Hypocrisy and Hate in Anti-Christian Victoria [Australia]

Anglican Mainstream ^ | 10/6/22 | David Roberton

[marshmallow]

There is an astonishing development in Australia…. For me it is absolutely chilling and threatening. This is not just about Victoria – its about the whole of Australia – and the Western world. There have been many canaries in the coal mine – but this is the first time I have seen this – someone being persecuted and losing their job, not because of something they said or did – but purely because of the church they belonged to. Not a cult – not an extreme sect – but a mainstream church with no history of extremism. Read, weep, pray and wake up….(This article first appeared in Australian Presbyterian here).

Sometimes an event occurs which is of much more importance than the mere sum of what happened. This week one such event has shown the Australian church has just how far down the rabbit hole our society has gone. Essendon AFL is an Australian rules football team. Based in Melbourne it has a membership of over 80,000 and although having fallen on hard times recently, it is still considered to be one of the big four in Victoria. This week it appointed a local businessman, Andrew Thorburn as its chief executive. He lasted one day. The story is best summed up by the Herald Sun headline.

“Essendon’s chief executive Andrew Thorburn has stepped down after shock link to church was revealed”.

Notice the language. This was a ‘shock link’. Not to a strip club. Not to a gambling syndicate. Not to a drugs scandal – they would barely have raised an eyebrow. This was a shock link to a church. This was not a link to ‘controversial’ social media posts (aka Israel Folau). The new CEO was forced out not because of anything he said or did, but simply because.......

[Cronos]

What did that conservative Anglican church do?

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Tuesday excerpts of sermons from the church – part of the Anglican archdiocese – espousing anti-abortion and homophobic views appeared on the front page of the Herald Sun.

“Whereas today we look back [with] sadness and disgust over concentration camps, future generations will look back with sadness at the legal murder of hundreds of thousands human beings every day through medicine and in the name of freedom,” read part of a 2013 sermon.

[TheConservativeTejano]

They must let Mooselimb immigrants come into the country.
The Mooselimbs should have never, evah been let in Australia.

The Mooselimb religion is not a religion at all.

[MHGinTN]

And the Episcopal sect is not Christianity presently.