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Faith-head Senator Wants Secular Start to be Dropped in Favour of Prayer!
Call to scrap Parliament’s welcome to country
Liberal Senator Julian McGauran has called for the Indigenous welcome to country statement to be dropped from the opening of Parliament each day.
Both houses of parliament start each day with the Lord’s Prayer and the Indigenous recognition statement.
Senator McGauran says the welcome to country is not a prayer and should not be given equivalent status.
I actually agree. It should have elevated status over useless mumbling to a non-existent genocidal sky-daddy.
“The welcome to country ought to be separated and be seen to be separate from the meaning or significance given to the Lord’s Prayer in the Parliament,” he said.
Once again, I find myself agreeing. But probably not for the same reasons.
“I seek a delinking of the two. I believe the great many Christian Aboriginal people would agree with me.
Christian Aboriginal people?? How many of them can you find? Sane ones, I mean.
After what the bloodthirsty Christians have done, and continue to do to the remaining aborigines of this land, quite how any sane aborigine can be on their side is an astounding puzzle.
The “Stockholm Syndrome” might be one explanation.
It is certain that you will not locate a Tasmanian Christian Aborigine.
Q: Why not?
A: Because Christians had them explicitly and deliberately exterminated. Those who weren’t shot (by Christians) or hunted down by dogs owned by Christians, were shipped to a bleak Alcatraz-like island in the middle of Bass Strait, to await their eventual demise. These are Christians who insisted on the Lord’s Prayer being given priority over the very lives of the people whose very land they stole.
I see McGauran’s attitude as being a mini replica of this affair.
“They would see this procedure in the Senate and the House of Representatives as nothing more than gesture politics at best, and offensive at worse.”
Which one is offensive, Senator?
I find the Lord’s Prayer being parroted in my Parliamt highly offensive, so I must agree again!
He says the welcome to country statement has led to respect for the Lord’s Prayer being watered down.
Good. About time, too.
“What has occurred is that the prayer is immediately followed by the welcome to country, virtually in the same breath, and given all the same reverence, been placed on the same plane as the Lord’s Prayer,” he said.
I agree again! It is a travesty that the Lord’s Prayer gets any reverence at all.
“This is something I do not believe the Indigenous people would even want to see.”
Why don’t you actually get off your arse and ask them, then, eh?
Instead of guessing.
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By sensible answer I mean one which points out that there should be separation of church and state or that a secular parliament doesn’t need to appeal to some divisive god, or suggests replacing the prayer with some useful tolerant statement of ethics and benefit for australia’s people.
The “worst” response was from the Christian Democratic Party who not only guaranteed to retain the prayer, they took every possible opportunity to suggest that non-Christian religions should be marginalised. Their reasons were twofold – firstly, “Christian principles at the root of our national heritage”, and secondly that non-Christian religions are a measly 1.7% of our population.
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This cogent response deserves further analysis!
They dropped all of their other promises, so why not this trivial one?
That makes massive sense to me! The other parties find common-sense very threatening to their power-bases. (And rightly so, as they are based on fairy-tales, lies, and standover-tactics, in no especial order)
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How truly, astoundingly, blitheringly ironically blockheadedly banefully criminally STUPID!
The fact that they are wishing to replace an Aboriginal welcome to this country with an maniacal theocratic totalitarian prayer, when one considers that Christians stole this country from the Aborigines through Christian violence, murder and GENOCIDE is so mind-blowingly arrogant and ignorant that I may need a gross of new irony meters.
“Our” national heritage *IS* Aboriginal, not European. By 50,000+ years seniority!!!
Which again makes me wonder about their mental age.
That stat is a clear lie, to even the most god-soaked uneducated brain-damaged theist that might have enough grey-matter to enable them to breath without being reminded that it is an ample display of the mendacity up with which we truth-tellers must put.