Dear Severin,

You're right about the "Parable of the Good
Samaritan," he was not a Christian.
I prefer to think of it as the "Parable of
the Good Muslim!" (smile).

Dear The Blue Cross,

I prefer Sherlock Holmes.

You can be Watson, if you like.

Dear foxy :) aka "miss Marple"
But Miss Marple.. you might need the assistance of Mssur Poirot to dig a bittttt deeper :)

http://www.abc.net.au/rn/relig/ark/stories/s1575024.htm

Rachael Kohn: Yes, Sidney and Merlyn travelled a lot, and particularly to California. Did he Actually convert to Christianity?

Stella Barber: Yes he did. He was baptised. He struck up a friendship in San Francisco with the Reverend Brewster Adams who was a charismatic community-minded, ethical, very well thought of man in the community, but a Baptist, and Sidney did convert, and was baptised into the Christian faith, and soon married Merlyn.

and.

http://www.airborne.org/archive/2004/sidney_myer.htm

I studied in "Neil House" one of the facilities at Melbourne Bible Insitute and I have a fairly close connection to the traditions.
Lee Neil was one of Myers very close friends and a manager of the Store Sidney bought when he first started.

It's not what is on a persons gravestone which counts..it is what is in their heart.

More Myer philanthropy

//Then in 1929 when the Depression was really starting to increase in severity, he gave 8,000-pounds to the Frankston Wing of the Royal Children’s Hospital to rebuild that facility. He really believed in children’s welfare. Then in 1930, he inaugurated Made in Australia Week, and really promoted the idea to buy Australian goods, to enhance the economy.//

But thanks anyway dear Foxy for trying to contribute :) oh wait.. all you did was find fault..which is quite legitimate..if it's the truth :)
I'd never call 'you' a TROLL ...now would I :)

AGIR

After all these years under a variety of aliases, when are you going to practise what you preach?

You and Runner - not exactly leading by example are you? Hinting that Foxy is a troll - wash your mouth, hypocrite.

AGIR & Runner no positive contributions from either for Australia or Australians.

AGIR,

I was baptized a Catholic and educated at Australian Catholic Schools in the 1960's and 70's, yes lucky me! My point is I was tough that people like your mate Sid would never enter the Kingdom of Heaven as they were not Catholic. As to he/she who referred to me as twisted, not you AGIR, obviously didn't attend a Catholic School when I did, then they would have seen twisted..... Christians

Dear Al,

You said to me, "All you did was find
fault..."

And this after my two positive contributions
to your thread. Well, as I've told you in other
posts, you do tend to view things through a
very narrow lens. (smile).

However, I need to correct you here. I was not
"finding fault," merely information that was
listed on the website that you gave in your
opening post by the Myer family. That's
what librarians do. They provide information.
And Sidney Myer is listed both as a Belarusian
and an Australian Jew. Do you view that as
derogatory and finding fault?

Also he's listed as an Australian Jew on the
following website:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Jews

By the way, Jewishness is genrally considered
an ethnic identity as well as a religious one,
(just for your information).

As for your calling me a troll?

You would be entitled to do that if I were
to suddenly start repeating the same phrases
about a certain religion
with malicious intent, on threads throughout
this Forum - until then - you'll simply
have to continue in your own inimitable style
of posting. (smile).

I am, as always, deeply indebted to you Boaz, for introducing me to such a fascinating bunch of folk, flaunting their "Christianity" in all its glory and splendour.

>>"Stella Barber: Yes he did. He was baptised. He struck up a friendship in San Francisco with the Reverend Brewster Adams who was a charismatic community-minded, ethical, very well thought of man in the community"<<

Reverend Brewster Adams?

Surely not.

A man famous for two events. Or perhaps, famous for one, infamous for the other.

http://www.robertwernick.com/articles/reno.shtml

"In 1913 the united forces of the Men's Civic Association, the Reno Mothers' Club, the State Anti-Cigaret League, the Anti-High-Heel League and many others under the leadership of the Reverend Brewster Adams made a pilgrimage to Carson City, the state capital, and bullied the state legislature into extending the residence requirement to twelve months. Governor Oddie, honored as the only Nevada politician of his day who left office poorer than when he had entered it, signed the bill happily: '...It is impossible for the majority to realize the harm and ridicule the divorce industry has brought to this state. Outsiders forget everything else.'"

That was Adams, man of principle.

Then there was this one.

"...within two years, a new law... reinstated the old six-month limit, and business returned to normal. The reverend Mr. Adams would later become famous as the Desert Parson, revered for the speed and efficiency and beatific smile with which he would marry divorcees fresh out of the courtroom or out-of-staters dissatisfied with their dilatory local churches."

Classic.