duncanu.bsky.social
White fella living on Meanjin Turriball / Jagerra land. Anglican, tending to PAC. Interested in late 2nd temple theology. Board member of Anglicare Southern Queensland. Works on business/ IT alignment and research of technology adoption and benefits.
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The way back machine looks to be being DDOS’d. Looks like they are trying to protect their asset.
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Under the UNFCCC framework agreement the users of fossil fuels are responsible for their emissions. Turning around and making exporters pay, is effectively double taxation. Are you proposing ripping up our current climate treaties?
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Боже, врятуй Україну. Австралія з тобою.
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We are doomed!
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Well we were consistently ignored during the period when great power diplomacy ruled, and we can expect to be again under Trump/Putin alliance.
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No but most have tendencies
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That’s not an unreasonable position. UKR needs real security guarantees not more frontline forces. A few Battalions of FFL camping near Kiev is all that is needed right now.
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Just a reminder that playing people at peace conferences is old hat for Russia www.iwm.org.uk/history/the-...
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I guess that’s how it was like in the SPD Party in Feb 1933.
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There is a hypocrisy here. You can’t say “let’s talk about racism” in an abstract sense, but criminalise talking about race. The reality is that certain groups are allowed to talk about race and racism, and other people are not. This fuels more extremism. We should confront racism not silence it.
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youtu.be/yaxrgjJ_FEo
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Then you would never seen the far right nationalist politicians driving around Tokyo denouncing foreigners.
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As someone who has lived in Japan, I can tell you that you are wrong in that last statement :-). As for lecturing, the contemporary intersectional left is the best at this.
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So it’s not where the majority of Christians are (that’s South America and Africa), it’s not language, it’s not ethnicity (that would preclude Japan). It’s not just colonisers because Canada, Japan and Australia have been pretty rubbish at seizing territory. It’s a mystery!
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Similarly do we define all countries that speak Arabic, Arab? Because there is tremendous ethnic, linguistic and cultural diversity in this collection of people.
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You raise an interesting question. How do we define “The West”, or any other region for that matter. Is South Africa “Western” or “African”? Are the countries of South America “West” - the vast majority of the citizens have European ancestry. Is “Japan” part of “The West” or “Eastern”?
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I’d say that juxtaposing ‘The West’ with ‘Islam’ is wrong. The West versus The Middle East is a comparison that can be made. You are referring to state actors rather than individual actors. I’d say right today states in the Middle East and in the East ( Russia) are killing the most people.
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It is fair to say, that while mainstream Islam does state that murder is wrong, there is a tolerated fringe where murder is considered ok under specific conditions. In the past week we have seen two high profile murders - this one in SA and another in Denmark. Both motivated by religion.
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I’m not trying to argue for the IDF’s conduct in Gaza - that is something you introduced. It’s a red herring. BTW most of the victims of Islamic religious violence are other Moslems. How about you address that, rather than to try to deflect.
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en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic...
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I gather you are repeating the lie that Israeli are westerners, and lumping Christianity and Judaism together. Let’s focus on religious-inspired violence shall we - the number of Islam-Inspired murders since 2001 is over 30000 and the number of Christian-inspired murders is less than 500.
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So you are saying that, because Israel killed 50000 people in a war in Gaza, it’s perfectly fine for a Moslem to murder another Moslem because they are gay?
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I’d say it’s not limited to religious groups, however i can’t point to many groups who have such an issue, although the EDL and other right wing organisations have similar issues.
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Ah the tolerant religion - I wonder when, collectively, Islam admits it has an issue with violence. Now few Moslems are violent, but there is a small % who are and are enabled by theology.
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Happy to skip to the last act. The weather on St Helena is not bad this time of year.
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France and UK both have nukes. You don’t need more than that, if there is clear will. A NATO-USA+UKR treaty is needed - a European Defence Alliance, that is not dependent on USA command prerogative.
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It’s Malta 2.0
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Actually no, before you found out.
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Now we need 10 million of you, with the younger ones in the street. Americans have always proudly boasted they would die for liberty - well now is the time to put rhetoric into action, because it is under immanent threat. I’m not advocating violence but mass public resistance is necessary.
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Well America has always been a little two-faced on the democracy front. youtu.be/HHhZF66C1Dc
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Europe has all the technology needed to do all this, and in fact does build all of these things. What Europe needs to do at this precise moment is to develop a unity of political will.
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Ok but how are you going to resist?
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You didn’t come out and fight when you needed to. You now have a proto-fascist government. History is not kind to the people who allow this to occur.
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Who is attending from Ukraine and do they know yet?
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Europe needs to define its culture and values, not have that dictated by a foreign government.
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It’s terrifying. Many of my fellow Christians can’t sleep, waiting for fire bombing or arrest for following Jesus’s explicit instructions to look after the poor, vulnerable and disenfranchised. This is the irony of the time we live in.
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Another counter is to reinforce the structures that separate State Power and Religion. That’s not going so well at present in the USA.
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One possible counter is that the actual doctrines of Christianity generally run counter to all the main attributes of CN. It is a giant hypocrisy. So while there is an emotional echo the actual espoused beliefs are apostate and heretical.
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As a result churches, particularly devolved polity denominations, have a tendency to insular paranoia. When these groups form a political movement we get something like CN / the Christian Right.
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Christian Nationalism is a terrifying trend, but even in the USA less than half of Christians follow any version of CN. Around the world the percent is much lower. The challenge is that within Christianity is this built in persecution complex that come from the early church history.
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Prayers from the Anglican parish of Ithaca-Red Hill ( Brisbane, Australia).
"Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me.”
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