It’s started to happen. Now the cancel culture mob are turning their poisonous fangs towards prominent figures whose only ‘crime’ is that they are Christians. This week, a social media campaign has erupted, calling on Hollywood to stop working with Chris Pratt. Why? Because they believe he is a “conservative Trumper” and a “Bible pusher”. …
Astrology is a form of divination which attempts to forecast earthly events and categorise people’s personality traits according to the alignment of stars. It began during the Babylonian empire (c. 2000 BC) during a time of intense superstition. At that time, people had two misguided beliefs about the stars: That the stars rotate around the …
Former Australian tennis champion, Reverend Margaret Court is under attack again for her religious moral views. Her application for funding to assist in the purchase of a new freezer truck to distribute food to the poor was recently turned down because of her Bible-based views on marriage and gender. Victory Life Centre is a church …
Last week, the Black Lives Matter organisation deleted its “What We Believe” page from its website in response to overwhelming criticism. The now-deleted page had stated that the mission of the Black Lives Matter movement is to “disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure,” to “dismantle the patriarchal system” and to “foster a queer-affirming network … …
The fall from grace of Christian leaders always shocks us. When people we have looked up to are discovered to have had affairs or engaged in abusive behaviour or illicit sexual conduct, it’s easy to become disillusioned. Some disheartened believers even abandon their faith altogether as a result. Many become angry because trust has been …
The current ‘woke’ philosophy, embraced by the BLM and LGBTQI movements among others, refers to the perceived endemic nature of inequality, racism and social injustice and the desire to do something about it. In the process of righting these perceived wrongs, the woke movement tends to regard religion as bigoted and oppressive – the perpetrator …
There have been more incidents over the last two weeks of irrational, vitriolic mob behaviour among demonstrators in America. At the Republican National Convention in Charlotte, demonstrators who had gathered to protest against Trump’s presidency verbally and physically assaulted a street preacher who had nothing to do with the Republican Convention. Sam Bethea was simply …
