Richard Dawkins in a rare coherent moment:
January 27, 2009
Fred Hiltz: let’s investigate Israel.
Leftist Fred reveals his anti-Israel bias once more in this clap-trap from the PWRDF:
Archbishop Fred Hiltz, Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada and The Right Rev. David Giuliano, Moderator of the United Church of Canada, have written to Prime Minister Stephen Harper to request an independent investigation to the bombing of the Shaja ih Family Healthcare Centre in Gaza City on Jan 10, 2009.
One notes, with some amusement, that the PWRDF site has misspelled his name “Hitlz”; a Freudian slip, perhaps.
Sadly, it’s been corrected now. I did take a copy before the correction, though; you can see it on the right.
If Fred wants to investigate someone, how about the Hamas nut cases who train their children to become suicide bombers?
Giving Hiltz the benefit of the doubt for the moment by allowing that it is conceivable that he could be a Christian
, surely he should be able to see that motivation plays a part in what has happened in Gaza.
- Israel wants to be left alone; Hamas fires rockets and calls for the destruction of Israel.
- Israel wants to defend its civilian population, Hamas wants to use its population as a weapon.
- Israel makes every attempt to avoid civilian casualties – even to the extent of warning civilians in target areas, Hamas deliberately targets civilians – even its own.
- Israel accidentally bombs a clinic, Hamas rejoices at the propaganda opportunity.
As the Anglican Church of Canada disintegrates around him, Fred Hiltz can find little better to do than engage in political bigotry; pathetic.
The angst of basketball
From the National Post
Would Jesus run up the score?
100-0 win raises an ethical firestorm for Christian school
“It is shameful and an embarrassment that this happened. This clearly does not reflect a Christ-like and honourable approach to competition,” Mr. Queal wrote in a note posted on the school’s Web site, just over a week after the Jan. 13 game. “The school and its representatives in no way support or condone the running up of a score against any team in any sport for any reason.”
The answer to whether Jesus would run up the score is clearly, no, because he would not play girls’ basketball in the first place.
The deeper theological question here is, is sport – which is a win-at-all-costs activity and inevitably brings out the most unsportsmanlike behaviour in all participants – an appropriate activity for a Christian? Or sensitive young ladies? Or big ugly Welsh rugby players?
Or philosophers?
