Conservative Australian footbal player may be fired for his religious beliefs.

Freedom Deomcray and Civilised Humanity webdite ^ | 12 April 2019 | https://freedom-demokrasi-and-civilised-humanity.com/

[Ozguy1945]

In Australia we do not have anything like America’s first amendment guarantee of freedom of speech.

This week a superstar rugby football player, who is a conservative Christian and whose beliefs are well known to the public and to his employers, placed a very strong statement about who he believes will go to hell on instagram. Now the leaders of the football organizations which employ him say they are planning to terminate his contract unless “compelling mitigating factors” emerge. For more details on all this and the mitigating factors I think they should consider please see https://freedom-demokrasi-and-civilised-humanity.com/2019/04/12/christian-israel-folaus-faith-and-freedom-of-speech/

Our conservative Prime Minister, Scott Morrison (known as ScoMo) has said the comments are “terribly insensitive” and his leftist opponent, Bill Shorten, (known as BS), has gone a bit further and suggested that Folau’s comments are “hateful speech”. ScoMo leaves it to the rugby authorities to sort out the mess. BS invokes the possibility of criminal action. For me this is reminiscent of the police state action taken against me from within the political party of BS in 2016 when I lobbied them to support WW2 commemoration. (For more details see https://freedom-demokrasi-and-civilised-humanity.com/2019/01/25/open-letter-to-bill-shorten-you-are-not-fit-to-lead-australia/)

Conservative commentator and Rugby reform activist Alan Jones has said, “We’ve got an issue here because we’re going down a very, very narrow road here. This has gone on and on and on this crap. Out there, people now are terrified of saying anything, They don’t know what they can say. It’s got nothing to do with Israel (Folau), or Rugby, or religion, or homosexuals. Where are we in this country on free speech?” Jones went on to compare Folau’s likely sacking with the fact that some people are trying to stop Joe Biden running for the presidency because he put his arm around a woman’s waist.

Should businesses have a right to sack someone who allegedly damages their image with controversial comments or is it more important to protect the individual’s right to say things which he believes need to be said for the good of his society?

[simpson96]

[Rurudyne]

I don’t really think it’s about strength, because people have very little in and of themselves (I’m speaking spiritually here).

There’s a song the bullet point of which is the redeemed are those who fall down and get up.

I also think of how the Lord said that folks needed to enter the Kingdom like little children, something I’ve thought a lot about. What do little children do effortlessly that older children do not?

I put it to you that they trust their parents.

It’s as if your proverbial Saint is talking to the Lord expressing their bewilderment about all the hard things that “teenager humans” around them bring up, and whatever we ask the Lord can say: “Yes, that is a conundrum; but, my Son took care of all of that when He suffered and died and rose again, I’ve said it really works, this salvation thing ... do you trust me?”

Every time, every protest, every question He can answer: “Do you trust me?”

His children will.

It’s the real undoing of the fall, where the serpent managed to convince our parents that YHVH was holding out on them, that they shouldn’t trust Him even though they’d known Him intimately literally their whole lives (and THAT was the knowledge they had that could have prevented the fall). From then on the Lord kept moving people back closer to Himself, for trust that leads to obedience is a good sort of obedience. And it all ultimately led to the Cross.

The other day I observed on Pinterest that people who consider themselves morally superior to God, what I’d call being a spiritual teenager, will very likely choose Hell because of it.