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By Peter Sellick, published 30/1/2013The Christian church has yet to work out how to enlighten and evangelise the Enlightenment.
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Is it just me, or are other people getting tired of the endless, casual, unsupported slander pouring out every day from the priests of the old religions? The Prime Minister's partner makes a casual reference to Asian women and the media explodes with outrage: meanwhile people like Peter are telling us daily, over and over again, that we're mean-spirited and weak and not a patch on the brave old bigots of the Victorian age.
Get with it, Peter: this is the wealthiest, healthiest, most compassionate, highest-taxed, strongest safety-netted society that has ever existed in history, and that's precisely because we no longer rely on the personal preferences of the religiously inspired to tell us who needs to be helped and who needs to be stoned. If you have any doubts then I suggest you spend a year in the outback with a Aboriginal tribe on walkabout, and see how much compassion and community they show when their members get sick, injured or hungry.
I propose the first test case of the new anti-discrimination laws be brought against the collective churches, for hate speech against humanity.