Fred Nile ruins it for everyone
Keith Binns writes: Re. “Tips and rumours” (yesterday). With all due respect to Tips and Rumours I object to the heading “How to vote, according to the Christians”. I’m a Christian and I’ll be voting Green and cannot discuss Fred Nile without reaching for a bucket. The lumping together of all Christians as far right in the media has led to a lumping of them all together in the popular imagination which is very frustrating. One of the great joys of joining the Refugee Action Committee’s activities in Canberra has been finding a group of people who aren’t Christians who don’t automatically assume I am a homophobic, Islamophobic, misogynist prick. The Faith Based Working Group of RAC is the biggest group, consisting of Christians, Jews, Muslims etc etc working together for a common humanitarian goal.
On US gun laws
Ian Lowe writes: Re. “The politics of hatred” (yesterday). Just to point out the bleeding obvious after the Orlando shootings: since the Sandy Hook massacre of school-children there have been 998 shootings causing death in the USA. Two of them have involved shooters who were identifiably Muslim. Several hundred involved the sort of weapons that have no place in a civil society. Oh yes, and 998 of the shooters were male. So is the most serious problem Islam, or should more attention be given to ludicrous gun laws or masculinity?
Keith,
Congratulations on making up your own mind. Although there are some, perhaps many, Christians who wouldn’t regard you as Christian unless you share all their beliefs. I discuss evolution occasionally on the Internet and one particular Young Earth Creationist insists that anyone who accepts that the Earth is 4.54 billion years old isn’t a Christian, regardless of how many times they go to church.
Ian,
I was going to ask whether the 998 shootings included the 4 year old boy who shot his mother playing with a gun in the backseat of the car? But I’m not certain whether it was a fatal shooting. Some reports state that the mother was killed at the scene. Others state that police are considering charging her with a misdemeanour offence. If it was a fatal shooting, then ‘immature’ needs to be added to the descriptors, which probably is appropriate for most gun-nuts.
IanL – certainly there should be more forensic attention given to the small, shrivelled, swinging dicks.
Not lone wolves but mad dogs.