Cardinal Pell, debating atheist Richard Dawkins, insisted that hell does exist.

Then added that he hopes hell is empty.

Contradicting himself.

Jesus Christ taught that there is a hell, and that it is not empty:

“At the end of the age; the angels will come forth and take out the wicked from among the righteous, and will throw them into the furnace of fire; in that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.” (Matthew’s Gospel, chapter 13)

Best ignore modernists, no matter how high they rank in the Church, whose teaching is anti-Catholic.

If you believe in hell, the struggle to avoid it is worth any sacrifice — denying yourself seemingly pleasant disobediences to God’s laws.

If you don’t believe in hell, then whatever you do makes no difference to anything . . . .

You don’t really exist except as some kind of a robot.

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Many so-called religious people think that everybody will go to the same place — namely heaven.

Atheists believe that everybody will go to the same place – namely non-existence.

Both groups are on the same side of the argument.

Both are wrong.

So believe in God. And believe in hell.

Pray that you will escape hell.

Pray for the souls of your friends and for all sinners everywhere.

Monash University bioethicists, Alberto Giubilini and Francesca Minerva, in an article in the Journal of Medical Ethics (February 23), argued that if there is nothing wrong with abortion, there can be nothing wrong with infanticide.

Their article sparked debate world-wide — including in the US Congress.

Yet the basic argument is not new. We’ve all heard it before.

It goes:

because a foetus (or newborn infant) doesn’t have self-awareness, it isn’t fully human – and so may be killed if its existence is inconvenient.

It’s a favourite argument of ex-Australian philosopher Peter Singer, a friend of Senator Bob Brown.

When Professor Singer has his afternoon nap, he has no self-awareness.

A good time, perhaps, to cut his throat?

Maybe not.  Even though asleep, his potential to have self-awareness (if allowed to wake up un-murdered) remains.

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Everybody knows that, from the moment the sperm enters the ovum and their DNAs contact, a new, unique fully-genetically-equipped-to-develop-self-awareness human life has started.

This is reality, i.e. the way God sees it.

Destroy one of God’s innocent children in cold blood and you’ve signed your spiritual death-warrant.

And ceased being a civilised human being.

The move towards same-sex marriage is a shocker and resented, one hopes, by most normal people.

But didn’t we bring it on ourselves?

Back in Prime Minister Whitlam’s era, the standing of marriage was weakened by the introduction of easy-to-get, unilateral, no-fault divorce.

Not enough fuss was made at that time. What has happened since was almost inevitable.

Once no-fault divorce is “normal”, every marriage, including yours, is cheapened.

The next step was disempowering parents from guiding their children’s development and search for meaning.

Social workers, English teachers, school nurses etc. reinforced the messages of the pornographic music, pornographic videos, pornographic television, pornographic internet material etc. to which the young were exposed 24/7.

The message being that parents can’t tell you how to behave in this day and age.

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The final step looked like being easy — just knocking the last nail into the coffin.

Namely passing laws handing over young members of a new generation to be raised by parent-substitutes obviously biologically nothing to do with them . . . .

And who have no interest in being mother/father role models . . . .

However that last step might blow up in the faces of those seeking to engineer it.

Enough might be enough.

The anti-family pollies might start losing their seats.

Stand by.

A video clip showing Australian Foreign Minister, Kevin Rudd, swearing repeatedly turned up on YouTube.

Mr Rudd commented that “I’ve never pretended not to swear from time to time. That’s been out there for a long, long time.”

But a person in Mr Rudd’s position should NEVER swear.

If a man cannot control his own tongue, why allow him to control a government department?

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Mr Rudd might answer that almost everybody swears.

But that is not the point.

He who swears is someone you cannot trust.

The Bible says, “If any man thinks himself religious, not restraining his tongue but deceiving his own heart, that man’s religion is vain.”

We need, somehow, to make bad language un-fashionable.

Lucky the child who grows up thinking, at least for a while, that only children swear – i.e. hearing no swearing at home.

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Most swearing belittles either God or sex.

God and sex are the two sources of our life.

God is the primary source.

Sex is the secondary source.

Like life itself, both of these are sacred.

Swearing is an act of self-destructive despair.

It has a lot in common with suicide.

A bill was introduced into Australia’s Federal Parliament yesterday to alter computer games classifications.

At present the highest rating is MA15+.

If a game doesn’t qualify for MA15+, it is “refused classification”, and cannot be legally sold.

The new laws will introduce a R18+ rating for games that have hitherto been refused classification.

What kind of games are currently refused classification?

Typical is “Mortal Kombat” — which includes over 60 fatalities, with explicit depictions of dismemberment, decapitation and disembowelment . . . .

Mortal Kombat is now going to be watched by children of all ages.

Why?

Because ratings, apart from the “refused classification” rating, are a joke — and incapable of being enforced.

Anyway, that is my opinion.

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Supposing Mortal Kombat was made 18+ and WAS indeed watched only by people 18 and over . . . .

Would we have achieved something?

Is there something about Mortal Kombat making it important that adults be able to access it?

Our society is very violent.

Violence starts in the human mind.

Many minds are (despite being 18 or more years old) immature and easily desensitised to violence.