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Another year of chocolate bunnies and Easter egg hunts for children and church leaders cleaning their teeth in readiness for their annual fiery sermons, and why? Since Christmas, the shops have been preparing us to spend big, having brought out their hot cross buns before the tinsel had even been taken down, and why? The Christian parliamentarians will have their annual day of reflection before once again displaying their rapier hearts in their election round of posturing, and why? Did Jesus have to die to witness this? Is this the depth of our understanding of His death? If the reason for His death is explained by our annual celebration, I think He wasted His time. And we replica Hermes belt france are wasting His. Who feels the burden He felt which gave Him reason to pour out His life as He did? Who weeps over the poverty of what is left of the church? We need some men who really are His brothers, walking like Him, revealing in their lives the reason for which He lived and died. As it is, we see the church, dressed in spiritual rags, limping along and the world living for what it always has lived for, its own self aggrandisement. Together I can already see them making plans for next year's feast and nothing will have changed.
Greg Mansell, West Ulverstone, Tas
The Easter message has been packaged and peddled by the church for two millennia with a range of liturgies and obligations, but in 2016 the use by date for that particular range is well and truly up. The institutional Christian response to the Easter story is more aligned with rolling the stone against the hopes of the vanquished. It could be so different. The church could be at the forefront of calling for marriage equality and the affirmation of diversity to counteract a culture of bullying and brutal conformity. The testimony of Cardinal George Pell at the royal commission and the frenzy of objections to the Safe Schools program and marriage equality from Christian lobby groups has highlighted the gulf between the Easter narrative of rescue and inclusion and peace. You may well find a connection with the real hope of Easter in an inclusive Christian celebration, but many will find it in acts of kindness and hope or in other unexpected places.
The Venerable Peter MacLeod Miller, Archdeacon of the Hume, St Matthew's Anglican Church, Albury
A precious moment to pause together
Please, AFL Commission, don't introduce football games on Good Friday. If Easter means nothing, then perhaps we should ditch the Easter holidays altogether? While we're about it, we could play cricket on Christmas Day and ditch those holidays hermes brown belt imitation as well. Then, of course, why should we have Sundays off? Let's just focus on work all year around. Oh all right, our unions fought valiantly to give us annual holidays, but these would not necessarily match up with the holidays of many others, let alone our nearest and dearest. So we would be and feel more cut off. Not good for our mental health. Our Christian heritage has deeply affected our values, language, arts and history. It's not generally appreciated that the word Easter derives from oestrus, the fertile period in female mammals. The Christian feast was superimposed on the existing pagan spring festival celebrating fertility and new life, and hence was associated with Jesus's resurrection. Consider the popular symbols of Easter: eggs and rabbits. What further evidence is required?
Rosemary Sceats, Macleod
Some sensitivity, please
Dear Malcolm Turnbull, I fake hermes belts whosale am appalled by the insensitive political opportunism of your speech in which you lectured European nations about your perceptions of their shortcomings in ensuring the security of their peoples. You appear to have barely noticed that 31 people have just died and more than 200 have been injured in terrifying circumstances in Brussels. Their relatives and friends are only just beginning to grieve. They do not need some smug leader on the other side of the world offering what appear to be ignorant, politically motivated opinions.
The developments in replica Hermes belts france Europe since WWII leading to greater integration and freedom of movement have been singular achievements which have reduced the likelihood of a third war between European nations to close to zero. In the face of terrorism, it is going to be difficult to protect these advances.
However, your observations contribute nothing. In fact, European countries should take some comfort from insisting on defending their hard won freedoms. There is a price to pay, of which they are well aware. Unfortunately, your self satisfied assertion that Australia is dealing with terrorist threats more effectively than the Europeans may come to haunt you. But what convictions, what ideas? The convictions and ideas that made the West so successful and resilient include tolerance, individual rights, freedom of speech, free enterprise, equal opportunity and progress, among others. None of these ideals is absolute; each is qualified by all the others. Consent, not regulation, has achieved this fine balance.
The expectation that these values would be shared by all was usually enough to ensure they were. But they are in danger of decay. If the West recommits to those ideals, we will triumph over IS, just as the West triumphed over fascism and communism.
Michael Angwin, Surrey Hills
Living with difference
Please, Seb Potter (Letters, 24/3), multiculturalism is not blind acceptance of violence, be it "theirs" or "ours". Multiculturalism is the hard work of living with differences and condemning all violence. For Belgium, the recent bloody disasters in Zaire (now Democratic Republic of the Congo) and Rwanda that cost more than a million lives were a direct result of the conduct of the great grandparents of the current population of Belgium.
Adrian Jackson, Middle Park
Face up to the past
At the time of the Brussels atrocity, the US carried out a drone strike in Yemen killing "dozens of people". In two strikes over the past month, they have killed more than 200 people. Same explosions, same carnage. Does no one put these acts together? The current threats to the West are the result of 250 plus years of colonial exploitation. The open slavery, genocide and looting may have ended but the oppression goes on. Wouldn't you expect some blowback?
Western powers are fixated on the short game, predicting attacks, cracking down, limiting freedoms, but there's always been a very long game in world affairs, of which we will always be the victims until governments face up to the consequences of their past actions.
Another year of chocolate bunnies and Easter egg hunts for children and church leaders cleaning their teeth in readiness for their annual fiery sermons, and why? Since Christmas, the shops have been preparing us to spend big, having brought out their hot cross buns before the tinsel had even been taken down, and why? The Christian parliamentarians will have their annual day of reflection before once again displaying their rapier hearts in their election round of posturing, and why? Did Jesus have to die to witness this? Is this the depth of our understanding of His death? If the reason for His death is explained by our annual celebration, I think He wasted His time. And we replica Hermes belt france are wasting His. Who feels the burden He felt which gave Him reason to pour out His life as He did? Who weeps over the poverty of what is left of the church? We need some men who really are His brothers, walking like Him, revealing in their lives the reason for which He lived and died. As it is, we see the church, dressed in spiritual rags, limping along and the world living for what it always has lived for, its own self aggrandisement. Together I can already see them making plans for next year's feast and nothing will have changed.
Greg Mansell, West Ulverstone, Tas
The Easter message has been packaged and peddled by the church for two millennia with a range of liturgies and obligations, but in 2016 the use by date for that particular range is well and truly up. The institutional Christian response to the Easter story is more aligned with rolling the stone against the hopes of the vanquished. It could be so different. The church could be at the forefront of calling for marriage equality and the affirmation of diversity to counteract a culture of bullying and brutal conformity. The testimony of Cardinal George Pell at the royal commission and the frenzy of objections to the Safe Schools program and marriage equality from Christian lobby groups has highlighted the gulf between the Easter narrative of rescue and inclusion and peace. You may well find a connection with the real hope of Easter in an inclusive Christian celebration, but many will find it in acts of kindness and hope or in other unexpected places.
The Venerable Peter MacLeod Miller, Archdeacon of the Hume, St Matthew's Anglican Church, Albury
A precious moment to pause together
Please, AFL Commission, don't introduce football games on Good Friday. If Easter means nothing, then perhaps we should ditch the Easter holidays altogether? While we're about it, we could play cricket on Christmas Day and ditch those holidays hermes brown belt imitation as well. Then, of course, why should we have Sundays off? Let's just focus on work all year around. Oh all right, our unions fought valiantly to give us annual holidays, but these would not necessarily match up with the holidays of many others, let alone our nearest and dearest. So we would be and feel more cut off. Not good for our mental health. Our Christian heritage has deeply affected our values, language, arts and history. It's not generally appreciated that the word Easter derives from oestrus, the fertile period in female mammals. The Christian feast was superimposed on the existing pagan spring festival celebrating fertility and new life, and hence was associated with Jesus's resurrection. Consider the popular symbols of Easter: eggs and rabbits. What further evidence is required?
Rosemary Sceats, Macleod
Some sensitivity, please
Dear Malcolm Turnbull, I fake hermes belts whosale am appalled by the insensitive political opportunism of your speech in which you lectured European nations about your perceptions of their shortcomings in ensuring the security of their peoples. You appear to have barely noticed that 31 people have just died and more than 200 have been injured in terrifying circumstances in Brussels. Their relatives and friends are only just beginning to grieve. They do not need some smug leader on the other side of the world offering what appear to be ignorant, politically motivated opinions.
The developments in replica Hermes belts france Europe since WWII leading to greater integration and freedom of movement have been singular achievements which have reduced the likelihood of a third war between European nations to close to zero. In the face of terrorism, it is going to be difficult to protect these advances.
However, your observations contribute nothing. In fact, European countries should take some comfort from insisting on defending their hard won freedoms. There is a price to pay, of which they are well aware. Unfortunately, your self satisfied assertion that Australia is dealing with terrorist threats more effectively than the Europeans may come to haunt you. But what convictions, what ideas? The convictions and ideas that made the West so successful and resilient include tolerance, individual rights, freedom of speech, free enterprise, equal opportunity and progress, among others. None of these ideals is absolute; each is qualified by all the others. Consent, not regulation, has achieved this fine balance.
The expectation that these values would be shared by all was usually enough to ensure they were. But they are in danger of decay. If the West recommits to those ideals, we will triumph over IS, just as the West triumphed over fascism and communism.
Michael Angwin, Surrey Hills
Living with difference
Please, Seb Potter (Letters, 24/3), multiculturalism is not blind acceptance of violence, be it "theirs" or "ours". Multiculturalism is the hard work of living with differences and condemning all violence. For Belgium, the recent bloody disasters in Zaire (now Democratic Republic of the Congo) and Rwanda that cost more than a million lives were a direct result of the conduct of the great grandparents of the current population of Belgium.
Adrian Jackson, Middle Park
Face up to the past
At the time of the Brussels atrocity, the US carried out a drone strike in Yemen killing "dozens of people". In two strikes over the past month, they have killed more than 200 people. Same explosions, same carnage. Does no one put these acts together? The current threats to the West are the result of 250 plus years of colonial exploitation. The open slavery, genocide and looting may have ended but the oppression goes on. Wouldn't you expect some blowback?
Western powers are fixated on the short game, predicting attacks, cracking down, limiting freedoms, but there's always been a very long game in world affairs, of which we will always be the victims until governments face up to the consequences of their past actions.
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