School chaplains have been around for a long time.

Somebody students could turn to for advice who is not part of the machine.

Historically chaplains also educated students in the reality of the spiritual world – less so in recent years.

The Australian Government’s Chaplaincy Program was revised last year allowing schools which preferred could get rid of their chaplain and have a “secular welfare worker” instead.

Of 2500-odd schools involved, over 90 percent have opted to continue having a chaplain.

But the enemies of religion have further cards up their sleeve — a High Court challenge to the system is pending.

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Is a student basically a kind of robot whose actions are governed by a brain which is purely a bunch of chemicals in a bony box?

The government thinks so — which would make the difference between a chaplain and a secular worker irrelevant.

The government also believes that children ultimately belong to the government.

There is a cultural war-to-the-death going on in our society.

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Those who believe that children ultimately belong to God have a fight on their hands.

The present government will observe no rules in its attempt to exterminate religion from the thoughts permitted within government schools.

Two weeks ago, 200 school students, mainly from Western New South Wales, accompanied by 40 teachers, visited Lake Mungo to “celebrate their Koori heritage”.

The project has grown out of the 2006 Mungo Festival held to “celebrate the listing of the Willandra Lakes (including Lake Mungo) as a World Heritage Area” 25 years earlier.

All at taxpayers’ expense. Was it money well spent?

This celebrating is to be followed up by sending to schools in the region Aboriginal elders to encourage students to do “Lake Mungo projects”.

In charge is Stephen Albert, an Aboriginal elder who acted in the film “Bran Nue Dae”.

Bran Nue Dae?  A film so full of simplistic, blatant and virulent hatred for everything Catholic that it self-destructed as any kind of contribution to thought.

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Many Aborigines are respectful of Christianity.

It’s a pity if our money is being spent pushing them back into paganistic mentalities – subjecting them to a double-pronged anti-God brainwash.

Prong One: anti-Catholic media which mention the Church only when they unearth a priest who molested children.

Prong Two: pressuring them to return to the least valuable aspects of the old culture, many aspects of which will make them less, not more, fitted to cope with today’s world.

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Not just Aborigines are suffering from the eradication of the last vestiges of respect for the Christian culture that has made Australia a relatively compassionate place.

Last week, Edgewater Primary School, WA, banned students from reciting the Lord’s Prayer (the “Our Father”) because it “contravenes the WA Education Act” which prohibits favouring one religion over another.

Run through the words of the Lord’s Prayer in your mind.

Is there anything in it except positive thoughts and respect for our Creator?

Nothing whatever to offend anybody who wants a better world.

Loree Rudd recently wrote to federal Labor MP’s opposing same-sex “marriage” — saying that if the party backs it she will quit.

She says marriage belongs only between a man and woman, and complains that the worldwide pro-homosexual movement has “fed propaganda” to lobby for change:

“I call them the global gay Gestapo . . . brainwashing people, particularly the young in the community, that this (homosexuality) is an optional extra in life,”

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Loree has been criticised for those words:

 * Yes, there is no place here for using the word “gay”.

“Gay” means happy and full of fun. To drag it into this debate is to throw away yet another useful English word.

* Others criticise Loree for mentioning the “Gestapo” — as though brainwashing youth into normalising homosexual acts is as evil as killing prisoners in gas chambers.

Yes, better not to have mentioned the Gestapo — it gave her opponents an excuse to focus on just one word, and to avoid addressing the important point she was making.

We all know our youth is being fed biased information re homosexuality — as recently discussed on this blog site.  (18 May 2011)

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The Catholic Church Catechism says we must treat all people, including those involved in homosexuality, as follows: “Every sign of unjust discrimination in their regard should be avoided. …”

Therefore bullying, abuse (and, presumably, Gestapo-talk) cannot be excused.

But it  also says: “. . . under no circumstances can they [homosexual acts] be approved . . . homosexual persons are called to chastity. By the virtues of self-mastery that teach them inner freedom, at times by the support of disinterested friendship, by prayer and sacramental grace, they can and should gradually and resolutely approach Christian perfection.”

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So there we are:

Loree scores only about 4 out of 10 for her choice of words.

But more like 9 out of 10 for her courage and initiative.

Would it be fair to say that the carbon tax, with which we now seem to be stuck, is nothing to do with “climate change”?

The money will supposedly be taken from the “big polluters” — then much of it given back to them in the form of “compensation”. Not to all of them, only those whom the Greens Party and hangers-on (i.e. the “government” of Australia) consider to be deserving.

So is the motivation behind the tax, in fact, to redistribute wealth and commercial viability on the basis of somebody’s ideologically-based choice?

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That sounds rather bizarre.

The whole concept of calling carbon dioxide “carbon” — and of believing that shutting down certain out-of-favour industries will alter the weather — isn’t it all a bit bizarre?

Mr Swan says the coal industry will be compensated. Mr Swan says he is a “very strong supporter” of the coal industry.

Senator Brown says the coal industry will be phased out of existence by 2020.

From now on, coal miners can expect to lose their jobs. Any time.

A few might get positions looking after wind generators or solar farms or something.

Most won’t.

The price of electricity will go up.

Everything that needs electricity to make it happen will go up.

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Yes, miners, farmers and all who work in primary or manufacturing industry – in fact everybody who hasn’t cornered a job counselling depressed primary and secondary industry workers – can consider their livelihood at risk.

What to do?

Complain loud and long.

Also, grow everything you need to feed yourself in your backyard. Keep chickens. Barter fruit with neighbours who have different kinds of trees.

Best home-school your children – otherwise they’ll soon be believers in anthropogenic (if that is how you spell it) climate change, as well as in same-sex marriage and long day-care for neonates and that one religion is as good as another and that no religion at all is even better . . . .

Thursday night: climate-change skeptic, Lord Christopher Monckton, addresses a meeting at Notre Dame University, Western Australia.

Prior to the event, a group of over 50 Australian academics signed a letter asking the University to cancel the speech.

They said that Monckton “stands for the kind of ignorance that universities have a duty to counter”.

Lord Monckton commented that he was pleased there were only 50-odd of them — he had encountered bigger numbers trying to suppress his freedom of speech in other countries.

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“Academics” usually pose as free thinkers – challengers of conventional orthodoxies. To be consistent, they should welcome Monckton as a soul-brother.

As for calling his ideas “ignorance” . . . although claiming no personal qualifications in climate science, Monckton can quote numerous qualified experts who agree with what he says.

He is not saying there is no greenhouse effect, he says it is unproven that the effects will be as great as the other side — and their political and media mouthpieces — claim.

Al Gore — who toured the world sensationalising a doomsday view of global warming — had no formal climate science qualifications either.

But, being on the side favoured by the media, Gore managed to score — not contempt and attempted muzzling – but a Nobel Prize.

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The media will never forgive Monckton for some of his previous stands.

He takes the Catholic position on homosexuality – condemning unfair discrimination against such persons, while considering homosexual acts to be intrinsically disordered.

In the 1980’s, when AIDS was first investigated, Christopher Monckton made suggestions which, if they had been followed, might have saved perhaps 30 million lives worldwide.

Monckton is also opposed to Britain being part of the European Union.

The Victorian Government is distributing to state schools, a 16-page booklet published by the “Safe Schools Coalition of Victoria” – a group seeking to “normalise” homosexuality in children’s minds.

The book advocates:

(1) “training and professional development given to all school staff . . . on supporting same-sex attracted and gender-questioning students.”

 (2) “gender and sexual diversity are supported and celebrated in all areas of the school community”.

 (3) “a specific noticeboard that contains information on (homosexual) community events and activities”.

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S0 our schools are to become recruiting agencies for the homosexual subculture.

In a homosexual “lifestyle” online magazine, Daniel Villarreal writes, “Recruiting children? You bet we are. Why would we push anti-bullying programs . . . unless we wanted to deliberately educate children to accept (homosexuality) as normal . . . .”

“Our very future depends on it,” he says.

“Let’s face it, we want to indoctrinate children,” he says.

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Until we do something to stop it, every Australian taxpayers’ money is being used for such recruiting.

Unless we care enough about our children to put an end to this, thousands risk being sucked into a lifetime of unhealthy behaviours.