Scott Morrison's insane church beliefs

Still freaked out that our new immigration minister, hard nosed Scott Morrison (happy to separate mother from baby) is part of a Pentecostal church. Called Shirelive, which is in his constituency. Being as I myself has had integral experience with hard nosed Pentecostalism when I was young and stupid, I was curious to see what kind of Pentecostal church it is.

Well folks, it's not quite as bad as the one I was in, the United Pentecostal Church, but it's got some strange beliefs never the less. It has all the usual bullshit about god's word and all bla, including speaking in tongues (yes, this is our immigration minister). It's a very US style church as far as the money thing goes, in that they believe that god wants us to be well off. somewhat of a departure from the usual run of the mill Australian Pentecostals. 

We believe that God has individually equipped us so that we can successfully achieve His purpose for our lives which is to worship God, fulfill our role in the church and serve the community in which we live.

We believe that God wants to heal and transform us so that we can live healthy and prosperous lives in order to help others more effectively. more

Which is quite disturbing.The logical conclusion then is that if you're poor then you're not following god. Or, if you're poor, it's your fault because you haven't repented. 

Being sick is another one. By that logic if you're sick then you also mustn't be following god as god wants you to be healthy. Or, if you're sick, it's your fault because you haven't repented. I can imagine then what they must think of those with HIV. Yes darlings, I've rejected the whole stupid god thing, will never repent as I don't believe in the whole notion of "sin", so according to them it must be my fault that I got HIV right?

I'm not making this up. It's all there on the Shirelive site. Apparently all this is what the bible is on about....

I  assume Morrison considers that separating a mother from her new born baby is helping others more effectively?  Or demonising asylum seekers is what the bible tells god's people to do? Seriously, if anyone's not doing what the "word of god" instructs it's this Scott Morrison:

The Gospel of Luke asks ‘Who is my neighbour?’ and then tells us the story of the Good Samaritan. Matthew’s Gospel tells us about the Holy Family’s flight from the ‘slaughter of the innocents’ to safety in Egypt. They were indeed fortunate asylum seekers in that the Pharaoh was generous and did not play to public prejudice by calling on his subjects to ‘stop the donkeys’. more

And here from the same article is Morrison's actions on asylum seekers in opposition. All the Christian thing to do he must think.

He has said that they bring disease ‘everything from tuberculosis and hepatitis C to chlamidya and syphilis’. This assertion was rejected by an infectious diseases expert, Dr Trent Yarwood.

He told 2GB Talkback radio audiences that he had seen asylum seekers bringing in ‘wads of cash …and large displays of jewellery’. Desperate people will bring whatever portable assets they have.

According to leaks from the Shadow Cabinet, and according to Jane Cadzow, Scott Morrison suggested that the Coalition ‘ramp up its questioning to … capitalise on anti-Muslim sentiment’. He used the dog-whistling defence that he was only listening to what people are saying ‘we’ve got to listen to what their concerns are’. But please, lend me a megaphone!

In early 2011 he complained about the cost of holding funerals in Sydney for asylum seekers who died in a shipwreck off Christmas Island. An eight year old, whose parents had both died in the shipwreck, was one of 21 people flown from the Christmas Island Detention Centre to attend the funeral ceremonies. Scott Morrison said these were ‘government-funded junkets’ and that the relatives would be ‘taking sightseeing trips and those sorts of things’. He later apologised for the timing but not the content of his remarks.

Only last month, he called on the government to suspend asylum seekers being released into the community on the basis of a single violent attack. Fairfax Media pointed out that these people were about 45 times less likely to be charged with a crime than a member of the general community. more

The second one is interesting. If they're bringing in cash and jewellery after fleeing with their lives, then maybe they're rich? Isn't that what Morrison's god wants?