From: Rowland Croucher <>


Newsgroups: aus.religion.christian

Subject: Re: Pauline Hanson..what are the constructive options


Date: Sat, 24 May 1997

A ‘Net friend wrote:

> Why dont you pray that the Aborigines will stop
thinking of themselves as Aboriginal, and start thinking of themselves
as Australians, like the rest of us have to.

I must be dense today: but why can’t they be both,
and retain some of their own cultural identity (as so many sub-cultures
of Australians do)?


–

Shalom! Rowland Croucher

…..

From: Rowland Croucher <>


Newsgroups: aus.religion.christian

Subject: Re: Salvation and the Ark

Andrew Bromage wrote:


> G’day all.


> (Nigel B.
Mitchell) writes:

> >I know you run away from questions you don’t
like, Michael, so you probably won’t answer these. My point is
that the Noah’s Ark story is a supernatural/ mythical story which
can have no basis in historical fact.

> Just to qualify what Nigel said here.

> Of course the story can have a BASIS in historical
fact. More than one culture has a flood story (eg Epic of Gilgamesh)
which could imply that that there was a large flood (or several
floods) in the Euphrates basin and someone escaped in a boat carrying
some animals, and the story was turned into legend over time.

> Regardless of the historical accuracy of this
story, its truth remains.

With which I agree. A statement like ‘the whole earth’
etc. has a metaphorical sense in other parts of the Bible (cf.
‘the whole world is going after him’ – they said about Jesus)…

> Cheers,


> Andrew Bromage

–

Shalom! Rowland Croucher

…..

Thought for today (and every day): ‘If you say someone
is worthless, you will be in danger of the fires of hell’ (Jesus,
Matthew5:22b CEV)

From: (Patrick Canion)Newsgroups:
aus.religion.christian

Subject: Re: Tongues – a response/3

Date: Sat, 31 May 1997 07:03:58 GMT

Rowland Croucher <> wrote:

>Graeme wrote:


>> should communicate. I would say that BS
communicates. Wouldn’t you?

>Praps you could use this expression (which I
picked up in a conference of Baptist pastors in NZ): ‘bovine residue’…

>–


>Shalom! Rowland Croucher

I liked ‘Stormin’ Norman Schwarzkoff’s definition
in the Gulf War – "Bovine Scatology"

God Bless,

Patrick Canion Pastor, Manning Assembly of God, Western Australia


…..

From: Chris Ho-Stuart <>


Newsgroups: aus.religion.christian

Subject: Re: Attention: All Non-Believers….

Date: 31 May 1997 08:56:35 GMT

Patrick Canion <> wrote:

> And specifically, Barry O’Grady, David Brindley,
Theo Bekkers, and Johnny Napalm.

> A question for you, please, as dedicatated antipathists
of Christianity, who so doggedly persist in your posting…

> What’s your point?

I’m not in your list, but have in the past been a
very active participant here and in aus.religion. Some time ago
Danny Yee (another atheist, and an exceptionally constructive
contributor when he was active) set up home pages for aus.religion
and aus.religion.christian. He also collected some biographies
for regular participants, with a view to helping us all be aware
of the people at the other end of the wire, and fostering a friendlier
net.

He presently has available biographies for

Andrew Bromage

Cameron Brown

Rowland Croucher

Tony Fleming

Chris Ho-Stuart

Nigel Mitchell

Andrew Parle

Rodney Reynolds

David Stanhope

David Williams

Danny Yee

Some of these folks are still active here also. The
bios can be found at

http://www.anatomy.su.oz.au/danny/usenet/aus.religion/biographies/index.html

It was a great idea, and it is nice to know something
about each other. My bio is there, and gives some clues as to
why I (an atheist) still participate here. Basically, I was an
active Christian for many years, and it remains and always will
remain a critical part of my life experience. Though I am no longer
a believer, because faith was such an important early formative
experience for me I have retained an interest in the Christian
religion, in the bible and in some of the topics discussed here.

Cheers —
Chris Ho-Stuart

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