No, I’m not talking about that kind of solicitor, I’m talking about the other kind of solicitor. The one who tells you what the law is. You may think you can shake us off, but the evidence shows we’ve been around for a lo-o-o-ong time, at least 3700 years. Researchers from the Hebrew University of [...]
By Legal Eagle
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Also posted in History, Law, Middle east
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Tagged Akkadian, archaeology, Bava Kamma, Bible, Code of Hammurabi, cuneiform, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, History, Judaism, lawyers, lex talionis, Rabbis, restitution for wrongs, Talmud, Torah, tort, weregild
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I attended a religious school for the first three years of High School. I’m afraid that it went in one ear and out the other, because I didn’t even realise that Jesus was God according to Christian doctrine until I was about 25. I have a fantastic ability to be able to switch off during [...]
By Legal Eagle
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Also posted in Australian internet filter, Children, Free Speech, Internet, Law, Society
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Tagged Australian internet filter, censorship, Julia Gillard, Religion, Sex, stephen conroy, violence
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I can reveal that Dr Jeffrey John, the openly gay but celibate Dean of St Albans, has been blocked from becoming a bishop once again. He has not been chosen as the next Bishop of Southwark. Liberals will be dismayed that the Church has lost its nerve – but there is no reason for evangelicals [...]
By DeusExMacintosh
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Also posted in England, Funnies, Human/Civil rights, Philosophy, Politics, Society
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Tagged Anglican Church, Archbishop of Canterbury, Catholic Church, church of england, crown nominations commission, gay and lesbian, gay priests, Jeffrey johns, jonathan wynne-jones, pope benedict, rowan williams
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Henry Kissinger once said of Saddam that ‘we knew he was a son of a bitch, but we thought he was our son of a bitch’. I think it’s fair to say that Saddam ruled his country with spectacular nastiness, but that he also did enough to garner the support of a significant chunk of [...]
By skepticlawyer
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Also posted in Economics, Law, Popular culture, Public Policy, scotland
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Tagged Anthony Shaffer, Charter Cities, Christopher Lee, Edward Woodward, Henry Kissinger, Highland Clearances, Paul Romer, Robin Hardy, Saddam, The Wicker Man, Tradition
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Okay, I’ve just got to get this off my chest because it’s been bugging me for the last few days. Helen Thomas, famed White House reporter, retired suddenly after a controversial video interview on a website called RabbiLive.com, when she was asked whether she had any comments on Israel. She was reported to have said: [...]
By Legal Eagle
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Also posted in History, Media, Middle east, Politics
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Tagged anti-Semitism, Helen Thomas, History, Israel, Jews, Judaism, Wales, WWII
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On the very lengthy ‘charge the Pope‘ thread, there was some discussion in the comments of the moral content of different religions. There were suggestions that some religions may in fact be superior to others with respect to their social and institutional effects, even if on an epistemological level, all of them are equally untrue. [...]
Just thought I’d remind certain peeps around the place.
… Or, should I say, Richard Dawkins. Apparently, Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens are consulting their lawyers to see whether the Pope can be charged when he visits Britain in September. Mr Dawkins and Mr Hitchens believe the Pope should face charges for the alleged cover-up of sex abuse in the Catholic Church, The Guardian reports. [...]
By skepticlawyer
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Also posted in England, Law, Science, Skeptics
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Tagged atheism, Catholic Church, Charles Darwin, Christopher Hitchens, epistemology, homosexuality, is-ought problem, moral claims, morality, paedophilia, richard dawkins, sexual abuse, the Low Anthem, The Pope
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I’m reasonably sure I was the first libertarian to suggest that organising libertarians was akin to herding cats (here, apparently), and since then the notion has spread around Ozblogistan. Well, I think I’ve found a new group of cats that will not be herded: atheists. This observation comes after noting the response to a piece [...]
The Israeli military cancelled a planned raid on a Palestinian village after one of its soldiers posted details of the operation on Facebook. The unnamed soldier revealed the time and place of the raid and the name of his unit on the social networking site. He said on his status update that his unit planned [...]
By DeusExMacintosh
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Also posted in Fark!, Free Speech, Funnies, Internet, Law, Middle east, Politics
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Tagged binyamin netanyahu, Facebook, IDF, Israel, Israeli Defence Force, pope benedict, West Bank
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