I support the AFA's campaign 1,000,000 percent, because many Australians don’t follow any particular religion. However for some reason many put themselves down as members of a particular Christian denomination.
This gives the churches ammunition when trying to defend things like scripture teaching and chaplains in schools. Because they can claim from the census figures some 60-70% of Australians are Christians (which is an overestimate in my opinion). Indeed the easy going attitude (I used to be like this regrettably) of the Australian public are a reason why a tiny minority of practicing Christians (outnumbered by Atheists and Agnostics) are allowed to exercise disproportionate political power.
This gives the churches ammunition when trying to defend things like scripture teaching and chaplains in schools. Because they can claim from the census figures some 60-70% of Australians are Christians (which is an overestimate in my opinion). Indeed the easy going attitude (I used to be like this regrettably) of the Australian public are a reason why a tiny minority of practicing Christians (outnumbered by Atheists and Agnostics) are allowed to exercise disproportionate political power.
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