http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=12461#215360

spot on Warwick.

http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=12461#215359

why thank you Poirot. the communists always seem to conveniently forget that it was "protestant christianity" which invented the seperation of church & state, which was only ever about stopping bishops from being in cabinet, "as of right" without being elected like Rev Fred Nile.

http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=12461#215362

Dug, what you have said is typical of the loony left, a half truth, designed to deceive. Many atheists are happy to be shopping or gardening on sunday morning when christians are in church but there is another kind who do, in fact have horns & a tail. They evangelise the gospel according to Karl Marx & deify the "dear leader" at everybody stupid enough to listen to them & sadly they do indoctrinate many young impressionable teenagers with their filth.

Be honest, tell me which is worse? closet communist indoctrination? or christian morals & ethics?

This thread has become too silly to even consider further subscription to OLO.

Formersnag claims that atheists on Sundays "They evangelise the gospel according to Karl Marx & deify the "dear leader" at everybody stupid enough to listen to them & sadly they do indoctrinate many young impressionable teenagers with their filth."

I know the above will be permitted under tha banner of 'free speech'.

Therefore, I can only point out that hate speech (which is being presented by FS, Warwick Marsh, Philo et al) is not free speech.

The above named are deliberately flaming non-Christians. This is not in the spirit of freedom of speech.

Non-Christians have the right to their children to be taught at state funded schools without indoctrination into any religion, be it Christian, Muslim or Calathumpian. There are religious schools available to those religious adherents.

State schools are for everyone. Australia is not a theocracy. To those Christians who have no tolerance for people with different views to you, I recommend reading Jesus' sermon on the mount and have a good hard look at yourselves.

Formersnag,

Protestant Christianity was also the staff leaned upon by the manufacturers and factory owners at the time of the Industrial Revolution who lured then herded the people into urban conglomerations in the first place....the fact that the system is now threatening total disintegration is merely a continuum.

Once upon a time a man's work had an integral meaning in daily life. Now, not only is the meaning absent - so is the work.

Formersnag,
the Catholics invented corruption and the melding of church and state. And the Protestant Presbyterians were no better after Charlie had his head cut off. The Calvinist Protestants wanted to make separation redundant. It was the Puritans--the then equivalent of left-wing radicals, who tried to insist on a separation of Church and State in England.
All you've got is name calling, mate; names which don't impress anyone capable of thinking outside your reactionary box, and which spare the others, like you, the bother of thinking about it.
The vast majority of the Chaplains, btw, are Pentecostal fundies, as rabid as any of your demonic communists, and far from the benign by-partisan schoolyard presence Mander tries to proffer.
Mander has signally failed to "dispel the myth". I'm as persuaded by his assertion that Chaplains don't proselytise as I am that he and his cohort are not homophobic.

How!
How do atheists counsel a 10 year old who has just buried his mother from cancer? His father organised a Christian funeral for her assuming there is an after life. The child believes his mother has entered the eternal life. He has problems attending to his normal school work and is falling behind in class.

How does an atheist encourage and give hope to this child?

PLEASE TELL US!

"Perhaps we have to then rip fathers out of families and God out of Schools and watch while our cities burn as they are in England. They will burn because a Godless and fatherless generation have no need for rules and regulations that infringe "their personal rights to murder and mayhem". Only then will we be able to dance for joy with our atheistic elites that make up 10% of our population. For they will surely have achieved their desired result."
Posted by Warwick Marsh, Saturday, 13 August 2011 11:53:38 AM

Now now, Warwick. No need to froth over such hypotheticals.

At the 2006 census no Religion made up 18.7%, and Not defined 11.2 %, so your 10% seems a little low, especially if the trends have continued into this year's census.