Christian politician misrepresent bible slavery and supports homosexual sin
Last night, on a serious Australian current affairs program, Q&A , our current serving Prime Minister, a self-professed Christian, grossly caricatured the Bible . A pastor questioned the PM’s change of mind on same-sex marriage, pointing out that Jesus says, “A man shall leave his father and mother and be married”—summarising Matthew 19:4-6 —and asked why someone calling himself a Christian does not believe the words of Jesus in the Bible. The PM replied, “Well if I was going to have that view, the Bible also says that slavery is a natural condition.” This received the most enormous applause of the night, which incidentally seems to indicate both the depth of biblical illiteracy and the hostility to Christian morality . As justification, the PM went on to refer to Paul’s instructions—delivered in both Ephesians 6:5 and Colossians 3:22 —for slaves to be obedient to their masters. And he suggested on this basis, “we should have all fought for the Confederacy in th