NZARH Archives - Heather's Homilies https://www.heatherhastie.com/tag/nzarh/ My take on our world Tue, 02 Apr 2019 05:23:44 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 https://www.heatherhastie.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/cropped-tweetkiwi-512px-32x32.png NZARH Archives - Heather's Homilies https://www.heatherhastie.com/tag/nzarh/ 32 32 The Christchurch Massacre https://www.heatherhastie.com/the-christchurch-massacre/ https://www.heatherhastie.com/the-christchurch-massacre/#comments Tue, 02 Apr 2019 05:23:44 +0000 https://www.heatherhastie.com/?p=7135 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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]]> https://www.heatherhastie.com/the-christchurch-massacre/feed/ 49 New Zealand’s Blasphemy Law Must be Abolished https://www.heatherhastie.com/abolish-new-zealands-blasphemy-law-must-be-abolished/ https://www.heatherhastie.com/abolish-new-zealands-blasphemy-law-must-be-abolished/#comments Sun, 18 Jan 2015 22:38:45 +0000 https://www.heatherhastie.com/?p=419 According to Wikipedia: Blasphemy is the act of insulting or showing contempt or lack of reverence for God, to religious or holy persons or things, or toward something considered sacred or inviolable. Blasphemy laws, therefore, are designed to protect religion (usually the dominant religion of a country) from criticism. They make the ideas of religion […]

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