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On being human : Comments

By Peter Sellick, published 25/5/2009

If you want to 'make a difference' join a church, be baptised and raise your children in that community.

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Ho Hum: << Would you send your children to a Sunday or religious school where this nonsense is taught? >>

Indeed.

I don't think he's ever actually admitted it here, but I suspect strongly that what Peter the Bombastic publishes at OLO every month is simply his latest sermon from St Andrew's at Subiaco, recycled in a more public forum so that he can stretch the sanctimony out as long as possible.

Personally, I think his sermons would be more productively recycled if he shredded them and fed them to the worms, but we're not under any compulsion to read the manure, are we?

Mind you, it is quite novel to be referred to as "non-Human". What a twat.
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Posted by jayson, Tuesday, 26 May 2009 4:59:36 AM
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I am amazed at how nasty people get when confronted with Christianity. I am also amazed that people confuse Roman Catholic Christianity, which is a belief based on fear, with the Protestant Christian variety promulgated by the likes of the Anglican communion and Hillsong and its associated churches throughout Australia. One is a loving caring community and the other has a lot to answer for although many many members of the Roman Catholic Church are lovely people.

What really annoys me and gets on my goat is that we are now governed by the Roman Catholic model. For almost 60 years now, we have been afflicted by the closure since 1953 of the High Court by Menzies, and because it is closed, we have no redress for the imposition of Roman Catholic rule.

The Constitution has been rendered inoperative by that closure, as the High Court is now inaccessible as of right. The Constitution may say that the High Court has original jurisdiction, to grant a Writ of Mandamus, prohibition or an injunction against an officer of the Commonwealth, in S 75, but it might as well be sitting on the moon, for all the good it is. The High Court Rules 2004 in Regulations 6.06 and 6.07, directly contradict S 45 Trade Practices Act 1974 and are a prime example of exclusive dealing, and it will be a measure of Kevin Rudd’s government, if they allow these wicked people to continue in office.

The High Court should issue a mandamus to every Judge and Magistrate to stop judging, and get off the railroad to hell that they seem to like, and conform to the Gospels, our beloved Her Majesty Elizabeth the Second agreed to uphold, in the Coronation Oath 1688 ( Imp). In 1953. Menzies said he loved Her, but he caused Her to be brought into disrepute, by ruining the High Court. A prime example of man’s inhumanity to man, is the act of judging a fellow human being. So many of the nasty posts here, are examples of that. Judge not that ye be not judged
Posted by Peter the Believer, Tuesday, 26 May 2009 7:28:04 AM
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Articles like this should be banned, they give false and misleading connotations the psychologically gullible will tend to cling to, because of their inability to take rational control of their minds.

The article makes little sense, is irrational in it's connotations and how it determines outcomes. It's sociological view is completely opposite to reality and dangerous, it paints a false picture of our societies, the reasons for the way they are and not even good apologetics. A psychological analysis of this article reveals a disturbed mind, trapped in fantasy, very confused and afraid of reality.
Posted by stormbay, Tuesday, 26 May 2009 7:29:19 AM
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The rationalists are getting emotional again, it seems.

I find it bizarre that people continue to blame a worldview for the bad actions of it's adherents. This is more of an emotional reaction to their deeds than a logical thought process taking place, clearly.

Perhaps we should look at the deeds of those who were without God- Stalin, Pol Pot, Hitler* etc? Should we therefore conclude that atheism is morally abhorrent?

*who denounced the Catholicism of his younger years and routinely ridiculed Christianity, see the book Hitlers' Table Talk.
Posted by Trav, Tuesday, 26 May 2009 8:30:46 AM
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stormbay, all of this may well be true:

>>The article makes little sense, is irrational in it's connotations and how it determines outcomes. It's sociological view is completely opposite to reality and dangerous, it paints a false picture of our societies, the reasons for the way they are and not even good apologetics. A psychological analysis of this article reveals a disturbed mind, trapped in fantasy, very confused and afraid of reality.<<

In fact, I would be inclined to agree with most of it.

But far from seeing these as reasons that "Articles like this should be banned", I consider them to be the major justification for their publication.

Banning stuff like this would surely indicate that there is something to hide, or hide from.

On the contrary, the more places we can see these views laid out in front of us, the easier it is to point out - even to the "psychologically gullible", as you describe them - the flimsy nature of their foundations.

Imagine a world in which the Sells in our society were forced underground. It would provide their views with a dangerous form of legitimacy - that of the suppressed martyr.

Relax and enjoy, as I do, the regular feed of religious fol-de-rol, and allow it to nourish and sustain your own, saner and more constructive, view of the world and its people.

Chill.
Posted by Pericles, Tuesday, 26 May 2009 8:31:16 AM
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