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Is Tony Abbott a closet Protestant? : Comments

By Geoff Thompson, published 24/12/2009

If Tony Abbott’s faith is actually a faith worth having, then he owes it to us to be a good Catholic and place it in the public square.

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My first advice to you, Ulis, is to go back to school for a few years to learn to spell correctly and write gramatically-coherent sentences. Secondly, don't deliberately misrepresent what I have said. Nothing in my post could be construed honestly to imply that I believe people "deserve" to die from HIV-AIDS. Your deliberate fabrication. Again you imply, falsely, that the tiny (and still unacceptable) minority of priests who abuse children represent the whole church. All properly instructed Catholics understand that this behaviour constitutes mortal sin, which confines the unrepentant to hell, regardless of what the law may say. Your concluding remarks about "a Church who only recently realized that the world is in fact round" is pure verbal garbage, and a further example or your willingness to distort facts for the childish pleasure of giving offence. When you refer to the "exceptionally confronting issue" of stem cell research, there is nothing "confronting" in this issue, except when human embryos are destroyed for the purpose, a line of this research which is now virtually obsolete. If you don't want to hear the ethical arguments, don't listen.
Posted by Peter D, Saturday, 2 January 2010 10:59:40 AM
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Paedophile priests don't represent the whole church, but the whole church DID collude to protect them. How is that any better?
Posted by Sancho, Saturday, 2 January 2010 11:32:59 AM
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We live in a peculiar age where people are free to loudly pronounce their opinions in any number of public fora and do so to acclamation - so long as those proclamations reflect the currently prevailing wisdom. Anything that is not so acceptable is decried.
At the same time we are free to bring all of our own thinking and learned materials to the debate - so long as they are completely free from religious influence. We can support and quote secular humanists, environmental evangelicals and campaigners for every perverse behaviour until we are blue in the face - but dare to mention a verse from a book which has influenced western thought for thousands of years and you must hush your mouth.
What a strange world we live in.
(While I'm here I will again declaim the quandary of the Christian - perpetually condemned to hypocrisy for the flaw of being human while trying to be like Christ)
Posted by J S Mill, Monday, 4 January 2010 2:29:35 PM
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