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Freedoms religious and social: an Australian stock-take : Comments

By Andrew Cameron, published 10/5/2019

.... social hostilities have a habit of crystallising upward into the policies and laws that order our common life

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People are free to say almost anything under the banner of "Religious Freedom" but if you return the favour they are the first to complain about "Religious Persecution".

If Folau was sincere and didn't cherry-pick items as the uninformed usually do he could have added "heathens and Jews" to his list of the hell-bound but that would have turned it into hate-speech.

In any case the original meaning was not homosexuals but Sodomites. The word Sodomite originally referred to a citizen of the mythical city of Sodom and mean't those who practiced illicit sex (ie sex outside marriage or adulterers).
Centuries later, Puritans hijacked the meaning to refer to those who had any form of non-standard sex not intended soley for the purpose of procreation.
Later still, sex-obsessed religious types changed the definition yet again to refer to something more specific.

Jesus himself never said a word about homosexuals but did say something about judging others.
Posted by rache, Friday, 17 May 2019 3:07:01 PM
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Freedom is the greatest gift of all. Just as a living thing will eventually die without water so too a civilisation will decline and die without freedom. The instinctive understanding of this fact is why atheists, agnostics and people of faith can all agree and unite to oppose any attempt to diminish freedom of thought. Without the freedom to express different ideas and to explore them we are diminished as human beings.There are people who dismiss my belief in Jesus and His Church as the delusions of an infantile God botherer It does not upset or phase me and I rejoice in the freedom we enjoy to be able to talk freely on any topic. I would hate to see us lose that precious gift.
Posted by Truth Seeker, Tuesday, 21 May 2019 5:01:41 PM
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