Underground equals buried. Today few, if any, people are prepared or able to live without government support. Nobody is going underground. Nobody is going to fight back. There is not a single heroic figure in Australia for us to follow; we have allowed ourselves to be reduced to a grey collective.

"Transgender Visibility Day just happens to fall on Easter Sunday."

Well, that's was a big deal only a few freaks will have known about. Most people would be celebrating Easter, even if it meant only stuffing themselves with chocolate and driving bumper to bumper to have a long weekend away.

I can't see, even in Wankstralia, many people celebrating special days for for trendy perversions.

Well here's some transgender news that you can bet won't be visible on the usual locales....

http://www.thecollegefix.com/gender-affirming-therapy-is-not-beneficial-pediatrics-group-concludes/

OTOH transgenders might yet win us a women's world cup...
http://nypost.com/2024/03/27/us-news/outrage-after-flying-bats-soccer-team-goes-undefeated-with-5-transgender-players/

Dear Ttbn,

Underground just means underground.
Buried from the prying eyes of enemies, but never buried from God's sight.

In 1492 (in Spain, and 1496 in Portugal), the same year when America was discovered, Spanish Jews were ordered by the Inquisition to convert to Christianity or die.

Some managed to escape by boats to northern Africa, and those who successfully made that journey without being captured by pirates, became the Sepharadic Jews (the name derived from 'Sfarad' = Spain).

Many of the remaining Spanish Jews went underground and continued to keep the Jewish customs and traditions in secret, then passed down the same "family secrets" for generations. Some still even today discover such Jewish-based family secrets, come out of hiding and in recognition are being granted citizenship by the Spanish and Portuguese governments.

These people risked not just their money, but their lives too: those who were caught were tortured and burned at the stake. To claim that they only kept their religion for the sake of government support, is to insult their heroic struggle.

Religion has a real and positive content, it is not just a show-off!

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Dear ttbn,

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The problem with religious schools is that they tend to conflate and confound the teaching of fact and knowledge with their religious dogma and belief.

That might be fine for the six theocracy countries (Afghanistan, Iran, Mauritania, Saudi Arabia, Vatican City and Yemen) but not for a modern democracy such as Australia that has no official religion and whose Constitution guarantees freedom of thought, conscience, and belief.

We have seen what the conflation and confusion of fact and faith can lead to under the influence of religious zealots in the US.

“Intelligent design” and “creationism” continue to be taught in many schools despite the ruling of the US Supreme Court that such teachings are unconstitutional.

Already in Australia, according to Wikipedia : “Creationist views are popular among religious education teachers and creationist teaching materials have been distributed by volunteers in some schools”.

Secular education and religious education are two distinct domains that must remain separate with absolutely no overlap or interference with each other.

The disastrous track record of religious schools’ betrayal of the trust placed in them as manifested by the disgraceful paedophile pandemic perpetrated by them imposes the utmost caution in all our future dealings.

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