Comment: The Liberal-National government has allowed a spattering of far-right religious conservatives to not only inflict their beliefs on the population, but to overrule the very tenets of our democracy | wendy_squires
They should be able to judge on facts not fairytales, to lead the country to safety and prosperity – not to throw their hands in the air and believe our fate is the hands of a higher being. They are supposed to be sane, dammit!
"When Australians' lives are at risk, when they are being threatened, when their families and their homes and their crops and properties and everything they hold dear is being put at threat – that's a national security issue. If it isn't a national security issue, what is? The government has to provide leadership. Obviously the federal government can't do everything but the federal government's job is to lead and this is an issue that needs leadership.
"What the problem is that … on the right, they are treating what should be a question of physics and science and economics and engineering as though it were an issue of religion and belief. And it's nuts."Ironically, Turnbull's comments came in a week where Australia's climate-change record was ranked among the bottom five nations in the world in a global assessment of countries' emissions trajectories.
Now here is where the atheist, or perhaps better put as the realist, in me gets riled. Because what I see this bill doing is further splitting the country by segregating believers into groups of "them" and "us" – dividing rather than uniting. How a certain religious conviction makes you more competent or worthy of a job, aged care or healthcare is beyond me.
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