Religion has no place outside the home !

@ Individual,

Haha, why is that?

I don't see the necessity of an Office of Religious
Freedom in Australia. All Australians are free to follow
an religion they choose, so long as its practices do not
break any Australian law. Australians are also free not
to follow a religion. We have a secular government and
no official or state religion. Religious laws have no
legal status in Australia. It should remain that way.

Letting the cat guard the cream?

The state cannot live with religion because its political rulers seek power and want to be above all. How could they possibly bear the thought of God being above themselves?

True, the state may pay God a lip-service (in fact they currently do so every morning in Canberra), but no politician (even including the avowed Christians among them) would ever consider Him seriously to be truly above their laws.

Yes, the state can live with most churches because then they can try to tame and subjugate them, placing them on a slippery-slope which ends in betraying God - lead us not into temptation and deliver us from evil!

Are people seeking the protection of the state because they think that "God is so helpless that He cannot save His devotees"?

No thanks!

Religion is nothing but a tool for the brainwashed to disrupt the lives of decent people, that's why it should remain in the home where the harm of further brainwashing is minimised by keeping it off the streets.

Yuyutsu

'The state cannot live with religion because its political rulers seek power and want to be above all. How could they possibly bear the thought of God being above themselves? '

That is a classic. It has not always been the case however. Most of the Western Government's in the early days assisted in setting up schools and hospitals and understanding they were accountable to God. These days many of our pollies live in sin, debauchery and have few morals except for the outward hypocrisy of pretending to care for the environment.

The first ones to run to an Office of Religous Freedom would be the warming alarmist. They are mortified that anyone would question their myths and would have all disenters silenced. An Office of Religous freedom set up by moral relativist would be an absolute joke just like the UN.