Yes, Paul, I do agree with you, it is a question of balance.

I'm not sure I agree with Karl Marx. I don't think there is a distinction between oppressed or the elite, as far as religion is concerned.

Modern communists put their own spin on Marx.

Marx didn't believe that religion was the enemy. He imagined that the solace religion offered might reduce the pain that should force low income workers to accept his political concept, oppression as he described it and its causes.

If he was alive today I wonder if he would be even more opposed to Centrelink for the same reason? Feed them and give them housing assistance and they will never suffer enough to accept his view of the world and communism.

Communists have a tough gig in the modern welfare State. All of that disruption and what have they got to give that is better?

Laws are based upon what people value. The Christian society values the wholesome family living in harmony and contributing to the betterment of society. They will lobby for those values, equally others will oppose them for whatever reason.

This is politics!

Otherwise we would not need Government to represent the views of the people in forming laws. There are those that believe we should be free to do and behave just however we feel, but no one is an Island; we each affect someone else. Isolating or restraining in prisons people who offend us is part of a wholesome society; unless we can rehabilitate them.