What is the Narnia-inspired Caldron Pool and is it fomenting ‘Christian nationalism’ in Australia?
On a Narnia-inspired website, amid anti-vaccination, anti-mask and anti-abortion posts, sit two petitions named for Hebrew prophets.
The website, Caldron Pool, has become a locus for conservative Christian opposition to some of the measures taken by Australian governments in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, and has attracted contributions from right-wing politicians such as George Christensen and Mark Latham.
Both have written in favour of the Ezekiel Declaration, which was published on the site alongside the Moses Statement. Those two documents have been signed by thousands of religious leaders who oppose some public health regulations proposed during the pandemic and in some cases challenge the right of secular governments to impose them on Christians.
The Ezekiel Declaration, written by Baptist leaders, says vaccine passports would “inflict terrible consequences on our nation” and refers to a historical quote claiming vaccine certificates were as real a threat as smallpox.
Written as a letter to Scott Morrison, it questions the effectiveness of Covid vaccines, and says a passport represents “the
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