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Race riots, multiculturalism and the gospel : Comments

By Remy Low, published 13/1/2006

Remy Low argues the multicultural dream is not dead, certainly not in the communities of God.

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Please can't we give this subject a rest for a while, it's been done to death already.
Posted by SHONGA, Friday, 13 January 2006 10:49:31 AM
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Politicians and social engineers started this problem.

Over 30 years the people of Australia - particularly Sydneysiders tolerated this immigration - it was foisted upon them, thinking people knew that this would erupt one day in some form or another.

Temporarily living in my home town of Sydney I question people from all walks of life - "are and have you ever been happy with the migration policies" and I ALWAYS get a resounding NO. Numbers of Sydneysiders are moving right away from Sydney - the reasons? they are sick of the violence and of their suburbs being completely taken over usually by Chinese but also Lebanese.

These people tell me it is wonderful going to their new local shopping centre and no asian/lebanese face in sight, they just want to say g'day mate and get a smile and an auzzie greeting. When I ask people why they moved to White Australia Policy Country - Queensland - violence & chinese takeover.

It is very sad when people who have been born in this Country find that they are uncomfortable and threatened in their own backyard. Its nothing to to with racism and everything to do with seeing a country that they are so proud of and love having its daily life/ways changed, their best public schools used by Chinese parents who have not contributed a thing to this country, & the chinese pupils standover tactics ($30week protection) & their drugs brought into these schools.

The question begs too, why do immigrants not stay in their own countries and fighting to improve the conditions there? Sense of responsibility to the people/country they left behind - apart from sending cash back - should be recycled in Australia.

Australians have fought for the enviable lifestyle we have, and our Armed forces are still doing so in other lands (& I won't start on the abuse of the welfare & legal aid system here by migrants).

Remy, look at France Sweden Norway and so many other countries where the MUSLIM migrants are at the top of the criminal statistics, not the Lebanese Christians.
Posted by Pachelbel, Friday, 13 January 2006 11:03:51 AM
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Remy

You appear to admit that you bring no particular tools or expertise to this debate except a Christian message.

Your tone is of one who assumes he is closer to "God" than the rest of us.

This is an interesting type of spiritual chauvinism.

For us "unbelievers” your article is particularly unconvincing.

Your idealistic view of multiculturalism betrays an ignorance of the phenomenon of ethnic electorate stacking. It's particularly easy and politicly shrewd for Federal (generally Labor) Governments to expedite the entry of particular ethnic groups into Australia.

Through polital and ("dragooned") Departmental research Governments know in which marginal electorate these groups are likely to settle. They also know which way this group is likely to vote especially if it needs a high level of social services. This partially explains the Lebanese concentrations in particular Sydney electorates.

Your faith is set against the stronger force of government social engineering (eg Immigration, Centrelink, Health and the Police etc).

You may have your heart in the right place but you're out of your depth my friend.
Posted by plantagenet, Friday, 13 January 2006 11:06:46 AM
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Yes most important to love others - ALL others.
But - there's that word again - when others call for our destruction, others meaning islamics it is a worry.
I do not know of Hindus, Animists, Buddhists, or any other religion that preaches hatred, that preaches total destruction of all other religions and even atheists as do certain moslems.
And the resultant eerie quiet from those called 'moderate?' islamics is also a worry.
There are NO Buddhist suicide bombers, NO Christian suicide bombers, NO Jainist suicide bombers, ONLY islamic suicide bombers, that is a worry.
Remember Christ did say at one time to His Disciples 'to sell their cloaks and buy a sword'(Luke 22:36) this world is a dangerous place. Christians just forgiving whilst being threatened will NOT bring peace, CANNOT bring peace other than an islamic peace. An islamic peace is when there is only moslems, only islam.
Remember we invited moslems in to this nation and these same moslems see us as unbelievers, our very lives worth far less than any moslem's life, not the other way around, repeat NOT the other way around.
These same moslems want Australia to be governed by the brutal, merciless, bloody, misogynistic sharia law, democracy in their eyes is satanic and un-moslem.
A Christian will not hate them cannot hate them but will hate their pagan (according to God's Word - the Bible) apparently death loving, dark, dismal religion.
We have accepted them how about them accepting us and our beliefs. numbat
Posted by numbat, Friday, 13 January 2006 11:19:24 AM
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Hey Numbat, I'm pretty sure the suicide bombers in Sri Lanka are Buddhists. Worst of all, many are women! Islamic suicide bombers actually borrowed their ideas from the Sri Lankan Tamil Tigers.
Posted by davo, Friday, 13 January 2006 11:31:01 AM
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“How are we different? We are followers of Jesus”, isn't that the glaring problem.

“So how should we, as God’s people, live?”, you live how you have all lived over the last 2000 years, violently and fearfully.

Second, Christians should be marked by love for one another“, you are marked, but not for your love, but for your despotic history.

“Third, Christians should be outwardly focused.”. You can only do that when you open your eyes to the reality of the world, what religion represents, implementation, it's application and practise

So Jesus“is himself the way”, then why aren't you following his lifestyle and approach, instead of fictional delusion.

If you were following his example, why aren't you using his healing methods and anointing yourselves with holy anointing oil As described in the original Hebrew version of the recipe, in Exodus (30:22-23). containing over six pounds of kaneh-bosem. A substance identified by respected etymologists, linguists, anthropologists, botanists, theologists and other researchers as cannabis, extracted into about six quarts of olive oil, along with a variety of other fragrant herbs. The ancient anointed ones, were literally drenched in this potent mixture.

Cannabis held a major part in early christian, Judaic religion and life. There is no way that so important a plant, as a fiber source for textiles, nutritive oils and one so easy to grow, would have gone unnoticed. The mere harvesting of it would have induced an entheogenic reaction."

In the Bible’s New Testament, Jesus baptised none of his disciples, as is practiced by todays church. Instead he anointed them with this potent entheogenic oil, sending out the 12 apostles to do the same. "And they cast out many devils, and anointed with oil many that were sick, and healed them" (Mark 6:13).

Sorry, I said I would never quote scripture, just felt its time to show how stupid and blind to reality the religious are.
Posted by The alchemist, Friday, 13 January 2006 11:46:53 AM
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