Marc Fennell: I left Pentecostalism 17 years ago. Now I’m witnessing others make their own exodus from Hillsong | Australian television | The Guardian. #religion #evangelical #Pentacostal #Hillsong #Pentacostalism #Christianity #Australia #TheKingdom #TV #SBS #television #megachurch https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/commentisfree/2023/jun/11/i-left-pentecostalism-17-years-ago-now-im-witnessing-others-make-their-own-exodus-from-hillsong

It’s not just religious extremist and Liberal candidate, Renee Heath, we need to be worried about in the Victorian elections. Seems there could be quite a few of them?
“The Liberal Party’s candidate for Narre Warren North, Timothy Dragan, says Australia should not recognise First Nations people because “we won this land fair and square”, that waste from nuclear energy should be dumped in Alice Springs, and that he would vote to ban abortion.” #vicpol #VicLibs #victorianelection #Pentacostal
https://www.theage.com.au/politics/victoria/bloody-aboriginal-liberal-candidate-rails-against-indigenous-people-abortion-and-climate-change-20221119-p5bzm6.html

I was a Congregational kid turned #pentacostal #evangelical. Went to Bible school, then Pat Robertson’s seminary to be a #missionary. Too many parts of #Church culture seemed #evil. Took 10 yrs to #deconstruct and when I did I finally felt saved. Christianity is, at its most fundamental theology, destructive to the human psyche.

An interesting twitter thread discussing the influence and the strategy to impose a religious agenda in Australia.
#Auspol #VictorianLiberals #religion #Pentacostal
https://twitter.com/aaronsmith333/status/1586473681038868480?s=61&t=ppSCSSQoJlD3uI1V_9AYQQ