Maybe you should consider withholding your tired & false accusations, as in accusing me of “pushing” my religion on people, & referring to my religion & experiences as “crap”. That’s MY view.
My original post was certainly no more pushy than the first sentence in your response to it.

If you can prove there is a god I am willing to commit suicide. Because you cannot I am not doing it. Why Jesus did not come today but in an era when almost everybody was imbecile. Does not make sense. He should come today and explain the grand scheme. The Trinity is symbolic for three dimensional. The Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit are one convined in the three dimensional concept.

Didn’t study you say , Odd because another listed here mentioned somecases they did. You might recall from your study of the Commission that Orthodox jews were also as a community deeply involve din concealing the abuse.
If you studied you might also realise that All th major religious leaders in the various gospels also married young women/ girls.

Why do you specify “RC.. Homosexuals from church ranks” An odd comment in that there was plenty of abuse against females.
And aboriginal remote communities have generally been converted to Christianity. Not much slam outback
Speaking of righteous people , Old Barnaby Joyce that champion of family values and the right environment to bring up children and right wing stalwart, has just left his wife and four kids and shacked up with and impregnated his young office assistant. Oh the irony.

Michael

Yes disappointed, but ‘surprised’? There isa long list of public figures who preach ‘family values’but in practice only apply it to others. And some of the TV evangelists feature high on the list
We have a very good history of separating public and private lives until Laurie Oakes had to make a story of Gareth Evans affair. The French are certainly very adult about all that. About 40 % of married people have affairs.
I would hate to see us go down the US path of vitriolic personality politics. You can see the result reading posts here.
The is an element of schaudenfreude in all of this. Joyce have been part of that side of politics who so critical of gay marriage and described Julia Gillard as “barren” as thought hat wassome criteron for PM.
The best and final word o this was a letter in the Age this morning, where a lady wrote in expressing surprise that there were actually 2 women who’d fancied Barnaby.

Hmm Pauline? First generation descendant of refugees herself.

But it seems each lot of migrants resented the next lot The aborigines didn’t seem to have been keen on Capt Cook’s and Art Phillip’s lot
The then they didn’t like the Chinese and Afghans, although the Afghans opened u the outback and the Chinese the goldfields/ Then the Greeks and Italians were derided as “refos’ after the war.
But they didn’t want Vietnamese coming And the Vietnamese don’t want Islamic refugees.

But for all that w, we love ethnic food
I await with interest Pauline Hanson PM maybe with Corrie Bernadi deputy PM.

Hmm a Brian Harradine for today’s politics?
Xenaphon might be a more sensible person in that role. BUt certainly nor Bob Katter.

OMG I hope that was in a blokey kind of way.
But whether one agrees with his point of view., he was an example of the religious wanting to force his beliefs on people who don’t share them.

I have a confession Ed. I thought Pauline looked dead sexy in that red dress. I think it was Hunters Hill Town Hall. Hot. Or am I just really messed up

In my work I had not a little to do with the RC church and I met not few gay brothers and priests. Naturally none of them admitted it but it was quite apparent to even someone(then) as naïve as was I. NONE lost their jobs despite the then view of that church Now if you have a boss with a definite view on some thing (say like smoking at work) and you continue to break this rule. Do you deserve to be sacked? Please try NOT to answer using identity politics.

Quote:”Fortunately there is a wealth of recent reliable data on child abuse in Australia”

My god you are naïve. Do you really think that any/all western government tell the TRUTH?

Abortion stats/FGM stats. rape grooming stats and child abuse stats are POLITICALLY CORRECTED before release. My info comes from the front line: those who have witnessed such or reported such. Australia is at the mercy of the leftist/MSM identity politics rubbish as much as any country. Why don’t you check up on muslim birth gender stats then check to see the enrolment school stats for muslim infants…you may well see a remarkable difference unless they too have been doctored (7 males per female) as the teachers union is part of the great conspiracy.

Quote:”That reality is that in Australia, the issue causing most concern is not Muslims but Christians proselytising in schools with parents forced to opt out of rleigius classes and their children not being allowed to study during these times if they don’t participate”
It only caused concern to ostriches like you who cannot or will not see what is actually happening and you really have no idea. I attended a Christian school and I opted out of religious schooling at 10 and despite some pressure I read a book by myself during scripture lessons. Please stop quoting leftist rubbish and actually THINK for yourself. islam will destroy the west aided and abetted by the likes of YOU based upon your absolute ignorance.