mikk

You're ignoring your own religion, the State.

"No law on adultery or sex outside marriage"

What about the law against bigamy and polygamy?

"no chop your hands off for stealing"

What about rape in prison? About 25% according to the magistrate David Heilpern who studied the subject. This is the de facto punishment that ALL statists threaten with ALL legislation and policies they advocate.

"no law against divorce"

How about the compulsory marriage laws of the Property Relationships Act?

"no law saying you must attend church service"

How about compulsory child indoctrination at special State concentration centres for children, where the state claims the right to take children without their or their parents' consent, the right to uniformise and regiment them, train them to salivate at the sound of a bell, and teach them anything it wants, including all the beliefs that you have uncritically swallowed in favour of the state:
- it makes services "free"
- it can create wealth out of nothing by printing paper
- it can cure the sick
- it can control the winds that blow
- it knows what everyone else's values should be.

If that's not a religion, nothing is.

"No law saying gluttony or greed or lust or slothfulness are crimes."

How about the laws against drug consumption? And the laws against prostitution, homosexuality, or consensual sex of sexually mature persons under an arbitrary one-size-fits-all age determined by the State? And the laws requiring bicycle helmets? And the laws criminalising publications except with the State's approval?

You're looking at loads of evidence of the belief in a superbeing over and above society, religious doctrines and rituals of the main established religion of all - the State.

It's just that you're not recognising them as religious, because you've been brainwashed into docile credulity towards the State.

That is what is behind, for example, your belief that the State knows that the temperature of the globe should be, what the distribution and abundance of species should be, and what people's subjective preferences and values should be. All complete bullsh!t.

Think about it?

The trouble with the conservation foundation is their our way or the highway stance.

If the Queensland prospect is not mined, the Indian power producer will just souce their coal from far dirtier sources, which at the end of the day will produce far more carbon far faster!

The solutions include clean coal, and no I'm not talking about geo-sequestration ;just natural sequestration that if done on a large enough scale will remove or capture all the carbon created by burning the coal; and then provide an endlessly sustainable source of low cost endlessly available biodiesel/ethanol/high carbon, thoroughly sanitized fertilizer/reuseable water.

Given around half our carbon production is from transport and the other half from power production?

It seems reasonable to turn that which is produced in our power stations be converted to endlessly sustainable biofuel.

Which as the very first outcome, would literally halve our carbon emission and the very best example, [along with developing cheaper than coal, carbon free thorium, and the half price power that can produce,] we can give our coal burning Indian counterparts!?
Rhrosty.

JKJ

The state is not a religion. Who is the god? Who worships them, prays to them, where is their place of worship? You are off youre trolley calling the state a religion. All your examples are complete bs and you know it. How have any of those "laws" (rape in jail is not a law) got anything to do with you godbotherers and your idiot beliefs?

None of you xians have shown any single law directly coming from your insane beliefs in your magical superfriend in the sky. imacentristmoderates reply is just garbage and lies that I cant be bothered to go into but is typical of the grasping, dishonest way you godbotherers try to justify your hatreds and evil.

JKJ I dont support the state any more than I support the rest of our authoritarian institutions of oppression and exploitation. i.e. capitalism and the church.
The state, capitalism and the church. The unholy trinity that conspires to keep the plebs in line.

A committee of the Upper House of the WA Parliament has recently reported on fracking and its report is even handed, balanced, science-based and well worth reading: http://www.parliament.wa.gov.au/parliament/commit.nsf/%28WebInquiries%29/74E61E739E39E57748257EF9002150FE?opendocument