So youre a nuddie Steel Mann.
I think you can do better.
Its lukewarm and representative of lesser commitment...i.e. lukewarm to cold.
Do you have a taste for porn too... and extra-marital sex?
A nuddie is no different than being a gay as far as many of us other born again christians are concerned.
So you know me?
Ho-hum...so does half the world and many here.

My impression is that the majority of Christian comment at OLO is extremist. Steel Mann is more representative of your average Christian I think.

You get a misleading picture of religious views in broader society in these forums, which is clear if you do the sums. Look at any thread about an emotive topic and you'll find OLO's extremists using up their daily limit. BD's writing style sticks out like the proverbial dogs' and entries are usually very long, which makes for long but predictable threads.

There are only a few of them, but they talk a lot. Other people have to scroll until their fingers fall off just to get a word in.

A related point: there are other people here who can't resist arguing with them, which means their tendency to hijack discussion works every time. It also means that religious angles on topics take up even more thread space. I'm all for democratic participation, but there must be others like me who would get more involved here if they weren't put off by this lot.

It's a terrible shame. Other sites discussed more diverse apsects of the Henson thing - law, media, politics, commercialisation, all sorts of things. But here it was all about an extremely narrow religious view.

The reason it seems all Christians had a particular view is because of the particular Christians on these threads, who are clearly not representative of Christians generally.

Gibo,

You may consider me lukewarm if you wish, true Christians like me have a word for you too, Jesus used it on the people that bothered him most, Pharisees. You would have to be the biggest religious nut in Australia and are doing true Christianity a lot of damage. Don't judge me for being a nudist, for all you know there could be some among your closest friends in your church. No, I am not into pornography. In fact, I consider pornography offensive (although I think people should have the right to look at if they wish, provided it doesn't involve children). I do not consider nudity to be pornography (Therefore Bill Henson's work is not pornography, as has now been confirmed by the Office of Film and Literature Classification), just as I do not consider the nudist activities I participate in to be sexual behaviour. The anti-nude attitude in most Christian Churches does not originate in the Bible, but from Victorian England. It's only Christians in English speaking countries that have a major problem with it. Many paintings and other art works found in old churches in Europe show Christians being baptized in the nude. (Obviously some Christians are into art!!). As far as being gay is concerned, I am not gay but have many aquaitances that are. Being gay Gibo, is no more a sin than stealing or lying so remember when you point the finger, you have 3 pointing back at you.

'My impression is that the majority of Christian comment at OLO is extremist. '

Many regard my comments as extreme (I am happy to live with that). Interesting though that many now regard Mr Rudd's comments as extreme. He called the taking photographs of nude young kids as revolting. You would be stretching the truth greatly to call Mr Rudd a conservative among Christian ranks. The truth is that when people want to defend the indefensible (child porn) they attack anyone with an opposing view. Several posters including the author of this post are experts at this very thing.

Hi to all the forgotten australians

i think it is not christian and it is a disgrace having children potrayed like this ,,

would any of you in here put you child on the wall of a art gallery naked ,

i know i wouldn;t ,

their are a lot of sick people out their

has this opened the gates for the pedophiles ,

to use these pictures as a legal loop hole for their peverted sickness

regards huffnpuff

"their [sic] are a lot of sick people out their [sic]

has this opened the gates for the pedophiles ,

to use these pictures as a legal loop hole for their peverted sickness "

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exactly what I postulated re Germaine Greer being totally free from any saction with her book, purely because of being female