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If The Tradition Which Claims That War May Be Justified Does Not Also Admit That It Could Be Unjustified, The Affirmation Is Not Morally Serious. A Christian Who Prepares The Case For A Justified War Without Being Equally Prepared For Hte Negative Case Has Not Soberly Weighted The Prima Facie Presumption That Any Violence Is Wrong Until The Case For An Exception Has Been Made.

I Accept That Climate Change Is A Challenge, I Accept The Broad Theory About Global Warming. I Am Sceptical About A Lot Of The More Gloomy Predictions.

If I Am Wrong And You Are Right Then The Democratic Process Of The Australian Community Will Vindicate You And Condemn Me.

The Believer's Cross Is No Longer Any And Every Kind Of Suffering, Sickness, Or Tension, The Bearing Of Which Is Demanded. The Believer's Cross Must Be, Like His Lord's, The Price Of His Social Nonconformity. It Is Not, Like Sickness Or Catastrophe, An Inexplicable, Unpredictable Suffering; It Is The End Of The Path Freely Chosen After Counting The Cost. It Is Not, Like Luther's Or Thomas Muntzer's Or Zinzendorf's Or Kierkegaard's Cross, An Inward Wrestling Of The Sensitive Soul With Self And Sin; It Is The Social Reality Of Representing In An Unwilling World The Order To Come.

The 'black Armband' View Of Our History Reflects A Belief That Most Australian History Since 1788 Has Been Little More Than A Disgraceful Story Of Imperialism, Exploitation, Racism, Sexism And Other Forms Of Discrimination. I Take A Very Different View. I Believe That The Balance Sheet Of Our History Is One Of Heroic Achievement And That We Have Achieved Much More As A Nation Of Which We Can Be Proud Of Than Which We Should Be Ashamed.