Sells, God was singularly missing at Golgotha. Jesus cry of "God, why hast thou forsaken me" gives a vital clue as to the very non-existence of God and gives a similar lie to the concept that Jesus was the "Son of God". A truly loving father would not not have left his son to die in those circumstances. I would suggest that the Christian Church has got it all wrong. It should just be following the humanitarian teachings of Jesus and discard all the mumbo jumbo of "God the father, Son and Holy Spirit"
David

Excellent stuff, Peter. Yours was the first reading I encountered early this morning, and it has made my day. I am not a Christian (used to be a devout Catholic, but left because of the homophobia), and am now more of a secular Buddhist. Thank you.

The electorates of Venezuela and Chile fell for the socialist "we will give you everything for free" line Peter, and "slaughtered" their previous arguably responsible governments. And they lived to regret it. The lefties in Russia, North Korea and Cambodia cheered on Stalin, Kim il Sung, and Pol Pot, but they lived to regret that too, Peter.

Don't ask me why the majority of Victorians are so stupid as to vote for a government who is going to cause their electricity system to crash? While telling the Sudanese criminals now running riot in Labor electorates that they have got their backs? And telling kids in school that gender is "fluid". Maybe there is something in the water? It just goes to show just how seductive the socialist message is to people. No matter how many times Socialism fails, there are those who buy it with the same faith they exhibit when they buy their weekly Lotto tickets.

Liberals have made welfare more difficult to access, Peter, because they are economically responsible. They have looked at the graphs of welfare growth and tax income, and figured out that welfare in it's present form is unsustainable. Am I getting through here, Peter? Unsustainable. Something will have to give. Especially since socialists seem to hate the very money making concerns that give them the wealth to buy people's votes. We can start doing something now, Peter, or wait until the crash. 600 billion in dept and Peter sees nothing wrong. Unfortunately, some voters will vote for dishonest politicians who tell them what they want to hear. "Vote for us, we will give you money!"

Lastly, Peter acts out the role of the defender of the poor. It's a nice pose for people who need to believe that they are morally beyond reproach. Especially if they believe to a political ideology that thinks that money is created by money fairies. They can always get somebody to pay for the policies they propose that supposedly reduce poverty. And all so that Peter and his friends can bask in a warm, inner glow of moral sanctity.

We are instructed not to feed wild animals because it is reasonable to expect that they will become dependent on those handouts. Those animals which have not learned how to feed themselves will therefore be left to die. Is it not reasonable to assume that a similar thing will happen to our human brethren if we follow the principles of the right wing liberals.

David

I'll give this one a tick of approval.

OK, so there is a bloke who calls himself VK3AUU who appear to be a trendy lefty who does not like right wingers.

Now the topic under discussion is whether Scott Morrison is polarising society. So what did VK3AUU add to this discussion? Absolutely nothing. Other than telling everybody how rotten he thinks right wingers are. Classic hit and run, sneery one liners, by a lefty who can not form an argument or discuss premises on a point by point basis. And he wonders why the right is now ascendant? Fox news number 1, CNN number 12 and dropping.

Notice too, how VK3AUU makes the implication that right wingers are heartless people who think that helpless people should be left to die? That is a gross oversimplification of right wing ideology that bears no basis in fact. A half truth is a complete lie. If free market democracies are so selfish and rotten, why is everybody in every sheethole country on earth clamouring to get into our countries?

Free market democracies usually have the best social services on planet Earth, but any person who has any claim to intelligence would have to admit that there is a limit to what the government can provide. There has always been an expectation in western countries that people should stand on their own two feet and look after themselves. That just happened to be the fundamentals of a free and prosperous society.

But who needs an argument when all you have to do is to virtue signal? VK3UAA signals how he is virtuous, and implies that right wingers are just scumbags. Some argument.

Now, as a right winger I would like to say something about the topic under discussion. It is the left which has polarised Australian society, using class, race, ethnicity, gender, non gender, age, and just about anything else they can think up. They invented identity politics, and then play the innocents when they divide their own society so much it becomes almost ungovernable.