The author of this essay must be a moron. Not just any moron, but one that goes to bed with his pet minorities every day of the week. 33% of Australians are non-christian? Oh that's right, they have been imported to keep the culture vultures happy.

You must be one of people who want to ban Christmas every year. I have the pleasure of residing in Australia's most multicultural suburb thanks to idiots like Eric Claus.

I cannot stand conspicuos compassion. When you have finished ripping every shred of our society to bits, get back to me.

Haha - you're a very funny man Davo! ;)

Eric
speaking as one of the Christians,and as one of a group in victoria which is around a few million if u add up all the groups, I find myself asking the question "Why" be compassionate if u don't have a personal faith in God ? Why not follow the likes of he who declared God 'dead' Mr Neitche, or Mr Sartre, who declared that people should reasonably 'live for their own goals, selfishly,determinedly, without thinking of anything other than ones own objectives" (words to that effect). In the 60s there was a song "Well if thats all to life, bring out the booze, lets party" i.e. it was a realization that if God is dead, or does not exist, life is meaningless, so give urself over to hedonism, life is limited, enjoy it to the full.

Most people who don't believe in God, are not brave enuf or consistent enuf to follow these implications. Culture is too strong, so they retreat to sentimental ideas of morality as being humanistically valid (duh) They want to do good for sentimental reasons, not philosophically reasonable ones.

'me me me'-ism is emerging in so many areas of life, and is a reflection of Neitzche and Sartre and company (Remember Gordon Ghekko- Greed is good) It's taken till now for these philosophies to filter down to the masses thru the arts, media and education, but coming it is.

If u want a compassion day, base it on the Compassionate One, which is why we even have Easter Monday (based on Good Friday)
And if 67% of Australians believe in God, and most of those being Christians of some persuasion, how appropriate it is for our holidays to reflect that state of affairs !

Its the kind of writing by the likes of Eric which tends to radicalize and politicize Christians much more than anything else.
Someone commented about the 37,000 Christians at Telstra dome last saturday as being a 'typcical footy crowd', but I responded with the quip "Footy crowds don't all VOTE the same way" !

Easter is just a pagan fertility ritual that was appropriated by the Christians. Anybody who is angered by the notion of compassion has serious personal problems.

Praise the Lord and pass the chocolate! Four days off in a row!

I'm feeling particularly compassionate... I think I feel a 'resurrection' coming on.

Morgan

Why am I not surprised that Boaz would be negative about a day of compassion. Poor man, unable to care about anyone from the heart must do it thru his god. Well not all christians vote the same way either - thank god ;)

Being the greedy materialistic heathen that I am, all I'll do this long w/e is visit a local nursing home where I take my dog Mikka who is a great hit with the residents. Later on I'll be off to clean out cages at the Lost Dogs Home. I don't do this for sentimental reasons I do it because I enjoy it. Helps my little patch of earth. And I'll probably eat too much chocolate too - 'cos I'm just a greedy materialistic heathen.

This is just more PC madness. The suggestion that a new meaning be designated to a particular day in the Easter weekend has nothing to do with compassion at all, it is about diminishing the true meaning of Easter to Australians and incorporating minority beliefs into our Easter tradition. Easter is not a time to recognise people with other beliefs it is solely a time to recognise Christ and his sacrifice for our sins.