LABORSPEAK

This is how Labor politicians define 'equality':

The Equal Opportunity (Religious Exceptions) Bill 2016 seeks to restrict the ability of religious schools and organisations to employ staff according to their faith and ethos.

Religious schools and churches are currently allowed to require that staff contribute to and demonstrate their religious values and ethos. It's called freedom of association and freedom of religion. The Government's proposed 'inherent requirements' test in this Bill would take away the freedom of Christian schools to hire all staff on the basis that they are genuine adherents, in belief and practice, to the Christian basis of the school.

These proposed changes would have the effect that Christian schools and churches could be forced to hire people who are fundamentally opposed to what the school or church stands for.
Christian schools should be free to associate on the basis that they integrate a worldview based on religious beliefs and values into all aspects of school life.
Churches appointing non-clergy staff may have to justify to a Government tribunal why they chose to employ a practising Christian over a non-Christian.
The Bill does not similarly restrict political parties or other clubs. An ALP Minister can rightfully refuse to hire a person that does not agree with ALP policy. So this Bill is a focused attack on freedom of religion.

CHURCH LEADERSHIP

Some decades ago I decided to forego attendance at 'leadership' conferences in order to preserve my sanity and perhaps my sovereignty. Personal history has proved me prescient.

Fairly recently I have encoded such passive resistance by appropriating a literary reference via a subversion of some ancient wisdom handed down from father to son; i.e. Polonius to Laertes re: money: that is to be neither a lender nor a borrower.
Dalrymple interprets it as:

Neither a leader nor a follower be…

And I like it!

I include some leadership/management 'speak' to illustrate the booming but shallow pool of 'wisdom' present at too many of such conferences:

If someone tells you that “lean management is this” and not something else, if someone puts it in a box and ties a bow around it and presents it in a neat package with four walls around it, then that someone knows not of what they speak. Why? Because it is in motion and not a framed picture hanging on the wall. It is a melody, a rhythm, and not a single note.

This is the mysticism of apparatchiks, the romanticism of bureaucrats, the poetry of clerks and the church, like the world, has been seduced by such balderdash (to put it politely). 

Thankfully there are still a few Jackie Pullinger's and Franklin Graham's to show how true leadership 'happens'.

READ AND WEEP

A must read article

/http://www.xyz.net.au/food-thought-left-antithesis-civilisation/

EXPOSING THE LABOR AGENDA

Leave it to a brilliant atheist to describe with panache, the two-faced nature of a Labor politician.

Just as we were going to press, the communist-China-enthusiast, atheist-yet-Muslim, ‘faceless’-yet-spotlight-seeking-obsessed, backstabbing-yet-ever-so-loyal-to-whoever-the-latest-leader-may-be, morally-posturing-about-multinationals-and-banks-yet-surprisingly-unprincipled-when-it-came-to-his-own-expenses, deeply-committed-to-understanding-the-role-of-our-allies-in-responding-to-tensions-with-China-and-enthusiast-for-letting-the-Chinese-do-whatever-they-want-on-the-high-seas, Senator Sam Dastyari

Whilst chuckling at the accuracy of the description I must say that it also fits brilliantly with the underlying intentions of Labor's political elites who have been dictated to for decades by the philosophy of Fabianism; that elitist left-wing/anarchist organisation whose logo trademark sums up their Machiavellian agenda:

                                         

CONSERVATIVE PARADOX

This presents in brief, the fundamental dilemma facing a conservative minded individual occupying space in the political swamp of today:

But we need recognize this cancer is not necessarily isolated within a given political party. It is opportunistic: in the ’60s, it infiltrated the “bourgeois” Democratic Party the cultural Marxists despised to become the New Left that today controls many of our institutions. As it did so, this long march created a counter-trend we now see bubbling up through cracks in our national foundation.

This counter-trend, make no mistake, is every bit as identitarian as anything Edward Said ever wrote, and just as toxic. Said enormously influenced Western academics. His Orientalism laid out the case for identity politics, declaring who controls particular group narratives and how, and who and what comes to count as “authentic” and thus permitted to represent a given identity group and its (collectivist) narrative. Identity politics necessarily brackets and minimizes individualism. As with much the Left does, it remains policed by a kind of mob shaming and an enforced intellectual correctness that is linguistically incoherent.

Unfortunately, this same set of core beliefs is now ascendant on a vocal part of the self-described “Right………..

…….Simply adopting the label as it suits you doesn’t make you something you aren’t, much like calling your hamburger a carrot doesn’t make you a vegetarian. It is about a set of principles that, once they’ve become too commingled with self-serving pragmatism or “realism,” devolve into a mash of weak progressivism. This is why for years I’ve fought against RINO squishes and moderates who coopt the label “conservative” during election season, always presenting themselves as something the entirety of their records rejects.

Alt-righters — like the RINOs who leech off the conservative label — want to redefine conservatism to suit their own political purposes. What they are actually promoting is white “nationalism.” 

WHOSE TIME NOW?

W H Auden articulates the eternal struggle between the desire for expression and the desire for control?

Let Ares doze, that other war

Is instantly declared once more

’Twixt those who follow 

Precocious Hermes all the way 

And those who without qualms obey 

Pompous Apollo. . . . 

The sons of Hermes love to play 

And only do their best when they 

Are told they oughtn’t; 

Apollo’s children never shrink 

From boring jobs but have to think 

Their work important. 

The followers of Hermes pursue art and culture for their own sakes, or for pleasure; the followers of Apollo wish to rationalise culture, to systematise it and render it productive and efficient.

Auden and his fellow Hermetics do not wish to rule—“The earth would soon, did Hermes run it, / Be like the Balkans”—but rather to be left alone. However, the deep Apollonian suspicion of unconstrained and unjustified activities may not allow that to happen.

The really difficult way is of course to combine the two in balance or rather in harmony. Like it says in Ecclesiastes 3:1; "There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens:there is a time for everything under the sun."

IGNORE HISTORY AND REPEAT YOUR FUTURE

This is just another ploy by the 'elites' (and I use that term facetiously) to impoverish the everyday working people of Australia so that they can be the aristocracy in a new feudal empire:

AUSTRALIA has developed a death wish. Why this green mania to make us poor?
On Wednesday, Victorian Premier Daniel ­Andrews announced he would permanently ban fracking for coal-seam gas.
Even conventional gas drilling — done safely here for half a century — would be banned to at least 2020.
Andrews could point to not a scrap of credible science to back these bans.
He cited only the fear spread by green alarmists: “This is the first ban of its kind anywhere in our nation and it just speaks volumes to the dangers, the uncertainty and the anxiety within the Victorian community about fracking.”
This is not the first time a state has banned a safe technology at a big cost to jobs and wealth.

Unfortunately for them it is impossible for civilisational aspirations to go backwards; which means that the inevitable result of such a Utopian vision will be resistance ending in chaos which is precisely what the manipulators of Marxist theory have intended.

The logical and historical end to chaos has always been dictatorship.