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Wanker of the year

Posted by Ian in in the news, religious whackjobs on February 10th, 2009

In the light of the bushfires in Victoria comes an early contender for wanker of the year. 

The Catch the Fire Ministries has tried to blame the bushfires disaster on laws decriminalising abortion in Victoria.

The evangelical church’s leader, Pastor Danny Nalliah, claimed he had a dream about raging fires on October 21 last year and that he woke with "a flash from the Spirit of God: that His conditional protection has been removed from the nation of Australia, in particular Victoria, for approving the slaughter of innocent children in the womb".  Mr Nalliah referred to 2 Chronicles 7:14 to back his assertion.

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Mr Nalliah said:

"The Bible is very clear, If you walk out of God’s protection and turn your back on Him, you are an open target for the devil to destroy."

and also:

"In my dream I saw fire everywhere with flames burning very high and uncontrollably. With this I woke up from my dream with the interpretation as the following words came to me in a flash from the Spirit of God: that His conditional protection has been removed from the nation of Australia, in particular Victoria, for approving the slaughter of innocent children in the womb."

As well as the fires, Mr Nalliah has previously said drought and the world financial crisis could be partly blamed on human sin.

As I said, wanker!

 

"a pan, a comb, perhaps a cat"

Posted by Ian in entertainment, religious whackjobs, weird shit on November 16th, 2006

Thats part of the vows in the Traditional version of a Scientology wedding. The groom is reminded that “girls” need “clothes and food and tender happiness and frills, a pan, a comb, perhaps a cat” and is asked to provide them all. The bride is told that “Hear well, sweet xxxx . … For promise binds. Young men are free and may forget. Remind him then that you may have necessities and follies, too.”

Words of wisdom from L Ron Hubbard. I wonder what he was smoking when he wrote them?

But that might not be the version of the ceremony that Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes use for their wedding. It could be the Double Ring Ceremony - in it, the minister holds up the couple’s rings and asks that they imagine a triangle inside them, and the couple is asked to imagine affinity, reality and communication as the points of those triangles.

And supposedly intelligent people swallow these ravings from a bad sci-fi novelist?

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Religion and tolerance, take 2

Posted by Ian in crime & punishment, religious whackjobs on November 7th, 2006

Seems that the truth in this story is somewhat different than first presented. The daughter has now been charged with murdering her mother and attempting to murder her father. Seems it was a fairly standard parent/teenager disagreement … albeit one that escalated to the extreme with tragic consequences.

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Religion and tolerance

Posted by Ian in religious whackjobs on October 11th, 2006
A teenage girl in Queensland tells her father she wants to opt out of her Islamic faith and convert to Christianity. The result, father goes beserk with a knife and kills his wife, mother of the daughter, when she stepped in to protect her.

I’ve always thought religion is supposed to be about values like peace, tolerance and stuff like that. Not sure where murderous rage comes into it?

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Muslims take their angry pills (once again)

Posted by Ian in religious whackjobs on September 17th, 2006
Why is it that Muslims take offence so easily at anyone making even the slightest criticism of their religion? Are they very insecure about the legitimacy of their beliefs, or something? This week they have been angry at the Pope, who made some comments in a lecture to some theologians in his native Germany. The comments referred to criticism of the Prophet Mohammad by 14th century Byzantine Emperor Manuel II Palaeologus, who said everything Mohammad brought was evil “such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached”.

According to the Vatican, the Pope’s remarks have been misconstrued by those taking offence. The academic speech was meant as a “a clear and radical rejection of the religious motivation for violence, from whatever side it may come,” said Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, the Vatican’s Secretary of State.

While the reactions have been modest compared to the beserk responses to the cartoons earlier in the year, among other things:

  • Morocco withdrew its Ambassador to the Vatican
  • an Egyptian political leader called the Pope’s remarks a mistake which would only be removed by a personal apology
  • Turkish PM Tayyip Erdogan called the comments “ugly and offensive” and said they should be withdrawn
  • Yemen’s president publicly denounced the Pope
  • 5 churches in the West Bank were attacked (this is more like we come to expect)
  • Egypt’s foreign ministry summoned the Vatican envoy to Cairo to express “extreme regret” at Benedict’s speech.

No fatwas declared so far ….that we know of!

The Vatican said on Saturday the Pope was sorry Muslims had been offended and that his comments had been misconstrued, but Muslim countries and religious groups remained angry at what they said portrayed Islam as a religion tainted with violence. (Perhaps its the crazy jihadists carrying out barbaric acts in the name of Islam, and the crazed violent responses to being accused of violence that actually give Islam its PR problems?)

This is the comment that really made me laugh:

“How can (the Pope) imply that Muslims are the creators of terrorism in the world while it is the followers of Christianity who have been aggressive against every country of the Islamic world?” prominent Saudi cleric Salman al-Odeh said. “Who attacked Afghanistan and who invaded Iraq?”

Ummm … I’ll grant you the invasion of Iraq was pretty dodgy, but Afghanistan - even the most fanatical Islamist could hardly claim the Taliban were innocent of wrongdoing (harbouring Al Quaeda and its training camps) and did not deserve what they got.

I always thought that religious faith is supposed to bring with it inner calm and things like that. On the evidence we see of the behaviour of many Muslims, it doesn’t seem to be hitting the spot for them.

Update (18/09/2006): More reasoned and non-violent responses from those offended by the linking of Islam and violence.

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Obscene? Offensive??

Posted by Ian in in the news, religious whackjobs, sex on August 4th, 2006
Babytalk / AFP

Readers of an American parenting magazine thought so.  Several readers said they were “embarrassed” or “offended” by the Babytalk photo and one woman from Nevada said she “immediately turned the magazine face down” when she saw the photo.  Another reader said she was “horrified” when she received the magazine and hoped that her husband hadn’t laid eyes on it.

Errrr …. what do you expect in a magazine about babies and parenting???   Did you not get naked when you made your babies?  (Maybe, but they always have the lights off.)  Did you not realise boobs are for babies (in the first place, other uses such as fun and decoration are ancillary benefits)?

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