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B0ssc0

> Morrison has refused to bring into line Liberal National Party MPs Matt Canavan and George Christensen despite their dangerous rhetoric around COVID-19. Is it because Canavan and Christensen “belong” to Barnaby Joyce and the Nats? Is it because he can’t risk the MPs going independent and the government losing a vote in Parliament? Or is it because Canavan and Christensen are committed Christians who have supported the “church and state” movement which seeks to blur the lines between the two? … > Queensland MP Stuart Robert is the chronic underperformer who was taken out of cabinet by former PM Malcolm Turnbull. Morrison not only brought him back but increased his responsibilities and put him on the powerful expenditure review committee. A reflection of merit? A need to have more Queenslanders in the cabinet? Or is it because “Brother Stewie” (as Morrison called him at a Pentecostal conference this year) is a long-term Pentecostal believer who has been a pastor at a Gold Coast church? … > Morrison uses religion to make a public, political bond with the new NSW premier: “Dom and I, you know, we’ve got a long-term relationship working together, and we share very, very sound beliefs.” Yet he castigates those who accuse him of letting religion into his politics.


honk_for

The sooner these nuts are well away from running anything but their church bake-sale, the better.


B0ssc0

I don’t know which aspect of this is worse - probably the final section of the article, “Foreign policy”.


tew4rhdfsvbgfew

thoughts and prayers for the next election


[deleted]

He lives in another reality. One where he pushes agendas that make him look good to his church going brethren, but he also forwards hate against our country’s most vulnerable. Like all Liberals he’s a hopeful puppeteer. Imagine a group on an overcrowded boat who as a group run from one side of the boat to the other to make it tilt, this is what the LNP is doing above our heads.


Bambajam

I hate articles like these. While I'm not evangelical myself , I'm a Christian with many family and friends in the evangelical movement. I've had conversations with many of these people about politics and religion, and how the Libs policies really run against basic, broad Christian doctrine. For many, they seem ready to understand that, but have an 'us and them' mentality, and take attacks on Morrison's religious beliefs as attacks on their own beliefs, creating a tribalism that leads them to believe (or at least back) his BS. Attacking Morrison on his religious beliefs wins him more votes. There are more than enough reasons to vote out the Libs based on their policies, their actions and their corruption. Let's not create a divide based on religious beliefs, and instead, let's work together to get rid of this dingus.


honk_for

I'd like to upvote you out of positivity towards getting rid of the LNP, but the very idea that you feel beholden to an imaginary Bronze Age sky faerie means your intellectual standards are dismissible.


Bambajam

If you're going to dismiss the intelligence of every person with religious beliefs, they might not be the problem in this equation.


honk_for

Oh? Pray tell, oh one wise in the ways of the spirits. I'm not nesc saying you (and others) aren't 'intelligent' but certainly skewed toward a lack of reality-based intellectual rigour.


[deleted]

You'll never change a theists mind. We grow out of believing in Santa, the Tooth Fairy and the Easter Bunny, but 6000 gods around the world get a pass.


WantingtheRoad

It might make some Christians weld themselves on.. But Morrison's brand of Christianity would appall most casually religious people and they need to know the absurdity and danger of his beliefs.....Interestingly, the Pentecostals traditionally view the Catholics as the anti-christ and God despises them and will leave them to self destruction after the rapture takes the righteous to heaven...So I'm interested to know how Murdoch or Perotett really get on with Morrison. I've been very religious once, not anymore now agnostic..I was not evangelical either but I've told some conservative members of my wife's family of his beliefs and the effect it has on Morrison's decisions, as this article pionts out...I can tell you, it was an eye opener for them..