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School blues

It seems Jay Nauss does not want to see private schools eliminated, except Catholic ones. “As it is a path of Danger”. This one-eyed bigotry is not unexpected as, along with Mr Gaitskell, and some others, it seems the only acceptable form of Christianity is the one followed by them.
Finland, and I add Sweden plus, to an ever diminishing religious affili-ation, Denmark, have taken that path of “Danger” without seeming to have invoked any celestial wrath. Please Mr Nauss, elaborate. What danger is there?
Whilst there have been instances of child moles-tation within many Church organisations, not only Catholics,  I have never heard of a child molestation case within the Stanthorpe Catholic Diocese.
Mr Gaitskelll’s diatribe of nonsense where he accuses religious, and scientific leaders, of being “Devoid of Morals.” is repugnant and actually defamatory.  Similarly to Mr Nauss, it seems that, if you don’t follow their particular belief system, then you are immoral.
Accepting the evolution-ary theory is commonsense, as it is supported by thousands of pieces of supportive, replicable, verifiable evid-ence. When similar evidence for the existence of Gods (any of the thousands of Gods invented by man) is shown to this lifelong atheist, I will switch sides.
Until then I will not proselytise, nor try to convert others to my way of thinking, and even then, I hope I have sufficient good manners not to make denigrating statements for which I have no evidence.

Tom Edgar

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