Mid-Week Update: Why Zero Dark Thirty is little more than propaganda for torture

News Video Audio Twitter abc.net.au/religion Mid-week update It's time to be dogmatic about torture: Why Zero Dark Thirty is just propaganda ABC Religion and Ethics - 29 Jan 2013 The normalisation of torture in Zero Dark Thirty is a sign of an approaching moral vacuum. It would be a sign of ethical progress to reject torture out of hand as repulsive, without any need for argument. More Islamophobia and the Muslim civil rights crisis ABC Religion and Ethics - 29 Jan 2013 Anti-Muslim rhetoric in the West has become accepted as in some sense "respectable." And yet there are chilling similarities between Islamophobia and pre-Nazi European anti-Semitism. More Best of 2012: Women bishops and the collapse of Anglican theology ABC Religion and Ethics - 20 Jan 2013 The Church of England has succumbed to the belief that theological ideas do not matter very much; this point to a deeper malaise than the current crisis over women bishops. More Best of 2012: Stephen Pinker's delusions of peace ABC Religion and Ethics - 20 Jan 2013 We don't need science to tell us that humans are violent animals. For liberal humanists like Stephen Pinker, the role of science is to explain away the evidence. More On ABC Radio Religion and Ethics Report - Israeli elections ABC Radio National | Wednesday 30 January 2013 5.30pm Presented by Andrew West On the Religion & Ethics Report this week, an in-depth look at the Israeli elections and how religious parties will affect the shape of the next Coalition. Professor Paul Scham of the Gildenhorn Institute for Israel Studies at the University of Maryland, and a fellow of the Middle East Institute in Washington DC, and Dr Ofer Kenig from the Israel Democracy Institute in Jerusalem, discuss the role of the fiercely nationalist Jewish Home party, which was formerly the National Religious Party, and whether it can work with the centrist bloc. They also look at the influence that the ultra-orthodox parties will have on the next government. And Paul Handley, editor of The Church Times in London, discusses the recent decision of the Church of England to consecrate bishops who are living in same-sex but non-sexual relationships.Repeated Thursdays at 5:30am  More Unsubscribe  © 2013 | Privacy policy | Conditions of use