Again, I am at a complete loss to understand what you are trying to say (and do not attempt to put the onus on me for a lack of comprehension).

Forget the analogies for a minute. Approximately 68% of people in this country identify as being "Christian". Many of them list this faith because of family history, rather than being a god fan, as less than 20% of these actually attend church (not including weddings and funerals).

The fault lies with the thought that the majority are in tune with being "christian" (or statistically pathetic football players). Football players are not in the majority here, but they do seem overrepresented in the parliament don't they?. And this of course a historically football playing country, so those bloody skateboarders had better keep of the footpaths if they know whats good for 'em!

CJ, no I don't accept that we'd have to put up with it. Many of the rights and principles of equality that we have today were hard fought for AGAINST the wishes of the majority of the day (at least, the majority of anyone with any say).
And I would be willing to fight against the majority to ensure we kept them.
It's one reason that having a basic Bill of Rights would be worthwhile pursuing.

BTW, scary thought: if the current population balance is 200,000 religious fundamentalists vs 21000000 others, then if the former were to breed at a rate of 5 children per household, and the latter at 1.5, then they could outnumber us in less than 4 generations.

DNICHOLSON

Well put.

Democracy is emphatically not merely about the rule of the majority.

It includes protecting the rights of minorities, allowing for the expression of unpopular views and no discrimination on the basis of race, sex, ethnicity, creed or sexual orientation.

Is Australia a perfect democracy?

Absolutely not.

But it is orders of magnitude better than most Muslims countries.

And since Australia allows for a high degree of freedom of speech we can hope to make it ever better. The strength of democracy is that it allows for EVOLUTION.

CJ MORGAN,

You wrote:

"Don't worry Steven, I won't."

But I'll wager you won't do the research either. I mean how difficult is to to phone a sample of Imams?

CJ Morgan, you and Boaz are PEAS IN A POD.

You both prefer the pieties of your respective religions to facing the real world.

In Boaz's case the religion is Christianity.

In your case it is political correctness.

Neither religion tolerates free thinking.

Johnny Rotten

Finding no joy in hurting another human being does not disqualify someone from calling sin sin. Whether it be adultery, lying fornication or homosexuality sin is sin. Jesus Himself hated sin whilst loving the person. Again you and others seem to deliberately ignore the clear fact that the earth worshipers and tree huggers are by far the most violent political (or religous) group in this country. They rebel at any authority and refuse to accept peacefully decisions made by elected governments.

It's striking how the oddballs need to attribute the delusionary status of 'religion' to those of us who consciously don't adhere to one. Even worse when one's supposed "religion" is a secular slogan: "political correctness".

I had thought that my ideas that I express here were decidedly politically 'incorrect' for some of the most prolific contributors to this forum. They're certainly politically 'incorrect' in terms of the outgoing Rodent government, and undoubtedly will be with respect to many aspects of Rudd's forthcoming regime.

dnicholson/wizofaus:

Settle down, old chap. It's an Islamophobic fantasy - it ain't gonna happen, even in 4 generations. I'm quite confident that our culture is capable of integrating our Nuslims, who will undoubtedly be more "enlightened" by then.

The world will undoubtedly be quite different in a century - which is about 4 generations. Look at what's changed in the past 4 generations :)

stevenlmeyer: "I mean how difficult is to to phone a sample of Imams?"

You're off your tree.

From Johnny Rotten we have the first sign of agression mentioned on this thread. Quote, "It is this type of hypocrisy from you and BD and others that makes secular people angry".

ANGER is the first attitude of violence. I suppose we can allow one bad apple in a bunch.

Toterance brother this is a democracy!