Come on, Alchemist..let 'er rip!

Remy, a young Malaysian-Australian. That says it all.

Remy, don't worry about not having a sociological answer to our problems. The solution seems to be beyond our social engineers as well. The social engineers have invited us, the evil canaille to join the debate; what a nice gesture. It's now time to tell the social engineers and politicians that they created the problem and they should fix it.

Remy, you urge Christians to follow the path of Jesus Christ and lead a life of loving our fellow man. But as this is a multicultural and multifaith society, who will tell those of other faiths to love their fellow man? Thanks to you and dewy-eyed people like the Catholic social justice movement we now have in our country people who hate us and our way of life. I guess that's the way Jesus Christ wanted it.

It sure is a problem made by our Goverment but they wont fix it because they lack both the balls or the brains. It is complex because we are all at fault. However it IS simple. For a start only a few mosques teach the right thing. On a whole they teach their kids not to except our kids. Some of these schools are actually funded by the Goverment for god sake. So stop the funding and deport anybody who teaches this disunity[which is many]. To come here u must adapt to our ways or do not come. Underground meetings banned etc.If they dont care enough about their own kids to want to ensure they settle into a strange country then WE must.

It's always the "other" that causes that problem, never "us".
"Others" must change to be like us, "we" do not need to change, because of course we are superior.

"We" may claim to be Christian, but do not expect us to follow the teachings of Christ, because that would be "weak".

And as for "To come here u must adapt to our ways or do not come" - what, like the British did 200 years ago? Oh well of course that was different.

We can sing our national anthem, but don't expect us to adhere to it: "For those who've come across the seas We've boundless plains to share" - what a joke.

Take a look in the mirror guys - its an ugly problem you're looking right at it at.

I read your article with great trepidation. as long as the bible like the koran is treated by intelegent people as the SAID or INSPIRED word of god, we will make no headway in coming together as a people. Look at all the great aspects of the christian ideals and the moslem ideals and use these with personal human conviction... so that you are part of this ideal not just abdicating your idea to an heavenly influence that can't be proven on closer investigation .

Anyway don't quote the bible as authoritive sopurce of information and then as if it speaks the only truth.

ps.I am an animist and gnostic. I beleieve in my experience and filter the experiences of others to the usefull not just all and sundry. Each of us has to take responsibility for taking on a set of ethics and be involved in living it.

ARI... don't rely on Alchemist as he tends to just repeat :) but in another thread on the UN I found myself in 100% agreement with him.. I NEED THERAPY ! :)

REMY.. salamat datang ke OLO, jangan malulah, bagikan semua isi hatimu dalam Kristus untuk kami semua tanpa takut :)

AMSADL

few would know better the issue of cultural clash and problems with it than Remy here. Malaysia has some 'interesting' approaches to issues of education, race and religion along with the Internal Security Act which makes our 'anti terror laws' look like playschool.

Remy is saying that "In Christ" our mutual love and concern for others overides our cultural background. To be "in Christ" is in many ways to embrace a new culture itself. You will probably find many many different races present in Remy's church as u will in my own.

We cannot 'force feed' faith in Christ to everyone, we can only point, as John the Baptist did, towards Christ, and hope and pray that our hearers will embrace Him first, and their fellow man after that.

But you are quite accurate when referring to the historical background of White Invasion, which it certainly was. Though the saddest aspect is probably the arrival of disease against which the aboriginals had no defence. There is little we can do now to change history, of which we ourselves are equally victims and pls remember, most of us can point back a few generations to similar experiences by our own ancestors. I know I can. (Highland Clearances in Scotland) I guarantee it applies to you also. Your ancestors would have been on an "invading" or an "invaded" side and if you were 'Invaded' I'll bet I can look back further to where you were "invaders" :) so don't push that barrow as if we were the only ones who ever dispossessed another people.

I rejoice in the sense of community we have in Christ, which includes Caucasian European,Indian,Asian,Arab and Aboriginal culture, and is world wide, for where He is, there is peace in spite of our occasional squabbles.