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Essendon chief opens up on controversial church · The Slippery Slope

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  Hi. I'm Jay Fallon, and thank you
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  for listening to the slippery slope.
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  So, here in Australia, we have, if you haven't heard of it, this
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  game called Ozzy rules. So, you have the Australian
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  football league? And it's, I think it's the
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  biggest game in Australia, and they also have a women's league
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  as well. In one of the biggest teams in
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  the Australian football league in AFL is essendon.
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  And one of the big stories today.
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  Is this headline here? I'll read to you from the Sydney
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  Morning Herald. It says I have different views,
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  essendon Chief opens up on controversial Church, So it
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  seems the essendon chief executive, who is just brand new
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  to the job. Andrew thorburn.
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  Admits the Church of which he is, Chairman has views, which
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  are offensive and upsetting to some.
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  But insists, his business record shows, he is welcoming and
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  endorses diversity. So, thorburn has taken charge of
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  the bombers. It's called the Essen.
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  And bombers for you that don't know Australian football, Essen
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  and bombers. Sending a bombers at the end of
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  a tumultuous season for the club but he's appointment has also
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  generated unwanted headlines primarily because of his
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  involvement with the city on a hill Church movement.
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  So the form in a be chief, executive plays, a key role in
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  the church, which in a sermon Likens abortion to a
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  concentration camp and says practicing homosexuality.
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  Is a sin. So, Thor Burns personal beliefs
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  could upset the bombers a FLW side, which is the women's side
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  which preachers diversity, and inclusiveness, as well as the
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  purple bombers, which is apparently the club's official
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  diversity and inclusion supporter group.
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  The Purple bombers were contacted for commented, I think
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  they commented. This is the issue.
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  But when they talk about You know, diversity and inclusion
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  groups. It's really just people who are
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  diverse in their sexual orientation, their sexual
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  orientation, or, or their gender diversity.
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  So it's a Victorian Premier, Daniel Andrews, you know, he's
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  the, he's the Pinnacle of morality Daniel Andrews.
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  Anyway. He's a bomber supporter.
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  He had a strong response when asked on Tuesday, about the
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  views, expressed, It's always church.
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  But acknowledges the his appointment was a matter for the
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  club's board. He said, those views are
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  absolutely appalling. I don't support those views that
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  kind of intolerance, that kind of hatred bigotry is just wrong.
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  Andrew said, now I'll just remind you Crimea Andrews.
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  Okay, in the heist of the lockdown season for Victoria in
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  the last couple of years in Victoria Australia, you know,
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  Daniel and Who is the Premier locked Melbourne down for one of
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  the longest they had the most lockdowns the longest period of
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  lockdown in the world just about.
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  And also while he was very keen to tell people who wanted to go
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  to church that they weren't allowed to go to church, you
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  know, because covid, all that stuff he didn't mind allowing
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  the lgbtq whatever plus minus sign Center too.
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  Didn't you know it was okay for that to be opened up in the
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  middle of the city but churches you can't open up so this is the
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  type of man who is standing here.
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  The Victorian Premier. Daniel Andrews saying hey these
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  views are disgusting, what the church believes in is
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  disgusting. Anyway, he also goes on to say
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  all of, you know, my views on these things.
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  Yes, we sure do. So those sorts of attitudes are
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  simply wrong and to dress that up, As anything other than
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  bigotry is just obviously false. Now, I'm looked into what the
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  church believes and it just seems like a very stable
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  bible-based, Bible teaching church.
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  That's all. It seems like I couldn't see
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  anything funky or outrageous. It's just a church that believes
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  in the Bible believes in the the fundamentals of the Bible,
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  teaches the Bible, there's nothing outlandish.
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  Outrageous about this church. Except that I also talked about
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  Sin. They acknowledge what sin is.
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  So this is the whole problem, isn't it?
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  With today's modern society, people are always going to be
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  offended by true actual Christianity.
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  It is always going to be offensive.
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  It will always be offensive, true, or actual Christianity.
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  It is offensive because it divides right from wrong, I'll
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  read this from from this website.
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  It says, it's from God's word dot-org.
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  It says, Christians shouldn't be offensive of course but
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  Christianity is inherently offensive.
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  It teaches that people are born broken and cannot fix
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  themselves. However, the world wants to sell
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  so they can fix themselves it also teaches that submission to
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  God is the only solution it teaches that the intelligent,
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  the wealthy, the powerful and the influential aren't
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  necessarily better off than anybody else.
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  It teaches that our best efforts to do good on our own are all
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  but wasted it teaches that legiance to God is more
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  important than allegiance to your family and that if you have
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  to choose you should choose God. It teaches that some actions are
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  wrong even if they feel good it teaches.
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  That the things that we brag about in our selfishness and
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  immature dinner, immaturity are less important.
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  Wouldn't then the things that nobody sees and get no earthly
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  rewards. In other words, it's the kind of
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  thing that a lot of people don't want to hear Christianity is
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  divisive exclusive and difficult as a result.
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  Sometimes Christians offend others by being divisive
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  exclusive and difficult that are need to be this way because
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  Christianity is plenty of ffensive.
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  Without their help. This is the truth Christianity.
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  I think, I agree wholeheartedly for they're saying, Christianity
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  is offensive, especially, especially to a society that
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  believes that they can do everything on their own.
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  That do not want to acknowledge God at all, that believe that we
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  were just, we've just evolved from, who knows what we've
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  evolved from? I read an article the other day
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  where We're scientists now. Say all we evolved from shocks.
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  They can't make up their mind. They don't want to acknowledge
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  that. We are created beings at all and
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  that is why we have such delusion and confusion.
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  In our society, we have a society that believes that you
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  can swap from being male to female and back to male.
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  And it's all just because of the way you feel, we have a society
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  that believes that you can do whatever you want.
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  You can sleep with whatever you want, you can do anything.
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  Thing you want as long as you do not harm or as long as it feels
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  good, we have a society that does not want to hear that.
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  What they want to do may actually be the wrong thing.
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  We have a society that does not want to know, right from wrong.
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  Christianity is offensive and that's why these reporters.
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  That's why this, the Victorian Premier is offended that the CEO
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  of the Australian football club go.
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  To church. That's why they're offended at
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  what? This church preaches talks
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  about? Because this church this city on
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  a hill in Melbourne. Teaches the Bible and that will
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  always be offensive to a world that does not want to know the
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  truth. That is my opinion.
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  Thank you for listening to the slippery slope.