... 'Hillsong gets another bashing from the Bulletin.'

Hillsong gets it in the neck again from a likely source!

Talk about the pot calling the kettle black!

The magazine lets fly at Hillsong for such dastardly deeds as receiving 10% of volunteers' money (voluntarily given), for hosting the Prime Minister, for the Senior Pastor having a father guilty of sex indiscretions and crimes (openly acknowledged by the Senoir Pastor), for making and selling CDs (with no anti-parent, no anti-society, no pro-drug, no pro-promiscuity messages by the way), for having branches in other countries!! and for the occasional foibles of over zealous officials.

Then it publishes letters to the editor many of which are full of – you can't call it anything else– ignorant bigotry against the church.

With 19,000 attendees there are bound to be irritations.

But here's the irony. The Bulletin's owners have a bit to answer for themselves and I suggest it is a lot more dastardly than making a few million bucks from selling CDs and giving it to the service arm of the church, tax free. They have significant shares in casinos which are known to induce gambling addiction, bankruptcy, greed greed and greed, family break up and even gaol terms and suicide. Where's the big expose on that?

The Bulletin 'has a go' at the Hillsong volunteers doing their bit to help the people of Redfern – yet I'll assert (and I'm open to enlightenment) not one of the magazine's editorial staff or ownership has ever set foot in Redfern to do equal or better.

I wonder if this is not a case like that of Herod and John the Baptist. Herod had to cut off JB's head because JB was telling him he shouldn't be in an adulterous relationship with his sister in law.

It's drawing a long bow I know but I wouldn't be surprised if the Bulletin's owners know the casinos will be in trouble if Hillsong and its kind continue to have social impact, so they take any chance to apply blade to neck. Makes me wonder...