CHURCH OF CHANGE

Bishop Richard Randerson (Letters, February 16) says opposition in the Anglican Church in New Zealand to blessing same-sex marriages “was partly based on a handful of biblical texts, 2000 and more years old”.

In support of the proposal he quotes “the Gospel call for justice and inclusion” (whatever the latter term may mean).

Have he and his fellow bishops and clergy forgotten the Gospel call of Jesus Christ: “I have not come to destroy the law but to fulfil it” (Matthew 5, 17)?

THE LOATHSOME PRESIDENT TRUMP (letter to Dom Post, Feb 15)

Joe Bennett reads the bible; that's good.

In light of his latest insults in regard to Donald Trump, wanting to see him “humiliated, ridiculed and laughed out of office” (February 15), Bennett might like to consider this: “The base things of the world, and the things that are contemptible, hath God chosen, that he might bring to nought things that are” (1 Cor 1, 28).

So there's not the scriptural contradiction that Bennett suggests. He's missing the point. The race is indeed not to the swift.(1 Cor 1, 28).

THE PRIMARY CAUSE OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE (Letter to Dom Post, Feb 14)

We all know domestic violence (Letters, Feb 13) is not okay, but until we realise its root cause we’re stuck with it. 

 

The root of the word ‘domestic’ is ‘domus’ meaning ‘home’. Domestic violence happens in all kinds of homes, but our first home is common to all humankind.

It’s in our mother’s womb that we all lived in comfort, warmth and shelter, with food to meet every dietary requirement, for the first nine months of our lives. For the last forty years however, we’ve said it’s okay to invade that home and kill its rightful occupant. Until we implement the means to protect all parties - mothers, fathers and their unborn children - from the violence of abortion it will continue to infiltrate the workplace and the whole of society.

 

The single biggest factor in the cost to our economy of domestic and family violence of $8 billion a year is the primary violence of abortion.

MORGAN WANTS TO DITCH TVNZ (Feb 8)

The spectacle offered by TVNZ on our national day, of American football larded with Lady Gaga, should give The Opportunities Party (Morgan wants to ditch TVNZ, February 8)a fair bit of momentum.

Go Gareth!

TIME TO THINK BIG ON LAND TRANSPORT (Letter ;ublished in Dom Post, Feb 8)

The same day we read Russell Tregonning’s enlightened piece on the urgency of intelligent planning in rail transport (February 7), we hear the TranzAlpine line is closed by wildfires.

Hardly a week passes without more damage to our environment caused by climate change. How much money will KiwiRail lose while seven bridges await repair? How can tourists enjoy South Island scenery while stuck between lumbering trucks and trailers?

Our ageing population simply cannot continue to foot the bill but KiwiRail carries on desecrating with dirty diesel instead of implementing clean electric. 

The government is elected and expected to govern, and not just for the short term and the short-sighted. The ironically-named Transport Minister Simon Bridges should show KiwiRail some muscle.

Weaklings don’t win elections.

LEAKS, TWEETS AND PLOTS (Letter to Dom Post, Feb 6)

The paroxsyms of rage over President Trump’s election (Leaks, tweets and plots, Feb 6) would be amusing if it weren’t for their terrible origin – 1.72 billion abortions worldwide in the last 40 years.

The feminazi are furious at the threat Trump poses to ‘reproductive rights’, which means their ‘right’ to abortion on demand, in other words the threat to their jobs and careers. “Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorned” said Congreve, and he was right. That fury, not Trump or his “regime”, is what actually “unleashed chaos around the world”.

If only women would wake up to their magnificent destiny as caretakers of the future. It’s mothers who have what it takes to nurture their children, not childcare centres.

THE SLIPPERY SLOPE TO INSENSITIVITY (Letter to Dom Post, Feb 2)

Rosemary McLeod (World's on the slippery slope to insensitivity, February 2), cites a drowning in Venice that people filmed but didn’t prevent, and fears we risk forgetting the ties that bind us "into a world fit to live in".

We started losing "kindness, consideration, empathy, tolerance and trust" the day we decided not to prevent loss of life in utero, regardless of the suffering inflicted on the mother, and the pain and loss of life inflicted on the child. Or would the mainstream media claim it was those very same qualities which prevented them publishing film which showed Planned Parenthood callously discussing – over lunch - the profits to be made from the sale of fetal body parts?

Rosemary says Trump is a fantasist, but when it comes to abortion he’s a realist. And to Rosemary prayers may be boring, but the fact is the callousness she rightly deplores has grown in the Western world in inverse proportion to prayer.