Matthew Leung, letter in Melbourne Age, 27 Dec. 2006:

Two thousand years ago, God gave us the best Christmas gift: his son. Now God has given Victorians another great gift: rain.

[Matthew, where I can I send my Christmas gifts to God: a hotlink to the weather bureau, a calendar and a hearing-aid?]

Fred Nile, Family World News editorial, Dec. 2006, 2:

The Bracks ALP Government has been safely returned in the recent Victorian state election … Thankfully the Greens Party did not achieve their boast of winning control of the Victorian Upper House.

[Another blunder, Fred. The Greens did in fact win an effective balance of power in the Victorian Upper House. As God controls everything, I guess this must be his preferred outcome, right?]

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Filed in: Their Own Mouths

As we head for the silly season, I thought you might like this story. Written by Deirdre Moloney and first appearing in Right To Life News of January 1982, I’ve seen its basic idea repeated in several other articles over the years, but Deirdre did it best.

Ask most anti-choice campaigners when human life begins and they will unhesitatingly reply, ‘At conception!’ But not all of them. Over to Deirdre:

There has been much speculation as to when life begins, but as far as I know, no one has publicly used the argument of preconceptual consciousness, that is, of the awareness of personhood on the part of the sperm, even before it meets the ovum.

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Filed in: Abortion, Fundamentalism