The Golden Rule for all intents and
purposes is the same in all cultures - it simply asks
that we put ourselves in a position of the poorest of
the poor, the weakest of the weak, the sickest of the
sick, and do unto others as we would want done unto us.

The Golden Rule is certainly not only Christian or was
invented by Christianity. Yet, this is not to diminish
its central role in the Christian value system.

AC,

It was your “Amalekites” who set upon and harassed the Jews with the aim of wiping them out as Moses was leading them from persecution.

You have switched from having an opinion to an ignorant rant against Christianity. You have made your feelings known; now you are just making a fool of yourself, unnecessarily.

BTW, Jews are not Christians: they are, duh, Jews.

We have to accept that there is enough sufficient
historical evidence (records) of a person by the
name of Jesus who lived and preached thousands of
years ago. A person who was the source of a major
politico-religious divide.

Initially, it was between Jews and those other Jews
who, following Jesus, became Christians after Paul's
apocalyptic conversion on the road to Damascus.

While many Australians are now of a post-Christian mindset, they might have to set their addled minds to the prospect of an Islamic Australia. Don't laugh.

Muslim Senator gets the hump because she stepped outside Labor rules and embarked on a foreign matter well outside her duty to Australia.

The Muslim community gets the hump, and publicly indicates their real reason for being in Australia: to spread Islam globally.

Labor politicians are already sh.t scared of Muslim minorities in their electorates. They need the dreadful Greens and any undesirables they can round up to stay in office. The Coalition? Not a lot more trustworthy than Labor; and they are just as guilty of bringing Islam into our country.

>>It was your “Amalekites” who set upon and harassed the Jews with the aim of wiping them out as Moses was leading them from persecution.<<

My Amalekites? Lol
Firstly, those people died thousands of years ago.
And secondly, I'm not even religious.
Thirdly it was just as wrong to kill innocent people back then as it is to kill innocent people today.

"You have switched from having an opinion to an ignorant rant against Christianity."
- I think it all forms part of my wider opinion on the topic.

"You have made your feelings known; now you are just making a fool of yourself, unnecessarily."
- Maybe, but nowhere near the level of foolishness Christians have shown by setting Christ's teachings aside to give silent consent to the murder of hundred thousand plus innocents by 'God's Chosen People'

Christians are supposed to stand up for the innocent, the downtrodden and destitute
That's probably what Jesus would've done.
And he's the reason for your whole religion.

A real Christian asks themselves 'What would Jesus do'
- I'm pretty Jesus wouldn't be bombing refugee camps with missiles and bombs marked 'Made in USA'
And he wouldn't be trying to starve and deprive 7 million people of water.
He would give them food, water, shelter, kindness and tend to their wounds
He certainly wouldn't be stationed at the Israeli Ministry of Defense screaming 'Kill them all!' like those you so blindly defend.

If you lose sight of all this ttbn, then I don't even know what good your religion even represents.

How are we ever going to solve the threats to all
of humanity and the planet, by climate change, over
population, and other serious problems, if we can't leave
our fellow humans to practice safely their own religion?

We need to recognize that the vast majority of modern
mainstream Christians, Jews, Muslims, and others, seek a
better life on earth, rather than seeking it in heaven.

Even if they believe in heaven, they seek a happy life on
earth. Modern people with normal family and social
relationships, and an at least partially rational view of
how the world works are not waiting for Armageddon, or a
future coming of a saviour.

Nor are they waiting for anything else that exercises
the theological minds of fundamentalists. We need to keep
in mind that the religiously minded modern person is not
a "card carrying" fundamentalist. They are a tiny minority.

Of whatever faith, a psychologist would be likely to declare
them of unsound mind.