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Australian pluralism and religion : Comments

By Bruce Kaye, published 8/1/2009

Religious bodies need to get their act together on the nature of Australian pluralism and its meaning today.

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Porkycrap: << We turned our backs on divine grace.. we greedily embraced and clung to debauched representations of humanity, salivated over the next opportunity to sin....rejected the good..and strove for the bad....

...and now....that our collective conscience is but a dim whisper on a dark cold night... we cry out.. AWAY WITH YOU God... away!... let us be free to enjoy and take our fill of lust, of strong drink, of mediums and wizards, of fortunetellers and obscenity....let us give up natural relations and establish those of our own choosing... >>

Gawd - Porky's morphed into Gibo! Either that, or he's discovered LSD.
Posted by CJ Morgan, Friday, 9 January 2009 7:52:47 AM
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This discussion reminds me of a 2007 flim documentary I saw the other day, ‘In the Shadow of the Moon’, which documented the memories of the men of the Apollo missions.

These were daring, highly trained and scientifically literate men, but they were ordinary and typical Americans in their views on religion. NASA, one of America’s most respected institutions, gave them freedom to speak their mind.

The first men to return to from visiting the far side of the moon quote from the Bible on their return trip. They did so, not because they were deeply religious, but because they had a general respect for the dignity of religion and thought the poetic qualities of Scripture fitted their experiences, personally and perhaps nationally.

When the atheist, O’Hare, sued the astronauts and NASA for bringing religion into a public institution, her grandstanding efforts looked merely petty and meddling.
Posted by Dan S de Merengue, Monday, 12 January 2009 9:17:39 PM
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