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Flat White

Twin evils

Divorced from Christianity, our leaders devalue our humanity

10 July 2023

4:30 AM

10 July 2023

4:30 AM

I don’t like using the word evil, but I will make an exception in the face of the horrible developments taking place in Australia. Our regressive leaders are working to make our society less humane and, ultimately, less human.

Their lack of historical understanding is shocking and sad. Do they not know that it has taken millennia for the West to agree that all human beings deserve equal respect, and as a result, those in authority are obligated to ‘restrain evil and protect good’ for all humans?

This is the basis of the Hippocratic Oath and its offshoots.

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