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I took some serious heat recently, after raising questions about the usefulness, function, role and consequences of using the Australian Government’s recent COVIDSafe app. I outlined two areas of concern, then was forced to address a third. My primary point was about precedent. The second concerned emotional manipulation; peer pressure, and the third, data security. Objections to this included asinine responses such as “it’s un-Christian not too”, that I wasn’t’ “loving my neighbour” and that “people will die if I don’t” sign up for the app. The more astute arguments included “Romans 13 and how it commands us to submit…

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The separation between Church and State is not a divide between secular and sacred. Nor is this separation a divide between public and private. Church and State are spheres of authority within the structure of good government. Simply put: one wields the sword, the other the truth of the Gospel. As such the Gospel balances out the ideology behind who gets to yield the sword, when, why and how. This is why every totalitarian state either twists theology or purges Christians and the Christian faith.[note]Jean Bethke Elshtain, 2008. Sovereignty: God, State, and Self, Basic Books[/note] They need to suppress God’s…

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What people think matters; how people see us matters. We anchor ourselves to the opinions and values of others. Men and women latch their value to the people we see as giving us value. Our worth is then neatly packaged into the confined space of that other person’s thoughts and whims. This is all okay up to a point. Humans were built for community, we need good government and organisation; men and women, living in fellowship, not in isolation, are human together.[note]With the creation of woman God expected man to confirm and maintain his true humanity by the exclusion of…

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A few weeks back, reacting to the maiden speech by Katter’s Australia Party senator, Fraser Anning, who broadly (and in some areas of his speech, recklessly) called for a review of Australia’s immigration policies, Australian senator, Lucy Gichuhi, (who was born in Kenya) asked the question: “At what point do you become an Australian?” Lucy’s answer was, “…when I get a citizenship paper! Full stop! Period! Finished!” I follow Senator Gichuhi’s political posts. I supported Senator Bob Day, of the Family First party, passing his position over to her after his election win was declared invalid because of a candidacy conflict with the Constitution. I…

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“Multiculturalism is inherently unstable. This won’t result in a ‘COEXIST’ melting pot; it will create a cesspool of competing, incompatible cultures fighting to be top dog.”

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“Democracy may, after all, turn out to have been a historical accident, a brief parenthesis that is closing before our eyes.”

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“We’ve told them that we don’t really have anything very great, or if we do we ought not to talk about it much. I believe this is wrong because what we have in the cities of Europe and the West are the greatest civilisation the world has known.”

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“The fundamental tenet of our faith is that the Son of God became man. He died and then he raised himself from the dead,” the Vice President said.

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“Let the facts make the case! Labor and the Liberal National Coalition are introducing laws that prevent free speech in this country.”

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“The revelation of USAID money being given to over 6,000 journalists and 1,000 media platforms worldwide to present false news is exactly what we expected was happening, because we know this is a world of lies…”

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“Criminalizing speech is going to put real strain on European-US relationships,” Vance warned.

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“Many church leaders and pastors have found that running with the world’s agenda is simply easier and less costly.”

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“DOGE is the gardener in a garden being choked by overgrowth, overspending, and overreach.”

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“Sometimes the devil will act so ugly that you have no choice but to get violent and fight,” he said.

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“What is the purpose of schooling and education?”

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“What Trump has done so far has been nothing short of remarkable. Imagine what he can do in four years!”

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“Hate speech laws are inherently arbitrary because they rely on subjective interpretations of what constitutes ‘hate.’”

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“We altered the recipe without realizing how it would impact the final product, and now we face the consequences: fragmented, low-trust societies where foreign conflicts spill onto our streets…”

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“Trump has abolished every DEI office within the Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland Security.”

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