OLO A Christian church: 02262017
By Peter Bowden, published 22/2/2017

Runner writes: "The church is particularly healthy especially in places like China, Iran, South Korea and many other nations."

I find the conflation of "Church" with "healthy" to be grotesque one requiring a perversion of mind totally committed to a collection of some of the basest attitudes of which humankind is capable of nurturing.

If we allow the god of runner the claimed properties of omniscience, omnipotence, ubiquity and propinquity then with no less legitimacy and credibility can the claim be substantiated for a Cosmic Power that views with alarm the contagion of asinine stupidity bound up in religious balderdash being unleashed on its turf by a primitive, immature organism intent on imposing intellectual slavery as it unleashes its unwelcome self on the Cosmos.

It might regard such cerebral spasticity in the upstarts to be worthy only of extermination. The Cosmos is aleady ineluctably hostile to humankind. A benevolent deity had no inkling of an Anthropic Principle. It would be quite stupid of the faithful not to be wary of taking prejudice, intolerance and bigotry into our next great adventure. But then again..........Einstein said it best: "Only two things are infinite, the Universe and human stupidity and I'm not certain about the former." If anything will bring the disappearance of humankind it will be our propensity for being stupid.

Rache's "lust for Armageddon"?

OLO A Christian church: 02262017
By Peter Bowden, published 22/2/2017

Runner writes: "Well, that's the Uniting Church for you: a renegade mob made up of Methodists and uncommitted Presbyterians and what was left of the Congregationalists. They deny the tenets of Christianity and warp it to current worldy perversions."

Spoken like a true christian. With runner as Chief Inquisitor.........I rests me case Milud.

I have misattributed the quote contained in my post immediately above. It was of course ttbn whom I quoted. which demonstrates that our destruction at the hands of some Cosmic Power is doubly imminent

Has anyone asked these christians just where they define "at the gates of the city" where we are supposed to stone these people. Does that mean outside the CBD say Balmain or further afield like Penrith.
or even further past the Blue montains?