearly dying in and observing what goes on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>So there are two distinct figments but each has a global fan base.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwP909dVnH_FTfNLAXnkUT9DRjTiojzZS_Fu6zp1CUBrcseLbQFTFUb9SpTCelINbzmtJlVCOQsVhdKw5vI5vGCGoq1vOjRr_mMBDMSc5ZWko_Idgt42ZX9giZBjNXkA7byDP6/s1600/Soul_Finds_It's+Way+Home,+Alex+Gray.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwP909dVnH_FTfNLAXnkUT9DRjTiojzZS_Fu6zp1CUBrcseLbQFTFUb9SpTCelINbzmtJlVCOQsVhdKw5vI5vGCGoq1vOjRr_mMBDMSc5ZWko_Idgt42ZX9giZBjNXkA7byDP6/s640/Soul_Finds_It's+Way+Home,+Alex+Gray.jpg" width="484" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"The soul finds it's way home"by Alex Grey</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These two NDE
images are used to justify the existence of the disembodied soul or one that
departs the body upon death and then resumes a fairly human type existence
outside the host body.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The last blog
looked at a refutation of this form of soul. How could this disembodied soul
see the light or the perspective as it floats above the room when it does not
possess eyes to see the visions?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But
these sorts of arguments are never really addressed by believers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is just assumed that the disembodied soul
has the characteristics and advantages of residing in a live body with all of
the miraculous cognitive and perceptual things a brain and body can do without
the pains and aches that ordinarily accompany physical embodiment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">The
godless, sceptics and doubters see these visions in a very different light. We
are medical materialists who see the NDE as merely the last, convulsive neurological
symptoms of a traumatised or oxygen starved body and brain. The fact that
people have visions often leads to a religious moment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There was the famous psychological experiment
colloquially known as the “Miracle of Marsh Chapel” when seminary students on
LSD reported religious encounters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The hallucinations
were mistaken for the divinity. Similarly, the figments of the NDE cause
similar claims of the numinous or divine and seem similarly bogus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">And so we
come to the experiment on the souls of rats by University of Michigan’s </span>Jimo
Borjigin<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sadly, in the cause of godlessness, the researchers
killed the rats and measured their brains as they died.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The small sample involved showed some neurological
activity as death approached.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This
sounds analogous to the sort of brain activity that might drive the NDE.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The brain reacts to the demise with a burst
of activity and that activity creates illusions of floating or light.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Now of
course, rats and humans are different.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It was a small sample.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But this
is the first of many similar experiments I hope will come that explores the neurological
activity of a dying animal, whether human or not, and this will shed light on
the veracity or otherwise of the existence of the soul.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I expect that the materialists will triumph
over the spiritualists as the science progresses.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">What is
your view?</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Can the
soul, when it departs the body, see or perceive and if so, how?</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Where would
such souls end up – transmigrating to other bodies or in an invisible heaven?</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">What do you
think of the medical type explanations of a traumatised brain shooting out
images with no evidence of a soul at all?</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Over to you
guys...</span></div>
Dick Grosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10952896660861760777noreply@blogger.com212tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15975119.post-2216915831255643342013-10-08T15:02:00.000-07:002013-10-09T16:30:27.111-07:00Soul searching<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The soul is that intangible essence of us
that believers hope will survive death. I
wish I could say that the soul existed. Sadly,
I cannot. This is the first of two parts on the soul.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">In this post, I look at the definition of the
soul. Next time, I examine some of the science.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">If one disentangles the arguments about
eternal life one discovers there are two contradictory definitions of life
after death in the Western tradition. In
one view the soul and the body are separated and in the other theory, they are
kept together. But these two mutually
exclusive traditions are often melded together in a confusing mish mash. How is it that two contradictory notions of
life after death can exist? Either the
soul and the body are separated or are not?
Why is there no public debate about the clash of definitions? I expect it is because either most people in
their heart of hearts, notwithstanding their stated belief, don’t actually
believe. So they don’t want to
interrogate the two forms of life after death.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">The first form is the disembodied soul. In this Hellenistic tradition, the soul is
separated from the body and some existence is then supposed to eventuate
presumably in Heaven. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">But what form of existence would there be for
the disembodied soul? Without eyes,
ears, brain and mouth, the soul would be incapable of thought, sight, sound and
the ability to communicate. Souls would
have an awful isolated existence of sensory deprivation. Indeed, if they were the souls of miscreants,
these souls would feel nothing of the searing punitive fires of Hell. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">The life of a disembodied soul would be one
of sensory deprivation and endless tedium. Such a disembodied existence, were it
possible, would be awful, miserable anti human existence. And needless to say, the nature of the soul
clashes with available scientific evidence.
The soul, however defined, is part of the brain and so with death, comes
the death of the brain and so the soul must die with the body and cannot live a
distinct and disembodied state.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Michelangelo's version of the soul - the second form of a soul embedded in a resurrected body. </td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The second notion of life after death is
restoration of the dead cadavers at some time such as the Coming of God. This is known as resurrection. In this form of eternity, the soul and the
body remain together and both physically revive and are restored. This notion is scientifically absurd given
the poor status of the bodies after but a short time in the grave or the
crematorium. And what would happen
should the atoms from one corpse be consumed and form part of a living person? Who gets those atoms? If I shared the atoms
that formed part of some historic personage, who would get those atoms on the
day of resurrection and whose limbs would be mere stumps? And I feel that most of us don’t really truly
believe in resurrection. If we did,
mummification or embalming and vacuum packing would be widespread rather than
cremation and rotting in the earth.
Ancient Egyptians planned for a resurrected afterlife by mummification
because of the tenacity of their belief.
Modern humans have the capacity it would seem to say they believe and
yet actions of cremation and burial indicate otherwise.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: small;">And the difficulty
of all forms of afterlife is demonstrated in Eric Clapton’s plaintive cry to
his dead baby child, “Would you know my name, if I saw you in heaven?” He wrote this elegy after his young son fell
to his death. He is asking about the
nature of the post mortal world. What
age would his son be? Would he be a
young boy child unable to recall his father?
Would the dead be ancient like Clapton will be when he dies? Will we be an infant like his son – incapable
of memory? Will we be like many of us
will be at death – with Alzheimer’s – also incapable of memory? Clapton seems to be suggesting that there is
no meaningful afterlife and the song appears to be a part of his healing as he
comes to realise this.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: small;">The idea of the
soul is alluring and uplifting. The
notion is found in both Western and Eastern traditions. It gives us hope in the face of relentless, inexorable
pursuit of death. One would have to be a
complete shit head to repudiate it. I am
sorry to be one of those that do. What
will I do next? Proclaim that brain
devouring zombies don’t exist? I think
that I am on safer, less contentious grounds with that one.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: small;">What do you think?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: small;">Are you a believer
in the afterlife? </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: small;">Which of the two
forms do you believe in – soul alone or soul and body combined? How do you contend with the logic and
evidence of the afterlife?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: small;">So now it is over
to you guys.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span lang="EN-AU">Here we go
again. Another atheist is bashing the
bejesus out of the saintly Mother Teresa. </span></b></span><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNjtmi55YprlL3o6Cpt6ZrVPA5dYIGNnwC8hZ47awga1ylwaeRnUztWK_kEuPAkUa2saMyNsTjjvVgnYNE4_45gUgbLBtrii0lMPuUmVZv_y_s6koT8C9GcKGNC8StW32v7AUZ/s1600/mother-teresa-indian-hero.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNjtmi55YprlL3o6Cpt6ZrVPA5dYIGNnwC8hZ47awga1ylwaeRnUztWK_kEuPAkUa2saMyNsTjjvVgnYNE4_45gUgbLBtrii0lMPuUmVZv_y_s6koT8C9GcKGNC8StW32v7AUZ/s640/mother-teresa-indian-hero.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The beatified Nobel Laureate, Mother Teresa</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Atheists
have made a habit of bashing Teresa.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The late
Christopher Hitchins wrote a book objecting to her raising money without
scruples, consorting with dictators and spivs, providing appalling care in her
institutions and a lack of transparency in her accounts. Since that pioneering
work, there has been a conga line of atheists being mean to a woman who is a
Nobel Laureate and has been beatified (the third stage before sainthood). In her life
she was an apparent paragon of virtue who was to be sucked up to by any world
leader in search of a photo opportunity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Atheists
take aim for she not only she is an archetype of the supposed uplifting
attributes of faith but is open to criticism as a self promoter rather than a
saint.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The latest to deflate the
personality cult are a <a href="http://disinfo.com/2013/03/canadian-researchers-demolish-myth-of-mother-teresas-goodness/?fb_action_ids=605761172801183&fb_action_types=og.likes&fb_source=other_multiline&action_object_map=[521893741196446]&action_type_map=[%22og.likes%22]&action_ref_map=[]">Canadian trio </a>who repeat, extend and document the main Hitch
assertions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">So is it
fruitful grail for the knights of godlessness to quest for?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or is it a risk that we look churlish?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Is the dead nun a legitimate target or should
she be left in peace to pick up post mortal rewards like sainthood and global
brand status? </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">I would
argue that now is the time, with some exception, to stop demonising the Catholic
equivalent of Bambi.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think it
sometimes demeans us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For all her
faults, she was utterly amazing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But
there are a couple of her beliefs that need to be mentioned and opposed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are her views on poverty and suffering.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Suffering
and putting suffering into a context is a central theme of religious life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Suffering is perhaps best summarised in the crucifixion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The most central image of the Christian faith
is someone being tortured to death.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Suffering
can be so central that some beliefs perversely glorify suffering and venerate
self harm. Where a faith links suffering to post mortal rewards, then happiness
can be linked to guilt and self deprivation is elevated to an art form.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are countless martyrs who have, under
the devotion to faith, embraced death, pain and starvation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These are deemed worthy of emulation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Almost Saint Teresa had a view of
suffering that elevated it to a height of devotion which I think is very dangerous.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Suffering is awful not noble.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Suffering and poverty ought not to be endured
but avoided.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Suffering as a precursor to
Paradise is a fine opiate but is not believable by most in the West.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Linking suffering with guilt leads to an
ascetic life where sex, material comfort and absence of pain are somehow bad.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">I can see
how the veneration of suffering gives comfort.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It demonstrates to those who are in anguish or agony that their faith
empathises.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Their faith offers a post
mortal reward.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Suffering is all
good.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Torment is fine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let us all join in an embrace torment and
fear fun.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As an exemplar of the problems
with this ideology is the documented evidence that the life for patients in Teresa’s hospices, </span><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">short as
it was, </span>was pretty grim.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pain relief and medical resources were thin
on the ground, even during the good times, when Teresa was pulling in the big
bucks from donors.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Having said
all of this, it must be conceded the godless have NO consolation or comfort for
those who suffer distress.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is no
atheistic framework for understanding and dealing with misery and
distress.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While we godless can criticise
the Christian approach, we must confess that we have nothing to contribute to
our unbelievers in pain.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">My other gripe
is that Teresa's views blunt political and social action.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>India, at the time Almost Saint Teresa was there,
endured extreme poverty exacerbated by Soviet style central economic planning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The best thing for India was not her flawed
palliative care but political and economic reform. Almost Saint Teresa eschewed
such political action and in doing so contributed to the continuation of suffering.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m not saying that she had a vested interest
in suffering (although she did). I’m saying that her focus on palliative care
and her views on the dignity of poverty got in the way of reform and the
alleviation of the said poverty.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">In our code
of footy there is the phrase, “Going the man not the ball” which is generalised
to indicate personal, ad hominem attacks are to be deplored.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So it is with Almost Saint Teresa.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let us praise the little Albanian for the
amazing person that she was. Let us be inspired by her global brand and her
devotion to duty.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her achievements were
legion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But let not that veneration
blind us the stupidity of her views on suffering and poverty.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">What is
your view?</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Do you
agree that it is time to move on from just knocking the woman?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">What do you
think of her views on suffering and poverty?</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">How should
the godless comfort those who suffer? Whilst Christians are wrong, we godless
are a vacuum on the question of assisting our flock deal with their
torment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What should we do about this?</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Over to you
guys...</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"> </span>
Dick Grosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10952896660861760777noreply@blogger.com185tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15975119.post-61119564352745094092013-09-19T16:41:00.001-07:002013-09-19T16:41:29.438-07:00Oh Hail the Chief!<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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With a fantastic first interview! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pope Francis threatens/promises to blow away
centuries of sexual cobwebs from the Roman Catholic Church.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Pope Francis said the Catholic Church must shake off an
obsession with teachings on abortion, contraception and homosexuality or risk
the collapse of its entire moral edifice, "like a house of cards".<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBxSfhx0g0ythJyOTg4INu7SXjEZcWGBdsfIQabeVEPYEazARnQqjz80IOZHl13Domb7muTDGwH7MLvoKlTPSvfX2tgGGRzBEizLkD3u8UhSWMbia_vZogB6zPPEmrnY9eMp0d/s1600/Francis.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="425" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBxSfhx0g0ythJyOTg4INu7SXjEZcWGBdsfIQabeVEPYEazARnQqjz80IOZHl13Domb7muTDGwH7MLvoKlTPSvfX2tgGGRzBEizLkD3u8UhSWMbia_vZogB6zPPEmrnY9eMp0d/s640/Francis.jpeg" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Thumbs up from the godless for Pope Francis. What about his own community??</td></tr>
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To me this is a statement of the bleeding obvious.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sexual “obsession” is the appropriate
word.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A pack of old, celibate men
opining on these matters (when they forgive and transplant sexual offenders of
the most pernicious kind) is such an ethical turn off.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Who outside the Church is not at the same
time, appalled, amazed, amused and disgusted by the current rules and practices
of the Church?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are a godsend for atheists.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is slightly scary that, paraphrasing the
words of Richard Nixon, “What will we do now we might not have the Catholic
Church to abuse?”</div>
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In an interview with an Italian Jesuit monthly, the Pope
said the church had locked itself up in "small things, in small-minded
rules".</div>
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Its priests should be more welcoming and not cold, dogmatic
bureaucrats stuck in confessionals that sometimes resembled "torture
chambers", he said.</div>
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FANTASTIC STUFF! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
makes people like Cardinal Pell look like the antediluvian, doddery anachronism
he most surely is.</div>
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APPALLING STUFF! For the foresight of Pope Francis with his inclusion
of the marginal and marginalization of the reactionaries threatens to make
Catholicism Kosher again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Already going
gang busters in the developing world, Catholicism with a decent leader
threatens to become popular and palatable in places where it is really struggling
in the West.</div>
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The full interview can be viewed here: <a href="http://www.americamagazine.org/pope-interview">http://www.americamagazine.org/pope-interview</a>
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THE STEAK KNIVES!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But
wait, there’s more.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pope Francis appointed
Italian Archbishop Pietro Parolin as his new Secretary of State. One of his
first acts was to open the topic of priestly celibacy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He has argued that church’s tradition of
priestly celibacy was not dogma and was therefore open to discussion. In
guarded tones he has opened the door. “The effort made by the church to
institute ecclesial celibacy must be taken into consideration. One cannot
simply say that it belongs to the past,” he said.</div>
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Why are we still talking about celibacy?</div>
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Voluntary celibacy is maligned fairly or unfairly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And yet it is surprisingly common across a
range of faiths and practices.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is to
be found in the Catholic, Hindu, Jewish, Buddhist and other traditions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some of these requirements are temporary and
some lifelong.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With the prohibition of
pre marital sex which is very widespread there is an argument that every faith
requires some degree of celibacy.</div>
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However, notwithstanding the many shapes and sizes of sexual
restraint, the big Momma of the discussion is of course, the voluntary celibacy
of the Catholic male priest.</div>
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Let us distinguish between celibacy and abstinence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The former is usually a result of a vow and
can be lifelong renunciation of marriage and sexual relations. Abstinence is
thought of as a temporary lull in the proceedings such as the Orthodox Jewish
prohibition on sex during menstruation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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Celibacy is blamed as a cause of the sexual predation now
emerging in the Church.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Whilst there is
insufficient evidence to be conclusive, the logic goes like this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Celibacy attracts those for whom married life
is not attractive but want the prestige of having an excuse for not engaging in
marriage and/or straight sex.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And even
if you are attracted to the idea of heterosexual married life, abstinence and
the strange obsession with it, might change one in ways that could lead to
child abuse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That is the logic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The evidence from the John Jay Report seems
to corroborate the logic but is not conclusive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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But whatever the relationship between celibacy and abuse,
voluntary celibacy seems to me to be weird and a deprivation of normalcy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Just wait for it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There will be the inevitable counter revolution.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The habits of a millennium or more will die
hard.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Will Pope Francis and his
Secretary of State succeed in staunching the blood flowing from the Church’s sexual
Achilles heel?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or will the forces of
reaction outlast and outplay the forces of reform?</div>
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What is your view?</div>
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Do you agree that Pope Francis’ interview was disastrous for
atheism in the West?</div>
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Do you think it is too little too late?</div>
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How did he keep this reformist zeal so secret that he won
the vote?</div>
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Where will the Church go on celibacy?</div>
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What is your view of celibacy?</div>
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Over to you.</div>
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Dick Grosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10952896660861760777noreply@blogger.com213tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15975119.post-8693625395077230032013-09-07T23:55:00.001-07:002013-09-17T16:59:25.034-07:00How Kevin could have given a less absurd concession speech<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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We all know that Kevin Rudd gave an embarrassingly bad
speech conceding the leadership of his country to his opponents after the
electoral drubbing he received on Saturday.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>For 24 minutes, he gave a grinning peroration to a delirious, sycophantic
crowd.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They cheered every word and
screamed “Kevin! Kevin! Kevin!” as if they were hailing a conquering hero.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What hallucinogen was that mob on or were
they simply moronic?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And he grinned like
he had winned (sic).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The nation watched
gob smacked as this train wreck annoyed us, then bored us and ultimately
horrified us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT92n_1S8pXZes6cZUH-eUUNRNRCfqjw3hjBIomeUK72DGKnl6M8BnXU7ABiYXACVx8YHzbSIPlLNHpIaZjIhlHTwe_kEz2cs40x1egbyk9KuzP79Y6XcmQeDMzAIgxwT4NXEr/s1600/rudd2.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="358" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT92n_1S8pXZes6cZUH-eUUNRNRCfqjw3hjBIomeUK72DGKnl6M8BnXU7ABiYXACVx8YHzbSIPlLNHpIaZjIhlHTwe_kEz2cs40x1egbyk9KuzP79Y6XcmQeDMzAIgxwT4NXEr/s640/rudd2.jpeg" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Some smile...</td></tr>
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Here is a suggestion of what he might have said to the
Nation and his party (my party). </div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">(Shushing and calming
the crowd and wearing an earnest face devoid of the flicker of a smile)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Please do not welcome me with enthusiasm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I do not deserve it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Screaming in joy is completely inappropriate for
this appalling moment for our Party. </i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">My Fellow Australians:
I rise to concede victory in this election to my opponent Tony Abbott and his
Coalition combatants.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well done Tony. It
was a huge victory.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I know that some pundits
predicted a larger victory for the Coalition but that does not diminish the
grandeur of your win.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I suppose</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I could claim some sort of Pyrrhic or
partial victory because some pundits were a little out with their predictions. But
I will not do that. There is no sense of achievement for the Government or my
Party in any way from this substantial loss.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Who knows whether my late return to the Prime Ministerial office helped
or hindered us, but the results are so bad, I take no comfort here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We were trounced and I completely stuffed
up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Not only did we lose
government but we diminished the community’s trust in politicians so that they
voted in protest for right wing buffoons with coal mines or a car fetish. The
damage I and my party caused to the polity was widespread and deep.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am so sorry.</i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Now some people when
they apologise do so in a formalistic and token manner.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Archbishop who utters apologies for
hideous sex crimes by his priests but does not really mean it or the Minister or CEO who
resigns after a debacle because s/he feels someone has to take formal blame, often
do not really harbour remorse in their hearts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They ape apologies because they feel they have to. I make my apologies
with heartfelt contrition for I was a large part of the mess.</i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Let me say a few words about the vexing notion of "ambition". The political
challenge is always to balance two things – loyalty to the party that promotes
you and loyalty to your own ambitions. This is the ultimate political conundrum.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Where do my interests and the party’s
interests begin and end?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have been
very poor at getting this call right.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ambition is
complicated emotion. It is a precondition for high achievement and yet we
deplore it when it is too naked or in conflict with the party or group who give
politicians succour.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Parties and
nations need the ambitious to fight to the top.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The winners of that competition are then sufficiently battle hardened to
take on an outside adversary. So ambition is complex.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It leads to the uncovering of great leaders and is the cause of internecine warfare. Lots of ambition is great unless it
overwhelms the loyalty to the party or group we represent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thus, we never display ambition in Australia
too enthusiastically. We nurture it secretly in deep within our souls.</i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">My ambition is overweening
and overwhelming.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Consequently, when the party
forced me to step aside after leading it to victory in 2007, my secret longings
drove me and my small band of followers to undermine my own party.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To be a leader of any group, one usually has
to step over a few dead bodies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That is
expected and indeed, such ruthlessness is much treasured by groups in search of
a leader. But years of leaking against the interests of my own party, even as they
strove for victory in the 2010 election demonstrated that I had lost the
plot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unlike the deposed Victorian
Premier, Ted Baillieu who has left office with dignity and anonymity, I
festered like a boil for years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have
now killed off my party and deeply tarnished my own legacy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For this, I am extremely sorry.</i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">To the Nation, I say
this: I am sorry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Please reconsider my
Party in three years time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In normal
circumstances, they are a wonderful political movement.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And please refashion your respect for the
political classes and therefore the major parties; otherwise our parliament
will be an unstable collection of minor parties run by buffoons and billionaires
(or both).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Democracy is too precious to
be purchased by the rich or undeservedly won by preferences because of the vagaries
of the proportional representation system.</i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">To my Party, I say
this: I cannot trust myself not to undermine my successor or curtail my ambitions
so I will leave the Parliament to write a very dull and worthy book tentatively
entitled “On Ambition – Pursuing a dream can be inspiring or destructive.”</i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">To my successor/predecessor
Julia Gillard, I say this – The political world is full of political couples who do really well. Unfortunately, these couples never deal well with the ambitions of both, particularly on the question of transition. Hawke and Keating, Howard and Costello, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown and
many other leaders and their deputies, often did well for a while and then clawed
each other to death when ambition could not be managed in an orderly manner. Obama and Hilary seem to have got the timing right after initially butting heads. Let's hope both their ambitions are realised. Julia, I am sorry we didn't get our timing or our partnership right. But we could have been amazing…”</i></div>
Dick Grosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10952896660861760777noreply@blogger.com307tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15975119.post-7021404243362097882013-09-02T20:09:00.000-07:002013-09-02T20:12:38.693-07:00Christian Lobby and the Pious Poll<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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It has been a very challenging time to be godless in
Oz.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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With the election looming, the Prime Ministerial candidates
are crawling over themselves to display their piety and their theistic
devotion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It does make my godless skin
crawl.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Moreover, there are a profusion
of smaller, right wing, often religious parties with views informed by ignorance
and conservatism.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Australian Christian Lobby Election Special which could be joined by churches for $100 per church.</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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The Australian Christian Lobby (“ACL”) is the loud and I
imagine not completely representative lobbyist for Christianity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You may recall that its leader, Lyle Shelton
made offensive comments about the children of gay and lesbian marriages.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In fact, the ACL seems to me like a pack of
gay and lesbian bashing bastards. </div>
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The two Prime Ministerial aspirants presented themselves as
prayerful Christians with a piety and philanthropic outlook that would have
made JC seem secular. It was vomit worthy for a man such as me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tony Abbott spent some time talking about how
he respected the PM.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As I reflected on
this momentary calming of the combative discourse of an election, one must
concede that there is, at least superficially, a civilizing effect of
faith.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Its narrative is about service,
charity and the common humanity we all share.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I do concede that these narrative strands do uplift the conversation and
tame its usual belligerent heart. That much must be admitted. Kevin Rudd too
seemed muted by the audience and was sorry for offending those with his volte
face on gay and lesbian marriage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Be
loud and proud Kev I say.</div>
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Worryingly, Abbott seeks to lower the “red tape on charities”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This sounds great but is scary.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Abbott has set that nasty little Catholic
hypocrite, Kevin Andrews, to gut the Australian Charities and Not-for-Profits
Commission.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is a small and regrettable
move that is a poor idea. But it does implement Cardinal George Pell’s explicit
policy directive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is an ominous sign.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But you would expect a Labor voting godless
guy to say that.</div>
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Interestingly ACL has collected a broad range of the contestants’
thoughts at its site <a href="http://australiavotes.org.au/">http://australiavotes.org.au/</a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There you will discover parties that you
never knew existed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They include the
Rise Up Australia Party, the Australian Christians, Christian Democratic Party,
DLP and Family First.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These don’t
include the more secular nutty parties, like Katter, Palmer and One
Nation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The hung parliament has sown the
seed of hope for smaller parties. It is, I expect, and illusory hope.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But the Christians give succor to an array of
marginal silly parties.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I anticipate that
they will largely be seen as a recent curiosity if there is a decisive
result.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That will polarise the
Australian polity and make this blossoming of small right wing and Christian
parties temporary.</div>
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And so the godless don’t have much to look forward to.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Taxpayer funded religious education will
flower. Touchstone issues like gay and lesbian issues will founder.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is not an uplifting election for the
Godless.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But there is the Secular Party
of Australia <a href="http://www.secular.org.au/">http://www.secular.org.au/</a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They have high calibre candidates and good
policy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They have candidates in every
state.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Look out for them.</div>
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What is your view?</div>
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Do you see Abbott as a sinister “Captain Catholic” or is he
merely Rudd without the grey hair and moon face?</div>
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Can you forgive Rudd for killing of our noble atheistic
former Ranga PM?</div>
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Who will you vote for?</div>
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Over to you guys…</div>
Dick Grosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10952896660861760777noreply@blogger.com114tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15975119.post-24324198158046334442013-08-21T00:28:00.000-07:002013-08-21T07:26:12.844-07:00A more godless Pontiff or a more guilty one? <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Thumbs up for Atheism????</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">In March of
this year, Pope Francis looked at a bunch of apostate media hacks and said he
would bless them even though “many of you do not belong to the Catholic Church,
and others are not believers".</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Later that
week, while delivering a homily, the former Jesuit, Pope Francis said:</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">“The Lord
has redeemed all of us, all of us, with the Blood of Christ: all of us, not
just Catholics. Everyone! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>'Father, the
atheists?' <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even the atheists. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Everyone! ... We are created children in the
likeness of God and the Blood of Christ has redeemed us all … We need that so
much. We must meet one another doing good. 'But I don't believe, Father, I am
an atheist!' But do good: We will meet one another there.”</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">After that
surprising olive branch, the Vatican officials ran around retracting it but the
tolerance cat was out of the bag.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Atheists can be redeemed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not
that many of us care.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">This
approach seems to be informed by the concept of “the Anonymous Christian”
promoted by another Jesuit, Karl Rahner.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This notion is </span>that people who have never heard of the Christian Gospels<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span></span></span></span> might be saved if "in
[their] basic orientation and fundamental decision," Rahner wrote,
"accepted the grace of God, through Christ, although [they] may never have
heard of the Christian revelation." Now we atheists actually have heard
of, and maybe even read, the Gospels but have failed to be persuaded. So the
atheistic olive branch offered by Pope Francis is a dramatic escalation of the
Anonymous<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Christian doctrine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">The Rahner
doctrine and the Francis overture taken together are extraordinary.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are examples of the Jesuits in the
Catholic Church dealing with the plausibility problems of faith in a modern
world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Jesuits were supposed to be
the hard line soldiers of Christ and look at them now! The plausibility crisis
has been present in an increasing for centuries with the boom in science post
The Enlightenment but now seems to be cutting a swathe in the European faith
communities.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What do the churches’
leaderships do in Europe when the flocks have lost their creeds?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One could become more truculent and
fundamentalist. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or one could become more
inclusive and modern.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pope Francis seems
to have embraced the latter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">This is a
marvellous development.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is no
knocking tolerance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Since March,
however, such overtures seem to have evaporated but the record cannot be
denied.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Two issues
therefore are opened by this event: why did he do this? And will he do it for
other appalling beliefs of Catholicism?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Next time, I look at Pope Francis and the gay and lesbian issue but I
want to spend some words speculating on why Francis may be concerned with
redemption and therefore reach out to those(like atheists and gays) whom other
Popes thought were beyond redemption.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Pope
Francis, with his emphasis on redemption of even apostates, is a person who
reminds me of John Newton.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“John who?”,
I hear you cry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>John Newton was a slave
trader who was redeemed by faith and became a leader of the anti Slavery
movement.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He celebrated the role of
redemption in his life by penning the most popular hymn of all time on the
subject – <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Amazing Grace</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Francis too embraces redemption and, like Newton, needs to redeem himself.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Francis, as
the Cardinal Jorge Borgoglio, was in Argentina during the so called “Dirty War”
where up to 30,000 dissidents were killed and/or tortured.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is difficult in these scary situations to
emerge both with clean hands and alive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cardinal
Borgoglio was the subject of allegations as leader of the Jesuits.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There were clearly disagreements within the
Jesuit community about how to deal with this brutal regime.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At the end of it all, Borgoglio was accused
of collaboration and even betrayal but the betrayal allegations appear to be without
substance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, I ask myself that in
the aftermath, whether Borgoglio felt some remorse for his lack of
opposition.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was supine – not a rogue
but also not a hero.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thus, repentance would, I imagine,
like John Newton, figure in his internal narrative about his behavior in the
Dirty War and his faith.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">I speculate
that this insight into his own fragility and humanity must inform this
Papacy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thus redemption of atheists is
comprehensible to him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>John Newton was
an unbeliever who was redeemed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Francis
has never lost his belief in God but he may have in the post Dirty War time
lost some belief in himself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hence he
embraces ostentatious modesty.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thus he
can deal with atheists and contemplate that we could be bound for glory.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">This is all,
of course, speculative.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But the
perestroika displayed by Francis is extraordinary.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We must now observe the Papacy of Francis
through this lens.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He is open in ways
that no Pope has been open since John XXIII.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Paul V, JP II and Benedict XVI were reactionary duds and the Church has
plummeted in Europe and elsewhere as a result. Francis may not be such a dud. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">What is
your view?</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Is the
overture from Francis to the world of unbelief an unprecedented opportunity to converse
with the godless or a momentary slip?</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Is the
emphasis on redemption guided by the Dirty War guilt or just another Catholic
with redemption as a principal marketing tool?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It is pretty good that a few Hail Mary’s can get you out of
trouble.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just ask the priestly paedophiles.</span></div>
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Is a more rational Catholicism bad for atheism as we have
lost our favourite whipping boy or is it good for those of us who want to work
with reasonable people of faith?</div>
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Over to you….</div>
Dick Grosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10952896660861760777noreply@blogger.com171tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15975119.post-18271705866951542202013-08-08T19:31:00.000-07:002013-08-09T00:25:01.806-07:00Commemorating the Death of a Woman<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">In the
gloaming of a perishing evening, candles added a flickering luminescence trying
to defy the descending darkness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>An
idiosyncratic community had gathered in St Kilda to commemorate the unspeakably
violent end of street sex worker, Tracy Connelly from stab wounds to the face
and chest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hundreds of us from the
neighbourhood, the sex work industry, the welfare industry, the Parliament, the
council and the media made for a motley but united crew.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well not entirely united for I stood there in
the twilight seething with anger at the hypocrisy and cant of our Parliamentary
and Mayoral speakers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>More of that
later.</span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaaj_OI545hCMshgHTxvFACOYuHZuZRuWsnKW1ZHRzY1REKysZKZzFW3Avo4Shnk3biPgz-JeSl4bquZGmRous6kCs43Qugsayn2lpN2M1pJOVR61xK0tWqaae_R8BYN9q-1bL/s1600/tracey+Connelly2.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="425" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaaj_OI545hCMshgHTxvFACOYuHZuZRuWsnKW1ZHRzY1REKysZKZzFW3Avo4Shnk3biPgz-JeSl4bquZGmRous6kCs43Qugsayn2lpN2M1pJOVR61xK0tWqaae_R8BYN9q-1bL/s1600/tracey+Connelly2.jpeg" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">The candle lit vigil for murdered street sex worker Tracy Connelly</span> <span style="font-size: x-small;">(<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Photo Fairfax Media</span>. </span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Wayne Taylor</span>)</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">The
ceremony was very Post Modern Australia, a pastiche of secular and sacred, the
non verbal and the verbose.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The power of
ceremony and ritual fascinates me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At
the heart of great ceremony is the use of non verbal community symbols.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Whilst verbosity is a turn off, symbols will overpower
words when a group of people gathers to share feelings. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For Tracy’s ceremony the non verbal included a
sea of candles, a choir with a Christian repertoire, a minute of silence holding
the candles aloft, contemporary secular singers and finally a plaintive
rendition of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Amazing Grace</i> with its
plea for the power of redemption.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But
the most powerful symbol was the night itself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Night is evocative. The danger of the dark and the inhospitable cold of midwinter were
potent icons of the perils of street sex work. Modern Australians seldom gather
together at night in the frigidity of winter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Just standing there together was instructive and moving.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We held our candles aloft in unity. The wind
held off and the flames struggled on against the night.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When a brother’s tears and palpable love for
his dead sister stirred the crowd, the rite of commemoration was potent. It
transfixed us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We were shamed for the societal
negligence that bought about Tracy’s murder. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We were left in no doubt that we could not
dismiss this as the killing of the unwanted and unloved. This part of the ceremony,
for those like me interested in ritual, was stunning.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">But then
the speeches started. My blood boiled in anger. You may recall from the last
blog how a decade ago the Victorian Parliament failed to (partially) decriminalise
street sex work so that the prostitutes would not regard the police as the
enemy and the police could focus on protecting prostitutes not controlling
them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Parliament, both sides of the
fence included, in the face of community reluctance and the moralistic legacy
of our religious past, failed to embrace law reform when it was offered.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Parliament has blood on its metaphorical
hands.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So too do the reform critics
including Leslie Cannold, a Senate Candidate for the Wikileaks Party in
Victoria. </span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiug_Du91e4kX3ZpTCq1YRgtIP63-3LeLkrpZ4_Oc05Uzjn6kFpukmYo97gRtcq9hNhW4zcCRfRuqxj9yqJslKCbm3cPZQCvgRB4PJLtoix-rCIYJBkbnuJSBuUHVXhwIiva5Gs/s1600/tracey+Connelly4.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="355" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiug_Du91e4kX3ZpTCq1YRgtIP63-3LeLkrpZ4_Oc05Uzjn6kFpukmYo97gRtcq9hNhW4zcCRfRuqxj9yqJslKCbm3cPZQCvgRB4PJLtoix-rCIYJBkbnuJSBuUHVXhwIiva5Gs/s1600/tracey+Connelly4.jpeg" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Tracy with long term partner Tony <span class="caption-text">Melissovas</span></span></td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Violence
against women is most stark in two situations – when marriages breakdown and
against sex workers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>60 Australian women
were murdered last year. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The street sex
worker component can be diminished if the prohibition is modified as it is for
brothels. Prohibition in social acts from alcohol to abortion fails.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Indeed prohibition exacerbates the harms. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Tracy was
murdered in her home which she used to take clients. Because she was homeless,
her panel van was her home. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is a
story of poverty as much as anything.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She
wouldn’t have been murdered if she operated from a lawful safe house. She
wouldn’t have been murdered if her vocation was not illegal and the police
could make her work place safe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This was
an avoidable killing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">And so the
piety of the politicians who opined on the scourge of the violence against
women and said they would do anything to stop it, were dishonest hypocrites.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They claimed they would do anything but no
one who spoke mentioned the simple law reform of partial decriminalisation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was disgusting. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Sex is often
confronting. Paid sex is very confronting and morally ambiguous. Religions stuff
up sex and their legacy in the secular world is to add a layer of moralistic
inhibition that prevents good policy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tracy’s
death was avoidable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unfortunately good
policy is avoidable when cowardice grips our politicians.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Their blather diminished a beautiful
ceremony.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">What is
your view?</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">How do we
craft good ceremony?</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">How do we
get parliamentarians with the spine to oppose stupid prohibitions?</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Do the
opponents of reform have blood on their hands, capitulating to noisy opponents
or are they merely reflecting the community?</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Over to you</span></div>
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