Many of us will fancy we know what Brisbane's The Worker was thundering about 100 years this week when it thundered that "there is an immense gulf separating the 'Christians' from the Christ-like".
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Yes, today's federal parliament is crammed with professing Christians (including almost all of cabinet) who swear by callous policies, especially on asylum seekers, that Jesus would have abhorred.
"Christ said 'Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth . . . but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven'," the socialist weekly reminded readers.
"But His servants do not agree with Him in this. The estate of the late Dr James Moorhouse, one-time Anglican bishop of Melbourne, was recently valued at £54,317.81.
"It grows increasingly plain as day follows day that there is an immense gulf separating the 'Christian' and the Christ-like. Very few Christians there are who follow the precepts of their Teacher.
"And while on the subject, a little limelight must he allowed to fall on the Archbishop of Canterbury [Randall Thomas Davidson, 1st Baron Davidson of Lambeth]. This cleric it was who deprived the poor children in Lambeth Workhouse of their annual treat of an egg for breakfast on Christmas Day. He said he did it in order to bring home to them the horrors of war and the necessity of self-denial!
"Self-denial! Of one egg a year! The archbishop receives a salary of £40 daily for watching over the spiritual welfare of the country, and it looks as if he has sublet the contract."
