I just keep picturing the Romans having a good giggle over the christians 
. Safe to say their threat was seriously underestimated. How long before Pakistan, or religious radicals, get hold of nuclear weapons? Call me paranoid, but several mideast countries, like Iran and Afghanistan, slid back into theocracies. I thought the U.S. was headed toward being more secular, and the next thing I knew Paula White and Jerry Falwell Jr. are welcomed into the white house as advisors to the president and our Supreme Court is stacked with people with christian agendas. Thereâs every possibility that Trump, or someone like him, will win the next election. In researching how the Nazi treated homosexuals I was surprised to learn that pre Nazi Berlin had been a mecca for homosexuals. Laws were on the books, but not enforced. I think every secular society is in danger of âchristian valuesâ again becoming the law of the land even after it seems theyâve moved beyond that. The workplace here has become more clearly accommodating to religion, but not to those trying to avoid it.
As a country itâs already Nuclear, same with its enemy, India.
eeeeek. I forgot that. Youâre not helping my paranoia 
. It really does seem like just a matter of time before thereâs mushroom clouds over every major city. I sincerely hope Iâm wrong, or at least dead before it happens. Yeah, Iâm a cynic.
What a twat, he should have stuck to cricket.
Letâs make it a crime to disagree with me, seems reasonable. 
Jackass Jehovah revealed himself through Jesus fuckinâChrist and wasnât satisfied so voila Mental Muhammad - Asshole AllahâŚ
Suck shit Mr. Khan 
As Australia and Canada.
The first time I travelled overseas, I was stunned to see how little Australia was mentioned in local news. In Europe and North America it was as if Australia didnât exist.
We are small country on the pacific rim and pretty much irrelevant to the Norther hemisphere.
People such as the dill in Pakistan are suffering from delusions of grandeur.
I remember doing a report on Australia in what must have been 6th grade. I think it got my attention because of the kangaroos. I remember being surprised that you all spoke English .
Yeah, I once asked my mother if they had electricity when she was a little girl.
English remains the lingua franca. Today over 200 languages are spoken in Australia
My mother came out from Vancouver to marry dad in 1946. She came from an urban, sophisticated city to one where it was still about 1890.
Housing shortage, so they went to live with my grandfather and his three adult children to an older working class suburb of Adelaide: Outside toilet, wood stove, copper and wash board to wash clothes, ice chest, no vacuum cleaner, no baby food. Mum made it using a pressure cooker. Few people had a car.
There was a phone which been put in because my grandfather had been a police officer. It was used by the entire neighbourhood.
Pubs closed at 6pm. There were no clubs. Shops closed at 11AM Saturday and did not open until Monday .Everything was shut on Sunday, no shops hotels or theatres. All churches did a roaring trade. No sport was played on Sunday.
My parents rode bicycles, eventually each with a child attached or running along side. First family car in 1963, a 1938 Nash.
On reflection as an adult, I was amazed that my mother stayed. Her and dad were married for 60 years.
The phrase âdark side of the moonâ pops into my head, even though Iâm aware thereâs no such thing.
At that time, Adelaide was a very good place to be from. As a destination, not so much