Not sure if the second paragraph was necessary.
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Blitzers, have you listened to the 2013 sermon that was supposedly offensive?
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Where can I find it?
Ooh I do know that they beleive in “The universal sinfulness of humanity since the fall, rendering men and women subject to God’s judgment”
I dunno what that means though. Does it mean we are all bad and sinful, therefore subject to the judgement of the flying spaghetti monster?
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No.
Thorburn is chair of a company that features such sermons on its site.
As I understand it It was a not a sermon preached at an Anglican Church service conducted according to Anglican liturgical rites.
It does not have the status of an Anglican Church sermon, rather a statement by an ordained clergyman, in his role as a lead pastor assigned by a NFP company.
Do you know whether he delivered the sermon to a group, or was it just posted online?
It was not posted on an official Anglican diocese site and does not have such status.
LOL. You based that entire rant on a quote that’s incorrect. That’s a lot of wasted effort. Hopefully you don’t leave the club because you misunderstood what they did.
Wanderlust was incorrect. He was not asked to stand down from his church. He was asked to choose between being a representative of that church or a representative of EFC, given the values of the two institutions did not align.
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Go to site
Click sermons, select topics
Great post worthy of being repeated.
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I would very much like to hear the boards reasoning behind the selection of Andrew Thorburn. As many here have already remarked, his tenure at NAB alone should have precluded him from consideration. The whole situation shows an extraordinary lack of awareness.
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It’s quite entertaining but it lacks a section for people whose ancestors were farked over by religious extremest nutjobs.
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Redemption. After his disgrace, he went off to do good works.
Four years is a long time off the A list
A Board member was impressed with him when he was doing the EFC external review
( Hird did 7 years hard labour)
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Think it was pretty similar.
Reporter “so it became a call between Church or club for him”
Barham “yeah pretty much”
Barham then spoke on his two positions within both. But the initial quote was similar to what I’d stated.
So, is it that he considers he can only practise his beliefs by Chairing a charity?
Disappointing the position he was put in, to choose between church or club, but that is the fish bowl of Melbourne. The mob wanted blood.
Even if he resigned from the church the bleeding hearts would still be at his door.
It is all about optics and the media, people so quick to judge his character.
Listened to his interview on SEN, club would of benefited from his leadership and skillset.
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He was asked to choose between whether he wanted to lead an organisation that endorsed rancid prehistoric views or lead our football club. He preferred his organisation that endorsed rancid prehistoric views. Disappointing that in this day and age such organisations still exist.
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Shame Sydney is missing out on the charity.
Coming up to its 15th anniversary and the Sydney Anglican archdiocese has no such churches. Not one in the gateway to Australia.
They are concentrated in Melbourne, one in Geelong, one in Wollongong (at Blue Steel) one on the Gold Coast, one on the Surf Coast and one in Brisbane. None of them are attached to Anglican premises.
The thought police are at it again, isn’t Andrew Thorburn’s personal life, thoughts and his beliefs private to him and no one has the right to dictate to him how he lives his private life. In essence what’s the problem with his role as being the CEO of any business or club, it seems no other company has objected in the past?
And another minor clarification aimed at the Herald Sun, if a tweet about it has had over 90,000 views before you write a story on the topic then it’s not really an exclusive.
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Private life? He was chair of the organisation. That’s his public life.
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