Archive for January 2005

Out of their own mouths

Posted by Brian on Mon 31-Jan-2005 at 5:00 pm

Warwick Marsh, Founder, Fatherhood Foundation, Newsletter No. 126, 24 Jan. 2005, 2-3:

The passion of making love is a lot like hot molten metal. Kept within the channel of marriage this passionate love creates children and is the spiritual act of oneness that gives marriage its transcendence. When this hot passion spills outside the confines of a faithful marital relationship, it is a lot like the hot molten metal that spills out of the cradles at the steel works and explodes. What happens is always unpredictable and it can even cause death.

[Strong candidate for this year's 'bizarre analogy award'.]

Bill Muehlenberg, National Vice-President, Australian Family Association, ‘Kinsey: the horror story’, AFA website, Jan. 2005:

… Today we see the result of [the] social and sexual revolution: broken families, marriage disintegration, a tide of pornography, including child pornography, an epidemic of promiscuity and sexually transmitted diseases, skyrocketing abortion rates, a crisis in teenage pregnancies, an explosion of rape and sexual assault [But wait, there's more!] and a tide of pornography, including child pornography, an epidemic of promiscuity and sexually transmitted diseases, skyrocketing abortion rates, a crisis in teenage pregnancies, an explosion of rape and sexual assault and a culture that believes hedonism is the highest good, and self-control and restraint the greatest evil.

[Bill knows a lot about restraint, certainly more than he knows about proof-reading.]

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Few answers in Genesis

Posted by Bronny on Sun 2-Jan-2005 at 2:35 pm

I have been doing a little more research on the response of Religious Right groups to the recent catastrophe. Thankfully, in Australia we haven’t seen much evidence yet of support for the “Rapture craze” that has swept America (the “Left Behind” books etc.) so there is little discussion yet about whether the tsunami might have “end times” implications. The Rapture Index, a wacky “temperature” measurement predicting the nearness of “end times”, has gone up a bit, but hasn’t been updated since Dec 27. I do hope the author hasn’t been vanished ;-)

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