Wednesday, July 04, 2012
About Tony Abbott
Tony
Abbot professes a strong Christian faith. He once wanted to be a
priest; no doubt he attends church regularly. But lets see how he
stacks up against two fundamental Christian laws.
Do
unto others.
From
Matthew: "So in everything, do to others what you would have
them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets."
Tony
would have our Navy intercept on the high seas, a derelict boat
crammed with men, women and children, seeking asylum in Australia,
and turn it around; send it back to where-ever it came from,
Indonesia, Iraq, Sri Lanka.. Or he would take the people on that
vessel and ship them to a distant deserted place and imprison them
there in a state of isolation and uncertainty so severe that it
traumatises them, forever. And Tony has done this. It is an act of
cruelty and torture so severe that some one who can, should call him
and anyone else who does it, to account.
Love
thy neighbour.
Matthew
22:35. Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question,
tempting him, and saying:
Master,
which is the great commandment in the law?
And Jesus
said unto him: Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart,
and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first
and great commandment.
And
the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
Bearing
in mind what Tony Abbott has done unto others and seeks to do again,
does Tony love his neighbour as he loves himself? I think not. Tony
exhibits a very great love of himself and it is a certainty
that he would not treat himself or his family so cruelly as he treats
asylum seekers who come to Australia by boat.
Lust
for power
Tony
lusts for power. Lust is one of the seven deadly sins The Christian
Bible defines lust as the root of all evil. Job said "For lust
is a shameful sin, a crime that should be punished. It is a
devastating fire that destroys to hell. It would wipe out everything
I own." Here Job was speaking of a man's lust for a woman. But
its not the object but the over-whelming wanton desire that is
dangerous.
Kissinger
said “Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.” Kissinger lusted for it.
Tony
is high as a kite on the lust of which Kissinger speaks. He
lusts for power so strongly that he said he would do anything to be
PM.''the only thing I wouldn't do is sell my arse - but I'd have to
give serious thought to it''. [
http://www.smh.com.au/national/the-day-abbott-bared-his-soul-20110827-1jfgv.html ]
Tony
is not looking so good these days. His lust for power is consuming
him.
Is
this the kind of person in whom we should place our trust.
.
There
is a lot of literature about the effect of a lust for power on the
human psyche; here is one gem.
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-lust-for-power-2/
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