Education and Culture

Pidato Presiden Prabowo Subianto di Sidang Umum Perserikatan Bangsa-Bangsa (PBB) di New York seharusnya menjadi momen penting dalam sejarah diplomasi Indonesia. Di hadapan forum internasional, presiden baru Indonesia berkesempatan menyampaikan pandangan strategis bangsa ini mengenai isu global: perdamaian, ekonomi dunia, hingga perubahan iklim. Namun, sorotan publik di tanah air justru tidak berhenti pada isi pidato, melainkan pada fakta yang menyertainya: Presiden bersama rombongan sekitar 60 orang memilih menginap di salah satu hotel mewah di Manhattan, New York. Kabar ini cepat menyebar di media sosial, memantik perdebatan yang sengit. Sebagian masyarakat mempertanyakan relevansi gaya hidup mewah pejabat di tengah seruan efisiensi anggaran, sementara sebagian lain mencoba memaklumi dengan alasan protokol keamanan dan standar kenegaraan. Namun, bagi banyak orang, simbol yang ditangkap jauh lebih kuat daripada alasan teknis: kemewahan pejabat tetaplah kemewahan pejabat, apapun pembena...

I can not atheists - but it is not because they do not believe in God. It is because they are crashing bores. Other people, recently the British cultural critic Terry Eagleton in his new book, "Faith, Reason and Revolution" to this task Superstar nonbelievers as Oxford biologist Richard Dawkins ( "The God Delusion") and political journalist Christopher Hitchens ( "God is not great "), for a primitive philosophical contradiction of faith and reason that assumes that if science can not prove something, it does not exist. My problem with atheists is their annoying - and so old - that they are suppressed and their fixation with the finer points of Christianity. What - have their Sunday school teachers flew her ass with a Bible when they children? Read Dawkins, Hitchens or, or the work of fellow atheist Sam Harris ( "The End of Faith") and Daniel Dennett ( "Breaking the Spell"), or visit an atheist Web site or blog (there are dozens of them,...