Roundup: School chaplains, being good, edgy Europe

High Court challenge to school chaplains

There are two arguments at play: whether you can have a religious test for any Commonwealth office and a battle over federalism.

Can you can be good without God?

Though both moral and immoral behaviours can be promoted by religions, morality itself — either in individual behaviour or social codes — simply cannot come from the will or commands of a God.

Forward Christian Europe!

If Breivik is insane, then his insanity lies in taking fully to heart the widely fluctuating language of an existential threat to our freedom and life, a Manichean vision of an uncompromising evil fighting a good that has to be equally unsparing in warfare.