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In Australia, Christians are having to choose between their church or their job
Christian Today ^ | 06 October 2022 | David Robertson

Posted on 10/06/2022 8:11:25 AM PDT by george76

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1 posted on 10/06/2022 8:11:25 AM PDT by george76
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The aussies are the idiots that handed over their guns, right? Seems to be working out well for them...


2 posted on 10/06/2022 8:15:12 AM PDT by L,TOWM (An upraised middle finger is my virtue signal.)
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“In interview processes you’re not allowed to ask about people’s religious beliefs. It’s against the law. But what we did, as soon as we saw them, we acted.”

Did it not occur to the Australians that if it is illegal to ask about something during the hiring process, that is because it should be illegal to fire someone for the very same thing?


3 posted on 10/06/2022 8:16:13 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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I don’t know. I think I’d fire an employee who I found to be a members of a witch’s coven.


4 posted on 10/06/2022 8:18:32 AM PDT by fwdude (Racism is not dead, but it is on life support - kept alive by politicians….” — Thomas Sowell)
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The Army of Satan is growing. I believe the Greeniacs will make climate change the impetus to create the one world government aka religion which will be anti-Christian.


5 posted on 10/06/2022 8:20:14 AM PDT by antidemoncrat (.)
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Aussies have smoked too much zombie. They make me wanna chunder.


6 posted on 10/06/2022 8:21:12 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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Australia is lost. 1984 group-think has taken over full force.


7 posted on 10/06/2022 8:22:37 AM PDT by citizen (Thieves of private property pass their lives in chains; thieves of public prop. in riches and luxury)
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It will be a Chinese colony within 20 years.


8 posted on 10/06/2022 8:24:13 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Marx was an enemy of religion.


9 posted on 10/06/2022 8:34:06 AM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
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From those who feel that there is a movement afoot to eliminate Christianity: “We told you so.”


10 posted on 10/06/2022 8:54:24 AM PDT by I want the USA back (The media is the enemy. They are the most subversive institution on the planet. )
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Only the beginning...


11 posted on 10/06/2022 9:00:39 AM PDT by stinkerpot65 (Global warming is a Marxist lie. )
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Yes and No. According to the Australian government only a third of the weapons deemed illegal were turned in during the 1996 confiscation. Australians still have plenty of guns. They still have the ability to procure guns as their criminal
element has demonstrated.


12 posted on 10/06/2022 9:09:56 AM PDT by Ajnin (Don't be a pansy, embrace the fireball.)
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Ephesians 6:13
“Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand.”


13 posted on 10/06/2022 9:29:47 AM PDT by Raycpa
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“Premier Dan Andrews commented referring to City on a Hill: “Those views are absolutely appalling. I don’t support those views; that kind of intolerance, that kind of hatred, bigotry is just wrong.”

It isn’t bigotry or hatred to disassociate with morally deviant individuals.
And it doesn’t hold up to say that people’s morals are different.


14 posted on 10/06/2022 9:31:29 AM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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Already here; remember Firefox?


15 posted on 10/06/2022 9:57:48 AM PDT by aimhigh (THIS is His commandment . . . . 1 John 3:23)
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Already here; remember Firefox?

"You must think in Russian."

16 posted on 10/06/2022 9:58:43 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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SUE THEM OUT OF EXISTENCE


17 posted on 10/06/2022 10:04:59 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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This guy should have become prime minister. Sing along. He has a heck of a collection:

“I like Guns”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZk0RdzDrVs


18 posted on 10/06/2022 10:18:42 AM PDT by dynachrome (“We cannot save Ukraine by dooming the US economy.” Rand Paul)
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Can’t help but wonder if this is the equivalent of ‘shaming’ and done with the hope of discouraging any future employee from being in a similar circumstance. This is the sinister way of discrimination, subtle and by innuendo. The 1947 book & movie, “A Gentleman’s Agreement”, speaks to that same kind of social black-listing occurred in New York society, only there the conflict was being Jewish vs everyone else.

Also, regard that great Oscar-winning movie, “Chariots of Fire” (1981), where both main stars find their religious precepts put their athletic efforts at the 1924 Paris Olympics at peril. One man is a Jew while his counterpart is a devout Christian. This meant that one could not race on the Jewish Sabbath of Saturday and the Christian was identically blocked from racing on Sunday. As well elucidated in that movie, it was not that these obstacles were not recognized, it was that their compatriots and organizations made such strenuous efforts to get them to dispose of their beliefs.


19 posted on 10/06/2022 10:38:59 AM PDT by SES1066 (More & more it looks like Brandon's best decision was Kamala! UGH!)
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I've been reading Rob Dreher's The Benedict Option. I'm glad for it and the discussion it has raised as a new Dark Ages emerges, but I'm afraid that it has a blind spot in its call for Christians to prepare to survive and propagate their faith in the chaos that is emerging.

The great difference between the fall of Rome that led to the effort by Benedict and others to preserve Christianity and civilization, and today, is that there were no other institutions alongside the Church during the fall of Rome. The barbarians didn't particularly have it out for the Christians, so Benedictine Christians were free to cultivate their culture and institutions, see them flourish, and attract support from people desperate for stability amidst the chaos.

Rather than look to Benedictine monasteries for guidance, I suggest Christians need to look to places like China and Syria and Nigeria for guidance in how to survive the collapse of the West. Not a power vacuum, but lands where in various ways robustly anti-Christian institutions and powers are at work. And yet where Christians are standing their ground without earthly power and spreading the Gospel and proving victorious as they live faithfully.

My concern is that a lot of well-meaning Christians today are going the Benedictine route at least a little bit, but are not prepared for what is happening. What will Christians do if/when all faithful churches are targeted for violating "hate" or "discrimination" laws against LGBT+ ideologues, and are universally shut down/seized by the government, as I expect sooner or later in the US? Will we mourn our lost walls and roofs, or recognize that it's the best thing to happen to Christianity in the US in a long, long time as it forces us to remember what is important as we lose that insulation between us and the world? Are we prepared for this, or will we just whine in bewildered fashion when it happens?

20 posted on 10/06/2022 10:39:46 AM PDT by EnderWiggin1970
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