Last week we noted that former prime minister Scott Morrison was looking happier and healthier than he had in years. Now we know why. His (eventual) freedom from the prime ministership and the near certainty (that he’ll never have to face voters in Cook again) flowing on from it means he can indulge in his true passion: fringe-but-disturbingly-influential Christianity!
After successfully using his faith in 2019 to give voters the impression of an inner life and joined-up view of the world (by extension implying the absence of such in his opponent), Morrison largely kept his faith out of the conversation as PM, despite funnelling millions into various religious groups.
So it seemed significant that his last speech as PM was to his Horizon church group. And, further untethered from public approval, Morrison was out west over the weekend, helping the Pentecostal Victory Life Centre church open its “Perth Prayer Tower”. He joined churchgoers in song, high-fived delighted children, and announced that it was God’s plan that he lose office after a single term rife with scandal, corruption and incompetence. All of which wouldn’t be all that surprising, even if he’d done it while more was on the line, politically.
Except this has a few less voter-friendly elements. First, Victory Life is the church founded by tennis legend/bigoted aunt from a sitcom Margaret Court, who was in truly hilariously retrograde form during her address to the crowd, lamenting the number of Wimbledon attendees who were on the “highway to hell“. Yep, she’s moved on from a visceral distaste at same-sex attraction and gender diversity; now the general skylarking, tomfoolery and carousing she saw at Wimbledon is enough to get one sliding down the tunnel to Satan’s living room.
Morrison, for his part, told the crowd that giving into your anxieties is like letting Satan win and, in an eyebrow-raising statement that possibly explains a great deal about his time in office, advised people to put their faith in Christ above governments or, in a weirdly specific aside, the UN:
We trust in Him. We don‘t trust in governments. We don’t trust in United Nations, thank goodness. We don‘t trust in all of these things as fine as they might be and as important as the role that they play. Believe me, I’ve worked in it. But as someone who’s been in it, if you are putting your faith in those things, like I put my faith in the Lord, you are making a mistake. They are fallible.
Reference to the UN is code for one world Government, the appearance of the Beast and the Antichrist, and the end times.
Scomo and Court won’t have to worry about all of this though, because they’ll be floating up into the sky at the Rapture.
They can’t float up soon enough. It’s disturbing the amount of conspiracy jargon they spout
Watching Scotty prostrated on his house roof naked and waiting would be a sight.
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You’re meant to leave for heaven with no worldly goods.
I like to think he’ll be taken up from the Engadine Maccas car park
We can prey* together for this to happen.
When they are on their way to heaven, assuming they get there the quickest way possible (speed of light), we should be able to see them on the Webb telescope for the next few billion years.
As long as it is a view of their rears disappearing into the void that will suit me.
Morrison says that Institutions are fallible.
That pretty much describes himself as Prime Minister and the Government he led.
Characters like Morrison should NEVER be in any position of authority.
But, but – God made him do it.
Thank God he’s gone! 🙂
Maybe thank Satan, he never did much harm according to bible stories. Remember god put him there in the first instance.
If it was God’s plan to get rid of him, then maybe God does exist. I’ve always suspected that God and Satan regularly get together for end of week drinks.
Isn’t it gods plan that we all are to be saved yet the vast majority of us will be damned. Sounds like big government failure when you think about it.
Well that is a problem with the so called Rapture…according to Revelation 7 KJV, has it that there are only to be 144,000 saved.
Consider that there are so many varieties of Protestants, as well as Mormons, Unitarians, many and varied Evangelistic and Pentecostalist Cults and Seventh Day Adventists that are all of The Rapture Persuasion.
Now given that the numbers of dead of the above will surely exceed that figure, might there not be much jostling at the Pearly Gates?
So it might Best Dressed First Raptured…for when Israel invaded the Lebanon, yet again, in the 2006 Lebanon War, there were reports of women in the USA from Evangelistic and Pentecostalist Cults going out to get their hair and nails done to be prepared for The Rapture.
I read some in the US left their pets in boarding kennels while waiting. They shouldn’t be allowed to have pets.
I tend to think that once a Federal ICAC comes into being, Morrison will see a future for himself, as a celebrity preacher on the American pentecostal circuit.
I’d prefer to think that he’d be seeing himself as a prison preacher – from behind bars. He presided over a corrupt government and should be held accountable.
Didn’t Albo promise that would be done in his first 100 days? Running out of time.
True, but the parliament hasn’t even sat yet! You really are jumping the gun.
It would be nice to think he wouldn’t be let off scott-free to poison more minds but warming a seat somewhere behind bars.
Righteous, ridiculous, rubbish, rot, from a continual failure to exist within decent, logical, intelligent boundaries. Morrison is a great disgrace to Australia, and his support even now is frightening in the hunnish curse it threatens.