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I am writing from Australia, where I have lived for 30 years to say this seems to be a world-wide agenda.
When I first came here, this was really the most secular society. If anything the Christians were very liberal & generous and rather like inter-faith people.
And the compassionate Buddhists seemed to be the largest conversion group, while all the other religions were well accepted. However just in the last 10 years the right wing Christians with their hateful intolerant agenda have appeared from nowhere,
on the attack of anyone who doesn't accept their
narrow mean spirited belief system, or doesn't fit into their robotic dumbed down family values crap.
I worked in the social services field for many years,
with brilliant giving people who were Humanists, New Agers, Buddhists, Spiritualists, & Gays - terribley committed to humanitarian causes, only to watch them
in these recent years be persecuted & pushed out of their jobs (often where they had worked for 20 years)
to be replaced by nasty mean spirited judgemental
Fundamentalist Christians, devoid of compassion, & committed to nothing but their own Fascist Christian
programing. In the Middle Ages under this sort of belief system - one third of the European population
was burnt at the stake. Are we going to wait for them to do this again ?
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I am writing from Australia, where I have lived for 30 years to say this seems to be a world-wide agenda.When I first came here, this was really the most secular society. If anything the Christians were very liberal & generous and rather like inter-faith people.
And the compassionate Buddhists seemed to be the largest conversion group, while all the other religions were well accepted. However just in the last 10 years the right wing Christians with their hateful intolerant agenda have appeared from nowhere,
on the attack of anyone who doesn't accept their
narrow mean spirited belief system, or doesn't fit into their robotic dumbed down family values crap.
I worked in the social services field for many years,
with brilliant giving people who were Humanists, New Agers, Buddhists, Spiritualists, & Gays - terribley committed to humanitarian causes, only to watch them
in these recent years be persecuted & pushed out of their jobs (often where they had worked for 20 years)
to be replaced by nasty mean spirited judgemental
Fundamentalist Christians, devoid of compassion, & committed to nothing but their own Fascist Christian
programing. In the Middle Ages under this sort of belief system - one third of the European population
was burnt at the stake. Are we going to wait for them to do this again ?
(14 of 22 readers found this comment helpful)