Morrison's world of Christian "morality"

Well just about everyone's got the shits with Scott Morrison, Australia's now Immigration Minister in charge of the demonisation of asylum seekers. It may come as a surprise to many that as well as being a complete asshole, he's also a devout Pentecostal who goes to Shirelive church in Cronulla, which is very similar to Hillsong. It's in this context that he makes the following claims:

Declaring his faith was not a political agenda, he said it would, however, shape his political agenda based on values of kindness, justice and righteousness.

"For me, faith is personal, but the implications are social, as personal and social responsibility are at the heart of the Christian message," he said. "In recent times it has become fashionable to negatively stereotype those who profess their Christian faith in public life as 'extreme' and to suggest that such faith has no place in the political debate of this country." more

I'm sure, in light of the more recent happenings, many Australians would find that personal assertion of morality utterly laughable. If "righteousness, justice, and kindness" mean demonising a group of people, residing over one of them being murdered (and insinuating that it was his fault as he was "outside the compound") then he has a very different understanding of the English language than the rest of us. Maybe that's how he interprets the Bible?

And WTF is this shit about "negatively stereotype" Christians. None of us gays need to be bothered in that because he's doing an amazing job with that all on his own. Take one fuckwit, get him to play with boats....... And when it all goes pear shaped just have the PM say what a wonderful moral man he is. Both Abbott and Morrison seem to be living in some parallel universe with a different meaning of "moral". BTW that above quote is from Feb 2008. 

Here's something more recent, from 2011. The alarm bells were already ringing back then:

While his faith animates his politics, he is on the record as saying “the Bible is not a policy handbook, and I get very worried when people try to treat it like one”. Critics would say that is self-evident from his heartless response to asylum seekers. “I wonder how you can claim to be a serious Christian and take these positions,” said one former colleague. Supporters, however, claim he has pursued a faith-based policy. “He’s a very ethical and moral man,” says a fellow Liberal. “Stopping the boats is ethical and moral.” In his response to December’s boat people tragedy off Java, he advocated a ‘tough love’ policy, which he claimed had the safety of boat people at its heart. After all, for Morrison the Pacific Solution was not only efficient but righteous since it crushed the evil of people smuggling. Church friends might even have seen shades of Wilberforce in his efforts to eradicate such a nefarious trade. To his critics, however, his attacks on the government, which resumed 48 hours after the overloaded boat capsized, offered yet more proof of his harrying opportunism: this was more about political point-scoring than finding a workable solution. more

Yep, it seems in Morrison's world of Christian morality, it's just fine to play politics with people's lives. Abbott's the same. He can do some of the most loathful things to people (Bernie Banton video below) and still claim to be some sort of moral Christian.


Have said a lot, I'd put secular morality up against Christian morality any day. Morality isn't a set of rules from a book, it's simply about how you treat people.

Found this online. Exactly: