Scott Morrison spoke at the Australian Christian Church Conference to say that social media and identity politics were “corrosive” and “evil.”
At the Australian Christian Church Conference, Morrison said that social media is a “weapon” used by “the evil one,” implicitly referring to Satan.
ScoMo also discussed the reliance he had on God during the 2019 campaign, as well as his public faith practices, which inluded laying hands on and praying out loud to people in evacuation centres.
Morrison went on to ask the large Pentecostal convention to “raise up the spiritual weapons” against identity politics, which he explained as being “only defined by what pack you’re in or what group you’re in.” He stated that such thinking will make people “lose their humanity” and fuel “evil” in our society.
Audience members were not expecting a guest appearance and speech from the PM at the Conference last Tuesday.
Morrison, Australia’s infamous Pentecostal Christian Prime Minister, has always been eerily vocal about his faith, and last Tuesday was no different, as he preached to an eager crowd in a venue who declared his sermon “a powerful opening night to our conference.” Yeah, sure.
However, the public was rightfully not impressed.
Morrison says Australia needs the church.
We DON‘T.
1 The Constitution says we don’t .
2 If the “church” turns out people like Scamo and gang
WE DEFINITELY DON’T— valentinaem (@jean15849180) April 22, 2021
Morrison, “God has a plan for Jenny”…
Has to be up there with the single most terrifying sentence ever uttered by a sitting PM.
— Dr Tracy Westerman (@TracyWesterman) April 26, 2021
Morrison also copped backlash for his choice of transport to the Conference: a private plane.
I’m confused #auspol.
Did #ScottyFromHillsong take time off, take a private jet to go to church? Is that what happened?
— Martin (@justmarty11) April 21, 2021
Morrison has been repeatedly criticised for disrupting secularism within Parliament. As Labour leader Anthony Albanese remarked to ABC radio: “It’s also important that we have separation here of church and state.”
