{"id":6264,"date":"2010-12-01T13:03:50","date_gmt":"2010-12-01T02:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/?p=6264"},"modified":"2010-12-01T13:03:50","modified_gmt":"2010-12-01T02:03:50","slug":"good-and-evil-if-god-is-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2010\/12\/01\/good-and-evil-if-god-is-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Good and evil? if God is dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<blockquote><p>If God is dead, is everything permitted? Good and evil are familiar and much-abused terms these days, but behind them lie crucial issues. Are there intrinsic rights and wrongs, or is morality a cultural construction? And where does God fit into the picture? This week on <em>Encounter<\/em>, Chris Mulherin talks to Peter Singer, Marilyn McCord Adams and Rai Gaita about their journeys in search of the foundations of morality. We will also hear from a group of Melbourne University students as they weigh into the debate over torture and human rights and the roots of right and wrong.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Chris Mulherin is a research student at the Melbourne College of Divinity and at the University of Melbourne where he is also a tutor. His background is engineering and philosophy and he&#8217;s an Anglican minister and former CMS missionary in Argentina where he worked with ABUA, the university ministry with which I also served.<\/p>\n<p>Transcript and\u00a0audio of ABC Radio National &#8216;Encounter&#8217;\u00a0at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/rn\/encounter\/stories\/2010\/3076096.htm\">If God is Dead &#8230;?<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If God is dead, is everything permitted? Good and evil are familiar and much-abused terms these days, but behind them lie crucial issues. Are there intrinsic rights and wrongs, or is morality a cultural construction? And where does God fit &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2010\/12\/01\/good-and-evil-if-god-is-dead\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6264"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6264"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6271,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6264\/revisions\/6271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}