It seems the minister is having a bit of fun by wilfully playing the victim card. Surely you aren't serious minister, not in a country where the christian church has so many benefits already (benefits denied to others).

I will keep it short as quite a few people have already made their corrections:

By all means teach children about religion - ALL religions and NONE. Schools are not your exclusive playground minister. This would seem to clear issues 1,2, 3 and 6 from your list but i imagine that you would need teachers without an axe to grind for any one system, do you think Access Ministries could do that because the evidence against it is mounting fast.

As for 4 and 5, are we all really so restricted in our resources we can only handle one thing at a time? By all means address pornography and obesity and a host of other issues too. It seems you are also confused about the difference between advertising and proselytising, the first one doesn't lie about what happens to you after you die or state how you should mistreat people. Just a hint.

Kind regards

Maybe we should spend the time allocated to religious education in schools by explaining the basic principles behind a broad range of religius beliefs? That way, the kids can at least be informed about the differences between the various religions we have here. I know I am ignorant of the fundemental differences between Anglican, Catholic, Methodist, Baptist and all of the other religions.

Australia is a nation born from, and built on, Christian values and that is the way it is. Our job is to educate our children so that they can make informed decisions of their own in the future; not to force any one religion upon them - IMO.

Thanks

Not happy to have achieved massive increases in abortion, pornography, sexualisation of young girls and boys and rebellion the secularist at all costs want to 'protect'the children from getting some values that they have rejected themselves. No wonder the 'religous' schools are being flooded by those claiming no faith but can clearly see the putried outcome of an education system that basis its beliefs in pseudo science and godless values. I would guess the real reason so many protest so loud about chaplains or anything else decent is because they don't want their own godless values exposed for what they are. There would be far less need for chaplains if the kids did receive love and discipline at home. It seems many secularist hate the family unit so much that it is unlikely they will receive what is needed at home and want at all cost their kids receiving some decent morals at school. They want kids given nstructions on how to put on a condom but don't want them to know anything about faithfulness. They want kids to be guilt free about breaking every moral law in the universe but then complain about youth suicide and are blind enough to know the causes. Oh that's right if only secular schools were not underfunded all these ills would go away. The latest Government funded research says so. How do we have a PM stabbed in the back and few blink an eyelid. Drr I wonder why?

“Father, forgive them, they know not what they do…” ...

... was not in the first bibles - Codex Vaticanus and Codex Sinaiticus - so must be a later addition. Why was that?

runner,
None of those are achievements and none are sought.

As Mahatma Gandhi said "I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.”

Freedom from religion please.

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