Hi Jose'

"do religious people have the rights to practise their religion unhindered?"

Absolutely, providing they do no harm to others, including members of the religion. That was not the case at Citiponte Christian College where Pastor Mulheran acted in a most un-christian way with a hateful contract. He sought to vilify a small number of students because of their sexuality. In my opinion, and that of many others, including Christian parents of the school, that was wrong.

Paul - again you are wrong, the school did not want any form of sexual soliciting in the school and true gays do not know their preferences till adult. They did not want to deal with parents changing the biological sex of their students while students at the school; and they have every right to teach sexual abstanance fefore marriage and develop children not focused on sexual pleasures outside of the marriage committment, and the roles of a healthy family. Of course, you are a child of free love movement and family destruction, being a Marxist Green and a Communist bully hate Christian values.

Hi Jose'

You can label me as you please, Marxist Green, Communist bully. The contract was the brain child of Pastor Mulheran, there was no council or advice sought on the subject. As for your claim of "soliciting" within the school its something you are throwing out of right field without evidence.

Members of an extreme Christian sect are facing murder charged here in Queensland. It is alleged these "good folk" withheld insulin from a child with type one diabetes on the grounds "God will heal", God didn't heal and the child died. It is my opinion if these people have done what is alleged they have committed murder.

Hi Yuyutus,

If we were to go back in time to the very start of Christianity, the time of St Paul, we would not recognise it as in a modern sense. A bit like trying to visualize an oak tree from an oak tree seed. In its infancy Christanity was not a homogeneous sect, but made up of competing groups (sect) with different beliefs, different interpretations of Christ and his teachings. There was no 'New Testament' as such, and followers relied on leaders to guide them. Men like Saul of Tarus (St Paul) and others who have now faded from history, men such as Valentinus and Basilides of Alexandria. These now lost Christian sects were not pseudo Christians at all, but also genuine followers of Christ in their own way. In the end all of the sects, even the one influenced by St James in Jerusalem, faded into history, except the one established by St Paul, from which modern Christanity grew. There is a lot more to the story of Christianity than what meets the eye.

Dear Paul,

I will not even endeavour to tell who is a true Christian - that is not my place. Please note also that in my previous post to you I was not talking about being true Christians but about being truly religious, which is different, but there too it is not my place to judge others.

I mention this also in the context of your previous exchange with Josephus: whether a parent teaches their child about marriage or about free love, whether they seek Western-science medicine for their child or shield their child from it (possibly at the cost of their physical life), which behaviour is "correct" depends on so many circumstances, but first and foremost on what is in their heart, which only God knows and only a prophet can tell.

Once understood that their child chose to be born to them, not to me, it is also understood that it is not my place to intervene. Certainly not the place of a violent immoral body like the State.

Hi Jose

You say;

"The tennets of Christ teaching strongly condemn murder, adultry and lust which you seem to think is christian behaviour. If you want to find what is true Christian behaviour read the New Testament and notice the values it addresses, instead of what pseudo christians are supposed to have done. People are basicly evil and you seem to delight in the evil of people. Check out the link I gave, God is in the business of cleaning up lives."

How often have Christians committed murder etc in the name of God, and justified it as rightest, many times. In the past good Christian folk have owned slaves, and believed they were justified in the name of God. These Christians were reading the same book as you. We can't white wash, or airbrush over these events. As for claiming people are basically evil, I say you are wrong. People are basically good, but good people do evil things.