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Internet Censorship in Australia?
Enaku writes "Right wing Australian Christian political party Family First wants an annual levy of $7 to $10 on all internet users in Australia to fund a $45 million mandatory national internet filtering scheme aimed at blocking pornographic and offensive content at server level. (Read Family First's Policy Statement on Internet Pornography and Children (pdf) ) Great firewall of Australia, here we come!"
How can you be a fundamentalist atheist? The term is an oxymoron, much like 'military intelligence' or 'Fox News'.
Let me guess, you're an American from the south, right?
>but flipping back to Genesis
Why? Wasn't that obsoleted?!
No wait, I know: it's only "superseded" when it suitable. When you want to talk about the evils of homosexuallity, to take but one example, then it's not.
>, wasn't the fundamental idea that God gave Adam and Eve freedom
No actually, I think that the lesson was that you should: obey your leader(s), not seek knowledge that isn't handed down from them, OR YOU WILL BE PUNISHED!.
So maybe christianity and right-wing politics isn't such an odd match, after all?
Belief is the currency of delusion.
Well read the new testament pretty much closer if you think.
He did say people are bad.
He
A) showed the requirements of LAW was so much bigger than what the letter said and no man could fulfill it fully, so that EVERYONE was bad.
B) He did say that MOST people will do bad thing. Wide is the road to hell and many will go it, and narrow way to salvation and few will go through it.
The theology should not be just anti change, but instead of change for correct direction. And he gave us the law. Which was in the mathew 5 said that nothing will be removed from it. Now if the law of God that israelites lived was a LAW that limited the freedoms, so did the choise of not taking apple did also, there where limits that you where not supposed to go over or get punished, and at that time those punishments where for cheating was death by stoning etc... Ant that law didn't stop people from doing such acts, but it's more or less deterrant. Anyway this is probably not the best forum for these discussions as there are plenty of fundamentalist atheists here doing the moderation and others for answering. Don't let politics come in to christianity, let christianity come in politics. If we shut up we let others do the decisions for us, same is for ALL groups. If no-one except facist politize then facists will make the decisions. If no-one except commies same thing, if facists and some other party makes decisions and others won't say anyting about it then those two parties will make decisions. We should just take active political role, and stop just talking about how things change to bad direction. We can make difference to that. People can take passive role or active role, and new testament says nothing about taking passive role of things...
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Does that mean that those who believe homosexuality is a sin will be refered to as "those who have a religious belief" and not "bigoted homophobes"
No, because they still are just like all other bigoted homophobes, they just have a few dubious references from a few parts of some book to "legitimize" their bigotry.
or perhaps you just want Christians to shut up and not have thier voice heard in society.
Only the stupid ones.
- A.P.
"Remember when the U.S. had a drug problem, and then we declared a War On Drugs, and now you can't buy drugs anymore?"