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No matter what walk of life you have come from or what your own history is, there is a place and a purpose which God has for you. At St. John’s we meet to encourage one another as we find our common purpose in Jesus Christ.
St. John’s Cathedral encompasses an extraordinary diversity of community life. We would love you to join us and we want to invite you to be part of our community and purpose. Across every age group and across the cultures that make our city – our goal is to know Christ and to make him known. |
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Dear Family and Friends,
Are you aware of the present danger to Scripture in Schools? In November last year, then Premier Nathan Rees intervened to waive regulations and give year 5 & 6 students in some schools a choice between SRE (Special Religious Education) and the trial of Ethics-based classes. What is the problem? Well there are several.
Firstly, the so called ‘Ethics' proposal is not ‘belief - neutral'. It claims to be simply practical thinking and decision making. However, in reality it is based on a secular humanism which teaches faith in humanity and removes spiritual foundations. The Sydney Morning Herald reported that students will ‘unwittingly encounter the higher thoughts of philosophers such as John Stuart Mill and Immanuel Kant'. In the end it can teach a way of thinking about ethics but it is not able to teach what we would call ‘ethical' or ‘moral' behavior because without a belief in God, it has no grounds on which to base it.
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