Andy on October 23rd, 2008

I give christians a hard time on this blog and most deserve it - especially those two idiots that disturbed last Saturday’s peaceful morning working in the garden.  They were Mormons of course (or believers in the ‘prophet Moroni’ -…

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Andy on October 19th, 2008

I’ve talked about religious education (as opposed to religious INSTRUCTION) before and I believe the study of all religions should be compulsory in schools.

I have mixed feeling about whether young children should be indoctrinated into their parent’s faith, but Sunday…

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Andy on October 11th, 2008

Do I believe that religious believers have mental ‘issues’ - yes and here’s why.

I have an irrational fear of some things (what they are isn’t important - suffice to say they are icky/bug type things). Now, I know that my…

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Andy on October 10th, 2008

I remember well early morning TV over in NZ with the ‘give to the lord’ evangelicals. We had Benny the Hair of course, Robert Schuller’s Hour of Power and Joyce Meyer (who was the only one who had a reasonable…

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I find it bloody annoying how some Australians - church leaders and politicians mainly - describe this country as a ‘christian’ nation or a ‘christian’ society. Australia isn’t actually.

Our society, like most civilised Western democracies, is a secular society that…

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