Religion Archives - Heather's Homilies

The Christchurch Massacre

Heather Hastie — Tue, 02 Apr 2019 05:23:44 +0000

It was two weeks on Friday since a self-confessed white supremacist changed New Zealand forever. Friday 15th March 2019 is a day many New Zealanders, including me, naïvely thought would never come to this country. It’s the day a terrorist committed mass murder on our soil. “The Christchurch Massacre” is now part of our history. […]

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Trump’s Southern Border Wall

Heather Hastie — Wed, 02 Jan 2019 04:25:49 +0000

This Twitter thread from “@Stonekettle” was brought to my attention by reader Ann German. It’s the best thing I’ve ever seen about Trump’s insistence that the US requires a southern border wall. It’s better than anything I could write about the situation and covers just about everything in relation to the actual wall. For that […]

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Geoff Robson: Lying for Jesus and Wrong about Richard Dawkins

Heather Hastie — Mon, 14 May 2018 04:42:01 +0000

Richard Dawkins gave a couple of talks in New Zealand recently. He’s here promoting his new book, Science in the Soul. As usual that brought people out of the woodwork with the message the atheists are either stupid, lying, or just plain evil. None ever sees the irony in their statements. One prime example is […]

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The Problem of Spam (plus Tweets)

Heather Hastie — Fri, 11 May 2018 03:46:39 +0000

I get a lot of weird stuff in the spam section of the comments for Heather’s Homilies. It seems to go through cycles that generally match what I’m writing about, or even what’s in the tweets. One thing’s for sure, you and I would go nuts if it wasn’t for the spam filter! There are […]

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Israel Folau and Christian Morality

Heather Hastie — Thu, 19 Apr 2018 07:10:14 +0000

I wasn’t sure what to write about today, then I got The Author’s weekly email. The Author is the brilliant Jesus and Mo cartoonist. His strip this week is about religious morality, and it brought to mind the big news story in New Zealand and Australia at the moment. It began on 9 April when […]

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Auckland Uni Sacks Staff Member for Trying to Shake Hands with Muslim Student (plus Tweets)

Heather Hastie — Thu, 08 Mar 2018 02:10:15 +0000

Things are slightly better today. We won the fourth one-dayer (cricket) against England yesterday! It was a really exciting game. Ross Taylor was amazing – back to his best. His outstanding performance makes him every Kiwi cricket fan’s hero today. I’ve put several tweets on his feat in the “Sports Tweets” below. So there’s a […]

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Homily: Logic Fails (plus Tweets)

Heather Hastie — Thu, 01 Feb 2018 01:10:27 +0000

I follow the tweets and Facebook postings of Economist Robert Reich. As a result I just found out that not all USians contribute the same proportion of their income to Social Security. There’s a cap at US$120,000. So people who earn big salaries – exactly the people who can afford it most easily – pay […]

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Homily: An Ill-Informed Feminist Attacks Jerry Coyne (plus Tweets)

Heather Hastie — Sun, 31 Dec 2017 03:45:27 +0000

Many of you who are good enough to subscribe to Heather’s Homilies only found me because you were already followers of Jerry Coyne’s site: ‘Why Evolution is True‘ (WEIT). Therefore, you you probably read his post on 28 December: ‘A real feminist‘. It’s about, “… Anna Muzychuk, a Ukrainian chess grandmaster who holds the women’s […]

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Trump and the Jerusalem Decision (plus Tweets)

Heather Hastie — Fri, 08 Dec 2017 02:58:12 +0000

Tweets are about the least important thing on my mind at the moment. On Wednesday morning I had a bad fall. Walking is never that easy for me, but now every step is agony. Still, that’s actually not the worst of my problems. 3½ hours later my landlord told me she was selling the house. […]

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Donald Trump and the Evangelical Christian Nationalists

Heather Hastie — Thu, 14 Sep 2017 06:19:51 +0000

Amongst all modern US presidents, Donald Trump stands out for his dishonesty, ignorance, and lack of morality. There’s hardly a demographic that he hasn’t upset as a result of his boorish behaviour. So you’d think that a group that claims to be the moral compass of the planet would reject him and everything he stands […]

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