I have sincere reservations about the intentions of those discussing the so-called “National Statement on Religious Diversity”. I would prefer it to be a “National Statement on Religious FREEDOM”. The pre-eminence of “The State” in Principle #1 is egregious. The claim that NZ has no established religion is anti-historical, false, and unbelievably arrogant. Principle #2 is problematic and self-contradictory. It is likely to be used to enforce “secular” principles on believers and violate their personal values & beliefs.

On Maori TV last night Dover Samuels stated that (paraphrase) “religious beliefs DO NOT MATTER; what matters is peace and harmony”. I am all for peace and harmony, but Samuels’ statement is a typical ignorant leftist platitude. Peace and harmony do not exist when someone’s religion teaches them to kill the infidel, nor when someone’s “enlightened” secularism tells them to outlaw homeschooling (Germany), smacking (NZ), freedom of speech (Australia, Canada), hiring practices of Catholic social services (UK).

Direct Quotes from the proposed Statement:

1. The State seeks to treat all faith communities and those who profess no religion equally before the law. NEW ZEALAND HAS NO OFFICIAL OR ESTABLISHED RELIGION.
2. New Zealand upholds the right to freedom of religion and belief and the right to freedom from discrimination on the grounds of religious or other belief.

Thankfully, dear reader, I have come into possession of Labour’s secret “Statement of Religious Perversity”, which reveals their altogether benevolent scheme to lead NZ on the path of (self-)righteousness.

1. There is only one State, and Helen is its Prophet
2. The people shall respect no power or authority other than the edicts of Helen and her Great Bureaucracy
3. The people shall hold no “fact”, “truth claim” or “belief” to be propositionally true, ultimately true, verifiable, or legitimate — other than the statements in this document
4. The people shall hold no values, mores, or cultural standards higher than the Eternal Secular Principles of “tolerance, diversity, and inclusion”.
5. Any person who contravenes (3) by publishing any kind of “fact, truth claim, or belief” shall be deemed a bigoted violator of (4); subject to public vilification; proclaimed a public nuisance; and investigated by the People’s Police Force
6. The people shall respect the values of the Green Party and the illustrious Susan Bradford, whose research has found that 80% of New Zealanders are criminally violent to children
7. In light of (6), and some disturbing references to a primitive Judaic belief system in the history books, an extensive re-education programme shall be implemented. All references to “Israel”, “the Holocaust”, “Jesus Christ”, “Christianity” shall be expunged.
8. You shall not covet your neighbour’s property, unless you happen to work for the IRD.
9. You _shall_ covet your neighbour’s ass. Especially if thy name is David Benson-Pope
10. Thou shalt enlarge the power and glory of the Prophet Helen, her almighty State, and its many-splendoured Departments, at every PR opportunity

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Clark’s radical communist coterie is promoting a religion of secularism, in which the State becomes God, and any prior claims to truth or authority are deemed traitorous. It’s not lunacy, it’s a long range plan of sinister subtlety.

MrTips writes:

In each and every one of these cases the approach of the factions pushing these barrows of societal change has been to: 1) open the issue up for debate and then lie about the data, 2) lie about the real intentions of the legislation, 3) brand any opposing argument as hateful, bigoted or not trustworthy, 4) buy the votes of the younger generation (ie. less than 25) as they are more easily sucked in by the dollar and 5) turn votes of conscience into matters of political survival for MPs by whipping them into line. These are the traits of a dictatorship, driven by complete cynicism for the general population and lack of respect for due Parliamentary process.

But why would such people behave in this manner: what could possess them to be so malevolent towards society? The answer obviously is that they don’t think they are being malevolent, rather they view their ideas as our salvation.

One would think there was an unseen mastermind playing a discordant tune, and Labour are mesmerized puppets, manipulated by their own arrogance, lust for power, and scorn for tradition.

S. M. Hutchens observes:

[According to the ever-encroaching secularism,] Christ, the white male in his perfection, is the (as yet mostly) unnamed devil lurking behind every substantial evil that plagues the modern world, der ewige Jude, no longer the Abrahamic man through whom all the nations are blessed, but the source of the earth’s sorrows, the pale Galilean at whose breath the world turns cold, and we—we, who are too wise to believe in Satan have been trained in the name of every good thing to see the world through demonic eyes.

Unfortunately… “for conservative “classical” liberals, we are generally faced with an odious choice between the stupid party and the evil party”

A prime example of deep stupidity and grandiose error is Marxism and all of its many polluted streams, branches, creeks and crocks. That variants of this falsehood still proliferate on the left today means that, as always, intelligence alone is no unknowculation against evil, darkness, and error. Hardly.

For conservative “classical” liberals, we are generally faced with an odious choice between the stupid party and the evil party. We generally align ourselves with the former, since the former is at least susceptible to our influence, whereas the latter is not. Someone who has truly given himself over to evil is not going to be persuaded by truth. His intelligence is in the service of forces he neither sees nor understands, and there is just no point of entry in dealing with him, since he is not lacking information as such but light. Truly, you can hand them the truth on a silver platter, and they will not only reject it but be quite hostile to it.

I no longer think politics has much say in the future of mankind. However, the Gospel of Jesus Christ has been the mightiest civilising force in history, and the Son of God has plenty to say about the future.

Some inspired words from Psalm 146:

Do not put your trust in princes,
in mortal men, who cannot save.
When their spirit departs, they return to the ground;
on that very day their plans come to nothing.

Blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob,
whose hope is in the LORD his God,
the Maker of heaven and earth,
the sea, and everything in them—
the LORD, who remains faithful forever.

How dare these petty bureaucrats dictate to reasonable parents. What pigheaded utopianism could possibly commit such a crime against common sense. Bradford’s bill is no law. It is lawlessness in every home.

Leftist academics and politicians are a very strange breed. Their enlightened mission is to free the misguided, grubby masses from the shackles of tradition, morals, personal property, and responsibility. It’s Helen’s diabolical marxist dream come true.

The consequences of this slimy piece of legislation are already being seen. Labour’s pet union, the teachers, will be reporting all misdemeanours to Big Sister [See NZConservative.blogspot.com]

Q: What kind of self-righteous a**hole thinks they know better than 80% of the population, rams through controversial laws with no regard to the long term outcomes, & attempts to turn human nature on its head?

A: A deluded fool? OR A dishonest, aggressive ideologue who is determined to mould NZ into the image of failed totalitarian toilets like Sweden, Cuba, or Russia.

PS. Happy ANZAC day Helen. May all true-hearted Kiwis see through your lies and vote against the corrupt, power-mad Labour party.

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