All we need now is a column by that lovely Tim Costello to tell us all that 'the Christian vote' is blah blah blah.

Another 'eminent' Christian blathering on as if there is 'a Christian vote', just like the former Sgt. from the ACL.

There is clearly no connection between 'being a Christian' and the activity that goes on in peoples heads when it comes to behaving in a dignified and 'proper' manner.

If there were, then the Coalition-ALP would not be such a dishonest mob of no-hopers, industry-banking would not be such a greed centred activity, and there would be far fewer untruths told around the world.

Not to mention a Pope who has refused the resignation of a couple of dodgy Irish Bishops, while all the Irish religion-sex scandal is airbrushed over, yet again, and as always with the Vatican.

That said, it is good to see the Father Brennan comments denouncing Pell as a short sighted bigot, well, that's how I read them anyway.

As for Wallace and the ACL, well, they are just another mob who have bought themselves a well paid job to spruik their ill-formed thoughts on the world, via a private company portrayed as a community lobby group.

That is hardly the most honest of pictures, I would have thought, and calls for some serious questioning by those who kid themselves that they are indeed 'Christian'.

The truth about the Greens is that they are a loose bunch of mainstream and weird ideas ranging from full-on Vaticanites down to crystal gazing and bong praising dopeheads too addled to think about a god, or a no-god, world about them.

In my experiences with the Greens, there is more chance of meeting a 'Christian' within the ranks than there is in either the ALP or Coalition.

A word of warning though... if you are going to vote Green, don't give them second preference as Brennan suggests here, that will give them nothing.

FIRST preferences MUST go to one of the Greens, Sex or Secular Party candidates above the bludgers in the two main mobs.

reading Frank Brennan's reasoning shows clearly why so many have deserted liberal thinking churches and leaders. Thankfully biblical based churches are growing strongly here in Australia and throughout the world. Only a believer who is completely naive or deceived would vote for such a people hating, promiscurious promoting, flawed faith based party as the Greens. No wonder the liberal church has to rely on Government grants and real estate to prop up its unbelief.

Runner.. you are joking?

"No wonder the liberal church has to rely on Government grants and real estate to prop up its unbelief".. your preferred ill-liberal churches all get ATO subsidy for all the damage they do too you know.

Now, if you support the end to all tax-lurks for all religions (and every other dodgy business too) that would be very welcome.

Is that what you mean?

I think Pell's call that the Greens are "sweet camouflaged poison" is correct. I think they do appeal, not to idealists, but to naive do-gooders who can only see the sweet coating.

Unfortunately, they recruit people such as the author,whose well meaning but ultimately uncritical ways makes them easy recruits.

The Left are primarily against individual freedoms while proclaiming they are actually for them (the sugar coating). They seek to control and not set people free at all. Their ideological ancestors are the great dictators of our time.

Wake up.

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