//However, the censorious left wish to close down any debate on their dogma not unlike the thought police in Orwell's novel.//

Well that argument definitely isn't doubleplushyberbolic.

You know, it's remarkable that for all the whining I hear from some quarters about their 'oppression' by the left, I still have to hear their whining about their 'oppression' by the left. Seems to me that if I can still hear their whining then their sob stories about being 'silenced' are necessarily bollocks.

I reckon you should give the snowflake routine a rest. You sound like Dennis the Constitutional Peasant - except you're not funny.

Shadow is familiar with 'ANIMAL FARM' he watched the first five minutes of the animated version!

Dear David,

What is wrong with preaching, we have a world populated by millions of preachers, from the Pope in Rome, to The Donald in Washington, to all the preachers we have on this forum site, myself included, from the Church of the Left Whinge. It is the duty of us preachers to give the non-believers a bit of stick from time to time, not to convert them, just to wake them up. Didn't you ever wounder why Christ carried a long staff around with him, it was to give the disciples a smack around the chops every now and then, when they nodded off while he was preaching to them, waking them up.

The first recorded preacher was Eve, who gave it to her old man Adam, about getting out there and pick'n some apples, she wanted to make a pie. Adam didn't want to do it, because the Babylonian Bruisers were take'n on the Jericho Centurions down at the Colosseum that arvo, in a gladiatorial battle to the death, Adam didn't want to miss it on the telly! But Eve keep preaching, and Adam went and picked some apples, and look at the fine mess we are in now. BTW the Babylonian Bruisers won 5/4 with a late decapitation in the final quarter, I know you wanted to know that! This is all from the Holy Book of Cyril which can be found down at my Church of the Left Whinge.

Sorry my friend, just to cheer you up, I hope it made you laugh. "A second of laughter is better than a lifetime of misery". So said Cyril, and he should know, the miserable bastard!

Dear Paul,

I feel that preaching is not wrong if the preaching is requested by the recipient of the preaching. If one wants to hear the likes of Billy Graham one goes to a stadium where the likes of Billy Graham hold forth. However, unrequested preaching is like intrusive advertising. It is better not to set oneself above others even though you feel you know better than they do. Treat people whose ideas differ from yours with the respect you hope they will accord you. The foregoing remarks are Polonian and preaching, and I hope you will forgive me for them. I find when I have given in to the urge to preach or be sarcastic to those who differ from me I have not convinced them of the validity of my point of view. If I argue reasonably, cite facts and treat them as I would like to be treated I may not convince them either, but I will feel better about myself

Hi David,
"if the preaching is requested by the recipient of the preaching"

You might find this from the Buddha on his message of "Enlightenment". If Buddhism could be summed up in a single word, which it cannot, that word would be enlightenment. Its only about 2 minutes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyRMghjRPUo&t=00s

Dear Paul,

Buddha apparently was approached as a source of enlightenment. I am not a source of enlightenment. Sometimes I am right. Sometimes I am wrong. I only have my opinions which may sometimes be right even I may feel that I am always right. We possibly all feel that way.