Imagine that.
From here:
THE chaplain at Melbourne’s most prestigious Anglican school has spoken out against the way religion is taught in Victorian government schools, saying their classrooms should not be used for ”conversion”.
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While proselytising is supposed to be forbidden, a recording recently emerged of a speech by Access Ministries chief executive Evonne Paddison, in which she stressed the need to ”go and make disciples”.
She also said: ”Without Jesus, our students are lost.”
Her comments sparked outrage and have prompted an investigation by both the state and federal governments.
Mr Noone said the statement that children would be lost without Jesus revealed Dr Paddison’s theology and educational philosophy.
‘The statement is claiming a lot and it is manifestly not true, however I don’t doubt that it forms the basis of why she does what she does,” he wrote in Melbourne Grammar’s newsletter. ”There is a certain kind of evangelical Christian who believes they have the truth and a serious duty to tell everyone else.”
Well, Rev. Noone, if you think the statement ”Without Jesus, our students are lost.” is “manifestly not true”, why are you a member of a profession whose job it is to proclaim that it is true?
Oh, I get it, you are a member of the fifth column gaytheists who have infiltrated the Anglican church in order to turn it into the people’s socialist lawn bowling collective.
I don’t think Rev Noone’s opinions would be typical of Anglican school chaplains. I certainly hope not! If the students are presented with the Gospel, in a way that they can relate to, no doubt many of them, if not already committed Christians, may well wish to become so. What will Rev Noone do, tell them to go away and forget about it?