On the surface Australia is such a progressive, modern country. We've got an unmarried living-in-sin atheist female PM from the supposedly left-wing major party. Yippee.
Or really?
You would think that democracy was a surefire way of getting what the majority wants, but no, apparently not. Our prime minister seems to be content in pissing off basically everybody in the country - first she pissed off the Christians by refusing to swear on the Bible, and then she pissed off the atheists by using the Bible as an excuse for her homophobic stance on gay rights.
Australia is supposed to be a secular country with secular politics, but we're anything but. Bible this, Bible that. You can't use religion as an excuse for everything, especially if you claim to be atheist. It just doesn't work.
There is only one place for the Bible - Christianity. And there is no place for Christianity, or any other religion, in politics. But why does it feel like I'm the only person who sees that?
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