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Articles on this site express varying points of view, to encourage mature thinking on serious issues. The assumption is that you will want to study a controversial topic from various angles before you arrive at a conclusion, rather than simply believe what someone told you when you were impressionable! (So some stuff here is ‘hot’. Proceed at your own risk!). See the Statement of Faith for John Mark Ministries' theological stance.

A Crime Against Juvenile Criminals

Subject: Wait a minute!! Isn’t *THIS* Child Abuse??!! (long) (fwd) From: Jan Groenveld <> Folks, Is this not child abuse? Most of this information is from Moses Klein (). Note that Rep. Jim Pitts, Republican law-maker, proposes that Texas put children as young as 11 on a “juvenile death row” until they’re old enough to […]

Australian Racism

Michael Smith wrote: > > Lechithao wrote: > > > > Subject: US and Canada should boycott Autralia for its racist population > > From: (Hakman Vo) > > Date: Thu, Jul 9, 1998 01:09 EDT > > Message-id: <19980709010> > > > > It look like Australia is the most racist nation in the […]

Blueback – A Fable For All Ages

By Tim Winton – Macmillan, $17.95 hb; Pan, $12.95 pb In Blueback – ‘a fable for all ages’ Tim Winton gets to the core of both the need to and how we can preserve our natural habitats, with characteristically effortless prose. Blueback is the story of Abel Jackson’s relationships with his mother, the sea and […]

Resurrection Proof… Another Way Of Putting It

From: “Peter B. West” Newsgroups: aus.religion.christian Subject: Re: Resurrection proof… another way of putting it Date: Sat, 02 May 1998 19:22:17 +1000 Danny Yee wrote: > > Rowland C. Croucher wrote: > >Their being willing to die then gives much > >credibility to their claim to possess eyewitness evidence for the > >resurrection. > > […]

Heroin Shooting Galleries ???

Date: Fri, 10 Jul 1998 13:05:27 +0930 From: John Leister <> Newsgroups: aus.religion.christian,aus.religion Subject: Re: Heroin Shooting Galleries

What Do The ‘Royal Couple’ Believe?

Nicole Kidman, Tom Cruise, John Travolta and numerous other stellar beings have been prominently stating their commitment to Scientology. But, according to DM, an expert in extra-religious activity, we never hear what it is that they believe. He provided Shoot the Messenger with this summary. Scientology is a dualistic religious system. It sees the world […]

Would You Consider Abortion In These Four Situations?

1. There’s a preacher and wife who are very, very, poor. They already have 14 kids. Now she finds out she’s pregnant with her 15th. They’re living in tremendous poverty. Considering their poverty and the excessive world population, would you consider recommending she get an abortion? 2. The father is sick with sniffles, the mother […]

Australia’s Immigration Policy

From: Steve Bray <> Newsgroups: aus.religion.christian Subject: Re: One Nation Immigration Policy Date: Sun, 12 Jul 1998 23:06:09 +1000

A Take On Piss Christ

THE RECENT EVENTS surrounding the Serrano exhibition in Melbourne (October 1997) were deplorable. With a physical attack on a contentious work and the closure of the show, it will unleash another wave of regret, protest and vilification (this time from the ‘other side’) that will now and in the future appear to serve the interests […]

Faith And Reason

From: "John " <> Newsgroups: aus.religion.christian Subject: Re: Which came first, faith or reason? Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 00:07:43 +1000 All human knowledge is predicated on faith, even mathematics. The noted physicist John Barrow once quipped, “If we define religion to be a system of thought which contains unprovable statements, so it contains an […]