Yes Kay and given God is love and supported by our finest hours and finest acts when it controls outcomes and motives, there is a lot to be said for allowing it to permeate through every level and facet of society?

And wouldn't that be as close to paradise on earth as was possible to get? And something we should strive for given the fact that the expanding universe is accelerating toward its day of eventual destruction? Which seems to also hold true for planet earth, but far sooner?

That said we don't need to blind to the fact that evil is alive and well and stalks this and every other land looking for fools to inculcate with the poison of selfish individualism, hate and eye for an eye, and tooth for a tooth revenge, and carried out indiscriminately on any available and convenient proxy?

And if that then leads to them inheriting a ruined hellhole planet, they'd be welcome to it!

On another note, I see no problem with keeping what you've actually earned, just no case in taking it from others by "legal" means?

There's a very old roman expression, which as memory serves translates from the latin as, trust but watch.
Alan B.

Can't we just care for each other without believing in such a concept as a divine source?

"...the broader community is beginning to question stereotypes and think differently about ethnicity, culture, faith, race, nationality, skin colour, age, sexuality and gender, spiritual carers are also challenged by new paradigms. Armed with the common religious acknowledgement of a higher power as man's common source these carers have something in their toolbox that can help them prayerfully reconsider sincerely held beliefs that might have prevented them from embracing diversity."

Any individual making such authoritative comments on the "broader community" is seriously deluded. The broader community - totally beyond the ken of a Christian Scientist - is hardening its attitude to diversity of population, sexual deviation, incompatible (with Western values) races, religions. The results of diversity can be seen in the lowering of behavioural standards in Australia, the weakening of our politicians (evidenced in their fear of thugs and people wishing our society harm, and their suppression of the free speech of people demanding our governments act as they are supposed to in upholding Australia society and values.

But, both major parties are importing too many people, and people of the wrong kind. Diverse people were not meant to live together. Putting together people of different races and cultures is a modern piece of social engineering that has clearly failed.

Dear David,

<<Can't we just care for each other without believing in such a concept as a divine source?>>

Certainly!

It is not possible to care for someone who is truly other than yourself. What allows and prompts us to care for each other is that in truth we are not separate entities, that we do share our common divine essence, that deep within, behind the appearances, we are in fact not many, but One.

But whether or not we conceptualise the above and believe in it, is not that important.

Why not David? After all, doing the right thing by other folk because it's the right thing to do, is brotherly love in action. In other words, one doesn't need to believe in a controlling creator to do its work, which is just love?

And no I'm not talking about the misrepresented love portrayed by the usual bible banger who wants to own your mind and your free will? Just that represented by the good samaritan, or everyday small acts of kindness that's universal and not owned by this or that religion!

At the end of the day, no smiling fanatic or goody two shoes able to quote chapter and verse, from what could be a work of man made fiction? Can decide what the other believes!

However, nobody can live or exist in a vacuum and if we must believe in something? What about the mighty irrefutable truth? At the end of the day the only person able to stand in judgement and decide whether you lived your life as well as you were able, and treated all others as you would be treated if you had to walk a mile or two in their shoes, is the person staring back at you in the mirror.

And the only one who knows your secret truth and anything you would not have others know of or about you and therefore can't be fooled.

Christian charity is simply not something that's exclusive or necessarily the proclaimed property of the so called Christian brotherhood or God botherer, but every person who lives and draws breath or risks it all in the service of others! Alan B.

Why does the word diversity only ever seem to get used in white communities? Funny how we never hear the word diversity used in non white or Muslim communities.

It seems that the word diversity is taking on the meaning of 'less whites' and 'less christians.'