Labor MP Dave Kelly MLA has been publicly campaigning to remove the Lord's Prayer from the opening of WA Parliament – a tradition that dates back to 1558.
He has called it "outdated" and suggested it is incompatible with democratic government. 
Wrong on both counts and more...

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The Lord's Prayer in Parliament should be retained for the following reasons. 

1. It can not be "outdated" because there is and always will be a historic direct connection between Christianity and the values upon which Australian parliaments were designed in the first place. The Prayer recognises the Christianity behind the preamble to the Australian Constitution which says "humbly relying on the blessings of Almighty God." Australia's founders deliberately identified Christian values as the most conducive to produce a united Federation.
By contrast,  neither atheism, socialism, Islam, Indigenous animism, nor any other worldview has been able to match Christianity in producing the values necessary for Western freedoms and civic order. 

2. It can not be "incompatible with democracy" because of the causal link between Christianity and the values that produced democracy and the parliament itself.
The erosion of these values and freedoms the further we drift from those Christian roots, only confirms this causal link. 
It stands to reason that to fail to maintain that source of values would produce a cut-flowers parliament. 

3. ​If nothing else, the Prayer is an act of humility acknowledging that Parliament needs divine help. A reference point beyond Government is a humble preventative to tyranny. ​

4. The Prayer is not specific to any Christian church institution, thus represents no breach of separation of church and state. 

5. Atheists have nothing to lose by the prayer being said. If they think there is no god, to them it should not matter if the prayer is said or not. And they do not personally have to say it, so there is not breach of conscience.
Are they really so intolerant that they cannot abide the time it takes to say a prayer?

6. ​Christians lose something significant by its removal. ​For Christians, it matters that Parliament seeks God's help. We think God's help matters. James 4:2 warns, "You do not have because you do not ask God." So Christians in Parliament should be allowed, indeed encouraged, to ask God for help. 
Pascal's Wager is informative: if we pray, we have everything to gain and nothing to lose. 

7. Christians are still present in Parliament. The presence of other worldviews in Parliament does not negate the presence of Christians. 

8. To argue that The Lord's Prayer is a trigger for abuse survivors must be insulting to Christians (if not also to abuse survivors.) It is to say that any reference to Christianity, even such a noble one as The Lord's Prayer, must be seen through the worst actions ever committed by people who claimed their name. ​This assertion should be rejected for the following reasons:
​- It is an unworkable approach for referencing any worldview. ​What if any reference to Socialism were to be be seen through the worst atrocities ever committed by Socialists such as Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin, North Korea's Kim family. Is that the lens through which Labor Socialists expect to be seen? Should we never refer to Socialism lest the reference triggers survivors of Socialism's immeasurable record of abuse? Abuses which it should be said were committed as a feature of socialism at the time, not a bug. It would be impractical to reference any worldview that way, especially in Parliament where members must be free to say what must be said.
​- It is offensive to read any reference to a worldview through the most triggering lens.
​- It must be particularly offensive to the respectable name of Christianity, of which it must be said that any abuses committed in its name were a bug, not a feature.

Perhaps Kelly's move is ill-conceived, he just didn't think it through. If so, no harm, withdraw. 

Otherwise it is a conscious attempt to further obscure and disconnect parliament from its foundational, Christian values... to supplant it... With...? ​Hm. Why might a Labor MP push to further obscure the Christian foundations of Parliament? Do socialists want to base our democracy on socialism, as their Constitution declares? 

Now consider, what does history tell us about the success or otherwise of socialism as a source of democracy, freedoms, or civic order? 

Apprehend these reasons for retaining the Lord's Prayer, and reject the suspect reasoning behind moves to remove it.

Here, Jonathan Pageau, asks the most important questions.
Are we sacrificing our kids for the AI race?
Who does the race to AI serve? Who does AI serve? Who do I serve?
Watch and pray.

Citizen Go asked me what I see as the big issues beneath the political seismic rumblings of our day. 
Many feel the ground shifting beneath our feet.

1. It is the seismic rumbling of worldviews.
The Hanson train appreciates the value of the historic Judaeo-Christian faith that gave rise to the Western Values upon which Australia was Federated. Grinding against this is the Secular Socialism that now characterises the Labor Party and secular progressive more broadly. Liberals and Nationals are torn between the two. 
Many people don't think deeper than the competing value sets of party platforms. Many don't even think about the value sets; they just vote with their gut, which is also tainted by human fallenness. But beneath the team colours, beneath the Party Platforms and value sets, are competing foundational worldviews.
If these worldview foundations continue to be overlooked, the current rumbling will worsen into earthquakes.
Australian society will continue down a well-worn track of socialism producing decline economically, socially, spiritually, and personally. Socialism historically leads to communism, or these days is more more likely to be replaced by political/militant Islam imitating Mohammed who was a religious, political, then military leader. 
Why would I say Islam? Because since the Ottoman Empire fell, history keeps repeating that trajectory in country after country around North Africa, the Middle East, Europe, across the 10-40 window into Asia down to Indonesia. See Ayaan Hirsi Ali on this. 
Can Australians fail to notice the manoeuvrings of Socialists in inner city politics, and of Islam into the suburbs? 
Christianity has had a stabilising and creative influence on Western culture. It is responsible for the unique goods of Western civilisations, especially in the federation projects of USA, Australia, and in the Pacific. The more nations adhere to Bible-based value sets, the more fair and free they became, conversely the further they stray from the Bible the less fair or free they become. 
Secular socialism has had a destabilising effect. Without a Biblical reference point, factions devolve into tribal power struggles over whatever each tribe deems is right in their own eyes. 
Islam has historically sought to ultimately dominate. Since the rise of Hitler, Islam has entered nations on the coat-tails of Christian compassion and socialist destabilisation, migrating as a religion, then becoming political then militant - just like Mohammed. "The ballot or the bullet." Ratcheting in Sharia Law. 
These worldviews change the fortunes of nations. Which do we want? That's my clarion call to voters. 

2. Reducing Freedoms of Conscience
But, some assert, doesn't a Christian-based government dominate others too? No. 
The Bible-based federation projects (USA, Australia, Pacific) were explicit about freedoms of conscience. Even as Australian federation assumed "humbly relying on Almighty God," and even as Christians educated people to submit to God and upheld Judeo-Christian jurisprudence, Christianity also instituted freedom for people to dis-believe it. 
Over time such freedoms became more detailed, such as removing anti-gay laws, so that you could believe and practice your persuasion. But it was not expected that the Judeo-Christian political worldview that gave rise to such freedoms should be overthrown. 
But socialism has sought to upend Christianity as the freedom-protecting worldview of our federation. "Conservatives" - which now appears to be code for those who articulate a biblical worldview - are wrongly labelled as extremists and oppressive.
Now in 2026 we see socialist governments impose legislations that increasingly restrict Christian freedoms. For example, removing the freedom to disagree about gay lifestyles, on threat of job loss, defunding, heavy fines, prison time. We are now seeing increasing totalitarian overreach, enforcing socialist worldview, excluding biblical worldview. History repeating. 
The need for religious education, worldview education, across all sectors of society cannot be understated. 

3. God
Meanwhile, beneath these worldview tectonic plates is the Ground of all being - God.
The Christian worldview offers God in a unique way that Indigenous animism does not, Socialism doesn't, and Islam doesn't.
Australia's founders knew that, said so, and assumed Christianity generally underlay the Constitution. "Humbly relying on the blessing of Almighty God." 
As much as worldview education would really help the world, it is only God who ultimately brings growth/blessing. Deuteronomy 11 is specific that God will bless or curse, depending on whether "we" will try to follow Him or not. 
Widespread personal repentance is key. This too underscores the importance of religious ed, because "we" need to recognise that we need God. There's no good reason to avoid saying so. 

Notice: Australia was not intended to be a theocracy, such as Islam, or as Anglo and Roman governments of the dark ages have tried - in fact having learned from the Reformation, the founders of federation sought to avoid that. But they did assume that the Bible would be its reference point. Not a Christian organisation such as the Anglican church or Catholic church. Sure, we can argue a lot about how to interpret the Bible, but at least we'd be on the same page. 
And so to participate in the democracy as envisaged, our public needs to recapture its Biblical literacy. 
(Also note that Bible-literacy can be manipulated, and has been  by the left in its coopting of the language of human rights and Christian civics, while replacing the meanings of those words with their own definitions. Labor's Platforms should be read through Socialist lenses, not projecting Christian values - the two readings reveal very different visions.) 
Christianity sees the need for government to make room for unbelievers to disbelieve. The rain of good governance should fall on both believers & unbelievers alike. Government is not to force belief, which is the true definition of the separation of church and state. But government should protect the Christian belief that makes it protect freedom of conscience. 

4. The race card furphy
Another danger is referring to race rather than values & foundations. We don't want "white Australia," we want Judeo-Christian values Australia. I know it's harder to say, but melanin levels are not the point!
Besides, because Christianity is the only truly cross-cultural worldview, we have Christians from every country sharing Christian core values. But also, Christianity discerns the good from the bad in every culture, including Australia's. That value set is what we need to appeal to.
It's a value set that can evidently be appreciated by those who don't believe the worldview itself, because of its uniquely freedom-producing consequences. 
"White" does not describe any of that. It is so simplistic as to be wrong. Neo-Nazis need education about this.

[Update: 4b. Multicultural equivocation and as foundation
"Multiculturalism" needs definition. Do we mean to celebrate all cultural differences indiscriminately? including values that would undermine and dominate the country? everyone pulling in disparate directions causing endless conflicts? Or do we define it to mean those various cultural forms below an agreed set of unifying values.
"Monoculturalism"? The word begs the question, what do you mean by that. If you mean all levels of cultural expression must be the same, it is gross overreach.  But if you mean one set of core values that keeps the country unified in a healthy way, to which all citizens should subscribe regardless of their other cultural forms, then yes. Obviously without that a country tears apart. 
If we define words reasonably, we might come to an agreement: multicultural about our various cultural forms, yet monocultural about a set of unifying values. Then we just need to be clear about that core values set, assumed at federation...  
- HOWEVER, that's the cause of this seismic problem - our Government does NOT agree on that unifying core values set. Let us speak plainly about this.
Socialists are consciously seeking to remove & replace Christian core values, with their own. Socialism sees the State as the Saviour, not God. So they seek to remove Christian freedoms of faith, family and foundations, from the public square. 
- See the 74 Acts of Parliament since 2000, that restrict Christian freedoms.
- See recent moves to remove the Lord's Prayer from parliament's standing orders.
- See Albanese Labor Government’s Home Affairs Multicultural Framework Review, “Towards Fairness: A multicultural Australia for all.” Read alarm bells here. Listen to Labor sawing off Christian heritage: 
This Home Affairs Dept review says the "nation itself is inherently multicultural." Multicultural. This simplistically ignores the massive national influence of Christian-based British parliamentary democracy, Federation, common law, English language, Christian moral assumptions, civic duty, self-government, military sacrifice, the fair go, loyalty to one flag. All the things that made modern Australia recognisably Australian are treated as background material, while pushing multiculturalism as THE great organising principle. 
The review refers to “violent attempts to eradicate anything deemed counter to Western Anglo society.” It says legal and political structures enabled “Anglo dominance” while reducing the significance of other cultures. It complains that past government responses promoted “shared Australian values” that all groups were expected to follow. It says the move toward “social cohesion” included “assimilationist attitudes.” It even says social cohesion has become problematic “to the point where the term itself has become problematic.” 
It refers to a “once-in-a-generation reform agenda.” This is conscious root-removal, a “whole-of-government and community approach,” to “drive social change.” 
It calls for “continuously applying an intersectional, gender-equality lens to multicultural policy and services.” This is Critical Race Theory, Critical Gender Theory - victimhood theory. Affirm every culture as oppressed, except for the one blamed as the oppressor - ie. the Judeo-Christian values set that can actually unify us under Almighty God.
This government review proposes re-education by its proposed "Multicultural Affairs" offices, with compliance regimes and KPIs... Labor's "social justice" agenda is to remove the values of "Anglo, colonist Christianity," and replace them with their socialist values of oppression-survivors complying with their final authorities - their Government. 
That is the sound of political ground shifting.] 

5. Name the worldviews & values
The Australian Christian Party get it - its in the name.
One Nation is trying to name these values & issues. And name ensuing practical issues.
- They've rightly named "Australian values" as Judeo-Christian.
- And the need for social cohesion.
- They've rightly named the discord caused by Welcome to country ceremonies, the need to become One nation, not co-sovereigns. Christian Values such as "humbly relying on Almighty God," clash with indigenous animism, tribalism, and with the socialism that drives much of government and corporate efforts in Aboriginal lands. 
- They've rightly named political Islam and its over-representation in immigration. 
- They've rightly named simple mathematics when it comes to immigration numbers. 
They've been criticised for being racist when they name these things, but that's the detractors being guilty of simplistic racism in their own categories. 
Jacinta Price and Tony Abbott get it. Does the Liberal Party get it yet, after their long dalliance with 'progressives' within? Depends if the conservative swing is a return of conviction or just a ploy for the popular vote. They need not compete with One Nation, but cooperate.

6. All the green facts
The "Green Economy" has taken so long to release all the relevant facts that we can now surmise it must be ignoring or refusing the relevant facts, otherwise they would produce them, right? Fair to ask if  the facts are not forthcoming because they don't fit the policies & interests?
Page Research Centre has made the best effort I've seen of trying to collate them - the total costs involved, from producing infrastructure to maintenance to disposal, and, equally relevant, all the scientific facts about CO2 and the biosphere's complex capacities to process it over time and long cycles. CO2 levels may indeed be a red herring, such that other adaptive changes are being ignored. 
Scientific "consensus" has become a power play by a mix of political and financial interests. Science always progresses from the margins, not the consensus.
Normal value-driven Aussies have waited for the relevant facts, but we're still waiting and are getting suspicious. Many smell a rat around the push for the electric grid, we are concerned that we could be literally disempowered by the flick of a switch. But we don't have the words or facts to describe the truth accurately. Who can provide the facts & words we're groping for? We appreciate it when some tries to ask these questions. Even more when they try to give the answers. 

7. Fact-based reporting
We need a reliable media outlet that gives actual facts, not just opinions. There are some, but they are dispersed and underfunded. Support the causes of groups like: The Australian newspaper. Jerusalem Post. Discovery Institute (Center for Science and Culture). Creation.com. The Page Research Centre. Australian Christian Lobby. Australian Christian Party. Freedom for Faith. Australia Christian Freedom Index. The Canberra Declaration. 

ARC (Alliance for Responsible Citizens) is full of good papers and thinking on such issues as these.

Well, that's my brain dump for you. For what it's worth.

The Compass is me.
North is God. I’m made for him, to point to him. We’re to glorify him through all the earth. God gently pulls us towards Himself, the true fulfiller of all our desires.  
Sin is what happens when something else becomes magnetic to us. We desire it instead, as a shortcut to fulfilling our desires.
But the shortcuts cannot fulfil, they only ensnare us in an addictive spiral of diminishing returns. 
Pride - Desire for significance pulled toward self-glory. x
Greed - Desire for security pulled toward money/things. x
Lust - Desire for acceptance pulled toward consumption. x
Envy - Desire for flourishing pulled toward comparison. x
Gluttony - Desire for enjoyment pulled toward excess/addiction. x
Wrath - Desire for justice pulled toward revenge. x
Sloth - Desire for rest pulled toward avoidance. x

The desire itself isn’t evil, and the object of desire may not be either, but being pulled away from God is evil. The magnets are misplaced worship. Sin is desire pulled away from its true fulfilment. Sin means missing the mark, falling short of the glory of God. 

​So, with every “no,” God is removing a magnet, so I can receive His greater “yes,” so my heart can turn to Him again. 
Here’s a list of "No to the magnet → Yes to the desire fulfilled in Christ":
No to pride’s self-glory → Yes to significance humbly in Christ
No to greed for things → Yes to security from the Father
No to lust to have → Yes to deep acceptance as one betrothed to Jesus 
No to envy’s comparing → Yes to flourishing in gratitude for Jesus 
No to gluttony’s addiction → Yes to the pleasure of being mastered by Jesus 
No to wrath’s revenge → Yes to trusting the justice of Christ 
No to sloth’s avoidance → Yes to the rest that Jesus gives to His servants

Holiness realigns my life, submitting my life back to The Creator’s intent - filling the whole earth with His glory in Christ. Holiness causes my life to expand, to reach its proper goal. 

In ​Philippians 2, The Cross shows us the properly functioning compass: Power under control. Desire submitted. Glory through surrender. Jesus had every legitimate desire yet never misaligned them.
And He is not just our example, He is our magnetic reset.

When my heart comes near to Jesus, my desire needle steadies on Him. The only true, gentle, life-giving Fulfilment of all our deepest desires. 

Here's is a good challenge: What is a setting you could choose to get involved in, that would expose you to broken, needy people who are not concerned with hiding their brokenness and looking like they are all together, people who are desperately and openly in need of God?

During 2021 we did have family camp, on the theme of Hearing God. We built in family times to train, including times of solitude and silent listening for the inner promptings of the Holy Spirit. We were all met.

And about 40 people got to know each other better around the attractions of Busso.

During the year we were able to continue meeting with youth on Fridays, the Art club, various small groups, and continued our regular meeting together at the community hall. Gathering around the Gospel of John has been spiritually eye-opening - every chapter has more to say about how we should see spiritually. This isn't easy when our cultural default is materialism. We also found each section to have very specific implications, as if we had rigged the section to fit the circumstances, but the 12 month schedule had been planned mid year. God just knows what he's doing. It's our job to listen and do.

A core team of young adults joined OAC in delivering the Worldview Australia camp in January. Another big success, and as we tune in it seems the Lord wants to duplicate the ministry with many young people interested in stepping in to various directing roles to enable another camp to begin elsewhere midyear. So we're working on that now.

Don't Squander Your Chance
For many this forced layoff is a chance to reset our priorities and activities. The decks have been cleared for us. So what shall we do with this time? First thought: have a rest! Yessss!!! Watch some movies, read some books, sleep longer…. Maybe get some jobs done, clean up, sort out… But after you’ve caught up, then what? 

Well, what do you consider most important after all? 
Now is a great chance to start doing what you really deep down want to do. 

How about these top five practices for life:
5) Be generous with toilet rolls. If we don't share when we have, who can we ask when we need?
4) Spend quality time with the people in your household. Don't be isolated in your screens, make time to reconnect. Have dinner around the table; ask "what do you thank God for today?"; play a board game; do some craft; a jigsaw… google family fun ideas. 
3) Reconnect with extended family and friends via calls or videolink. 
2) Re-introduce yourself to God. Actually pray. Get to know him better. Day by day. (We can help with Core Stuff, and the Bookmark of HPOWER). 
1) Meet for prayer, care and sharing around the Bible, in groups of 3-6, via videolinks if necessary, to actively grow in the Spirit, and share the love with others. (Cheers can help with this, and get you BOPping!) 

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This virus, now, is an opportunity for humanity to turn back to God. Let’s take it. 

As Ferris Beuler famously said, Life moves pretty fast, if you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you might miss it. 

I'm not panicking because my worldview is not limited to Naturalism. COVID-19, bushfires, climate change, etc. merely remind me of our mortality, and the bigger view of life. But Naturalism, which dominates Western public discourse - news and entertainment media, social media, politics, law - across Australia, NZ, USA, UK and Western Europe, has no bigger perspective. As such it's a worldview that generates the very fear, depression, and hostility we see with every reminder of how fragile we are. 

Naturalism in a nutshell: 

• God is sidelined as an invalid reference point 
• Humans will progress by ourselves 
• (Naturalistic) 'Science’ will save us. 
• Nothing outside the physical world is relevant. 

​No wonder they panic when death comes near! 

Naturalism is both shallow and brittle.
It's shallow because it rules out other dimensions, and disregards all non-physical phenomena observed. 

• All the following are ignored: angels, demons, being Spirit-filled, The Presence, dreams, guidance, Illuminated Word, After Death Experiences, healings, resurrections, answers to prayer, transformed lives, fruits of the Spirit. 
• Sometimes an attempt is made to explain spiritual phenomena in naturalistic terms, but these attempts generally lack proof in a manner worse than other dimensional explanations. (I'm not referring to times when physical phenomena are mistaken for spiritual, but when the phenomena are actually spiritual.) 
• It is closed-minded to rule out other-dimensional options before examining whether the evidence actually points there. "First rule of investigating: do not have a presupposition that keeps you from finding the truth."  
• To justify this reductionism naturalists invoke 'the scientific method’ (ie. that non-physical explanations should not be invoked to explain physical processes) as an article of faith implying all life is only physical. But the scientific method is by definition limited to the physical. So applying ’scientific method' to non-physical subjects will always prevent finding truth about spirituality, because it a priori demands that "non-physical explanations should not be invoked to explain even the non-physical”! Well what should?! Examining phenomena outside the scope of naturalism is outside the scope of this 'scientific method.'
• It is less scientific (in the broader sense of ‘knowledge’) to consider only one hypothesis. Naturalism prevents us from considering explanations beyond the physical. That's shallow. 

It is brittle because when disaster strikes, as it inevitably does, the meta-narrative quickly escalates to dread fear and panic. Consider HIV, SARS, COVID-19, 911, ISIS, droughts, bushfires, floods, earthquakes, climate change. Even merely the death of celebrities in their prime, from Elvis, to Princess Diana, Steve Irwin, Kobe Bryant. When confronted with mortality, the public discourse is inconsolably shocked, as if our whole existence is in danger of collapse. Because it is:

• When all you have is this natural life, to be reminded of death is to be reminded of oblivion. The naturalistic narrative has no higher perspective from which to evaluate mortality. No afterlife, no hope - except for the species in general which is little consolation for the individual. No individual escapes death, and then all is lost (so they believe.) 
• Fear of death spikes the flight or fight instinct. 
• Flight causes irrational stock-piling of toilet-paper, and economic collapse.
  Or perhaps denial: "She'll be right, I wont take any precautions..."
• Fight blames scapegoats - those gays, those Christians, those migrants, those terrorists, those [insert-race-here] 
• Further, with no higher reference point for moral conduct outside each individual’s own self-centred view, we splinter into tribes (of people who agree with us), and the law of the jungle ensues, as Darwinism approves according to the naturalistic worldview. 
• Living without hope in such a fragile and dangerous world wears one down - no wonder anxiety and depression are epidemic! 

In contrast the Biblical meta-narrative is deep and robust. 
Don’t be put off by the shallow dismissals on public broadcast. Examine the Bible properly without prejudice against spirituality, and you’ll see why it stands the test of time as uniquely reliable revelation from The Creator to us. Unique because no other volume or corpus of texts has anything close to the following qualities:
- Reliable because the archeological and manuscript historical evidence is peerless concerning the Bible's preserved transmission from eye-witnesses to us. 
- Revelation from God, because miraculously the over-arching Saviour-centred story is uniquely coherent and comprehensive, despite the diversity of 40 contributing authors across at least a 1600 year period.
.Plus it contains hundreds, even thousands of specific prophecies, many of which were fulfilled in later parts of the Bible, some of which are yet to be fulfilled in the yet-to-be-completed parts of the Story. Plus it claims to contain, and be, God’s word around 3000 times.
.Plus the meta-narrative combines with the readers’ realities to change lives for the better, right up to the present day. (I mean people can relate with the God of the Bible in the present!)

The Biblical meta-narrative is deep in that it accepts other-dimensional realities and interacts meaningfully and substantially with them.

• The spiritual and relational phenomena in the Bible accord with phenomena experienced in the present. It matches the fullness of reality as we know it by including other dimensions. 

• God-fearers can and do use 'the scientific method’ just as effectively as naturalists. They just use it within its limits. That's why operational sciences (which came from Christian presuppositions that creation would be orderly) continue to be done well by Christians today. 
• ’Science’ (in the broader sense of ‘knowledge’) is better served by 1) clarity about the limits of naturalism, and 2) by also considering non-physical explanations for the non-physical, and even for the physical too! 

It's robust because when disaster strikes, the Biblical meta-narrative has a bigger perspective from which to assess reality. 

• There are reasonable explanations for disaster, pain and suffering. Loss doesn't take us by surprise. Both gloomy and hopeful prospects for the future are reasonably expected. There are firm foundations for hope in the face of personal death. Far from oblivion, death is a doorway. 
• That's why we don't panic. We don’t react to death with abject fear, but with faith, hope, and love (for God and for our fellow humans). We appreciate the reminder of mortality, we come closer to God (through Christ). We can face the harsh realities head on. 
• Then as part of our mandate to care for the planet, we can work calmly for sensible solutions.
• Our Creator provides the higher reference point for our moral code and conduct. And this true north for our compass has worked reliably throughout history: when we do life God's way, it works better. When we abandon God's way, life goes to custard. So it has been generation after generation. 
• This Creator God is truly multi-cultural. This brings us together as one race under God, albeit with many cultural varieties. This makes us work for each other’s good. So yes we also try to help everyone see that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself - 2Corinthians 5. 
• We live with perspective and positivity even under personal mortal threat, because we have a well-founded hope; a steady, positive reference-point; a good relationship with the Creator through Christ's cross and risen Spirit in us. 

Naturalism is a shallow and brittle worldview that discords with reality, and fragments society. 
The Bible gives a deep and robust worldview that accords with reality, and unifies humanity under God. 

Our public discourse needs to break out of its shallow, brittle naturalistic worldview. Otherwise it will keep covering up the BIG Story that these apocalyptic events are meant to uncover for us:
- that we are mortal, that sin/self/satanic forces are bad, and that we need a Saviour. Leaving God was not progress, but a mistake to address.
- turn back, trust, & tune in to the Creator, and accept his salvation now and forever.
In this true, deep and robust worldview, fear subsides, and we can live in courage & faith. 

​​That’s why, with all these fires, viruses, climate change... I'm neither panicking nor in denial. I know what to think when reminded of my mortality. 
Not only the creation, but we who have the first fruits of the Spirit also groan inwardly as we eagerly await our adoption, the redemption of our bodies. For we were saved with this hope in mind - Romans 8. 
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom - Proverbs 9. 

This from the Skit Guys. The Serenity Prayer. For leaders. Those of us coming off stress leave. A better way to work. Related is this from AFCI's blog, Why you can't do evangelism.