Thursday, 4 August 2011

Reverend Nile Invokes Godwin's Law

NSW Christian Democrat MP the Rev. Fred Nile has once again invoked Godwin's Law in the esteemed chamber today. This latest tirade of gratuitous (and rather confused) name-calling revolves around a piece of Government legislation that allows public schools to offer ethics classes as an alternative to scripture. Quoted in the ABC News article:
"[The current proposed ethics course] is a course which I believe does not teach children right from wrong but promotes the secular, humanist relativist philosophy."
Which obviously leads him straight to the conclusion that:
"I believe this is the philosophy that we saw during World War Two with the Nazis and the communists."
Is it the job of the tax-payers to pay for whichever cult wants their kids brainwashed at school (presumably because they can't be bothered to do it at home)? Should religious 'education' even be part of a rational and empirical education system? Is allowing an ethics course, which teaches kids instead to rely on their own values system instead of others', a meaningful alternative? These questions and more, Nile couldn't care less about.

It's a lot safer to hold your hands over your ears and scream naughty words, Rev. Nile. Otherwise you might have a generation of Australians with their eyes open to universal ethics systems. And you'd probably lose whatever votes you are clinging to.

 
 

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