What church is this in Kaleen?

dungfungus said :

These are your words Jethro, not mine but on the subject of the execution of the muslim woman in Afghanistan, I haven’t heard any condemation of same from local muslims so I can only conclude that they condone it as well as endorsing it as you suggest.

The girl who made my ham and salad sandwich today only asked if I wanted salt or pepper. She didn’t condemn that incident at all during our conversation. In fact neither did I. Oh my god we both must condone it then. I didnt realize everyone had to go round condemning every act of barbarism worldwide or else they must obviously support and condone it.

Thanks for pointing that out.

dungfungus said :

These are your words Jethro, not mine but on the subject of the execution of the muslim woman in Afghanistan, I haven’t heard any condemation of same from local muslims so I can only conclude that they condone it as well as endorsing it as you suggest.

You know perfectly well what you were hinting at Dungfungus.

And I didn’t know local Muslims were required to speak out against every attrocity that occurs in Afghanistan.

I haven’t heard you speak out against the fact America executes mentally ill people. This must mean you support these actions.

patrick_keogh said :

dungfungus said :

Do they have scheduled public executions?

Yes, but please hurry up, your non arrival has thrown the schedule into some disarray.

😀

Good one!

Jethro said :

patrick_keogh said :

Jethro said :

dungfungus said :

Do they have scheduled public executions?

Have the Muslims living in Canberra publically executed anyone recently?

I know the Christian Right in America is massively in favour of execution. By your logic, Australian Christians must also be.

How did someone manage to get Muslims and Islam into this? One church, the first one discussed is Greek Orthodox. Christian. Geddit? The second one is Coptic Orthodox. Christian. Geddit? We have no Islamic places of worship that I know if in Kaleen. We have many Christian ones with four purpose-build churches and two or three other denominations who meet in school halls etc.

Have to go as far as Lyneham for a Buddhist temple, Spence or Civic for a Muslim musalla, Weston for the Bahá’í centre and probably southside for a synagogue.

Dungfungus’s comment was clearly having a dig at the proposed Mosque in Gunghalin.

His comment was most likely referring to the awful execution of an accused adulteress in Afghanistan that was publicised in the media this week. He obviously meant to suggest that the barbaric actions of a small number of Muslims in Afghanistan means Canberra’s Muslims don’t deserve a place of worship in their home-town.

He used this thread (which would otherwise have been a perfectly normal discussion on religious architecture) to push this bigoted point of view.

I was simply responding to his bigotry by pointing out that Muslims are not the only people who endorse capital punishment, and that not all religious folk adhere to the extreme viewpoints of the religious radicals.

These are your words Jethro, not mine but on the subject of the execution of the muslim woman in Afghanistan, I haven’t heard any condemation of same from local muslims so I can only conclude that they condone it as well as endorsing it as you suggest.

patrick_keogh said :

Jethro said :

dungfungus said :

Do they have scheduled public executions?

Have the Muslims living in Canberra publically executed anyone recently?

I know the Christian Right in America is massively in favour of execution. By your logic, Australian Christians must also be.

How did someone manage to get Muslims and Islam into this? One church, the first one discussed is Greek Orthodox. Christian. Geddit? The second one is Coptic Orthodox. Christian. Geddit? We have no Islamic places of worship that I know if in Kaleen. We have many Christian ones with four purpose-build churches and two or three other denominations who meet in school halls etc.

Have to go as far as Lyneham for a Buddhist temple, Spence or Civic for a Muslim musalla, Weston for the Bahá’í centre and probably southside for a synagogue.

Dungfungus’s comment was clearly having a dig at the proposed Mosque in Gunghalin.

His comment was most likely referring to the awful execution of an accused adulteress in Afghanistan that was publicised in the media this week. He obviously meant to suggest that the barbaric actions of a small number of Muslims in Afghanistan means Canberra’s Muslims don’t deserve a place of worship in their home-town.

He used this thread (which would otherwise have been a perfectly normal discussion on religious architecture) to push this bigoted point of view.

I was simply responding to his bigotry by pointing out that Muslims are not the only people who endorse capital punishment, and that not all religious folk adhere to the extreme viewpoints of the religious radicals.

ceejbee said :

If local rumours are true, they started building this church ages ago, (15 years-ish) but ran out of money to finish it. As more money was raised, they finished bits and pieces of it.

I haven’t seen it for a while, and I don’t remember it ever looking this good. I guess they finally raised enough to finish it!

I’ve lived within a few hundred yards of the site since ’86. Yes it wasn’t that good looking in the early years. The stained glass and the tiles made a huge difference.

There is enough parking.

Jethro said :

dungfungus said :

Do they have scheduled public executions?

Have the Muslims living in Canberra publically executed anyone recently?

I know the Christian Right in America is massively in favour of execution. By your logic, Australian Christians must also be.

How did someone manage to get Muslims and Islam into this? One church, the first one discussed is Greek Orthodox. Christian. Geddit? The second one is Coptic Orthodox. Christian. Geddit? We have no Islamic places of worship that I know if in Kaleen. We have many Christian ones with four purpose-build churches and two or three other denominations who meet in school halls etc.

Have to go as far as Lyneham for a Buddhist temple, Spence or Civic for a Muslim musalla, Weston for the Bahá’í centre and probably southside for a synagogue.

I bet those bells are pretty loud … and clearly not enough carparking.

If local rumours are true, they started building this church ages ago, (15 years-ish) but ran out of money to finish it. As more money was raised, they finished bits and pieces of it.

I haven’t seen it for a while, and I don’t remember it ever looking this good. I guess they finally raised enough to finish it!

dungfungus said :

Do they have scheduled public executions?

Yes, but please hurry up, your non arrival has thrown the schedule into some disarray.