From a Usenet newsgroup: It is the illusion that Money is the answer to everything, and that, if we only have enough of it, and/or, spread it around enough, the Golden Age will arrive. King Midas found out, the hard way, that you can’t eat gold, and the idea that some Supreme Being, such as […]
the ark story is still only for the brain dead All the animals two by two, that must have included the kangaroos, a specie that they had never even heard about. Did they hop all the way from Australasia in two days ? How much imagination is needed to visualise the sheer terror that would […]
Churches (in Camden, Sydney, N S W) oppose Islamic school a.. Elicia Murray Urban Affairs Reporter b.. April 22, 2009 CAMDEN’S Christian leaders have united to condemn the Quranic Society, which wants to build an Islamic school in Camden, for espousing views which are “incompatible with the Australian way of life”. The leaders of the […]
A review of Islam: Human Rights and Public Policy. Edited by David Claydon. Acorn Press, 2009. The nineteen essays contained in this book deal with a number of aspects of Islam, and how politicians and policy makers should think about this faith. It examines a number of topics, including: sharia law, the role of women […]
Townhall.com The Blogspot for Political, Conservative and Republican Blogs and Bloggers Monday, April 20, 2009 Re: Political Correctness vs. Religion Posted by: Greg Hengler at 12:49 PM http://womanhonorthyself.com/wp-admin/images/hat-ecrimetoon.jpg After posting my blog on George Will and Obama’s Leninism and reading Carol Platt Liebau’s post today on “Political Correctness vs. Religion,” I would like to tie […]
‘Cos they can’t walk hardly…
It was a busy morning, about 8:30 , when an elderly gentleman in his 80s arrived to have stitches removed from his thumb. He said he was in a hurry as he had an appointment at 9:00 am. I took his vital signs and had him take a seat, knowing it would be over an […]
From a friend: WORKERS MEMORIAL DAY 28 APRIL 2009 * Work in its different forms,is mentioned more than eight hundred times in the Bible;of the 132 public appearances of Jesus,122 were in the market place;of 52 parables,45 are in a workplace context”. # In Australia 21 workers die each day from work-related incidents or diseases,1890 […]
“If you want to build a ship, don’t summon people to buy wood, prepare tools, distribute jobs, and organise the work; rather teach people the yearning for the wide, boundless ocean.” — Antoine de Saint-Exup ©ry “A great deal more failure is the result of an excess of caution than of bold experimentation with new ideas. […]
AUSTRALIAN PRAYER NETWORK NEWSLETTER April 2009 * BRITONS SEEK TO RENOUNCE THEIR CHRISTIAN FAITH THROUGH DE-BAPTISM * UN COMMISSION ON POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT SAYS NO TO ABORTION * EGYPTIAN MUSLIM RECEIVES FIRST CERTIFICATE OF CONVERSION * SUDAN OUSTS HUMANITARIAN AID GROUPS * SWEDEN ALLOWS HOMOSEXUAL MARRIAGE * ERITREA: TIME TO PRAY AS CHRISTIANS FACE PERSECUTION […]