Seventh-Day Adventists build temples with
Community Centres, and Schools, and
residences, and once they move in they
pester the neighbourhood door to door.
But they are white and they look like us.
Should we protest? They not only look like us,
they talk like us, they dress like us, and
they pray like us. So tell me what should
the neighbourhood do?

What about Scientology?

They have temples in Australian major cities.

How peaceful are they?

But I'm told they are nice people.

And looking from a religious point of view (not terrorists)
Muslims are also nice people.

BTW: The local councils set the building and planning
rules and give permits in the interests of the local
development and communities. They also control
irregular noise pollution and traffic conjestion.

On that very note - two doors down from our house
in a private residence - the Buddhist Community
had established a Temple and a Community Center.
This did not comply with local planning regulations.

Due to noise, and traffic conjestion and disregard for
building regulations - the council closed the center down.

Foxy,

When was the last time that a Seventh Day Adventist strapped on a bomb and blew up himself and some innocent tourists?
A Muslim did it yesterday, one of them might do the same today and it's sure that one of them will blow up some more innocents in the near future.
Do the SDAs have a book that tells them that it's OK to lie to non-SDAs?
That it's OK to beat their wives?

Fox, "Seventh-Day Adventists build temples..But they are white"

It's those damned 'Whites' again, eh Fox? That hated mob from the UK (US too?).

You and some others here are so Ageing 'Boomer' faux leftist in your simplistic world view and attitudes.

You really need to move on from the tiresome leftist self-loathing cultural cringe of Phillip Adams and other faux left moral BS artists who were fashionable with the ABC and had such a bearing on your early adolescence. It was always very safe protesting, but it is time to get out of the rut. You do know that Phillip is a gentleman farmer living high on the hog and that the faux leftist stuff has been kind to him?

Dearest Foxy,

Somebody got in before me, to point out that, so far, no SDA or JW has blown himself up during one if his neighbourly visits.

A nice old gentleman visits my place every couple of months to drop off his little booklets, and tell me about the value of living forever and, by doing certain rituals, guaranteeing that it will happen. I listen politely, sometimes we discuss, in a desultory fashion, about the Flood or evolution or the goodness of his god, and then he goes on his way, while I bin his pamphlets.

When I see him suddenly plump, or with a suspicious long package on his back, I will start worrying. If I hear of SDAs or JWs or Mormons being implicated in a bombing or shooting elsewhere in the world, anywhere in the world, I will start worrying. But until then, I won't worry about them, but I WILL mildly worry about any Muslims knocking on my door.

This week: bombs in Istanbul, a stabbing in France, and charges of rape and sexual assault in various parts of Europe. SDA, JW, M bombs: none. Stabbings: none. Sexual assaults: none that I've heard of.

Love always,

Joe

PS. You're a good person. Have you told your husband lately that he is a lucky man. Remind him constantly :)

NSW Labor pushed another self destruct button today; Party General Secretary Jamie Clements, has been forced to give a written undertaking to keep away from Labor staffer Stefanie Jones for 12 months. Jones accused Clements of pushing her against a wall and trying to kiss her last June. What about Labor leader Luke Foley, who no doubt owes Clements a few favors, Foley refused to call for Clements resignation, not a good look Luke, not a good look at all.