Month: July 2009

  • 基督教何尚不是"俗世人"嗎?

    原文: 從「踢o靚模出書展」一事

    o靚模事件已經發生了好一段時間,我想來想去都不知說什麼好,但我和Issac在facebook中是朋友,而我一向支持他以溫和方式反對把貿易發展局只 以商業的眼光去辦書展,把它當成了一個散書嘉年華,和我以前曾經到過的美食嘉年華、工展會的分別都不大,把o靚模事混集其中和基督右派所販賣推銷的未世論, 的確是影響了部份書迷的雅興、令入會場者的行動極不方便(包括模的粉絲)和破壞了書展應該推動閱讀文化、豉勵思考的目標,但香港不是民主社會,亦有官 方保密法、HKSAR事事黑箱作業,所以一來我們無法參與製訂目標,二來連參展者也無法參與整個書展的計劃和安排,所以只在場外派派傳單﹐喊喊口號。我真 正想反對的是香港社會自1997年以後的娛樂化、平庸化、去政治化、民綷化及超級資本主義化,香港沒有普選,HKSAR沒有人文發展的視野,所以小小的一 個書展安排才會發展成兩/三派的政治角力,民主發展不了,香港變成事事民綷,表面上貿易發展局用分層處理「解決」了問題,然而因為沒有普選,香港的傳媒不 能反映真實的民意而是中共/基右/HKSAR的官意,怨氣只會不斷累積,直至爆煲為止,曾蔭權做一日和尚、敲一日鐘,中共對香港的民主發展,何嘗不是抱同 一種態度?


    值得一提的是,基督右派明光社及性文化學會也是在香港娛樂化、平庸化、去政治化、民綷化及超級資本主義化下的一種反動,它表面 上是捍衛了人的尊嚴,實際上只是捍衛了依它對基督教聖經的尊嚴,所以它可以同時反對曾志偉的侮辱人節目環節之餘同時賣廿天廣告醜化同性戀者而不覺自相矛 盾,後來再加上它獲教育署批准教授「基督人權」課程,更可以看出它重視的不是天賦人權,而是不想神的創造物被次一級的被創造者來侮辱,以下犯上,不分尊 卑。只有神或代表它的基督教會牧師才可以在歷史和各種各樣的天災人禍盡情侮辱人和踐踏人的尊嚴,所以要是曾志偉的侮辱人節目環節改為是侮辱其他宗教如佛、 道、星相學、風水命理,指它們迷信,信徒都是騙子。我就不信明光社會去投訴,因為影音使團類似的內容也不少。明光社不是獨立於潮流之外的批評者,它同樣是 香港娛樂化、平庸化、去政治化、民綷化及超級資本主義化的產物,去政治化方便它用基督右派的道德像基督教黨一樣去動員群衆,如反家暴條例及淫審條例一事上 用道德論述掩蓋了它的政治動機,和一般市民以好人壞人來分泛民主派及民建聯的道理如出一轍,民綷化如梁燕城曾在文匯報嚷箸要家暴條例要全香港公投,卻又不 見他公開支持2012普選,因為基督右派可影響近5成的香港學校及近人口一成的基督徒,在民綷之爭它的狂熱主義者佔有優勢,可以隨便騎劫香港的半民主制 度;明光社及恩福堂是超級資本主義的受益人,否則世界有哪一個團體基本上靠發動大規模的投訴才會有進賬,恩福堂的七億教堂的資金又是從哪裏來?你如何叫既 得利益者去咬這隻餵它的手?

    或者更難聽的說話是不單只基督右派明光社及性文化學會是該時代的產物,在90年後生長的一代,以及每個現在生 活的香港人都是它部份的產物,罪不單在基督右派明光社及性文化學會,也同時在我們每一個人的行為上/思想上/情感上。當香港一天有真正的民主普選時,我們 如何消去這些壞影響,以免它們陰魂不散一樣腐蝕我們的核心價值?

    不過從��模事件上,我倒可以看到兩個有趣的側面,第一就是最初在「踢 ��模出書展群組」最大聲對��模行人身攻擊,揚言要像社民連一樣擲正義之焦、正義番茄這班人,到現在還天天在互聯網上叫陣,只不過真正採取行動在書展會 場外示威及派傳單的就是Issac及針對書展管理而非��模人格這班人(其成員包括公民運動網絡的秦晞暉及本人),前者言而不行,反映出這只是一種明光社 的便宜道德,不用付出任何代價的道德,只求一時之快。而一向以道德保育派自居的明光社及性文化學會就比黃成智更猾頭了﹐它不是一向投訴壹傳媒集團旗下的報 章、雜誌宣淫嗎?它不是以為互聯網的色情、暴力令青少年人人成為色狼及隨街打架嗎?它不是投訴要求性本善會教壞青少年所以要遲一點播放嗎?它不是覺得成人 用品店被起訴展示不雅物品是合理?它不是發動文革式批鬥來對付中大學大報出現的亂倫性幻想問題?它不是為了提倡不同於物質主義一套的生命倫理嗎?它不是同 情性工者是被社會剝削而反對設立紅燈區嗎?何以它可以無視��模在書展中以三點式來招徠,以滿足部份是近乎戀童癖的年青人?它不會說戀童癖就是值得提倡的 社會風氣?何以壴傳媒的相片是色情而��模及明星寫真集就不是色情? 何以互聯網的色情就會教壞青少年而在書展中的三點式��模就不會呢?令何以它可以無視��模本身就是超級資本主義社會剝削女性的一種方式? 它要保育的道德現在又去了哪裏?它不是要在文化戰爭中作世上的鹽、世上的光,帶領世人離開魔鬼(慾望)的迷惑嗎?何以這些偉大的基督戰士面對大是大非時, 一點承擔也沒有?一如它在六四的立場一樣,也同樣無道德可言。它何嘗不是和最初在「踢��模出書展群組」最大聲對��模行人身攻擊,揚言要像社民連一樣擲 正義之焦、正義番茄這班人一樣,只行最便宜,什麼代價都不用付的道德!

    所以現在想來,說基督右派是道德塔利班是抬高了它們,因為在大部份 事情上他們只會口裏說說,如只支持一夫一妻式民主的家庭發展網絡賣賣廣告而已,行動可能是只搞一個講座﹐有功課交交就算,如明光社式的慈善也不過是派派 「絕望真相」的戲票而已,當然是不會談具體效果,也不會提出什麼政策上的好建議。在同性戀、性工作者及禁毒議題上是超級道德塔利班,在陳冠希及��模事件 上是完全的道德虛無,終極最後的目的仍是不妨礙超級資本主義運作下建立它們的基督國而已,放心,中共國就是香港未來的藍圖,將來你只要富有,宣稱是基督徒 ﹐對它年年進貢、歲歲來朝,再多開十個八個馬灣公園,你在家中和全香港的��模一同開性派對也沒有問題。各位請努力工作,之後你想怎樣不道德就怎樣不道 德!
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    基督教用"屬靈"去抬高自己,用"俗世"去踩異教徒,無神論者等。
    很多基督教徒,牧師, 傳教者更歪曲他人信仰, 科學知識, 史實, 甚致以信仰奪取同性同居者人身安全保障權利, 基督教右派, 蘇穎智, 吳宣倫, 梁燕城, 影音使團, 明光社等何尚不是"俗世人"嗎?

    以個人信仰去打壓他人,很多傳教者的說話與史實和科學知識又不乎。很多佛徒, 天主教徙, 離教者,道友, 不知論者, 無神論者都比基督教徒就誠實得多。By the way, 本人是"屬理"的。
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    原文:

    http://backup-atheist.xanga.com/707987071/244781230036386553645651327169209862636023637123011996820107/?&rand=1230625037

  • Is it appropriate to use "stupidity" this word?

    Sgt. James Crowley said Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. was combative from the moment the officer arrived at his house last week to respond to a call about a possible burglary. Contradicting the academic's account, Crowley said Gates showed him not a driver's license but a Harvard identification card that did not list his address. And Crowley said he warned Gates several times that he risked arrest.....

    When Crowley arrived and questioned whether Gates lived in the home, the 58-year-old academic became upset, eventually demanding the officer's name and badge number . When the officer repeatedly asked Gates to speak with him outside, the professor responded, “Yeah, I'll speak with your mama outside,” according to a police report quoted in the Boston Globe.

    Commentators on the conservative National Review Web site called Obama's remarks “odd” and “shameful,” while the Huffington Post's Norm Stamper posited that the president, though perhaps wrong to use the word “stupidly,”

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    If we are not sure what has actually happened, we should not comment it, especially using words like "stupidly".  What do you think?


    Case sparks debate on race WASHINGTON POST July 23, 2009, 11:33PM
    http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nation/6544942.html

  • faith-healing pair acquitted of manslaughter

    An Oregon couple, Carl Brent Worthington and Raylene Worthington, who relied on prayer instead of medical care were acquitted of manslaughter Thursday in the death of their 15-month-old daughter.

    The jury convicted the father of criminal mistreatment. The mother was acquitted in the 2008 death of their daughter Ava. Both had faced manslaughter charges.

    The prosecution said Ava Worthington failed to flourish through most of her life because of a cyst on her neck that impeded her breathing and eating, contributing to her fatal pneumonia. She died on a Sunday evening after family and church members prayed over her and anointed her with olive oil.

    The Followers of Christ shuns conventional medicine in favor of faith healing.

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    It is sad to hear the story... ...

    Ore. faith-healing pair acquitted of manslaughter Associated Press Writer William Mccall, Associated Press Writer – Thu Jul 23, 9:25 pm ET http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090724/ap_on_re_us/us_faith_healing_trial

  • 基督教明光社建議寫真集與

    早前在網上發起網上發起「反o靚模」少女模特兒活動的學生張振海表示,今年書展充斥文化價值低的刊物,令真正愛書人難以找到心頭好。明光社則建議這類書刊 應與書展分開舉行。明光社總幹事蔡志森批評,書商為這類書籍舉行簽名會等促促銷活動,令書展的重點轉移。他建議主辦單位參考漫畫展,另覓場地展覽這類書 籍。他指企業應該履行社會責任,不應助長衣著暴露和提倡「賺快錢」的社會風氣。張振海表示,書展吸引大批追捧一些俗稱「o靚模」的少女模特兒寫真集的市 民,場面哄動,不但佔據太多會場空間,亦令其他書籍的生存空間,受到壓逼,令真正愛書人難以找到心頭好。
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    "衣著暴露"和"提倡「賺快錢」"的社會風氣是不應助長。但,不竟「o靚模」也是文化的一種,不能,話"與書展分開舉行"就"分開舉行"。其實,可把那些書刊放在最後的一角落,大字標題話"兒童不宜"就可。基督教明光社有獨特的信仰和思維,基督教明光社是否也應要和香港社會分開?

    [1] 明光社建議寫真集與書展分開 SINA 2009-07-23 10:46:00
    http://news.sina.com.hk/cgi-bin/nw/show.cgi/32/1/1/1208695/1.html

  • Are Earthquakes Really on the Increase?

    A massive 7.8 magnitude earthquake last week has moved the south of New Zealand closer to Australia, scientists said Wednesday. However, with the countries separated by the 2,250-kilometre-wide (1,400-mile-wide) Tasman Sea, the 30 centimetre (12 inch) closing of the gap in New Zealand's southwest won't make much difference. [1] The article further indicates that New Zealand frequently suffers earthquakes because it marks the meeting point of the Australian and Pacific continental plates.


    Number of Earthquakes Worldwide for 2000 - 2009
    Located by the US Geological Survey National Earthquake Information Center

    Magnitude 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
    8.0 to 9.9 1 1 0 1 2 1 2 4 0 0
    7.0 to 7.9 14 15 13 14 14 10 9 14 12 7
    6.0 to 6.9 146 121 127 140 141 140 142 178 168 59
    5.0 to 5.9 1344 1224 1201 1203 1515 1693 1712 2074 1753 827
    4.0 to 4.9 8008 7991 8541 8462 10888 13917 12838 12078 12310 3652
    3.0 to 3.9 4827 6266 7068 7624 7932 9191 9990 9889 11741 1509
    2.0 to 2.9 3765 4164 6419 7727 6316 4636 4027 3597 3878 1468
    1.0 to 1.9 1026 944 1137 2506 1344 26 18 42 22 11
    0.1 to 0.9 5 1 10 134 103 0 2 2 0 1
    No Magnitude 3120 2807 2938 3608 2939 864 828 1807 1924 15
    Total 22256 23534 27454 31419 31194 30478 29568 29685 * 31808 * 7549
    Estimated
    Deaths
    231 21357 1685 33819 228802 82364 6605 712 88011 369



    Are Earthquakes Really on the Increase? We continue to be asked by many people throughout the world if earthquakes are on the increase. Although it may seem that we are having more earthquakes, earthquakes of magnitude 7.0 or greater have remained fairly constant. A partial explanation may lie in the fact that in the last twenty years, we have definitely had an increase in the number of earthquakes we have been able to locate each year. This is because of the tremendous increase in the number of seismograph stations in the world and the many improvements in global communications. In 1931, there were about 350 stations operating in the world; today, there are more than 8,000 stations and the data now comes in rapidly from these stations by electronic mail, internet and satellite. This increase in the number of stations and the more timely receipt of data has allowed us and other seismological centers to locate earthquakes more rapidly and to locate many small earthquakes which were undetected in earlier years. The NEIC now locates about 20,000 earthquakes each year or approximately 50 per day. Also, because of the improvements in communications and the increased interest in the environment and natural disasters, the public now learns about more earthquakes. According to long-term records (since about 1900), we expect about 17 major earthquakes (7.0 - 7.9) and one great earthquake (8.0 or above) in any given year. [2]

    中國基督教播道會恩福堂主任牧師 蘇穎智指"越來越多地震是世界末日的先兆" 不約而同,他話這些預兆都同時在20世紀先後出現。有關多處也是十分明顯應驗了。 大家還記得去年四川大地震嗎?網上, 更有人週處留言, 話這是因為四川災民多偶像. 聽聞, 更有教會搞什麽燭火晚會, 公開籌錢, 大賺一筆. 有教會把部份籌得的錢用來派人到災區 (餘下 那些唔知去咗邊).. d人到了災區, 主要任務是傳教![3]

    [1] http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090722/sc_afp/nzealandquakescience
    [2] http://earthquake.usgs.gov/learning/topics/increase_in_earthquakes.php
    http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/eqlists/eqstats.html

    [3] 蘇穎智牧師指"地震是世界末日的先兆"

  • Human Genome Sciences

    Shares of Human Genome Sciences soared Monday on news that the firm's experimental lupus drug showed promise in its latest round of testing. The HGS drug, called Benlysta, must undergo one more major round of testing before the company makes a formal application to the FDA. The biotech firm has partnered with pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline to market the drug. HGS is slated to get the results of its final Phase 3 test for Benlysta in November. That test will include patients in different geographic regions -- including the United States and Western Europe -- from those used in the most recent tests.

    Source:
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/20/AR2009072001776.html?hpid=moreheadlines

  • 信神者,不知論者 , 無神論者

    不可知論,或稱不可知主義,是一種哲學觀點,認為形而上學的一些問 題,例如是否有來世、上帝是否存在等,是不為人知或者根本無法知道的想法或理論。不可知论包含着宗教怀疑主义,不像无神论者一样否认神的存在,只是認為人 不能知道其存在。不可知論者認為人類不可能得到真理,他們通常被算作非宗教的、世俗的,但是不一定全都沒有信仰。http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B8%8D%E5%8F%AF%E7%9F%A5%E8%AE%BA

    不知論者佔美國人口1.5%, 主要由科學家,研究者,大學教授,醫生,律師,探員,一些常以分折為生的人和一些富有人生經驗的人所組成.以神學角度來看,“不知論者是” 信神者” 和” 無神論者” 的中間者. 正如下圖:

    信神者 -----------不知論者 ------------- 無神論者

    信仰實是主觀的,信神者需全心全意去相信.信者不能懷疑其信仰,因為信仰是不能被證實的,信仰主要是依賴信者的感覺,直覺,和希望而生存,。基督教的見證只是談談個人的感覺經歴而已,而非是一直接有效的證據。 不知論者是由純理性主導. 理性不是指”講道理”或” 平易近人” 而是指以” 馮分析,科學方法,和客觀証據去處事,處理日常生活。因為,不知論者是由純理性主導所以不知論者是不會有(強烈)信仰的. 因聖經是沒有傍證, 亦無法用科學方法去証明. 所以, 不知論者是不相信聖經的, 但不到攻擊基督教信仰的地部。

    我有一個原則就是信仰平等, 信仰自由, 及尊重所有信仰. 我很少批評人家信仰.

    有些人以為我是反基. 其實, 我不"反基督教義"或"反基督教信仰". 本人亦渴望有個神, 有天堂, 死了有地方去ma (i.e.永生). 但, 本人真很討厭那些神棍的貪財,大話,扮科學家,扮智者,僞善,宣揚迷信,迫害弱勢小群,明踩他人人格(如佢地成日話大多無神倫者是壞人, 但事實 73% of 德州犯人是基督徒), 歪曲他人(孫中山先生,愛因思坦,科學家,中華)信仰文化的惡行.

  • 假如醫學院教授神茶和聖水

               

    轉載: 假如醫學院教授神茶和聖水療法……

    原文: http://blog.hongki.net/archives/563

    醫學院教授神茶治病和聖水療法不是很好嗎?教授多種治療方法擴闊學生眼界,鼓勵學生思考,誠為美事也。現代醫學有很多不足,神茶和聖水 正好填補了空白。怎麼沒有證據呢,你看不到那些因為聖水療法而康復的見證嗎?排斥異說並不是科學態度啊!

    若你認為以上講法很荒謬,那麼你應該關注一下,類似的荒謬事情正在香港發生。香港教育局的生物課新指引,十分奇怪地有這樣的一句:「除 達爾文理論外, 還鼓勵學生探索其他有關進化和生命起源的解釋, 以展示科學知識不斷轉變的本質。」(可到香港科學教育關注組網頁查閱)。箇中玄機,只要看看現時課程指引便一目了然。現時的指引有關演化部份,只說:「指導 學生評論科學理論和其他非科學學說(例如宗教、形而上學或哲學)的歧異, 這些歧異其實辯論了不知多少年。」清楚地表明科學理論跟非科學理論的分別,現時的行文卻是把「其他有關進化和生命起源的解釋」變成「科學知 識」。
    教育局是否有意為宗教入侵科學課程開路,我倒無意作陰謀論揣測。但這句話卻已鼓勵了若干人士計劃在生物課上教授所謂「智慧設計 論」(intelligent design)。這理論名字乍聽之下好像十分科學,但內涵實是跟中世紀證明上帝存在的理論無甚分別。「智慧設計論」學說首見於美國,小布殊主政期間,基督 教右翼橫行,小布殊2005年更曾說過學校應教智慧設計論< /a>,為基督教右翼護航。我四年前看着美國課室上演智慧設計論 大戰演化論,看得津津有味,但做夢也沒有想過香港會出現這爭議。

    說是「爭議」,或許你會奇怪,因為坊間並無有關討論,報章亦未見報道。這才是叫人憂心的地方。..........據我所知,香港傳媒只有《南華早報》和 HK Magazine報道事件。跟朋友聊起,為何香港中文傳媒對此事不聞不問。大概是演化論對一般大眾太艱深,但某富豪爭產案涉及的法律爭議,對一般大眾也很 艱深,為何香港傳媒又樂此不疲,詳盡分析?當然生物課課程指引沒有爭產案那麼 sensational,但涉及的卻是關乎下一代的教育。早陣子有線電視新聞特意找來某才子做通識試題,以「才子考通識不合格」來質疑通識課評分欠標準, 這或透顯了香港人是在關心哪方面的教育。友人說,若生物課教授神創論會影響學生中英文成績,才會有人關注,至於說會令學生把科學跟偽科學混為一談,這有甚 麼打緊呢?香港科學教育關注組的網頁記載了事情始沒,並且一直跟進,當傳統傳媒沒有履行職責時,幸好還有互聯網。我建議大家好好一看,尤其你有子女的話。 當中文傳媒繼續關心某富豪爭產案之際,南華早報六月二十六日報道,教育局已表明,智慧設計論或神創造論並不在生物課課程之內,這事暫告一段落。報道說:

    “In the topic ‘Evolution’, the emphasis is put on Darwin’s Theory, as it is currently the most widely accepted scientific theory on evolution,” it states. “Students are expected to understand the process and mechanism of evolution based on Darwin’s Theory. Students should recognise that biological knowledge and theories are developed through observations, hypotheses, experimentations and analyses and [be] aware of the dynamic nature of biological knowledge.”/"-

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    把不同生物骨格相比, 基因相比, 加上生存時空排列, 很明顯生物是演進出來.

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