Dillon Beatson. Courtesy photo.
Rome Newsroom, Jan 21, 2021 / 12:00 pm (CNA).- As a self-proclaimed atheist in his early 20s, Private Dillon Beatson said that the only time he spoke of religion was with ridicule. But when his helicopter crashed during a training mission in the Middle East, he found himself crying out to God.
“It is funny how fast and slow it went at the same time,” Beatson said in an interview with Colm Flynn of EWTN News.
“I was holding on to something and we crashed down on the left, and I got launched into the sand. The helicopter was still moving forward. It was pushing me into the sand. The propeller blades were spinning around. It was incredibly loud and I thought: ‘This is it.’ … It was when I called out to God and said: ‘God, please don’t let me die.’”
I suffered from gender confusion most of my life. I transitioned in my 30s and lived as a ‘woman’ for twenty years, having had surgery in 2003.
A few years ago I started questioning scientific principles I took as truth. I read Rupert Sheldrake’s ‘The Science Delusion’ and looked at Bill Geade’s ‘Rope Theory’. I realised I had been deluded. Supposed facts were gross assumptions that didn’t hold up under scrutiny.
Then I turned my attention to the science of transgender medicine. What I found shocked me. The samples were tiny, the conclusions biased. There were no dissenting studies, most were light and fluffy.
Churches could be banned from teaching sexual ethics in Aus state
Churches could be banned from teaching sexual ethics in Aus state
18 Dec 2020
Georgie Dee The Australian state of Victoria is seeking to ban churches from teaching worshippers to follow the Bible’s teaching on sexual ethics.
Under the proposals, a religious leader could be sent to prison for encouraging someone with feelings of same-sex attraction to “live a celibate life”.
Neil Foster, an Australian Associate Professor of Law, has described the Change or Suppression (Conversion) Practices Prohibition Bill 2020 as “unrealistic in practice” which seriously affects religious freedom.
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The Bill, currently making its way through the State legislature, seeks to outlaw any practice that suggests “a person can change or suppress their sexual orientation or gender identity” – including prayer.
Coastal destruction is no laughing matter
Coastal destruction is no laughing matter
December 15, 2020 10.00pm
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Coastal destruction is no laughing matter
The storm surges and inundation being experienced in southern Queensland are a result of more intense storms arising from climate change coinciding with a king tide. Scientists have been warning of this for decades, a consequence of global warming driven by too much carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Not only have these warnings been ignored, but Peter Dutton famously joked about the inundation concerns from our Pacific island neighbours. Are they daring to laugh now?
Conversion bill: churches fear state overreach on religion
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Most Victorian churches are intensely concerned about legislation the state government is rushing through Parliament without consultation to ban so-called conversion therapy to change sexual orientation. It is not that the churches practise or defend any form of coercive conversion therapy; the problem is the massive overreach of the bill and the State arrogating to itself wide control over the religious beliefs and practices of religious believers.
Many Victorian churches are concerned about the conversion bill.