it is only the Word of God that convicts secularist of their rampant hypocrisy. That is why they are comfortable with mocking the only one that can save them from their rottoness.

Not a bad article.
Mr Perrottet makes a good point. It's open slather when criticising Christianity, but often deemed 'racist' or bigoted to criticise Islam. In academia Christianity comes under some very harsh criticism, not just from student organisations, but from university courses themselves. This is okay, as university is supposed to entail critical thinking (in fact, the entire intellectual world from the Enlightenment onward has been to dispel the superstitions of the church). However, imagine these harsh critiques turned on Islam. In fact, they should be turned on Islam. The metaphysics of Christianity and Islam are almost identical (a cross over between Platonism and Jewish mysticism). Yet, to criticise and ridicule Islam for all its atrocities and non-empirical fantasies is deemed 'racist' or bigoted.

There is a very, very strange alliance here between the Left and Islam. The Left protects Islam from criticism, but lambastes Christianity at every opportunity. There's enough material in that strange bond to keep psychologists and sociologists going for several years and several dissertations and journal articles. (However, given that the Left virtually run the academe such research simply isn't going to be done).

Posted by WmTrevor, Thursday, 9 May 2013 10:28:39 AM wrote:

>>I fully support the rights of Christians to exercise their freedom of speech to really offend Judaism and Islam.>>

I second that.

One must separate the issues.

1. Obscene, vituperative language is bullying and verbal violence. A university, but not the state, is entitled to enforce rules against it.

3. Wholesale slurs in public space on the sole basis of ethnic origin are libellous and discriminatory, and the state and every university is fully entitled to enforce sanctions against such slurs.

4. Freedom from religion is even more vital than freedom for it. Ideologies, including religions and including racist pretensions elevating any ethnic group above the rest, are fair game for rejection, opposition, ridicule, hostility (combined with freedom to to uphold them without incurring threat of personal sanctions).

5. Howls of “bigotry”, “intolerance”. “racism”, “blasphemy”, “anti-Semitism” in response to attacks on religious or racist ideologies are libellous and rightly treated as an overt threat to civil liberty.

Reckon that more or less sums it all up

The double standard that is the elephant in the room would be supporters of gay marriage trashing Christianity as per usual. Quite obviously all of those claims of gay 'rights' to marriage are just a blind and fraud to get the gold standard of marriage applied to gay sex and gay lifestyles. They still hate and abuse what they have always offensively regarded as "breeders' marriage" and would sabotage that instution every way they could.

That they support Islam at the same time shows just how barking mad the left are and particularly the feminist left.

Freedom of speech has been severely curtailed by political correctness and by the speech and thought control of racial vilification law in Australia.

People should have the right to be offended, but there are those who have been successful in having that right restricted according to what they want.

The solution to this problem is simple, Christians need to be redefined as a "race", so they should cultivate an aura of "otherness" e.g. wear different and distinctive clothes and complain of "racial discrimination" when they don't get their own way.