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“To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he’s doing is good, or else that it’s a well-considered act in conformity with natural law. Fortunately, it is in the nature of the human being to seek a justification for his [...]

Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose. ~ Viktor Frankl, Jewish Holocaust survivor When Viktor Frankl arrived at the Nazi prison camp, he immediately promised himself that he wouldn’t ‘run into the wire’, a term for the [...]

Most Australians have never lived under an authoritarian dictatorship, and therefore we are largely ignorant of how quickly circumstances can descend. It was the great Russian novelist Alexander Solzenitsyn who resolutely warned against this kind of wishful thinking. In Live Not By Lies, Rod Dreher [...]

Here’s something that will blow your mind: human knowledge now doubles every 12 hours. Every 12 hours. In the 1940s, it was doubling every 25 years. Before 1900, it doubled about every century. So it’s not just that knowledge has increased: it’s that our access [...]

Earlier this week we reported on the historic anti-communist protests taking place in Cuba, along with the weak response from the Biden administration. The White House has been criticised for its delay in commenting on the demonstrations, and also for mischaracterising them merely as protests [...]

Polling booth figures in far north Queensland and the Northern Territory provide an insight into the extent to which Aboriginal people are used as “polling booth fodder” by the Australian Labor Party, Your Life Your Vote: Take Control said today. Your Life Your Vote: Take [...]

Time Magazine did a story about the ‘Most Significant Person in History’, and concluded after a very comprehensive and detailed research program that Jesus was that person. The results appeared in their December 10th, 2013 edition. If one googles ‘the most significant person in History’ [...]

Is your life being wasted on things that do not matter? If you are a Christian, you are called to serve the Lord fully and faithfully, day in and day out. The Christian life is NOT giving God a bit of your attention for an [...]

The world’s favourite atheist Richard Dawkins has said that faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse not to think or evaluate evidence. He has also likened religion to a mental illness. Atheism likes the spotlight. It has had a pop-culture resurgence in the last [...]

When it comes to lockdowns, Christians are divided. On one side, it is argued that lockdowns are the obvious way to love one’s neighbour, as they prevent transmission of the virus. Indeed, various studies have shown that lockdowns do curb transmission not only of COVID-19, [...]

Save the Whales! The history of whaling in the twentieth century is the depletion of one species after another. Beginning in 1928, for example, the whaling industry killed about 330,000 blue whales, until only an estimated 600 were left in 1963. In its heyday, whaling [...]

The Australian Christian Lobby (ACL), led by Martyn Iles, has been undertaking an enormously popular tour of Australia called The Truth of It, named after Iles’s regular online broadcast. Thousands have turned out to attend the in-person events in cities around the nation. But in [...]

Over the weekend, unprecedented scenes emerged from the small island nation of Cuba, with thousands taking to the streets to demand freedom from 60 years of Communist tyranny. Crowds chanted, “We are not afraid!” and “Freedom!” — and called for an end to the impoverished [...]

American historian Daniel J. Boorstin once said that “the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance; it is the illusion of knowledge.” These words ring particularly true when we consider the behaviour of the pharmaceutical industry, or ‘Big Pharma’. Over the past two years, two [...]

A new Indigenous organisation -- Your Life Your Vote: Take Control -- was launched last week on 8 July 2021, with the aim of stopping the Labor Party, the Greens, and other extreme Left-wing political movements from using Aboriginal votes to pursue ineffective economic policies [...]

“Save us and help us with Your right hand, that those You love may be delivered.” ~ Psalm 108:6 This psalm is a ‘mash-up’ of Psalms 57 and 60. The point of both psalms is reinforced here. They start with the Lord’s people under stress [...]

Last year’s U.S. presidential election has been analysed backwards and forwards. But with so many layers to the story, it can be difficult to summarise all that took place -- beginning with the now-discredited claims that Trump cheated in 2016, through to Covid-19 and the [...]

Throughout the history of mankind, the natural progression of life has been birth, ultimately followed by death at some point in time. During these trying times, it might be worth looking at the importance of parenting. When we observe the wonder of birth, we are [...]

“Those who cannot remember the past, are condemned to repeat it.” — George Santayana, Philosopher Part 1: Why Nations Fail This article is an abbreviated version of Chapter 14 of How We Are Amazingly Made, by Jerry Bergman, Graham McLennan and Tom Rogers, with thanks [...]

The San Francisco’s Gay Men’s Chorus recently released a mock Broadway video boasting how “they really will convert your children”. After a massive backlash, the video has been taken down, but it can still be viewed here: https://twitter.com/TPostMillennial/status/1412898592864579586?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1412898592864579586%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fcaldronpool.com%2Fwere-coming-for-your-children-san-francisco-gay-mens-chorus%2F Note in particular the opening lines of [...]