Dear Ho Hum,
Jeasus taught us the right ideology on how to pray in the sermon on the mount found in the bible Matthew chapter 6 verse 9.
Our Father - (of the human race) in heaven - (where his home is),
Hallowed be your name - (Most important in our life)
Your kingdom come. (we have to invite God to come to rule over us)
Your will be done on earth (as opposed to our will) (willpower)
on earth as it is in heaven. (Use your God given imagination to see the difference)
Give us this day our daily bread. ( God will provide each day if we allow him to be our father, just as any father provides for a child he loves, body, soul, and spirit for our every need for today. Tomorrow is not here and when it comes it is today, so don't fret for your future).
and forgive us our debts, (our reasonable duty to our father, left undone)
as we forgive our debtors. (obligation for what we have done for others or others reasonable duty to us left undone) Always remember what you sow you reap.
And do not lead us into temptation, (wrong thinking leads to wrong doing)
But deliver us from the evil one. (Satin is the tempter who if the father of the worldly or evil system)
For Yours is the kingdom
and the power
and the glory forever.
Amen - (I Agree)

They are to be taken seriously and are frightening. Words like fascist and similar are sometimes overused, but in this case they are apt. What is even more disturbing is that these groups are much like the brain addled "spiritualists" who provided the cover for Hitler's Germany. Make no mistake about it, if there is evil in this world it is these people and their cohorts in the fundamentalist Muslim world.

Couple these views with the incipient racism and sense of entitlement of much of the Australian population and we have the recipe for a true disaster. Perhaps the promise that the "Promise Keepers" wants to keep is the promise to instate an authoritarian state in Australia?

Most of the time White people are criticised for their lack of unity and extreme individualism when so called "good" deeds are demanded of them.
Nobody ever says anything about the fact that when they do unite into a mass movement it's always behind a truly bad idea.
If White people are rallying to a certain position then it can't be seen as good for them or anyone else.
It's easy to trick us White people into cults of personality and stupid ideas like Judeao Christianity,Socialism or Nationalism.
The fact is that one of our racial weaknesses is a tendency to question our own existence, even our RIGHT to exist. You don't come across that very often in other races, it's our Achilles heel.
That's why Apocalyptic thinking is so attractive to us and why every mass movement from Christianity, to Marxism to Climatism has used the same techniques.
Ever heard of a Buddhist suicide cult?

Dear Yabby,
Benny Hinn, an American televangelist, left Australia after his last visit with nearly $1 million in his pocket.
Have you audited his books and are privy to the facts, or are you just giving your opinion. I am interested to know for without the facts we never know the truth and we are only repeating gossip.

Every day I say a little one sentence prayer:

Thank you God for making me an atheist.

My gratitude is redoubled when I read pieces like this one by Alan Matheson. I don't have to waste mental energy figuring out what's what. Left wing church, right wing church, whatever, it's all taurine fertiliser.

I used to be fairly tolerant of religion. The older I get the more I realise religion is a truly malign and evil force in the world. Not the only malign force; but probably the one that's doing the most damage in 2010.


ALAN MATHESON,

you sound like a decent bloke. Ditch the fairy stories, take a deep breath, smell the roses and join the us atheists. Life is both more pleasant and more moral when you free your brain of the virus of religion.

Jay of Melbourne, whether it be christian folklore or hellenistic folklore< the simplicity of the sermon on the mount can teach us plenty

so much the middle of the road and so much found in sound philosophical reasoning

as thomas aquinas discovered when he hoped for wisdom and understanding

also as nelson mandela felt after years and years in a south african gaol