It is most unusual for the Astonisher to take up the gloves to protect religion. As Lenin would have it ‘religion is the opiot of the people’ but just as the drug laws are relaxing opiots in the form of prescribed medicines so they are tightening up rules that discriminate against particular religions. One is the wearing of Hijabs (Burqa’s are a man-made torture for women) which is just as important as the Homburg for Hasidic Jews or the Dastar for Sikh’s but you here little condemnation of these latter forms of silly headress.
The religious followers of Christian Science and Jehovah’s Witnesses. Yes those bloody Witnesses who turn up at your front door like Mormon pairs and try to get you to buy the Watchtower preferably from a kneeling in prayer position. That particularly annoying sect do not belief in man-made medical intervention when someone falls ill, they believe that only God heals. all. So too with the Christian Scientists who include even blood transfusions as intervention into the designation of God.
I’ll be the first to say that these beliefs are not only deluded but potentially fatal, weird and non-sensical but in a society where we believe that everyone has the right to think for themselves, although that is a decreasing reality with an increasing Nanny State, that God himself gave every one of his children Free Will and that for us even translates into “You have the right to be non-criminally insane”.
What has got me pissed off? What has got me defending God?
The Liberal-National Government, in cahoots with Labour but not the Greens, brought in a regulation that Centrelink is not permitted to pay many of the Family Allowances, granted to all citizens, if they do not have their child immunised against common childhood diseases. Naturally you are going to agree with that policy, I agree with it too, but does it not also introduce the discrimination of some parents to believe in their religion of choice?
Immunisation in itself is a life-saver although many readers of this rag will have been raised without benefit of protection against these ills. Chicken Pox, German Measles and Diptheria are amongst these needle pricks demanded by the can’ts who govern us, those who believe they are above the law because they make them up.
Regardless of what your thoughts are, we are convinced even more strongly that Australia is still a White, Anglo-Saxon Protestant nation, intolerant of all others and one only has to visit parliament and listen to the Opening Prayers of both houses to be convinced of that. It is a pit that the Pox has been eradicated as we would wish that upon both their houses.
God Bless God or Donald Trump whichever comes first.
