Triple J

[leela]

Haven't had a chance to hear them yet but I am told JJJ are airing some good interviews etc relating to the convention - go the Js!

[Skids]

Haven't had a chance to hear them yet but I am told JJJ are airing some good interviews etc relating to the convention - go the Js!

Cool. Just so long as they don't get the likeable, but not so profound Father Bob opining "Atheism is boring" or worse.

[Skids]

We don't stimulate his nervous system as profoundly as the torture old Bob's received from his own Archbishop Hart: I can believe we are quite bland to him, by comparison.

I 'spose I don't have as much like for Father Bob as some because when Russell Blackford was on his show, he was quiet, but later when Russell had no right of reply, he said his God didn't intervene like and so was immune to the argument from evil (that Russell was presenting) and that atheism was boring. This struck me as either dishonest (apart from being unfair to Russell) or the words of a vacuous person because Father Bob was on TV a few days earlier spouting bulldust about Mary MacKillop's miracles. If he believes in miracles, then he believes in an interventionist god who is not immune to arguments from evil.....That and being a catholic sort of requires him to believe in a miracle type god.

That whole fawning bullshit from the media about MacKillop still gets me down too.....

[Dan Gleibitz]

Cool. Just so long as they don't get the likeable, but not so profound Father Bob opining "Atheism is boring" or worse.

I think he was quite alright last night on Jon Safran's show:
http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/safran/mod_windows/safran.asx

And I think Dawkins was outstanding. Anybody got other JJJ links yet?


JS: When would an atheist, when would you say oh listen, enough, I've kind of won this argument and society, even though there is religion in it, I can live with it?

RD: Ah, well, as I said, you want to make a distinction between what's true and what has some kind of benefit for society. And there are some people who actually don't care what is true. They only care what feels good, or they only care what's beneficial to society. I care what's true. And I do care about society as well, I mean I could be persuaded, under very exceptional circumstances that for the whole of society to believe something false could actually be beneficial.
I find it quite hard to imagine what it could be, but it's not utterly ridiculous that that could be true.

Funny that this was recorded before Pataki's presentation...