Uniting - the other Christians

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http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/blogs/godless-gross/uniting--the-other-christians-20120618-20j2i.html


Dick Gross (aka Godless Gross)
June 18, 2012 - 11:49AM

It would be easy for Australians to mistake the Catholic Church for Christianity in Oz. All of the headlines, all of the prominent characters and all of the bloodiest and most compelling fights seem to be monopolised by Catholicism. Like any car crash, Catholicism makes for compulsive viewing. I give praise to Catholicism daily.

And yet there are other denominations that atheists like me tend to ignore, for they are often progressive or philanthropic and thus a poor advertisement for godlessness. These are churches that do not wear "Kick Me" signs extolling antediluvian polices promoting celibacy or male-only ordination or gay hostility
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The Uniting Church is one such progressive institution and sadly I find it hard to hate.

Born of an amalgamation of the Methodist, Congregationalist and most of the Presbyterian churches in 1977, the Uniting Church is the ultimate small target. It has come a long way since the prudish Methodists and the severe and forbidding Presbyterians of yore.


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[JDPriestly]

1. So have the Methodists and Presbyterians -- or at least many of them.

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2. Aussie humor. There's nothing like it.

Lots more humor from Oz at Gutenberg.australia

Mr. Gross has a way with words, and also some very good points. "Be a careful shopper" is what it boils down to.