Secularism is evil

This is my response to this smh article: Secularism is simply respecting differences

it probably makes no sense and the person who wrote the article will never read it anyway.


hi, just a few quick comments

1. christianity does not say that everyone is a child of god. John 1:12 says "Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God". Christians are children of god. Non christians are children of satan.

2. Your one example of the US being an example of where religion can coexist with secularism doesnt really prove that it works well. I'd say that they have massive and constant issues with church and state issues. One party has become almost a christian party.

3. Your comments about the church of england and catholicism are right, christianity should be secular. jesus says his kingdom is not of this world. christians should allow other people of different beliefs to practise their beliefs unless their teachings are illegal (e.g. murder). this was certainly an unbiblical teaching.

4. However, today secularist are doing the exact same thing. firstly, secular means "of this world". secularists believe there is nothing else that exists besides what is of this world. i.e., atheism. what we have in society now is secularists preventing people from practising their religions. the situation in france is that now christians cannot be a christian in public schools, muslims cannot be muslims in public schools. The only people who can practise their religion in public schools are atheists.
how can a muslim wear a headscarf destroy the separation between church and state? No, it is just a move from the secularists who want to impose their religion onto others.

5. Ultimately, secularism does not respect any differences. because secularism says nothing exists except for the secular. secularists, who control the governments of the western world, want to push this on everyone. Yes, churches in the past did not respect differences, but neither is secularism. state should be secular, and that respects differences, but secularists are just atheists who are pushing their atheistic agenda and persecution of non-atheists.

In the past, a catholic school may have frowned on (perhaps killed is a better word) a student who dares to express his beliefs that catholicism is wrong and atheism is the way to go. this is wrong, because you cant persecute people for their beliefs. However, today when christians try to tell people that atheism is wrong in a public school, they will not be allowed. They will be persecuted. that is the evil of the secularists.

I don't like Cityrail

After being fined 233$ earlier in the year for ignoring a stop sign, and having to pay 850$ excess to NRMA for the subsequent accident (which involved 6 cars and around $80 000 damage), I was fined 200$ today for travelling without a valid ticket.

I remember a few years ago I spoke with my brother about the economics of fining everyone the same amount for the same offence. My opinion was that the size of the fine should reflect the wealth of the offender. A rich person should be fined a lot more than a poor person for the same offence, because as a proportion of income the fine is a lot smaller. My brother’s view was that it is unfair to penalise the wealthy for being wealthy.

From a Christian perspective, I think the purpose of fines and imprisonment isn’t so much to hurt someone, but to help them to learn their lesson. DB Knox says in "D. Broughton Knox: Selected Works, Volume 1: The Doctrine of God", he says: "some members of the judiciary are confusing retribution with revenge. ... Sometimes retribution, which is the basis of punishment, is confused with revenge; but the difference is very clear. Revenge is selfish, and the Bible makes clear that there must be no revenge in the administration of justice. You must render what is due, not what gives you satisfaction."

My point is, 200$ fine is way too much for me. I'm just a student. What happened was that my ticket was from Central to North Sydney. My friend was going to Strathfield, so I caught the train from Central to Strathfield with her. I wasn’t going to stay in Strathfield. I was just accompanying her, and catching the train back home to North Sydney. The railway cops stop me just as the train was approaching Strathfield.

My argument is, the laws of cityrail do not state (or do not state clearly) that when I bought a ticket I had to take the fastest route from A to B. Nor is this implied - if one was going from Burwood to Hornsby, there are two ways to go about it, either via Strathfield or via Central. Both ways take roughly the same time. Why is it that I have to catch a train from Central to North Sydney via the north shore line? Why can't I catch it via Strathfield then via Hornsby and back down to North Sydney? What if I suspected there was a bomb in Wynyard. What if i was superstitious and I didn’t want to travel directly to North Sydney because they were 4 stations apart?! What if I just wanted to waste time? Isn't the ticket just giving you the ability to go through the gates? I am not going through any gates. In the future, if you fall asleep on the train and you go 1 station past your destination, watch out, you could get a 200$ fine.

The cityrail guy was ok; he encouraged me to write in to the people, and try to argue that the fine be cancelled. He said I was honourable for accompanying my friend home because Central to Strathfield at 5pm is just so dangerous. What the..

Why this blog

The reason for this blog is because I'm anti social. I dont like talking to people, particularly people I dont know very well. But I figured that if I'm ever going to go into public ministry or for evangelism, or just do any job in the world I'll probably need to learn how to be more social.

Part of the reason for my not wanting to communicate is low self esteem; coming to Sydney in year 1, I didnt have any friends and I was always really self-conscious, not wanting to be different. But I guess who really cares what others think of you when we know that God loves us and says we are His children.

So here I am with this blog. Im sure no one is ever going to read it but I hope I'll care enough to keep going with no readers.

This blog is named after Bill O'Reilly's "The O'Reilly Factor". Observing the media during the US election was so interesting, watching how shows like the Factor are so obviously biased towards bush but still trying to pretend to be unbiased. That is this blog's philosophy too. So like O'Reilly, I say - the spin stops here.

Hello World!

I'm Tony and this is my blog.

I'm a novice and have no idea whats going on. Do I have to set the time and date when i blog? Can't it figure that out itself?