You may or may not be aware of the furor that World Vision opening their employment policy (and then 2 days rescinding that decision) to gay men and women has caused over in the US – but the behavior of the bullying right has been nothing short of blackmail…accept what we believe or have our … More I’m angry and disgusted with the US Christian Right
Adelaide Fringe Festival organisers say they will not cancel a Melbourne comedian’s show that has come under fire as being anti-Christian. The ABC reports… Josh Ladgrove’s one-man show, Come Heckle Christ, will feature at the festival later this month despite more than a dozen official complaints. The show begins with Ladgrove, who has long hair … More So when will Josh do a ‘Come Heckle Mo’ Show?
Via Q, an article from Christianity Today which demonstrates the link between the work of Christian missionaries and modern democracy. The Surprising Discovery About Those Colonialist, Proselytizing Missionaries They didn’t set out to change history. But one modern scholar’s research shows they did just that. Andrea Palpant Dilley For many of our contemporaries, no one … More How Christian Missions influenced democracy…
From a wise Editorial in the Australian… NO book has had a greater impact on Western civilisation than the Bible. Believers or not, few would disagree. The Bible has shaped our language, art and institutions. Its Christian teachings have informed our development from exploration to enlightenment, through customs to laws, forging countries and cultures. So … More The Greens don’t have a prayer…
Be warned, Australia, the future of a Politically Correct overbearing nation looks something like this… From the BBC: Stewart and Natasha Sutherland fined for term-time holiday A couple who took their children on a week-long holiday during school term time have been ordered by magistrates to pay £1,000 in costs and fines. Stewart and Natasha … More PC UK fines parents for taking children on holiday…
In the spirit of some of the reconstruction of facts which has been indulged in by one or two left-leaning commenters lately, I thought some Fake News would brighten up what has been an icy beginning to 2014 at SP02. The parody of a news story that follows is quite topical in the light of … More Stuck in the Ice – a tale of global warming…
An interesting oped in the Daily Telegraph on the way in which some groups use, or misuse, scripture to promote political aims in the name of activism. The morally superior all the way in a manger Roger Franklin IT is a good thing Jesus is the bringer of peace and forgiveness because every Christmas He must … More Bending scripture for political aims…
Of course, we all have our moments, and none of us is perfect, but our politicians, being constantly in the spotlight throughout election campaigns, have a hard job maintaining their cool under pressure, it seems. Mr Abbott, frustrated by Mr Rudd’s inability to end a sentence, wondered aloud if he’d ever shut up, which was … More Who are you when (you think) no one is looking?
Media Release Kevin ‘Judas’ Rudd’s Shameless Betrayal Mr Rudd’s sudden conversion to support homosexual marriage, on the road to the federal election, is betrayal upon betrayal, according to the Australian Christian Values Institute (ACVI). The newly released Christian Values Checklist shows that Labor, under Mr Rudd, has embraced the Green’s moral decadence and … More Kevin Rudd worse than Judas
Christian party claims heterosexual Australians oppressed because gays earn more Far-right Australian political group the Christian Democratic Party has claimed that ‘mum and dad tax payers’ are oppressed in Australia because they earn less on average than same-sex couples according to census data – even though this means same-sex couples pay higher taxes than they … More Poor oppressed heterosexuals
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