Thinking about the think tank
Posted in Aussie interest, Current affairs, Faith and philosophy, Films, DVDs, TV, Multiculturalism and diversity, News and Current Affairs, Politics, Religion, gay life/issues, immigration with tags culture wars, Islam on July 31, 2007 by ninglunReligious language and religious groups cause no end of angst to many folk, and the further they are from our own experience and immediate circle the more angst we are likely to suffer. For example, a nice man named Ben has just left a comment on the Big Archive at the entry Looking for the “gay lobby”, the point of the entry being that the “gay lobby” is essentially a paranoid construct in the minds of people who don’t like gays and lesbians, or suspect them of enormous power and credit them with a unity of purpose they sadly lack. Ben begins and concludes his message thus; I’ll leave you to check, or just guess, the middle:
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