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These comment are in response to TOM FLYNN, who is trying to excommunicate himself from the Church, it's shame he hasn't read the Cathechism, as it would save him a lot of trouble. You can read about his bigoted adventures at:http://www.secularhumanism .org/index...age=flynn_29_2)
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Excommunication is when you aren't in communion with the Church, if you are an atheist then you are effectively excommunicated anyway. So if your issue is that people may consider you to be part of the Church, than there is no problem because your not. But I don't think that is the issue here at all, the issue as it always with bigoted and militant atheists is that the Church exists and the Church is doing something contrary to what these bigots are doing. These people scream at the Church for "forcing" religion down their throats, when Atheists are just as bad, and usually much, much worse. They turn Atheism into a religion of its own, they try and convert people to their "religion". Look at WYD the Atheist Foundation of Australia supported the NotoPope Movement, they tried to stop the Pope, a world leader coming here, look at the hypocrisy! The Atheist Foundation is funded and gave funding to the Raelian Movement at WYD(alien cult who worship a French journalist who says he is Jesus and claim Jesus cloned himself). -(slight hypocrisy) -Then at the same time we get Atheists paying for ad's on buses, now who is forcing their beliefs down our throats?
I have no problem with people being atheists, I have a problem when people turn atheism into a religion. It is not a religion, by turning it into a religion, you are simply becoming one of those 'religious hypocrites' you love so much. Or is it because you have to believe something? Well thats ok, if it makes you sleep better at night because you worship Atheism, than thats great. I'm sure your God will agree with you.
What seems to be the social norm these days is for everyone to have a go at organised religion, calling it the root of all evil and openly declaring ones atheism like itself were a religion. But what our anti-religion friends forget to tell you, in between their unsubstantiated rants is the facts, and the facts are good.
Firstly, let us briefly examine the history of the Catholic Church, the Catholic Church came into being around 40 A.D with the first Pope St.Peter it became legal around 400 A.D (following 400 years or rigorous persecution) with the reign of Emperor Constantine. The Church continued as the one branch of Catholicism up until 1000 with the first schism and then leading up to the reformation in the 1500s. There have been no substantial break ups since the 1500s. In that entire time, around 2000 years the Church has never changed its stance on any area of teaching, it has equivocally held up the same teachings for over 2000 years. Those teachings for the most part have been of peace and following the teachings of Jesus Christ, and since when was following Jesus example a bad thing?
The Churchs role over the last 100 years has been nothing but inspirational, and a close examination will reveal the hidden mysteries that the religion hating moguls dont want you to see. In the 1940s in Germany no organisation or group of people stood up to Hitler except one, and no it wasnt a bunch of atheists it was the Catholic Church. Albert Einstein had this to say:
"Only the Catholic Church protested against the Hitlerian onslaught on liberty. Up till then I had not been interested in the Church, but today I feel a great admiration for the Church, which alone has had the courage to struggle for spiritual truth and moral liberty
Isnt is amazing how this fact is never publicised by those people?
Even in the last 25 years the Church has been the center of the criticism of horrendous governments, in the late 1980s what was the organisation that stood up to communism in Poland? Who was the man who rang the Russian president and ordered him to withdraw his troops from Poland? It was not the U.S President, it was the Pope. No one else, stood up to be counted. The Pope had the courage, and he and the Church stood up for what it believed in. What I find ironic is the same people that insult the Church were the same people who were calling for communism in the 60s-80s.
You might not agree with all the Churchs teachings on AIDS, abortion, homosexuals and even faith. But the Church is the only organisation in the world that a 100% record when it comes to protecting the human race, think about that next time you hear a rant, who do you count on to defend your rights, the hateful atheist or the Church that has been protecting rights for over 2000 years?
Too often in our capitalistic society we hear the common upper class phrase poor people should just work harder, every time this horrendous muttering is spoken we as a society suffer as a result. It is not just about working harder, being poor does not mean you are lazy. Being poor means that our society has gone past you, its means that you have been disenfranchised by a society filled with a greedy and selfish nature. If this is news to you, and you still subjectively believe that poor people should just work harder, read these stories, with an objective mind.
It may comes as news to you but in the 1890s, Australia suffered one of its worse economic recessions. Every single bank in Australia closed down and ceased to exist along with the money in its over filling coffers. Imagine if that happened today, if Westpac, Commonwealth, NAB and ANZ closed down along with your money. Imagine the rebellion and imagine the poverty. A man named James Butlin was 65 at the times of the collapse he built himself a fortune out of fruit selling and was retired. He was living his golden years with wealth and affluence. But when the banks collapsed his money vanished, with no money or savings he could not afford to live. He was forced to sell his house. James at the age of 65 had to work the same job as he did when he was 13, shearing sheep. He went from the squatocracy to someone living on the street, shearing the occasional sheep, begging for money for survival. This is capitalism, this is our country.
In 2008, interest rates raised again for the tenth consecutive time. Tony Butlin, James great grandson works as a tire fitter, he is a member of the union. With the tenth rise, the house is repossessed by the banks, the locks are changed. He lives in his car, traveling the streets of suburbia hiding from the local ranger who will tell him to move on. He could be me, he could be you. This is capitalism, this is our country.
Many of us who work hard are rewarded, but in fact of the 100% that work hard only 2% control 50% of all the wealth. The rest of us thats 98% are left to fight for the other 50%. How is that fair? We all work hard, and our reward is a dogfight till the death, trying to get our grubby hands on just a small slice of the wealth. And its going to get a whole lot worse, with the economic recession closing on us, more repossessions seem likely, more poverty seems likely. We need to band together, we know we work hard, we know we ALL work hard. Lets get our share, lets spread the wealth. Let 2% control 2% of the wealth, lets bring in the democratic socialisation of industry and banks. Lets fix this bloody country.
Recently I posted an article named 'Socialism Is Not A Dirty Word By John Stirlingclick here to see the article. It has received both of praise and criticism. In this follow up I would like to rebut the arguments against socialism that were raised is comments and emails.
Firstly, I totally and equivocally reaffirm my belief that Democratic Socialism is the best system of governance and economics that we posses. There is nothing wrong with putting some of the means of production into the hands of the workers, not the owners. We must spread the wealth, so that we no poor and no rich. Everyone is equal, there is no greed, no profit rather consumption. Every man is judged by his need not his want. Capitalism has had its turn, and its failed, it is the time of the worker. It is the time for Democratic Socialism
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Parliament is supposed to be the start and end of society, but it is riddled with errors and needs urgent reform.
Parliament is supposed be made up of parliamentarians who represent their individual communities, this role has changed so much over time that MPs (especially in Federal Parliament) rarely represent their local community. Individual MPs usually act to represent their party and its policy. Obviously acting when within the bounds of party policy MPs are restricted to what they can do for their local areas. MPs become subordinate to party discipline, but this subordination also extends to the executives power over MPs. Due to the executives power and party alliances, parliament has in some ways become little more than a rubber stamp for the public record which leaves the real governance to the executive
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As the AFL season rages on with Geelong and the fall of West Coast the big news, few of us are aware that an equally important competition is also going on, that of the WAFL.
In years gone the WAFL was bigger then Ben Hurr and it provided WA fans with more then its fair share of football action. Many footy greats played their best years in the WAFL; examples include Polly Farmer, Brian Peake and George Doig. Well what has changed? WA is the still producing awesome footballers, WA is still a prominent football state but WA has changed, and changed for the worst
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Australian Yobbos draping themselves in Australian flags, bogans with stickers of the flag on the back of their Holden ute and hoons wearing shirts with slogans like if you dont like it get out or we grew here, you flew here. Please someone tell me, what is happening to our country?
Its bad enough with sport; we as ordinary Australians are constantly subjected to the barracking mentality of Australian culture. Sporting commentators and normal Australians alike constantly yap on about how sport is such an integral part of our culture and why sport shows the real Aussie spirit. Since when did kicking some leather with air in it become an important celebration of culture? This is what is happening, to our country. We had a culture once, glance back to Federation or even just after WW2, an emerging culture of youth and new Australianism came into existence. We still had pride in our country, more so than today, but we did not behave like we do today. Today we support our country in the same way we support a sporting club, this a dangerous mentality to have. Our country is not a sporting team, it is a country and it should be treated with some kind of reverence
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Commentators in this country of late have been championing the card of Kevin Rudd: The Man With No Substance. They argue that he is as plastic as the bumper stickers that bear his name and as shallow as Julie Bishops supporters, apparently he has no policy just a smile and some quiff gibberish about working families. People who have this opinion no doubt desire a return to the Glory Days, the return to Howard; a man so out of touch he lost his own seat being only one of two PMs in over a hundred years to do so.
In Howards first term as PM the only notable policy he introduced was gun laws (which was entirely circumstantial), partly selling Telstra (the fledging phone company) and trying to destroy Industrial Relations. None of these were important election promises, since Rudd has been in office for just under 200 days he has dismantled the idiotic WorkChoices, increased funding to non-government schools, signed Kyoto, said Sorry, started the process for a Republic, increased relationships with China and removed Troops from Iraq.Sounds like a lot, in fact more than Howard in a shorter time period. Rudd has delivered on his promises, his made the country more Labor which is what he intended and its what the Australian public voted for
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Comment by Tom Craven
on A Rebuttal To the Arguments Against Socialism
Independent Australian By Thomas J Craven
If we look at our society now, the people at the bottom or the majority do the bulk of the work, but they receive the least award in terms of money,in a social democracy the majority of the people are rewarded. If people these days work to empower the people at the top, than surely people will work even harder if it directly empowers them.
Private companies are run for the benefit of the shareholders this means that the company will do anything to get ahead. Under a Democratic Socialist regime the company is run to benefit the community. This means the company's reason to exist is to benefit the community not for the profit. It's a totally different philosophy. I don't agree that there would be greed under Democratic Socialism due to the nature of everyone owning the means of production, but even if there was it would be far, far less than what we have now.