Losing faith in the ABC

Losing faith in the ABC over attacks on Christianity

WHAT a coincidence. The ABC steps up its war on Christianity just as Cardinal George Pell returns to Australia to face court over alleged historical sexual offences. Pell strongly denies those allegations and we cannot discuss them. 

Read the rest of Andrew Bolt's opinion piece at www.heraldsun.com.au

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First, our worst rates of domestic violence notoriously occur in Aboriginal families, where women are at least 31 times more likely to be hospitalised by violent partners.

Second, it is not the Bible but the Koran that licenses domestic violence. Christ stopped the stoning of a woman accused of adultery, but Mohammed said men could hit disobedient wives: “Admonish them, and leave them alone in the sleeping-places and beat them.”

 

And, third, Baird, herself, concedes deep in her online article that her American source says “regular church attenders are less likely to commit acts of intimate partner violence”. That suggests Christianity actually protects women, exactly the opposite of what the ABC implied.


when you check Tracy’s own sources you’ll find the evidence is against him.The paper claims: “African-Americans, in particular, have higher levels of domestic violence”.

 

What’s more, Ellison says that men who often go to a Christian church “are 72 per cent less likely to abuse their female partners than men from comparable backgrounds who do not attend services”.

 

The conclusion is clear: “Our findings … suggest that religious involvement, specifically church attendance, protects against domestic violence.” Christianity literally saves.

 

Tracy also quotes in his footnotes a New Zealand study by Emeritus Professor David Fergusson which confirms that Christianity is a civilising influence, counter to what the ABC implied.

 

As Tracy writes: “... 11.2 per cent of husbands who never attended church assaulted their wives. But only 2.2 per cent of husbands who attended church at least monthly assaulted their wives, while 6.2 per cent of husbands who attended church sporadically assaulted their wives.”

 

This is not what Baird reported and what the ABC yesterday claimed. Why didn’t the ABC report the truth: that Christianity actually saves women from abuse? Why did it instead falsely claim — and instantly believe — the falsehood that evangelical Christians are the worst abusers?

The ABC is not merely at war with Christianity. This proves something worse: it is attacking the faith that most makes people civil.


The Government seems to want to cut costs for the ABC because maybe the ABC is the only one that tells it like it is -- the other channels are like robots reading the news -- --  and have so much absolute rubbish on them.  

Lateline will not be on next year -- 4 corners is a great program -- as are -- many others but many Pollies hate it. 

I watch mostly ALL ABC and SBS 

They say the ABC is biased -- it is NOT they get up both sides equally.

Pauline Hansen is another that wants it gone too

another racist rant from brocky.  no wonder if he pays attention to bolt!

Plan B whom I differ with politically manages to put her Socialist viewpoint without personal abuse. 

It really is a sign of lack of argument to descend to personal abuse.

 "It really is a sign of lack of argument to descend to personal abuse."

haha, that makes me laugh seeing most of the "personal abuse" comes from you Pete/Brocky/Raphael. The examples below are only a tip of the iceberg

Raphael 

1 day ago

Didn’t realize you were a man. Banjo

on the other hand I’ve known you were a big girls blouse from way back 

Brocky

6 hrs ago

Poor bugger as soon as he gets criticised he inundates the site with spam. 

Brocky

15 hrs ago

There is a new character every day Cats usually only one post . 

Poor Micha nothing else to do but invade an oldies site .

His jealousy is for those of us who have family .

Brocky 

16 hrs ago

Only one poor lonely sod who has to invent friends , Cats  

Brocky

16 hrs ago

Cats just leave Micha to talk to himself under his different pseudos . 

He is thick as a brick and not worth a minut

Raphael

14 hrs ago

you're definitely on to something there Twila

2 of their so called wives post here and they are overbearing control freaks

You have  no respect for anyone Brocky/pete/raphael

Micha you only add to your pretence of being many pseudo characters .

That's personal abuse Brocky.

You cannot abuse imaginary characters .

Unlike you who search me out on the net and reveal my real name and threaten me and my family . 

With we know where you live . 

 

Provide proof and if you can't do that then shut the F up. I am calling you out as a liar. All you want to do is take the heat away from yourself as being a multi personality. Get proof Brock et al.

Tut tut young fella . Such tantrums from a chap who boasts of being half my age at 38 . Time you sought out your own age group Micha and stop terrorising a site for older wiser folk.

In my book, better a “young fella” than an old pea brain like you who copy & pastes all day, nothing wise about that, old fella.

Enjoy!

Next week marks the centenary of the Bolshevik Revolution. November 7, 1917, was not just one of the most influential events of all time, it ushered in the most terrifying period in human history. In the matter of scale, the Russian revolutionaries and their later successors in China and elsewhere achieved a record of far more deaths than either world war.

 

 According to the London-based project to create a Museum of Communist Terror, 15-18 million people died in World War I; 40-80 million died in World War II; and 80-100 million died under communist regimes.

According to other sources:
Death toll WWI … 18 million deaths and 23 million wounded.
Death toll WWII … estimates of total deaths ranging from 50 million to more than 80 million. The higher figure of over 80 million includes deaths from war-related disease and famine.

As of 2011, academic consensus has not been achieved on causes of large scale killings by states, including by states governed by communists. In particular, the number of comparative studies suggesting causes is limited. The highest death tolls that have been documented in communist states occurred in the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin, in the People's Republic of China under Mao Zedong, and in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge. The estimates of the number of non-combatants killed by these three regimes alone range from a low of 21 million to a high of 70 million. Source.

Then again, there’s the great List of wars and anthropogenic disasters by death toll.

What a sad, sad indictment on human nature, Brocky.

The World Wars/Communists are barely above the rampages of the Mongol conquests and the European colonisation of the Americas.

Regarding the ABC …

I read quite a few news sources online (often daily) including in Australia: ABC, SBS, The Conversation, News Limited (News online AU) and associated newspaper feeds, e.g. The Australian, Business Insider … and OS media, e.g. Stuff (NZ), New Zealand Herald, Reuters, BBC, Telegraph (UK), Daily Mail (UK), CNN (US), Washington Post (US), New York Times (US), Times of India, al Jazeera, Gulf News … etc, etc.

I find the ABC quite balanced and certainly less sensationalist than many of the other media sources on offer today.

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