But I think there are normal things a man ought to do, as he sleeps or wakes or walks. One of them … is to be able to write down in pen and ink what he really thinks about public questions, and why he thinks it: which is all that I have done in this place.
~~G. K. Chesterton. A Miscellany of Men
Gentle Readers–
You may be wondering why yet another Piece of Flotsam has been churned out of the Infernal Babbage Engine and sent floating into the Ether. However the lack of Web Journals promoting a Traditional Australian Conservatism has forced me to tax my Humble Talents and attempt, in my own Small Way, to fill this unfortunate Lacuna.
Fifty years ago Conservatives who proposed such Ideas as: Sodomitical Unions, the replacement of the Monarchy with a Bannana Republic, the usurption of the powers of the States by a Regnant Federal Government, and the issuing of every Australian with Identity Cards – would be seen for what They Truly Are, Radicals. Now many of these Positions are held by Members of Our Conservative Government and defended by a large number of Conservative Internet Journals.
This Journal will support what was once the Traditional Positions of Australian Conservatism before the Baby Boomers tipped the Stinking Carcass of Leftism into the Wellspring of Western Civilization in the Sixties. That is the Preservation and Promotion of the True Protestant Religion, Our British Heritage, the Australian Constitution, the Monarchy, the Rule of Law, and The Rights of the States. In addition this Journal will be a Partisan (but not Uncritical) Defender of the National Party of Queensland (and of Australia) in the face of so-much hostility from both the Left and the Right.
Or, to phrase it another way, this Journal will contain Intemperate tirades against Godlessness, Popery, Mohammadism, Ecumenicalism, Heresy, Sodomy, Fornication, Adultery, Immorality, Foreign Riff-Raff, Vulgar Oafishness, a Regnant Commonwealth Government, Daylight Savings, Treasonous Balderdash, Whiggism, Jacobinism, Radicalism, Socialism, Feminism and the Monstrous Regiment of Drunken, Swearing, and Tattooed Women, and other Blights on Western Civilization.
God Save the Queen!
Mild Colonial Boy, Esq.
Um… While we appriciate the link you have posted to the club, are you aware that we are a collection of Monarchical Papists?
While we echo whole heartedly the views expressed about the stinking carcass of liberalism, Popes and Councils rank highest in our esteem.
Yes Capt., I was aware that you were cricket loving, Monarchical Papists. My linking policy is now more clearly expressed on my Disclaimer page:
No responsibility is taken for the Opinions or Manners of individuals linked to from this journal. Linking is not the equivalent of Church or Prayer fellowship and linking does not imply that The Author necessarily approves of the Sentiments or their Manner of Expression by other Writers.
Interesting site. We (at the Conservative Donnybrook) too are Papists, though of the baseball loving variety.
You, as a Lutheran, should be on your way back to the Church as all of Martin Luther’s 95 Theses have been answered and cured. Welcome home!
Sir,
Going back to Rome? Has the Church of Rome stopped opposing the Biblical doctrine of justification by faith alone? Has it stopped issuing indulgences for works? Has it stopped forbidding priests to marry (the doctrine of demons)? Has it stopped the virtual goddess worship of idolatrous Mariolatry and putting other intermediaries, other than Jesus, between God and Man? Has the Pope stopped propping up these and other Anti-Christian positions?
The answer is no.
The signing of an ambiguously worded document by a group of unrepresenative LINOs (Lutherans In Name Only) has solved none of the issues raised in the Book of Concord.
There is no need for me to return as I am in a Church which teaches the Word of God purely and administers the sacraments correctly.
When is the Church of Rome genuinely going to reform its doctrines and practices?
Thanks for that witty reply.
I had to feature your response http://extranos.blogspot.com/2008/07/when-are-you-coming-home.html
It is just to good to pass by.
LPC
Dear Evangelical brothers,
I am sorry to interupt your little anti-Catholic dialogue by inserting the views of a true blue dinky di ozzie cobber wombie Roman.
It is so easy to repeat old slanders and slogans — it means you never really have to grapple with the fact that your brother in Christ also has some share in the truth…
Has the Church of Rome stopped opposing the Biblical doctrine of justification by faith alone?
I just love the confidence with which it is asserted that “the” biblical doctrine of justification is justification by faith “ALONE”. I just love the way this is maintained despite the fact that the doctrine is unsupported by any biblical author, in fact, even denied by one.
Has it stopped issuing indulgences for works?
I was under the impression that indulgences were issued for the grace of Christ and the forgiveness of sins. Deary me. How could I be so mistaken?
Has it stopped forbidding priests to marry (the doctrine of demons)?
Until recently, there were many careers and offices in society that required celibacy, including nurses, teachers, university professors, and a whole range of jobs in which it was recognised that celibacy befitted the calling. Doctrine of demons?
Has it stopped the virtual goddess worship of idolatrous Mariolatry and putting other intermediaries, other than Jesus, between God and Man?
It doesn’t matter how many times we deny that we worship Mary and the saints, you are going to keep asserting that we do. Ho hum. It does get tiresome. And the assertion that we place “other” mediators between us and God aside from Jesus. Well, my dear friend, so do you. Think about it next time you ask someone to pray for you. (If you don’t mind, I will pray for you, but is that coming between you and Jesus if I do?)
Has the Pope stopped propping up these and other Anti-Christian positions?
I am sorry, but it does seem to be to be awfully uncharitable, and not to say blasphemous, to make such accusations about your fellow Christians and witnesses to Christ.
Charity first. Charity second. And Charity third. Apart from Charity you are as a clanging gong and a sounding symbol. Go read 1 Cor 13. Read, Learn and inwardly digest, as they say.
Thanks for the defense of Protestantism MCB. We have the right to be independent of that organization in Rome even if we do not have justification, although some of the Romanists on this comment thread want to make you out like a bigot for not immediately going over to their side.
Nice to hear that there are other right-minded Conservative Christian brothers out there. Keep up the good works MCB.
I will try to keep the Faith, Sir.
Decided to have a look at your site, MCB. I am amused and heartened to see conservatism thriving in Australia, where I thought it have been bludgeoned to dead with a big People’s sausage.
I myself lean to the libertarian (read REAL liberal — the leave me and my money alone, and I’ll do the same for you in kind), but agree that the spoiled ranks of the baby boomer era have managed to do a great deal of damage while attempting to wrap their world in nerf. We’re fighting this particular issue of lunacy right now, here in the US.
I like the flavor of the site. Keep it up.