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Evolution'/><category term='rapture'/><category term='St John of God'/><category term='Buddhism.'/><category term='Doug Copp'/><category term='How to get rid of Mormons'/><category term='African Scammers'/><category term='Anglican Church'/><category term='Eichmann Files’'/><category term='Graham Capill'/><category term='The GODS of the Bible'/><category term='South Canterbury Finance'/><category term='John Dalhoff'/><category term='Lump of stone flies Firts Class'/><category term='Qur&apos;an'/><title type='text'>Canterbury Atheist</title><subtitle type='html'>God is watching YOU do number two's!..."Baaa theist flesh for dinner"</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default?start-index=101&amp;max-results=100'/><author><name>Canterbury Atheists</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09900223059660267657</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/SX_en79GC5I/AAAAAAAABBc/uCl_34C4fdE/S220/Black+Sheep+2.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>388</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5352263427762940860.post-8815363488125693017</id><published>2010-10-20T13:23:00.001+13:00</published><updated>2010-10-20T14:08:32.867+13:00</updated><title type='text'>See ya round like a dunny-roll</title><content type='html'>Dear Readers,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I am closing my blog ‘Canterbury Atheist’ indefinitely. &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For the record, this is the 392nd post I’ve made since I started-up in April 2008. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have a number of outside activities going on in my life – including writing a book, training for an endurance event - that are taking their toll time-wise.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Blogging is an outlet for me, but certainly not a big part of my life. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The tabloid ‘throw-away’ nature of blogs is something I constantly struggle with, find-somewhat but&amp;nbsp;a short-fix and unfulfilling in the long-term scheme. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My best and most read articles have come-about after considerable research, time and effort (Examples: search, using the facility at the top-left for ‘Dalai Lama’ ‘Church of Odin’ and say ‘Zenith Applied Philosophy’) &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The blogging platform is therefore limited to ‘throw-away’ articles, when I want to get into something more substantive. Not just limited to ‘free thought’ subject matter, either. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is not the first time this blog has gone into recess, come hibernation, so I may well resurrect it, should the urges overcome me and I need to kill again, arrange the body parts geometrically and send the coppers cryptic messages taunting them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You know you can’t trust an atheist’s word anyway. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To all my readers &amp;amp; even my detractors, some 250 a day, thanks for popping-by. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Keep safe and close to your family and friends. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Good-bye for now and thanks for all the fish. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Paul.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="385" width="480"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/-S28mCnaHvc?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/-S28mCnaHvc?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PS: For the record Split Enz went down-hill without Judd.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5352263427762940860-8815363488125693017?l=canterburyatheists.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/feeds/8815363488125693017/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5352263427762940860&amp;postID=8815363488125693017&amp;isPopup=true' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/8815363488125693017'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/8815363488125693017'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/2010/10/see-ya-round-like-dunny-roll.html' title='See ya round like a dunny-roll'/><author><name>Canterbury Atheists</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09900223059660267657</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/SX_en79GC5I/AAAAAAAABBc/uCl_34C4fdE/S220/Black+Sheep+2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5352263427762940860.post-8266776114696257347</id><published>2010-10-18T15:59:00.002+13:00</published><updated>2010-10-19T06:36:33.612+13:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Evidence for God'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Cryptozoology'/><title type='text'>Why a single Cryptozoologist has more credibility than all the worlds theists put together.</title><content type='html'>In the same way scientists look for the origins of The Big Bang, create devices to examine what makes-up the universe etc - &lt;em&gt;why can’t theists also similarly unite and employ science to conclusively seek out their god? &lt;/em&gt;Prove not only conclusively that this supernatural-being exists - but go then go the next step and start communicating with him/her and then in-turn find his creator? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With the financial resources at their disposal, the ability for theists to cobble-together enough money to fund a &lt;em&gt;‘God Detector’&lt;/em&gt; can’t be down to lack of money. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Even the most staunch-believer has to agree that god is made of something to be able to make planets and monitor all the goings-on on earth etc. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;‘Something’ on this massive scale can surely be discovered? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My hat goes off to those hardy Cryptozoology folk. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At least those seeking out hidden/legendary extinct-animals, do so with vigor and with every resource available at their disposal. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cryptozologists&amp;nbsp;are at least&amp;nbsp;bright enough to know, that without evidence their convictions are meaningless. &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They seek evidence for Big-Foot or Loch Ness Monster etc and don’t just settle for the comfortable yet unsubstantial &lt;em&gt;“we know it exists”&lt;/em&gt; in the same glib way as theists.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That’s why a single pig-headed, nut-case Cryptozoologist has more credibility than all the worlds theists put together. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Note: Be sure to watch&amp;nbsp;this You Tube&amp;nbsp;(Kiwi Humour at it's best)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="385" width="640"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/C9Kf9etcfvY?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/C9Kf9etcfvY?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5352263427762940860-8266776114696257347?l=canterburyatheists.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/feeds/8266776114696257347/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5352263427762940860&amp;postID=8266776114696257347&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/8266776114696257347'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/8266776114696257347'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/2010/10/why-single-cryptozoologist-has-more.html' title='Why a single Cryptozoologist has more credibility than all the worlds theists put together.'/><author><name>Canterbury Atheists</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09900223059660267657</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/SX_en79GC5I/AAAAAAAABBc/uCl_34C4fdE/S220/Black+Sheep+2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5352263427762940860.post-2627939414776530140</id><published>2010-10-08T11:28:00.002+13:00</published><updated>2010-10-08T11:32:36.256+13:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Christian Stupidity'/><title type='text'>There’s witchcraft in them there Carterton halls.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/TK5IAnI9III/AAAAAAAABoA/N-mSEtGWij8/s1600/John+Cromarty.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" ex="true" height="266" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/TK5IAnI9III/AAAAAAAABoA/N-mSEtGWij8/s400/John+Cromarty.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;"&gt;Wairarapa appears to be a hotbed of paganism (strange, I seem to have been left off their invite list to this years midnight Satanic orgy?) and the sleepy town of Carterton is the vortex for this shameless&amp;nbsp;devil-worship.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;"&gt;This coven of devil-worshippers was exposed when the towns-library was temporarily&amp;nbsp;housed in the local Masonic Lodge.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;"&gt;As every good Christian knows those goat-molesting Freemasons are in league with Beelzebub and Reverend John Cromarty from St David’s Church in Carterton wants the mayor to close the temporary library being run out of the lodge – least it corrupts the population.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;"&gt;In his letter to the town mayor Cromarty spells-out the evils of Freemasonry and the potential dangers of being exposed to its dark-craft. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;"&gt;"Freemasonry, while it does good works in the community, is based upon the worship of pagan gods,"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;"&gt;“While it portrays a facade as being compatible to Christianity in its teaching, it has its foundation rooted in witchcraft and pre-Christian teachings and practice."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;"&gt;The reply from Cartertons mayor, Gary McPhee, to Reverend Cromarty’s complaints could have been penned by yours-truly, given its acerbic nature.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;, Courier, monospace;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;McPhee told Cromarty in his open reply he was &lt;em&gt;"stuck in the wrong century"&lt;/em&gt; and "&lt;em&gt;We are now in the 21st century but clearly some people didn't move along with us." &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;"&gt;Looking at the retard in the photo above (check-out the jutting jaw and small cranium) – I have to agree with McPhee’s line of reasoning on this one, but he appears to have let diplomacy get the better of his vitriol. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;"&gt;After closer examination of Reverend John ‘Missing-Link’ Cromarty’s photo, I would place that period of time closer-to 400,000 years ago when Homo Neanderthalensis roamed the planet, rather than mere centuries. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="385" width="480"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/JXVXyZi-fN0?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/JXVXyZi-fN0?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;, Courier, monospace;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5352263427762940860-2627939414776530140?l=canterburyatheists.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/feeds/2627939414776530140/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5352263427762940860&amp;postID=2627939414776530140&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/2627939414776530140'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/2627939414776530140'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/2010/10/theres-witchcraft-in-them-there.html' title='There’s witchcraft in them there Carterton halls.'/><author><name>Canterbury Atheists</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09900223059660267657</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/SX_en79GC5I/AAAAAAAABBc/uCl_34C4fdE/S220/Black+Sheep+2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/TK5IAnI9III/AAAAAAAABoA/N-mSEtGWij8/s72-c/John+Cromarty.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5352263427762940860.post-1912189296783662859</id><published>2010-10-06T14:21:00.001+13:00</published><updated>2010-10-07T08:19:35.693+13:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Spammer'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='David Marbus'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Dennis Markuze'/><title type='text'>Would the real DM please stand-up</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/TKvMqLcwZLI/AAAAAAAABn4/vhtMPhMhWtk/s1600/DM+Spammer.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" px="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/TKvMqLcwZLI/AAAAAAAABn4/vhtMPhMhWtk/s400/DM+Spammer.jpg" width="232" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is ‘the’ legendary DM (a.k.a David Marbus) the author of such gems as the one below, which appear with annoying regularity in the comments section of atheist blogs through-out the world, including mine: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;add comment moderation to your BS you will not have a PUBLIC FORUM NEW GAME WITH YOU LITTLE F*CKERS - SPEAK N DIE. Come see the latest DM videos for your viewing pleasure! the WORLD TRADE CENTER PROPHECY - THE DANCE OF DEATH http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0Hez25fFrg http://media.depechemode.com/micro_sites/remasters/gr/wallpaper/violator_8_640.jpg _______________ And the Pope is 100% correct: The Nazis and the atheists both wish to ABOLISH FAITH.... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11332515 ________________________ hawking is WRONG science cannot explain NOTHING! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMRJJcfEXls&amp;amp; FAIR AND BALANCED! ________________ http://dissidentphilosophy.lifediscussion.net/philosophy-f1/the-boobquake-911-t1310.htm&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If that wasn’t enough indication DM is a looney-tune extraordinaire, take-a-look at another one of his delusional rants, I recently deleted:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #eeeeee; font-size: x-small;"&gt;the only crap you will ever need from this so-called "philosopher" called massimo pigliucci http://chem.tufts.edu/science/pigliucci/rationally-speaking/RS2001-091.htm "The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it." http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1iy39_depeche-mode-john-the-revelator_music JOHN THE REVELATOR! FAIR AND BALANCED! KING OF TERROR add comment moderation to your BS or more people will die with you... NO GODS AND NO POLITICS WITH THESE LITTLE IDIOTS! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyEISfS15g4&amp;amp;feature=player_embedded plush safe he think http://www.christies.com/lotfinderimages/D14781/d1478164x.jpg http://vimeo.com/13704095 but with recent revelations about James Randi, I think he likes DICKS! THE SECOND COMING! THE END OF ATHEISM FOLLOW THE WHITE RABBIT... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Smwrw4sNCxE THE B**BQUAKE - 911 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeblvLoVJCA&amp;amp;feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;David Marbus turns-out to be a Canadian called Dennis Markuze and he’s a lot younger than I expected. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But then again I should have guessed he was closer to 30 than 50&amp;nbsp;when I&amp;nbsp;had in front of me&amp;nbsp;the stunning truth that&amp;nbsp;Nostradamus predicted the formation of the group Depeche Mode and that somehow in-turn lead to September 11th. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you ask me his jacket is more Spandau Ballet than Depeche Mode and the later have penned more than fair share of atheist anthems as it happens&amp;nbsp;– not that DM is aware of much happening in the real world outside his Montreal bedroom. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Markuze also seems to like the Japanese horror-film ‘The Ring’ from other rants I’ve seen over the years – hardly suprising since I don’t think he gets out much of his parents house, except to fill-up his prescription. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Basically ‘the tough-guy’ DM turns-out to be a sniveling creep.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This song is for you DM. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="385" width="640"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/48JFIv9LZ2w?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/48JFIv9LZ2w?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' 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Atheists</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09900223059660267657</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/SX_en79GC5I/AAAAAAAABBc/uCl_34C4fdE/S220/Black+Sheep+2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/TKvMqLcwZLI/AAAAAAAABn4/vhtMPhMhWtk/s72-c/DM+Spammer.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5352263427762940860.post-5138354915511526695</id><published>2010-10-04T13:41:00.003+13:00</published><updated>2010-10-04T13:47:42.458+13:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Miracles'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Nazi Pope'/><title type='text'>The time for popes to show their magic is when they are alive – not dead.</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;Part of the all-but automatic beatification process of a pope and the road to his sainthood, is evidence of a credible miracle. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;To gain sainthood a pope must show they are in-effect a kind of middleman ‘lightening rod’ on earth for their god called Yahweh. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;Invariably this anecdotal evidence when provided is flimsy at best, and placed-on the-table long after their deaths. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;No one seems to care that when someone is alive they are never able to display their magic-tricks and never, but never, in an open-public forum or say under scientific scrutiny.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;If the current pope is to show us the power of god channeled through his form – &lt;em&gt;why not stump-up with the goods right now rather than later when he is dead and buried?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;Why doesn’t The Catholic Church show us Benedict is literally ‘gods emissary’ by showing-us now, rather than decades later, his miracle, so we can examine it&amp;nbsp;in the harsh light of day? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;The time for Benedict to show us his magic, say regeneration of a severed limb, is now&lt;/u&gt; -&amp;nbsp;but there sweat FA chance of that happening.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;That would lead the entire public and scientific community playing the devils advocate.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="385" width="480"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/hd6riYfLPXk?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/hd6riYfLPXk?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5352263427762940860-5138354915511526695?l=canterburyatheists.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/feeds/5138354915511526695/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5352263427762940860&amp;postID=5138354915511526695&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/5138354915511526695'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/5138354915511526695'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/2010/10/time-for-popes-to-show-their-magic-is.html' title='The time for popes to show their magic is when they are alive – not dead.'/><author><name>Canterbury Atheists</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09900223059660267657</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/SX_en79GC5I/AAAAAAAABBc/uCl_34C4fdE/S220/Black+Sheep+2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5352263427762940860.post-5173458770518119697</id><published>2010-09-27T08:44:00.001+13:00</published><updated>2010-09-27T09:41:50.041+13:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Book Burning'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Religious Repression'/><title type='text'>Burning books is a long-held Religious Tradition</title><content type='html'>The images and act of book-burning is etched in our psyches as being a formative part of National Socialist Germany - when copies of anything from Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud to H.G Wells went-up in flames.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yet, the sordid history of book burning pre-dates 1930’s Germany by centuries and still goes-on all too frequently even today. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Catholics in particular love nothing better than to destroy the writings of anyone that upsets their narrow sensibilities. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In their hey-day The Spanish Inquisition relished burning Korans &amp;amp; any other Islamic text they could lay their hands on.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Virtually the entire writings of the Mayan Civilization were destroyed with perverted pleasure by The Catholic Church. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For good measure nearly every Cathar text that could be found by The Catholic Church were also destroyed as well. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This fruit-loop pastor Terry Jones would have to build a bonfire the size of the state of Florida to come close to the Catholic Churches suppression of free-thought and alternative beliefs through-out the ages. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It was only four years ago Catholics in Rome and Manila decided Dan Browns ‘Da Vinci Code’ deserved being BBQed. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Whist doubtlessly top-of-the-pyre for destroying writings that threatened their self-appointed place in the world, The Catholic Church is not alone amongst religious zealotry when it comes to book-burning. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The evil texts of Harry Potter and Superman Comics have gone up in flames lit by evangelists. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the 1980’s orthodox Jews in Jesuleum incinerated New Testaments by the score. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;More copies of Salman Rusdies ‘Satanic Verses’ were probably destroyed than read.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Taliban also&amp;nbsp;did what the Taliban does best. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;God evidently loves a good book burning! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="385" width="480"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/bwTxw9DEjzU?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/bwTxw9DEjzU?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US" 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term='Destiny Church'/><title type='text'>Bishop Tamaki’s ‘spiritual’ father turns out to be a raving-homo!</title><content type='html'>The fallout-out (or would “blow-out” be a more appropriate term of phrase given the subject matter?) from Bishop Eddie Long rent-a-choir-boy affair has reached New Zealand.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And the stains (of the type not even modern washing-powers will remove) have reached the crocodile shoes of our own self-proclaimed bishop, Brian Tamaki.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bishop Long, or as his rent-a-choir-boys got to call him ‘Big Ed’, journeyed down-under in 2003 after the year prior Tamaki had made it to Atlanta for some well-earned R&amp;amp;R.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2003 was a spiritual journey at the behest of Tamaki who runs New Zealand’s version of a mega-church, Destiny. Rather than being a double-meat wopper burger like say&amp;nbsp;Longs ‘Birth Ministry’ Destiny would be better termed as one of those crappy small cheese-burgers McDonalds have. Soggy in the middle&amp;nbsp;and with a tacky outer wrapping. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This trip and the ‘connection’ (not in a biblical sense one presumes?) Tamaki had with Long is out-lined in his autobiography. I think it’s in the section just after he admits fathering children out of wedlock? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the chapter rather appropriately titled, given what now we know happens behind the scenes at The Birth Ministry, &lt;em&gt;“Spiritual Father – a long time coming”&lt;/em&gt; Tamaki waxes lyrical over Long and his set-up. In case you get confused that’s the set-up of Longs organisation rather than the ‘set-up’ where he befriends teen boys, lavishes them with gifts and attention – then sodomises them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;"The instant that Bishop Long walked into the room our spirits connected without having said a word” &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the most Freudian of statements possible, Tamaki goes-on to say in his bio: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;"I was a little taken aback by his embracing nature and the manner with which he greeted each and every one of us as if we were long lost brothers."&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;"I was impressed, yet the ease of our connection and the confirmation of a date was entirely in line with Kingdom principle - when God speaks, do it,"&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Clearly when Longs felt the urge for “a connection” he didn’t have to look far to “do it.” &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tamaki is apparently going to issue a statement today about ‘Big Ed’ Long in which no doubt he’ll say he’s praying for him and to return the christening gifts. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I’ll be sure to do a follow-up on this. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="385" width="480"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/MPE1QqKCNSw?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/MPE1QqKCNSw?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5352263427762940860-2455657429037410595?l=canterburyatheists.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/feeds/2455657429037410595/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5352263427762940860&amp;postID=2455657429037410595&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/2455657429037410595'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/2455657429037410595'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/2010/09/bishop-tamakis-spiritual-father-turns.html' title='Bishop Tamaki’s ‘spiritual’ father turns out to be a raving-homo!'/><author><name>Canterbury Atheists</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09900223059660267657</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/SX_en79GC5I/AAAAAAAABBc/uCl_34C4fdE/S220/Black+Sheep+2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5352263427762940860.post-1141905774313212827</id><published>2010-09-24T07:03:00.000+12:00</published><updated>2010-09-24T07:03:55.787+12:00</updated><title type='text'>How Science is a force for Good on this planet: Kiwi invents bionic legs!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Human invention makes &lt;u&gt;real miracles&lt;/u&gt; happen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="385" width="480"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/TP0EvPo9LUU?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/TP0EvPo9LUU?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="385" width="480"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/CY83bpdXusc?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/CY83bpdXusc?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; 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display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 349px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The outward vestiges of Catholicism’s wealth and immortality is; The Vatican Bank.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Vatican Bank is not a bank in the same terms that define first-tare global financial institutions, such as the one you and I hold accounts at.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This bank operates at a level that would make an Internet finance company in the Bahamas with a P.O Box for an address, look like The Bank of England.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That is to say The Vatican Bank functions in the global financial under-belly, well outside the controls of normal EU/U.S regulations, governmental controls and more importantly for &lt;em&gt;'Gods bankers'&lt;/em&gt; as far away from ‘the grasp of the law’ as possible.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Those holding an account at The Vatican Bank fall loosely into three categories (a.) Catholic Churches and clergy (b.) Criminals (c.) Tax Evaders.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Which depositor is which, is frankly hard to tell.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Over the years many a regulator and media-commentator has wanted to know &lt;em&gt;“who is actually running the bank - it's biggest clients, The Mafia or The Catholic Church itself&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When it comes to symbiotics like The Vatican Church and Italian Mafia, a quick look at historic-record shows the line between both groups is some-what blurred.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Vatican Bank was formed in the middle of WW2 and made its initial wealth by accepting tainted funds from the deceased bank accounts &amp;amp; riches of Europe’s Jewish population, acquiesced by corrupt regimes - such as the one that gave the Vatican the very statehood it now uses to avoid prosecution and act beyond international law. The relatives of the Holocaust victims are still trying to recover those stolen ‘blood’ monies six decades later.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Money laundering still remains the main ‘money-making’ activity of The Institute for Works of Religion (the banks technical name) to this day. This week &lt;a href="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&amp;amp;objectid=10675261"&gt;we learnt its current head, not for the first time in its sordid history, has just been caught-out by Italian officials&lt;/a&gt; for what is by their terms is a paltry 20 million Euros of illegal transactions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As a financial institution that will take monies &lt;em&gt;‘no questions asked’&lt;/em&gt; operating with the luxury of having a board which has immunity from prosecution, and no need to open its books to public scrutiny, The Vatican Bank has been and always will be the bank of choice to the criminal underworld as well as your run-of-the-mill despotic regime. Catholic dictators Pinochet's and Noriega knew full-well where to safely place their ill-gotten gains. They left it amongst comrades in faith. Hopefully they got a discounted rate.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Criminal fraternity’s ranging from the local Sicilian mafia, right through to Central &amp;amp; South American drug syndicates, also have accounts with The Vatican Bank, much to the chagrin of global law enforcement who are powerless to seize the profits of their criminal enterprise once it goes into the same vaults which still holds Nazi gold and valuables stolen literally in some cases from the corpses of Holocaust victims.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is on public-record The Vatican Banks ‘cut’ on the Gambino crime-families drug-money was a straight 50% - so ‘laundering’ is a very profitable business for The Institute for Works of Religion and ultimately the Catholic Church - it’s sole shareholder and benefactor from its secretive venal activities. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If you wanted to 'knock a hole' in the worlds illicit drug trade and organised crime the biggest single-thing any government/policing-organisation could do -would be to dissemble The Vatican Bank.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Vatican Bank (read: Catholic Church) aids and abets global money laundering on a massive scale and remains an integral part of the multi-billion dollars international drug trade, acts with impunity as a ‘financial life-raft’ for corrupt dictatorships and happily deals with any criminal desperado &amp;amp; tax dodger with money to hide from their respective authorities.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It’s hardly surprising The Vatican Bank gets caught-out now and again given its modus-operandi, scale of corrupt activities, dubious nature of its clientele and total lack of scruples of the people involved – especially its head. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Try picturing RATzinger acting like a crazed ecumenical Scrooge McPope, divested of robes and running naked deep-within the bowels (now there's an appropriate turn of phrase if ever there was one) of the cavernous church vaults. Squealing in proverbial joy as those tainted 'pieces of silver' run through his grubbied fingers and dribbling in anticipation as his favourite choir-boy climbs al naturale up to join-him on-top-of the mountains of illicit loot not even L.Ron Hubbard could place one of his enormous figures on. Becoming erect when he finds a gold-bar embossed with a Nazi swastika amongst the money-mountain.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="385" width="480"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/FdsBZy9E3Z4?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/FdsBZy9E3Z4?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5352263427762940860-305055724444028495?l=canterburyatheists.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/feeds/305055724444028495/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link 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src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/SX_en79GC5I/AAAAAAAABBc/uCl_34C4fdE/S220/Black+Sheep+2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/TJmfDV0S-RI/AAAAAAAABnw/UxQkLeVx3Is/s72-c/Scrooge+McPope+Good.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5352263427762940860.post-354918790934138680</id><published>2010-09-22T09:05:00.002+12:00</published><updated>2010-09-22T09:10:15.931+12:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Souls'/><title type='text'>Attn: Theologians    Have a go at this!</title><content type='html'>This is a You Tube I did one night over a few beers at the end of last year, not one of my better ones, but effective enough.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I wanted to know &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;“What will happen to a soul when we have brain transplants?”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Clearly this day will happen sooner rather than later so this question is more than being merely a hypothetical one.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sadly no one has even attempted to answer this ponder-able.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why isn’t there anyone who believes in the concept of a soul that can give me an answer?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am therefore doubling my efforts to get an answer by re-posting it here in the hope there is a simple answer to what-is a simple question. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So after viewing the video please leave your answers in the comments section.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="385" width="480"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/7h-y_X5YKPc?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/7h-y_X5YKPc?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" 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href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/2010/09/attn-theologians-have-go-at-this.html' title='Attn: Theologians    Have a go at this!'/><author><name>Canterbury Atheists</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09900223059660267657</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/SX_en79GC5I/AAAAAAAABBc/uCl_34C4fdE/S220/Black+Sheep+2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5352263427762940860.post-6737093194022069948</id><published>2010-09-22T08:34:00.002+12:00</published><updated>2010-09-22T08:40:34.243+12:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Christian Justice'/><title type='text'>Burglar finds Atheism and avoids Jail</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;BURGLAR FINDS ATHEISM AND AVOIDS JAIL (NZ Press Association 22nd Sept 2010)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;A burglar who walked into Hamilton police station and confessed his crimes after rejecting religion has avoided a prison term. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;Neum Muliaumasealii, 24, was sentenced at Hamilton District Court yesterday to three months community detention and 50 hours community work after admitting burgling four properties, including the home of a friend between 2005 and 2007 , The Waikato Times reported.&lt;br /&gt;Muliaumasealii also admitted to four counts of theft, breaking into cars during an international rugby match to steal car stereos. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;The court was that in March he went to the police station to confess his crimes prompted by his "new found lack of religious beliefs" and a desire for a "clean slate". &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;"It's really your conscience which has led you to appear before the court today," Judge Glen Marshall told Miliaumasealii &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;He said a prison sentence would normally be an option for his offending but gave him credit for changing his ways. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;Now the true headline and report;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;BURGLAR FINDS RELIGION AND AVOIDS JAIL (NZ Press Association 22nd Sept 2010)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;A burglar who walked into Hamilton police station and confessed his crimes after finding religion has avoided a prison term. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;Neum Muliaumasealii, 24, was sentenced at Hamilton District Court yesterday to three months community detention and 50 hours community work after admitting burgling four properties, including the home of a friend between 2005 and 2007 , The Waikato Times reported.&lt;br /&gt;Muliaumasealii also admitted to four counts of theft, breaking into cars during an international rugby match to steal car stereos. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;The court was that in March he went to the police station to confess his crimes prompted by his "religious beliefs" and a desire for a "clean slate".&lt;br /&gt;"It's really your conscience which has led you to appear before the court today," Judge Glen Marshall told Miliaumasealii.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He said a prison sentence would normally be an option for his offending but gave him credit for changing his ways.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;WHAT A FUCKING JOKE! &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="385" width="480"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/92miS5edOao?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/92miS5edOao?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5352263427762940860-6737093194022069948?l=canterburyatheists.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/feeds/6737093194022069948/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5352263427762940860&amp;postID=6737093194022069948&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/6737093194022069948'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/6737093194022069948'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/2010/09/burglar-finds-atheism-and-avoids-jail.html' title='Burglar finds Atheism and avoids Jail'/><author><name>Canterbury Atheists</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09900223059660267657</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/SX_en79GC5I/AAAAAAAABBc/uCl_34C4fdE/S220/Black+Sheep+2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5352263427762940860.post-232114317170988903</id><published>2010-09-21T18:18:00.002+12:00</published><updated>2010-09-21T19:10:04.137+12:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Christian Hypocrisy'/><title type='text'>Let’s invent a new Boogeyman to all be scared of.</title><content type='html'>Now those evil commies have been put well and truly to rest, we in the Western-world really need to change our focus.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There must be something left underneath our bed that will scare the horses and frighten the kids into doing what we want?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Unite-us in a crusade, in a traditional sense of the term.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That’s it – the rise of Islam!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But let’s face-it Muslims in our midst doesn't scare everyone?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some people may have Muslims as neighbours, in their kids sporting teams and find-them just like everyone else.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So what else is out there that can scare the crap out of every god-fearing member of society?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That’s it.....Atheists!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fuck those heathen pricks that gave rise to Hitler and want to destroy the very foundations of our Judeo Christian society.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let’s make a film to show families what the evils of atheism entail - the end of Christmas for starters.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="640" height="385"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/SZXFgJkD_q4?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/SZXFgJkD_q4?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Footnote: Buckets are provided to all audience members. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5352263427762940860-232114317170988903?l=canterburyatheists.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/feeds/232114317170988903/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5352263427762940860&amp;postID=232114317170988903&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/232114317170988903'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/232114317170988903'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/2010/09/lets-invent-new-boogeyman-to-all-be.html' title='Let’s invent a new Boogeyman to all be scared of.'/><author><name>Canterbury Atheists</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09900223059660267657</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/SX_en79GC5I/AAAAAAAABBc/uCl_34C4fdE/S220/Black+Sheep+2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5352263427762940860.post-105148999190494455</id><published>2010-09-19T08:03:00.012+12:00</published><updated>2010-09-21T18:57:56.863+12:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='40 Hour Famine'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Christian Charity'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='World Vision'/><title type='text'>Attention Kiwi’s: Stop giving World Vision money to spend on Bibles!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/TJUjAwx3UQI/AAAAAAAABng/tq4AqlKYG-w/s1600/World+Visionusa+The+Joy+of+receiving+Jesus+Uganda.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 240px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5518355414413431042" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/TJUjAwx3UQI/AAAAAAAABng/tq4AqlKYG-w/s320/World+Visionusa+The+Joy+of+receiving+Jesus+Uganda.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;['The Joy of Jesus in Your Life' - World Vision at work in Uganda] &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;“Christian witness is an essential and integral part of the mission of World Vision. Christian witness should never involve the use of pressure or inducement but equally it is unethical and inappropriate to hide that &lt;strong&gt;Christian teaching is the underlying motive for all of World Vision’s work”&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Would it alarm you to know World Vision only employs Christians or believers in The Old Testament God? Indeed if you sign-on as an employee to World Vision and then, either by the act of apostasy, or simply losing your faith altogether – you are automatically fired. World Vision in effect practices religious discrimination. Atheists are amongst those unwelcome in their ranks. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Would you continue to support World Vision knowing it funds Christian Schools and religious-education programmes and that World Vision and sees the distribution of bibles as being as integral &amp;amp; intrinsic part of their activities as food-aid? &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 213px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5518350098134658466" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/TJUeLUGO7aI/AAAAAAAABnQ/OJoT17YBGI0/s320/World+Vision+in+Albania.jpg" /&gt; &lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;World Vision in-action Bibles for Albanian kids who according to WV’s Magazine “(a country) that struggled to provide spiritual education for young Christians after the fall of communism due to a dearth of learning materials.” &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Did you know World Vision is considered by U.S Courts to be, in legal terms: a ‘Religious Corporation?’ and further a religious group first and an aid-group second? &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Does it make you uncomfortable knowing the CEO of World Vision has an income twice that of New Zealand’s prime-minister? &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;World Vision doesn’t like to promote its Christian evangelism here in New Zealand, least it scares away potential supporters, but it is all there on their web site if you care to look in the fine-print: &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;“We co-operate with local church leadership. This must be appropriate in the context of the programme. The families in these communities are given an opportunity for Christian education appropriate to their own culture but it's their choice to participate” &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now, picture a starving person saying “no thanks” to a Bible lesson when the person undertaking the proselytising is the same-one distributing the food &amp;amp; shelter for you and your family? This isn’t just a captured market – it is one that would worship Spike Milligan if it meant filling their bellies. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;World Vision rejects the exploitation tag trying to get the public to believe its own company line that: &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;“World Vision affirms and defends the right of all Christians and faith-based organisations, including our own staff and World Vision itself, to witness through their lives, words and deeds” &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Accepting Christ must be a free decision based on consideration and judgment”&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Starving beggars can in-fact be choosers in World Visions opinion. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;World Vision.com is even more forth-right in letting the public know where a part of their donations are going and also give-us an insight into their DNA make-up:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;“Mankind has a spiritual dimension that also needs to be addressed. World Vision works with local partners, including churches, to organise summer camps, religious celebrations, including Christmas and Easter and the distribution of children's study literature on the Bible, church traditions and history, to nurture this dimension. We support local churches as part of the community to help them carry out these activities in the longer term” &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So long-after the disaster, well after the village has got on its feet and the population has the ability to feed themselves again - World Vision remains on the ground simply to propagate the teachings of Jesus Christ – using the money secular-suckers gave thinking it was for food, water and housing etc – all teary the stuff that features on the adverts. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the majority of cases, those that sponsor a child with World Vision are paying for that child to learn about Noah and his Ark and Jonah and The Whale. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 247px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5518349002145887298" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/TJUdLhOJdEI/AAAAAAAABnI/2OXw19niVGs/s320/World+Vision+when-do-we-eat-cover.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;World Vision even has enough money from donors to publish its own Christian propaganda for its in-house (re)education programmes. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This book (above) is advertised on World Vision Resources as being &lt;em&gt;‘designed so leaders can integrate individual parts into a regular Sunday school or Bible class curriculum or use an entire lesson to fill a full class hour’. &lt;/em&gt;I mean why bother filling a child’s mind with math’s and science, eh?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Being a multi-national religious corporate with 40,000 employees World Vision even runs the equivalent of its own Travel Department.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rest easy knowing your monthly donation has gone to help WV workers get a bit of well needed R&amp;amp;R with a travel-package entitled &lt;em&gt;“Leadership of the Holy Land Tour&lt;/em&gt;”. Apparently it includes all ‘the’ great Biblical sites. According to none other than “Steve Haas (VP &amp;amp; Chief Catalyst, for World Vision and I’m bemused as you are at the title) The holiday in The Middle East is &lt;em&gt;“An encounter that will stretch and provide you with insights on how to lead your church more effectively. It will also provide a life-line to those of our Christian family that remain in this turbulent region of the world.” &lt;/em&gt;Don’t worry if The Middle East isn’t your thing – there's plenty of other tours available to a whole range of countries. Chile appears popular.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In Summary: &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Whatever you do - don’t give World Vision one cent! &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Don’t feel a shred of guilt ignoring their ‘heart-string’ adverts, safe in the knowledge you are not helping prop-up their CEO’s base-salary of NZD 500,000 per annum – plus bonus’s. These bonus’s bump-him-up another NZD 150,000 by the way. How many Child Sponsorships will NZD 650,000 get ya I wonder? Its head in Australia, a Baptist minister, gets a base salary of a cool AUD 250,000 – plus again the obligatory bonus’s. This-is after-all an American religious corporation first, and pays its executives well. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Just as importantly make-sure your child’s school does-not participate in their fashionable money-maker called ’The 40 Hour Famine’. &lt;strong&gt;Write to your school board and say it is wrong to raise funds for a multi-national religious corporation that shamelessly discriminates against non-Christians. &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/0NfJOiqFC4Y?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/0NfJOiqFC4Y?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5352263427762940860-105148999190494455?l=canterburyatheists.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/feeds/105148999190494455/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5352263427762940860&amp;postID=105148999190494455&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/105148999190494455'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/105148999190494455'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/2010/09/attention-kiwis-stop-giving-world.html' title='Attention Kiwi’s: Stop giving World Vision money to spend on Bibles!'/><author><name>Canterbury Atheists</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09900223059660267657</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/SX_en79GC5I/AAAAAAAABBc/uCl_34C4fdE/S220/Black+Sheep+2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/TJUjAwx3UQI/AAAAAAAABng/tq4AqlKYG-w/s72-c/World+Visionusa+The+Joy+of+receiving+Jesus+Uganda.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5352263427762940860.post-5483090806903077584</id><published>2010-09-17T08:46:00.003+12:00</published><updated>2010-09-17T09:05:24.302+12:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Catholic Church'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Ratzinger War Time Record'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Nazi Pope'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Nazi Analogies'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Pope'/><title type='text'>Who writes Bene-Dicks speeches thesedays? David Irving?</title><content type='html'>&lt;em&gt;“Even in our own lifetime, we can recall how Britain and her leaders stood against a Nazi tyranny that wished to eradicate God from society and denied our common humanity to many, especially the Jews, who were thought unfit to live. I also recall the regime's attitude to Christian pastors and religious who spoke the truth in love, opposed the Nazis and paid for that opposition with their lives. As we reflect on the sobering lessons of the atheist extremism of the twentieth century, let us never forget how the exclusion of God, religion and virtue from public life leads ultimately to a truncated vision of man and of society and thus to a "reductive vision of the person and his destiny". [RAT-zingers first propaganda speech on English soil]&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Who the fuck is this lying creep RAT-zinger trying to kid, eh?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fact One&lt;/strong&gt;: The wartime leader of England, Winston Churchill was an atheist.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fact Two&lt;/strong&gt;: The Vatican signed a treaty with Nazi Germany. The reigning pope at the time did at best ‘nothing’ to stop fascism or the murder of Jews.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fact Three&lt;/strong&gt;: Both Joseph (as in Goebbels) RAT-zinger and his brother, Georg - also a Catholic priest - were card-carrying Nazi’s and swore allegiance to Adolf Hitler. Georg was injured fighting against the Allies!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fact Four&lt;/strong&gt;: According to the last Germany census prior to WW2 less than 5 per cent of the population identified themselves as atheists.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fact Five&lt;/strong&gt;: All the European WW2 fascist dictators were Catholic including of course Hitler.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;"I am now as before a Catholic and will always remain so" [Adolph Hitler, to General . Gerhard Engel, 1941]&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fact Six&lt;/strong&gt;: Adolf Hitler believed in God and hated atheists and espoused as much in his manifesto Mein Kampf. Do these words look to you like those of an atheist?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;“I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“We must pray to the Almighty not to refuse His blessing to this change and not to abandon our people in the times to come”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"My feelings as a Christian points me to my Lord and Savior as a fighter. It points me to the man who once in loneliness, surrounded by a few followers, recognized these Jews for what they were and summoned men to fight against them and who, God's truth!”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;"This human world of ours would be inconceivable without the practical existence of a religious belief."&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;“Anyone who dares to lay hands on the highest image of the Lord commits sacrilege against the benevolent creator of this miracle and contributes to the expulsion from paradise."&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fact Seven&lt;/strong&gt;: The Catholic Church stands tall as the age-old leader in anti-Semitic practices.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fact Eight:&lt;/strong&gt; Hitler loved using the term &lt;em&gt;"destiny"&lt;/em&gt; as well.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fact Nine&lt;/strong&gt;: Even in his own autobiography RAT-zinger himself admitted the early victories Germany experienced in WW2 filled himself and his family with patriotic pride.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fact Ten&lt;/strong&gt;: In 1944 RAT-zinger watched Hungarian Jews being loaded into cattle-trucks on their way to be gassed at Auschwitz &lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span &gt;Time Magazine Interview 6th December 1993)&lt;/span&gt; and did nothing to stop the greatest crime in the history of humanity.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pope Bene-Dick XVI - you are nothing but a lying piece of shit.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="385" width="640"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/fHRDfut2Vx0?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/fHRDfut2Vx0?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Footnote: more on RAT-zingers dubious war record &lt;a href="http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/2010/05/bare-faced-lies-of-pope-who-both.html"&gt;here &lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5352263427762940860-5483090806903077584?l=canterburyatheists.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/feeds/5483090806903077584/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5352263427762940860&amp;postID=5483090806903077584&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/5483090806903077584'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/5483090806903077584'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/2010/09/who-writes-bene-dicks-speeches.html' title='Who writes Bene-Dicks speeches thesedays? David Irving?'/><author><name>Canterbury Atheists</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09900223059660267657</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/SX_en79GC5I/AAAAAAAABBc/uCl_34C4fdE/S220/Black+Sheep+2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5352263427762940860.post-1046492547526855089</id><published>2010-09-15T08:50:00.005+12:00</published><updated>2010-09-15T11:39:50.800+12:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Earthquake'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='4-1-9 Fraudsters'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Humour'/><title type='text'>4-1-9 Internet Fraudsters generous offer to help Canterbury Earthquake Appeal</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;IN-BOX THIS MORNING&lt;em&gt;:&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Hello i am glad to know you, but God knows you better and he knows why he has directed me to you at this point in time so do not be afraid, this is a charity proposal from Mrs Ruth Faayu. I apologize if the contents in this mail are contrary to your moral ethics, which i feel may be of great disturbance to your personal life, but please treat with absolute secrecy and personal to the glory of the most High God. I am Mrs Ruth Faayu the wife of late David Faayu whom died, as a victim of the Haiti earthquake on,12 of january 2010. I have some Funds I want you to handle for me in God,s glory. I promise that this project will be carried under a legitimate arrangement that will protect both of us from any breach of the law. If you are interested,Get back for more Information's Thank's Mrs, Ruth Faayu.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;MY REPLY: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;Thanks for your email Ruth,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is pleasing to see that others follow Zeus ‘The Father of All Gods’ – all praise be to him.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Boy are you are in-luck - I also happen to be a moral reprobate!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Basically I fuck anything with two legs and have boozed and gambled away more than I care to think about.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I don’t have a dollar to my name and if I did I would put it on number eight in race six at Addington Raceway on Saturday night.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thanks-be to Zeus for granting me forgiveness for my failings.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As chance would have it, where I live, Christchurch, recently also experienced an earthquake the same size as Haiti.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This happened just 12 days ago - but thanks to the all-powerful Zeus no one was killed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I was in bed with a prostitute her mother &amp;amp; their dog when the quake occurred and was saved by diving-under their king-sized bed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I also got out of the brothel without paying them!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Boy will the dog and the granny be pissed-off after what I made them do.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A true miracle but still there is a lot of damage to property in our region.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyway back to your heart-warming Charitable Proposal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This damage to Christchurch property is estimated to be around 2 Billion U.S Dollars.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Red Cross here in New Zealand have opened an appeal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To save using-me as a middle-man here’s their bank account number: ASB account 12-3192-0006848-01.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Giving me your millions would only see them flittered away on hard-liquor, slow horses and prostitutes who specialise in BDSM and have a male dog as a pet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The reference for your deposit is ‘Canterbury Earthquake Appeal’&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Boy will The Red Cross be surprised when a stranger like you donates your $’s to the less-fortunate in our community and they will see me as some sort of a Kiwi hero!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I think it must be Zeus, the God of all Gods, that has bought us together.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I feel I am finally getting my life together thanks to your act of generosity.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is the impetuous I need in my sorry life to get a proper house of my own, rather than living in a Salvation Army night-shelter. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;The spark I need to get back together with my 3 ex-partners and reunite with my 13 children.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Many Many Thanks.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;May Zeus look over you and your family.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Paul.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PS: I’m going to present this exchange to the Judge at my impending fraud trial - as evidence of my good character. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5352263427762940860-1046492547526855089?l=canterburyatheists.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/feeds/1046492547526855089/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5352263427762940860&amp;postID=1046492547526855089&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/1046492547526855089'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/1046492547526855089'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/2010/09/4-1-9-internet-fraudsters-generous.html' title='4-1-9 Internet Fraudsters generous offer to help Canterbury Earthquake Appeal'/><author><name>Canterbury Atheists</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09900223059660267657</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/SX_en79GC5I/AAAAAAAABBc/uCl_34C4fdE/S220/Black+Sheep+2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5352263427762940860.post-6033218345643422674</id><published>2010-09-14T09:23:00.003+12:00</published><updated>2010-09-14T09:36:20.818+12:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Quack Cures'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Medicine'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Homeopathy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Vitamins'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Earthquake'/><title type='text'>Quack Water Salespeople roll into Canterbury</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;"Homeopathic medicines may greatly help children, animals and adults feeling frightened and unable to sleep from the Christchurch earthquake" says co-presidents Jem Maber and Susanna Shelton from the New Zealand Council of Homeopaths.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This advice is laughable and can be quickly and conclusively dispelled.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Every parent who's up-with the-play already knows the best-cure at night at times like this is for girls to cuddle a voodoo-doll in bed and boys to play with a shrunken head under the blankets. &lt;em&gt;Important&lt;/em&gt;: &lt;em&gt;for this to work make sure it is done in conjunction with bio-magnetic bedding.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A personal ‘pagan’ favourite of mine in angsty situations is to strip naked and bay at the moon as part of its harvest cycle.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sometimes I find myself getting naked in the back-yard without the moon even being in Virgo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What self-respecting householder could look past that ‘old wives recipe’ of doping your cup of tea with a liberal dose of whisky? At least there is some efficacy for this treatment. But a word of warning before you start pouring Johnny Walker into the Lipton's – be sure to have your palms read first, just in case there is ‘danger in the future.’ Having your horoscope produced will be equally effective and put you and the families minds-at-rest.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another ancient tried and true stress treatment, available at any decent herbalist, is a mixture of St Johns Wort, peppermint, willow bark and chamomile. Boil it-up and then make it into a tea in which you pour five nips of whisky. It’s also great for your prostrate as well, warding-off the flu and the later stages of AIDS.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Having your crystal necklace re-calibrated can also work wonders as a stress reliever. What's more crystals also look cool and go well with tribal tattoos. It'll be sure to be a conversation starter at the next Green Party meeting. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I really wish the media would start reporting this important scientific stuff so the public is better informed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="385" width="640"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/HMGIbOGu8q0?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/HMGIbOGu8q0?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5352263427762940860-6033218345643422674?l=canterburyatheists.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/feeds/6033218345643422674/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5352263427762940860&amp;postID=6033218345643422674&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/6033218345643422674'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/6033218345643422674'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/2010/09/quack-water-salespeople-roll-into.html' title='Quack Water Salespeople roll into Canterbury'/><author><name>Canterbury Atheists</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09900223059660267657</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/SX_en79GC5I/AAAAAAAABBc/uCl_34C4fdE/S220/Black+Sheep+2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5352263427762940860.post-2294585576893328263</id><published>2010-09-13T09:06:00.005+12:00</published><updated>2010-09-17T07:03:27.119+12:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Theology'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Zombies'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Religious Education'/><title type='text'>Surely a Doctorate in Zombies is worth more than one in Theology?</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/TI1Co8oha-I/AAAAAAAABm4/S7Idrub8TH8/s1600/zombie-jesus.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 231px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5516138389837016034" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/TI1Co8oha-I/AAAAAAAABm4/S7Idrub8TH8/s320/zombie-jesus.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;I&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt; want to be amongst the first to congratulate The University of Baltimore for being the third U.S learning establishment to currently offer a class on Zombie culture as part of its English curriculum.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Students learn about the living-dead as part of pop-culture course and we’ll soon see doctorates being presented to excited students in English majoring-in &lt;em&gt;Zombification&lt;/em&gt; (a term I came up with, so please all rights reserved)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It’s reasonable and consistent application for higher-leaning-institutions operating-in this contemporary age wanting to still dabble-in near-worthless courses in theology and preach (as opposed to teach) about the worlds best known and most revered fictional zombie, Jesus of Nazareth – why shouldn’t they expand their scope to include the score of modern-day living-dead as part of the English media stream?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The other universities to embrace film &amp;amp; comic zombies are based in Iowa and Illinois.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Whilst some may belittle the three universities involved, at a practical-level an English doctorate majoring in Zombies (a.k.a &lt;em&gt;Zombification&lt;/em&gt;) has to be well above mumbo-jumbo like theology on most civilian pecking-orders.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For starters any prospective employer would be well aware that the entire class taking Zombie culture, are intellectually well ahead of their contemporaries across the corridor in theology.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After-all the pop-culture students all know that zombies aren’t real.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Those students don’t feel the need to pray to zombies in their spare time, take off entire mornings in the weekend to joyously engage in sing-songs about the living-dead.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nor do they embrace the ridiculous premise that zombies can be a magical 'saviour' and act as their gateway to eternal life.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Give me the followers of George Romero any day! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/cb5TZI8s0J8?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/cb5TZI8s0J8?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5352263427762940860-2294585576893328263?l=canterburyatheists.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/feeds/2294585576893328263/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5352263427762940860&amp;postID=2294585576893328263&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/2294585576893328263'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/2294585576893328263'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/2010/09/surely-doctorate-in-zombies-is-worth.html' title='Surely a Doctorate in Zombies is worth more than one in Theology?'/><author><name>Canterbury Atheists</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09900223059660267657</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/SX_en79GC5I/AAAAAAAABBc/uCl_34C4fdE/S220/Black+Sheep+2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/TI1Co8oha-I/AAAAAAAABm4/S7Idrub8TH8/s72-c/zombie-jesus.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5352263427762940860.post-2173110799888392023</id><published>2010-09-11T08:47:00.004+12:00</published><updated>2010-09-11T11:30:36.032+12:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Catholic Church'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Catholic Church Abuse'/><title type='text'>Belgium’s Catholic Church exposed as little more than a toddler-fucking pedophile ring</title><content type='html'>&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;“There have been some articles that imply that pedophilia is nowhere so little prevalent as in the Church as say other areas of society” (The former Bishop of Bruges, Roger Vangheluwe 19th April 2010)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Harrowing &amp;amp; sickening details of decades of sexual abuse by Roman Catholic clergy in Belgium have been released by Church investigators.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dubbed The Adriaenssens Report after the chief investigator, Peter Adriaenssen, its pages contain a litany of sadistic treatment - in short -mass child-sex-abuse:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;* Child abuse was so extensive that it was going on in almost every diocese and at every Church-run boarding school in Belgium. The investigators were overwhelmed with reports and what they produced was only 'the tip of the iceberg.' &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;* The priests almost exclusively enjoyed molesting pre-pubescent boys. Assaults on boys usually ended by their 15th year.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;* Toddlers were considered ‘fair game’. Girls as young as two were raped. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;* The worst of the abuse was in the 60’s and 70’s and its decrease in later decades was only down to fewer priests being involved in the education system.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;* The Bishop of Bruges, Roger Vangheluwe, was in on the score. He kept his known abuse closer to home by raping his nephew. The Church tried to bribe the victim’s family to keep them quiet. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;* When confronted with overwhelming evidence of this mass-abuse the Church tried to cover it up and Police were forced to break into Church offices to locate records. The Church employed lawyers to fight this seizure and won a case for the raids to be considered illegal – thus successfully burying the true scale of their crimes. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;* 13 known victims were so traumatised by their abuse they later committed suicide.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;* The Vatican knew what was going-on and left them to it. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;How do Catholic apologists respond to facts like this?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By saying these cases were isolated and no worse than the rest of society?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well that’s the same erroneous and vacuous excuse given by the incestuous pedophile who was in charge of the Church when these crimes against humanity were being perpetrated.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It’s time for society to lance this septic boil once and for-all.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/cRv2XY99EvY?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/cRv2XY99EvY?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5352263427762940860-2173110799888392023?l=canterburyatheists.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/feeds/2173110799888392023/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5352263427762940860&amp;postID=2173110799888392023&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/2173110799888392023'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/2173110799888392023'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/2010/09/belgiums-catholic-church-exposed-as.html' title='Belgium’s Catholic Church exposed as little more than a toddler-fucking pedophile ring'/><author><name>Canterbury Atheists</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09900223059660267657</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/SX_en79GC5I/AAAAAAAABBc/uCl_34C4fdE/S220/Black+Sheep+2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5352263427762940860.post-1668352720353948092</id><published>2010-09-10T09:00:00.007+12:00</published><updated>2010-09-10T10:07:53.912+12:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Skeptic'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Earthquake'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Doug Copp'/><title type='text'>Warning: Ignore this “Triangle of Life” Crap</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;EXTRACT FROM DOUG &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;COPP'S&lt;/span&gt; ARTICLE ON THE: "TRIANGLE OF LIFE" &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;My name is Doug &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;Copp&lt;/span&gt;. I am the Rescue Chief and Disaster Manager of the American Rescue Team International (&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;ARTI&lt;/span&gt;), the world's most experienced rescue team. The information in this article will save lives in an earthquake.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;This is the start of an e.mail headed 'Earthquake Advice' my household received by well-meaning friends, no less than 6 times, in the wake of the series of earthquakes that have descended (should that be ascended?) on our region of N.Z.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My wife has also helped its viral-spread by sending it to numerous folk in our own address book.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yet, something about the advice Mr &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"&gt;Copp&lt;/span&gt; provides in his “Triangle of Life” email &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"&gt;didn&lt;/span&gt;’t ring true to me, based-on what I had known previously about how to survive an earthquake.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What is loosely called ‘The Duck and Cover Approach’&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That’s to say if you are inside during an earthquake get under a sturdy desk, table or bed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Even to this layman &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"&gt;Copps&lt;/span&gt; ‘Triangle of Life’ clearly contained dubious &amp;amp; plain stupid stuff like &lt;em&gt;get out of your car in the middle of an earthquake&lt;/em&gt; &lt;em&gt;and lay down next to the vehicle&lt;/em&gt; as being safer than staying inside and &lt;em&gt;to avoid using door-frames as protection.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It had all the hallmarks of a hoax and on closer inspection my suspicions were proven right.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I simply googled ‘Doug &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"&gt;Copps&lt;/span&gt; Earthquake’ and was greeted with page after page of rebuttals.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Even &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7"&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/span&gt; had a own page dedicated to exposing Mr &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8"&gt;Copp&lt;/span&gt;’s controversial and mostly dis-proven theories, on how to survive a earthquake.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Go to: &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangle_of_Life"&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangle_of_Life&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In short anyone who took &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9"&gt;Copps&lt;/span&gt; advice at face-value and employed-it during a major earthquake, shunning the ‘Duck and Cover’ tactics, would be increasing their chances of being injured or killed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Red Cross have continually lambasted &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10"&gt;Copps&lt;/span&gt; ‘Triangle of Life’ and are sick of having to re-iterate the basics of earth-quake survival in the western-world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Exploring this subject further Mr &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11"&gt;Copp&lt;/span&gt; himself proved-to-be what could be politely termed ‘a colourful character’ or if one was less charitable ‘a nut-case.’&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He was discovered making an erroneous claim to The September 11&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12"&gt;th&lt;/span&gt; Compensation Fund and exposed as an impostor at the Twin-Towers site and told to leave or be arrested.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nearly every-time there is major earthquake around the globe the ubiquitous &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13"&gt;Copp&lt;/span&gt; turns-up – uninvited – and generally makes a nuisance of himself.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The team alluded to in the name &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14"&gt;ARTI&lt;/span&gt; is more than often just &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15"&gt;Copp&lt;/span&gt; on his lonesome with his own range of life-saving equipment.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Having failed to convince every credible search and rescue organisation on the planet about his ‘theories’ the prolific &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_16"&gt;Copp&lt;/span&gt; resorts to self-promotion via gullible media outlets and the &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_17"&gt;internet&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thus most &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_18"&gt;Cantabrians&lt;/span&gt; now have his potentially dangerous theories (in a literal term of the word) residing in their inbox.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note: If you have received this ‘Triangle of Life’ email what-ever you do IGNORE IT and tell everyone you know “it’s a lot of crap” and revert back to what we were all first taught at school – get under a desk, door-frame etc. &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5352263427762940860-1668352720353948092?l=canterburyatheists.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/feeds/1668352720353948092/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5352263427762940860&amp;postID=1668352720353948092&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/1668352720353948092'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/1668352720353948092'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/2010/09/warning-ignore-this-triangle-of-life.html' title='Warning: Ignore this “Triangle of Life” Crap'/><author><name>Canterbury Atheists</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09900223059660267657</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/SX_en79GC5I/AAAAAAAABBc/uCl_34C4fdE/S220/Black+Sheep+2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5352263427762940860.post-7004809840804395787</id><published>2010-09-09T10:22:00.005+12:00</published><updated>2010-09-10T08:57:44.433+12:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Monty Python. Humour'/><title type='text'>Sacrilegious Muslims burn effigies of one of Monty Pythons highest deities!</title><content type='html'>&lt;object height="385" width="480"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/lne0NoxEoz8?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/lne0NoxEoz8?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This frightening vilification of one of the Python team on the streets of Kabul was in-fact predicted over two decades ago:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="385" width="480"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/asUyK6JWt9U?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/asUyK6JWt9U?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Stand staunch Python fans in the face of this desecration of our sacred living-deity.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Remember whenever there are 2 or 3 are in one place, &lt;em&gt;we shall perform the parrot sketch. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5352263427762940860-7004809840804395787?l=canterburyatheists.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/feeds/7004809840804395787/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5352263427762940860&amp;postID=7004809840804395787&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/7004809840804395787'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/7004809840804395787'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/2010/09/sacrilegious-muslims-burn-effigies-of.html' title='Sacrilegious Muslims burn effigies of one of Monty Pythons highest deities!'/><author><name>Canterbury Atheists</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09900223059660267657</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/SX_en79GC5I/AAAAAAAABBc/uCl_34C4fdE/S220/Black+Sheep+2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5352263427762940860.post-4658688350101516215</id><published>2010-09-09T09:32:00.004+12:00</published><updated>2010-09-09T09:40:56.800+12:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Natural Disasters'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Buddhism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Religious absurdaties'/><title type='text'>Just what Canterbury needs right now – a fucking prayer-wheel!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;Let me paint the scene here in Canterbury: some houses still don’t have power, buildings are being demolished, schools closed, police patrol the inner-city to prevent looting and injury, the sleepless population is under stress from on-going after-shocks as high as 6 on the Richter Scale, business’s are closed and struggling to survive.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Faced with a catastrophe of this scale, pray-tell what is New Zealand’s Buddhist Communities solution to Canterbury’s woes?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well their top-temple up in Auckland is going to spin its giant purpose-built prayer wheel, said to be the worlds largest (wop de fuck) and magically spread ‘calmness’ down to the frazzled peoples of Canterbury. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5514659944207263026" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 200px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/TIgCAFeMpTI/AAAAAAAABmw/WnrCZ5Uo500/s400/Auckland+prayer+wheel.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;This is frankly a well-meaning load of cobblers we could do without.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If the Buddhist community wants to genuinely assist Cantabrians I can suggest a more pressing piece of philanthropy that will create more calmness and inner peace than even a prayer-wheel built on the same scale as one of Jupiter’s moons.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tragically amongst the businesses/buildings damaged in the first quake was New Zealand Breweries operation in Christchurch.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Horror of all horrors imaginable - the pubs in Canterbury are now running dry.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So stop wasting valuable-time spinning that wheel &amp;amp; get your best monks from The Dorje Chang Institute on ‘mercy mission’ down south.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Set them to work repairing our local brewery! &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="385" width="480"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/IEnNEIVR9EM?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/IEnNEIVR9EM?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5352263427762940860-4658688350101516215?l=canterburyatheists.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/feeds/4658688350101516215/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5352263427762940860&amp;postID=4658688350101516215&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/4658688350101516215'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/4658688350101516215'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/2010/09/just-what-canterbury-needs-right-now.html' title='Just what Canterbury needs right now – a fucking prayer-wheel!'/><author><name>Canterbury Atheists</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09900223059660267657</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/SX_en79GC5I/AAAAAAAABBc/uCl_34C4fdE/S220/Black+Sheep+2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/TIgCAFeMpTI/AAAAAAAABmw/WnrCZ5Uo500/s72-c/Auckland+prayer+wheel.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5352263427762940860.post-1228155248857320690</id><published>2010-09-08T13:48:00.005+12:00</published><updated>2010-09-12T08:07:34.736+12:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Natural Disasters'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Non Existence of God'/><title type='text'>Dad, what causes earthquakes?</title><content type='html'>Please turn-on the You Tube as you ponder the differing mind-sets of an atheist and theist when it comes to answering their childs questioning on something-basic like say 'what causes an earthquake?'&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="640" height="385"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/tZIvgQ9ik48?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/tZIvgQ9ik48?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1.) Atheists Perspective (in 50 words or less)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;"Son, earthquakes are entirely natural occurrences caused by disturbances in the earths-plates"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2.) A Theist Perspective (in 50 words or less)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;"Son, The Bible and Koran tell us earthquakes and other natural disasters are caused by God"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These are geometrically (pun intended) different points of view.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Clearly there is a chasm (I’m on a roll here) between the atheist’s belief in the earths tectonics being the cause of earthquakes, and the theists claims for the supernatural intervention of their god Yahweh/Allah.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Do you think we could perhaps solicit the average viewer of Sesame Street to help us decide which position is in-fact right?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And remember it's healthy for society to allow parents to indocrinate their children with what-ever bull-shit they can dream-up.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Allow state-supported schools to teach stuff more befitting of the middle-ages.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Utter crap like god causes earthquakes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UP-DATE&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333300;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;"It shows us that he is controlling everything and he can damage us if he wants if we do not follow his teachings and orders," &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;"You might call it nature, you might call it whatever, but we believe nature is controlled by the creator of everything." &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Muslim Association of Canterbury Imam Hisham Elzeiny (Christchurch Press 11th Sept)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333300;"&gt;“I think it’s a shock for people to realise they aren’t in control, but we realise God is in control and we are utterly dependent on him.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Carlemelite Nun Sister Dorethea Mary of Jesus (Christchurch Press 11th Sept)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5352263427762940860-1228155248857320690?l=canterburyatheists.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/feeds/1228155248857320690/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5352263427762940860&amp;postID=1228155248857320690&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/1228155248857320690'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/1228155248857320690'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/2010/09/dad-what-causes-earthquakes.html' title='Dad, what causes earthquakes?'/><author><name>Canterbury Atheists</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09900223059660267657</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/SX_en79GC5I/AAAAAAAABBc/uCl_34C4fdE/S220/Black+Sheep+2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5352263427762940860.post-2182540892643104385</id><published>2010-09-06T15:31:00.007+12:00</published><updated>2010-09-07T08:58:21.903+12:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Natural Disasters'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Signs from God'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Humour'/><title type='text'>Two more theories on what is causing Canterbury’s earthquakes.</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;1.)Pro-rata Canterbury has far-too-many sluts opening their legs for random strangers and getting their tits- out on public view? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="385" width="480"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/oaEuQTkMxSY?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/oaEuQTkMxSY?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;2.)Mayoral aspirant Jim Anderton challenged God to do his thing earlier in the night of the big quake and God suitably obliged? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="385" width="480"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/pK_s5y4OnWo?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/pK_s5y4OnWo?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;My money is on that double-dipping-socialist and ex minion of The Catholic Church, Anderton, who was safely tucked-up in bed in his home in Wellington when &lt;em&gt;'the balloon went-up'&lt;/em&gt; here on Friday night. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5352263427762940860-2182540892643104385?l=canterburyatheists.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/feeds/2182540892643104385/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5352263427762940860&amp;postID=2182540892643104385&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/2182540892643104385'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/2182540892643104385'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/2010/09/two-more-theories-on-what-is-causing.html' title='Two more theories on what is causing Canterbury’s earthquakes.'/><author><name>Canterbury Atheists</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09900223059660267657</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/SX_en79GC5I/AAAAAAAABBc/uCl_34C4fdE/S220/Black+Sheep+2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5352263427762940860.post-3600862499385797296</id><published>2010-09-06T14:25:00.010+12:00</published><updated>2010-09-06T14:46:34.022+12:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sri Chinmoy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Skeptic'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='The MythBusters'/><title type='text'>When did The MythBusters and Disney-Channel become the same-thing?</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;MythBusters is an immensely popular programme in my household, amongst its joker (translation: male) population.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Where was way cool TV like this in my youth, eh?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But as I watched last nights episode I came to the realisation that despite its best intentions and topical ‘skeptical’ format - MythBusters is very much tabloid fodder – interesting, but strictly throw-away.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My balloon-burst when I came to the conclusion MythBusters never gets its teeth into the ‘good meaty stuff.’&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There has been, and never will-be, episodes on homeopathy, chiropractors, The Mystical Order of Rosicrucian etc.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They will never explore the efficacy of say Vitamin C or St Johns Wart etc.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What about tackling the mammoth sized ‘myths’ that are passed-off by large sections of society as fact – like say Jesus’s resurrection and Muhammad's ascendancy to heaven?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If it is good enough to examine and dissemble elaborate You-Tube hoaxes, why not place the ‘blow-torch’ on a weird cult or say the ramblings of L. Ron Hubbard?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Absolute crap like this video from 'Indian Guru' Sri Chinmoy:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="385" width="480"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ANnDxgKvnig?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ANnDxgKvnig?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;So a message to Adam and Jamie and those behind the programme: &lt;em&gt;stop picking the comfortable middle-road and do some gutsy cutting-edge content or face losing your audience who grow-bored with the same PG content directed more at kids than adults. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Also last but not least, have a word to the crew in the wardrobe department and make sure that spunk Kari wears a lot more skimpy stuff in future. Pervs like me want more camera-shots of her like these: &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5513623167781269218" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 267px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/TIRTDwT3buI/AAAAAAAABmI/l43o__Jgw30/s320/kari-byron.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5513623050616348690" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 272px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/TIRS871koBI/AAAAAAAABmA/ESzhVH_J9nc/s320/Kari-Byron-1241181.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5513622923147398578" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 151px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/TIRS1g-mzbI/AAAAAAAABl4/4T681dZmLNk/s320/Kari_Byron_crop.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5352263427762940860-3600862499385797296?l=canterburyatheists.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/feeds/3600862499385797296/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5352263427762940860&amp;postID=3600862499385797296&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/3600862499385797296'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/3600862499385797296'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/2010/09/when-did-mythbusters-and-disney-channel.html' title='When did The MythBusters and Disney-Channel become the same-thing?'/><author><name>Canterbury Atheists</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09900223059660267657</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/SX_en79GC5I/AAAAAAAABBc/uCl_34C4fdE/S220/Black+Sheep+2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/TIRTDwT3buI/AAAAAAAABmI/l43o__Jgw30/s72-c/kari-byron.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5352263427762940860.post-4461378724382488698</id><published>2010-09-06T09:31:00.010+12:00</published><updated>2010-09-07T15:55:54.621+12:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Natural Disasters'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Signs from God'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='End of Times'/><title type='text'>View Poseidon’s Wrath!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/TIW3oET7JmI/AAAAAAAABmo/_fGezPKjWeY/s1600/ST+JOHNS+quake.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5514015217765000802" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 200px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/TIW3oET7JmI/AAAAAAAABmo/_fGezPKjWeY/s400/ST+JOHNS+quake.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/TIW1jN8m-7I/AAAAAAAABmg/Mz1zZBO4-cI/s1600/St+Marys+Church+Damage.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5514012935428963250" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 333px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/TIW1jN8m-7I/AAAAAAAABmg/Mz1zZBO4-cI/s400/St+Marys+Church+Damage.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/TIWzs_kDBPI/AAAAAAAABmY/KS0dn_HiCDE/s1600/St+Pauls.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5514010904343282930" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 214px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/TIWzs_kDBPI/AAAAAAAABmY/KS0dn_HiCDE/s320/St+Pauls.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/TIQOKG0ST9I/AAAAAAAABlw/STHqTo_YWYc/s1600/Methodist+Bus.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5513547410599727058" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/TIQOKG0ST9I/AAAAAAAABlw/STHqTo_YWYc/s400/Methodist+Bus.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/TIQNI1wJVBI/AAAAAAAABlo/snIoLN5QEHA/s1600/Edgeware+Church.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5513546289327461394" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 266px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/TIQNI1wJVBI/AAAAAAAABlo/snIoLN5QEHA/s400/Edgeware+Church.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/TIQM8WAJxbI/AAAAAAAABlg/Hr3HWv9wTN0/s1600/Hororata+Church+2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5513546074646234546" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 266px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/TIQM8WAJxbI/AAAAAAAABlg/Hr3HWv9wTN0/s400/Hororata+Church+2.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/TIQMplne2pI/AAAAAAAABlY/nTjSjglNwYM/s1600/Baptist+Church.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5513545752420211346" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 266px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/TIQMplne2pI/AAAAAAAABlY/nTjSjglNwYM/s400/Baptist+Church.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Stark, irrefutable evidence of Poseidon (The God of Earthquakes)wrath directed against the worship places of Canterbury’s false religions. When are people going to take &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;Poseidon's&lt;/span&gt; ancient &amp;amp; prophetic teachings more seriously and shun these trendy,modern false-doctrines? This has been a wake-up call. As a society we need to get back to god. Zeus, Hades and Electra etc. We really need to sacrifice something to &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;Poseidon's&lt;/span&gt; name, and sooner rather than later! &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;Footnote: I have started a 'Sacrifice Fund' care of my TAB Account. Goats don't come cheap and are in high demand of late. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5352263427762940860-4461378724382488698?l=canterburyatheists.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/feeds/4461378724382488698/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5352263427762940860&amp;postID=4461378724382488698&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/4461378724382488698'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/4461378724382488698'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/2010/09/view-poseidons-wrath.html' title='View Poseidon’s Wrath!'/><author><name>Canterbury Atheists</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09900223059660267657</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/SX_en79GC5I/AAAAAAAABBc/uCl_34C4fdE/S220/Black+Sheep+2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/TIW3oET7JmI/AAAAAAAABmo/_fGezPKjWeY/s72-c/ST+JOHNS+quake.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5352263427762940860.post-8958848628948612050</id><published>2010-09-04T10:55:00.004+12:00</published><updated>2010-09-12T08:09:33.319+12:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Natural Disasters'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Signs from God'/><title type='text'>Let’s face it Science can tell us nothing about Earthquakes</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/TIF-ZajNCVI/AAAAAAAABlI/7lq3Ic_LkHs/s1600/Earthquake.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 238px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 310px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5512826393967003986" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/TIF-ZajNCVI/AAAAAAAABlI/7lq3Ic_LkHs/s320/Earthquake.gif" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Boy those evil-atheist boffins have managed to muddy the waters over last-nights massive earthquake here in Christchurch.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Who needs to deal with those complicated words like Richter-scales and epicentres when for centuries mankind has known full-well the basis for earthquakes and other natural disasters.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In a nut-shell: when God get’s pissed-off with us he shakes-the-earth or makes it rain a lot etc.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Are those scientist’s thick or what?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Praise be to Poseidon, The God of Earthquakes, no one was killed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/xe7mfz8dnjw?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/xe7mfz8dnjw?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UP-DATE: &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003300;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;"It shows us that he is controlling everything and he can damage us if he wants if we do not follow his teachings and orders," &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;"You might call it nature, you might call it whatever, but we believe nature is controlled by the creator of everything." &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Muslim Association of Canterbury Imam Hisham Elzeiny (Christchurch Press 11th Sept)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333300;"&gt;“I think it’s a shock for people to realise they aren’t in control, but we realise God is in control and we are utterly dependent on him.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Carlemelite Nun Sister Dorethea Mary of Jesus (Christchurch Press Sat 11th Sept)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5352263427762940860-8958848628948612050?l=canterburyatheists.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/feeds/8958848628948612050/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5352263427762940860&amp;postID=8958848628948612050&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/8958848628948612050'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/8958848628948612050'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/2010/09/lets-face-it-science-can-tell-us.html' title='Let’s face it Science can tell us nothing about Earthquakes'/><author><name>Canterbury Atheists</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09900223059660267657</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/SX_en79GC5I/AAAAAAAABBc/uCl_34C4fdE/S220/Black+Sheep+2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/TIF-ZajNCVI/AAAAAAAABlI/7lq3Ic_LkHs/s72-c/Earthquake.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5352263427762940860.post-6254032454560413245</id><published>2010-09-03T12:59:00.003+12:00</published><updated>2010-09-03T14:54:28.952+12:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='South Canterbury Finance'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='National Party'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='NZ Economy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Alan Hubbard'/><title type='text'>The Allan Hubbard Conspiracy</title><content type='html'>This week South Canterbury Finance was placed into receivership and the taxpayer came to the rescue of its mum &amp;amp; pop investors (read: National Party stalwarts)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Despite what has been portrayed by vested-interest groups, mostly south of the Rakaia River, there was and is no conspiracy here in the form of neo-fascist Serious Fraud Office interrogating Hubbard and his wife like a scene from &lt;em&gt;‘The Deer Hunter.’&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No evil, malicious government at work trying to destroy the reputation of an elderly and much revered ‘God fearing’ businessman.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;SCF and the intertwined companies lent money to people who couldn’t pay back the interest &amp;amp; who were sitting on depreciating assets many of which now have values less than the loans taken, some near worthless - all at a time when the world economies were in a tail-spin.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another ‘nail in the coffin’ were the investors who, prudently as it turns-out, pulled their money-out on maturity date rather than re-investing it. Thus the day to day operating cash needed to operate, dried-up.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This scenario in South Canterbury Finance is little different than the demise of other finance companies we have seen lately.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you lend investors money to a 2nd hand car yard, a pub, a land developer or a dairy conversion group in Waimate etc and the recipients can’t pay back the loan – then make these bad choices time after time - the end result is the same. The bad investments drag- down the good and it all turns pear-shaped.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the case of South Canterbury finance they made around $600 million of bad calls.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cries that the fatal-demise of this South Canterbury institution would seriously harm the local Canterbury economy ring-hollow when we (its new default share-holders) learnt about the scope of its bad debts, much of which evaporated in the metro-sexual haunts of Auckland’s viaduct, Marlborough Vineyards, Luxury Apartments in Queenstown, a Resort in Fiji and even the ubiquitous Dave Henderson got his mitts on SCF’s investors loot.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;$700 to $800 million went into what NBR termed ‘non viable building projects.’&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It was those who made the bad-calls to loan other-peoples life-savings, money to these defaulting parties who are at fault and not the SFO, evil public servants in Wellington.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To quote SCF’s Chief Executive Sandy Maier &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;“South Canterbury’s failure is a result of its own actions and activities and poor decisions historically.”&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The fact that one director of a failed finance company lead a more frugal existence, went to church on Sunday, donates to SPCA etc and his failed contemporaries were hedonistic flash Aucklanders driving Mercs means nothing to me as a tax-payer. The end result of their respective business’s is the same – blood on the ground and the tax-payer left holding the can without getting any say.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why New Zealanders should feel any sympathy for the Directors of SCF versus say Hanover Finance is beyond me?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In-fact Hanover’s melt-down didn’t bleed every New Zealander to the tune of $400 each, just it’s share-holders - which is the way it should be in a capitalist economy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For the record I never invested in any of these defunct finance companies – yet there is not only people wanting me to pay for other peoples bad choices - on top of that, there is also an element who want me to cry crocodile tears at the way Mr &amp;amp; Mrs Hubbard have been treated as well!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well Fuck You!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fuck the socialist National Party!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As a country we can’t pay for teachers wage rises but we can find a billion-plus for investors chasing high returns in what turned-out to be a portfolio with high risk investments.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you are comfortable investing in speculative ventures like resorts in that coup ridden basket-case Fiji, fly-by-night glitzy pubs, ‘boom &amp;amp; bust’ agricultural enterprises like vineyards – be prepared to lose your shirt.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By-in-large the ungrateful National voting investors in SCF weren’t happy with the conservative returns offered by Trading Banks or the volatility of the share-market. The investors of SCF were happy taking the high-returns but squealed like pigs to gutless politicians when their money disappeared down the tubes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For those misguided souls that still worship the cult of Hubbard here’s a message - &lt;em&gt;why-not dip-into your own pockets &amp;amp; the moment you can re-invest in South Canterbury Finance &amp;amp; Aorangi Securities again – do so- if this is as you suggest a matter of principal and such a vital asset worth saving?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After-all the best thing his supporters and fellow parishioners can do to show solidarity with Hubbard and his fellow directors is, the moment statutory management is lifted, to place your money in South Canterbury Finance, Aorangi Securities etc (or for that matter one of the hundreds of companies Hubbard is a director in – there’s a couple of hundred from all accounts)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So if you truly back Allan Hubbard forget posting empty platitudes on Facebook sites and instead have the fortitude to take your own money out of your own bank account and not mine.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Forget the holiday on The Gold Coast, sell the boat, caravan, house, pets, send the kids up chimneys etc &amp;amp; the give all your worldly wealth to that honest &amp;amp; benevolent financial genius Allan Hubbard and his ably qualified &amp;amp; proven team at SCF to prudently invest on your behalf.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Say finish off that resort in Fiji that is languishing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dave Henderson certainly could do with your $'s currently.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Personally I wouldn’t lend SCF or Aorangi etc a brass rarzoo and I don’t mind saying so.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Last and by no means-least, I also think its high-time some of these privileged self-interested investors who have been bailed-out should take time away from sending the Hubbards condolences cards and say “Thank-You.” to suckers like me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="385" width="480"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/W25_jgiY51I?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/W25_jgiY51I?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5352263427762940860-6254032454560413245?l=canterburyatheists.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/feeds/6254032454560413245/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5352263427762940860&amp;postID=6254032454560413245&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/6254032454560413245'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/6254032454560413245'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/2010/09/allan-hubbard-conspiracy.html' title='The Allan Hubbard Conspiracy'/><author><name>Canterbury Atheists</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09900223059660267657</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/SX_en79GC5I/AAAAAAAABBc/uCl_34C4fdE/S220/Black+Sheep+2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5352263427762940860.post-1712382160014161901</id><published>2010-09-03T08:17:00.003+12:00</published><updated>2010-09-04T10:36:08.483+12:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Science'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Stephen Hawking'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Creation'/><title type='text'>Professor Stephen Hawkings tells the bipedal primates with brains: “There is no place for God in theories on the creation of the Universe”</title><content type='html'>For the last few centuries Science and Religion have been playing the equivalent of a game of strip-poker.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Religion is now down-to-its last-vestiges of clothing (a frilly pair of woman’s panties as worn by The Pope) and Science is about to place it’s hand, a Royal Flush, on-to the table.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rather than the conventional deck these cards come embossed with a simple statement of what is about to be revealed as fact.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;GOD DID NOT CREATE UNIVERSE&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;Read some excepts from Hawkings new book &lt;span style="color:#333333;"&gt;‘The Grand Design’&lt;/span&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;“That makes the coincidences of our planetary conditions - the single Sun, the lucky combination of Earth-Sun distance and solar mass - far less remarkable, and far less compelling as evidence that the Earth was carefully designed just to please us human beings."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing.” &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the universe exists, why we exist.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"It is not necessary to invoke God to light the blue touch paper and set the universe going."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/TGNRYNdVT7g?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/TGNRYNdVT7g?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5352263427762940860-1712382160014161901?l=canterburyatheists.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/feeds/1712382160014161901/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5352263427762940860&amp;postID=1712382160014161901&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/1712382160014161901'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/1712382160014161901'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/2010/09/professor-stephen-hawkins-tells-bipedal.html' title='Professor Stephen Hawkings tells the bipedal primates with brains: “There is no place for God in theories on the creation of the Universe”'/><author><name>Canterbury Atheists</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09900223059660267657</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/SX_en79GC5I/AAAAAAAABBc/uCl_34C4fdE/S220/Black+Sheep+2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5352263427762940860.post-6118438035518006733</id><published>2010-09-02T13:10:00.003+12:00</published><updated>2010-09-02T13:15:57.201+12:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Signs from God'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Non Existence of God'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='God'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Gods justice is not just'/><title type='text'>Help the Oingo Boingo Tribe find God and stay out of Hell!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/TH76tfrkvwI/AAAAAAAABlA/hRC9okMz_QM/s1600/PNG+Tribe.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5512118653453385474" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 150px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/TH76tfrkvwI/AAAAAAAABlA/hRC9okMz_QM/s200/PNG+Tribe.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The small Oingo Boingo tribe have occupied the same hidden valley of Papua New Guinea for millennia.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The jungle-tribe remains oblivious to the outside world, just as the outside world remains unaware of their existence.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Given this scenario how does God communicate with the tribe?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Not even the most fervent and adventurous proselytising missionary has come across their village and the tribe are perfectly happy &amp;amp; comfortable with their existence and feel no need to seek out other human contact.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why is God happy for generation after generation of the Oingo Boingo tribe to burn in hell?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="385" width="480"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" 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width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5352263427762940860.post-7650675201968494931</id><published>2010-08-31T12:47:00.001+12:00</published><updated>2010-08-31T12:52:42.555+12:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Non Existence of God'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='God'/><title type='text'>Less than gentle reminder: Christians, Jews and Muslims all share the same God.</title><content type='html'>Nothing gets your average garden variety Christian and Muslim’s ‘knickers in a knot’ than kindly reminding devotees they revere the same God.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In-fact the ‘Abrahanic threesome’, comprising Jews, Christians and Muslims, all happen to worship the same supreme-being.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yes indeed ladies &amp;amp; gentlemen, at the core of all three of these monotheist religions is the same God.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Muslims, Jews and Christians may well give this supreme-being differing names, different interpretations, different off-spring who came to earth, customs etc - but the basis of all three religions is the reverence of the same megalomaniac sky-daddy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Call him Elohim, All Haqq, Yah, Messiah, Allah, Everlasting Father, Jehovah, Al Basir or any other derivation - make no bones about it – this is the same invisible geezer generically called God and theists of all colours need regular reminding of less than palatable fact.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So when the September 11th hijackers praised God as they crashed their planes causing the deaths of 3,000 innocent victims – the God they exalted is the same one worshipped at your local Baptist or Catholic church.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Bin Laden and The Archbishop of Canterbury adulate the same God.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Glenn Beck and The Taliban exalt the same God.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Pope and wacko Mullah Omar pray to the same supreme-being.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;When you put it in this context it’s easy to see they are all bonkers!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="385" width="480"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/aepBpZ3kXek?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/aepBpZ3kXek?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5352263427762940860-7650675201968494931?l=canterburyatheists.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/feeds/7650675201968494931/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5352263427762940860&amp;postID=7650675201968494931&amp;isPopup=true' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/7650675201968494931'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/7650675201968494931'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/2010/08/less-than-gentle-reminder-christians.html' title='Less than gentle reminder: Christians, Jews and Muslims all share the same God.'/><author><name>Canterbury Atheists</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09900223059660267657</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/SX_en79GC5I/AAAAAAAABBc/uCl_34C4fdE/S220/Black+Sheep+2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5352263427762940860.post-6339053647747252973</id><published>2010-08-30T08:53:00.002+12:00</published><updated>2010-08-30T09:07:19.867+12:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Catholic Church'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Catholic Church Abuse'/><title type='text'>A Day in the Life of Catholicism</title><content type='html'>&lt;em&gt;ALLENTOWN, USA&lt;/em&gt;: After installing a camera in their daughters bedroom Pennsylvanian parents discover their local Priest, a teacher at her school, was having-it- off with her. As a good Catholic Reverend Luis Bonilla Margarito didn’t bother to check out if his school-girl lover was ‘on the pill’ and resultantly she ended ‘up the duff,’ Parents are suing the local diocese. Reverend Margarito is now the proud father of a baby girl.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA&lt;/em&gt;: Facing charges of abusing a 12-15 year-old girl over a three year period in his defence Father Murray Moffat claimed it was the girl who led him-on and pursued the relationship. This would explain why he gave her gifts like a push-bike and sweets (an oldie but a goodie) The court found him guilty, his employers thought the best treatment at the time his pedophilia was discovered was a ‘retreat’ and five sessions with a psychiatrist.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;BELGIUM&lt;/em&gt;: The then head of the Catholic Church in Belgium attempted to stop a victim of sex abuse going to the police and the story going public. Knowing the people she was dealing-with could not be trusted the victim took the liberty of recording the meeting she had with Belgium’s head Cardinal Danneels and Bishop Vagheluwe the accused. Despite attempts at a cover-up the recordings of the meeting were released to Belgium media.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These are just three articles I’ve spotted ‘off the media wires’ in the last 24 hours.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A microcosm of The Catholic Churches institutionalised degenerate activities.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Is there any hope this worldwide abuse will ever stop?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What is the solution if Catholics themselves both ignore and dismiss these daily stories of endemic abuse?  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="385" width="480"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/VelS-YCtHV4?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/VelS-YCtHV4?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5352263427762940860-6339053647747252973?l=canterburyatheists.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/feeds/6339053647747252973/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5352263427762940860&amp;postID=6339053647747252973&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/6339053647747252973'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/6339053647747252973'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/2010/08/day-in-life-of-catholicism.html' title='A Day in the Life of Catholicism'/><author><name>Canterbury Atheists</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09900223059660267657</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/SX_en79GC5I/AAAAAAAABBc/uCl_34C4fdE/S220/Black+Sheep+2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5352263427762940860.post-7121335859873478722</id><published>2010-08-29T17:31:00.003+12:00</published><updated>2010-08-29T17:37:44.089+12:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Christian Hypocrisy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Abortion'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='God'/><title type='text'>Calling-on all Atheists: Let’s stop the baby slaughter!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/THnxLi3F0SI/AAAAAAAABkk/Si1H5QgJBgs/s1600/God+the+abortionist+good.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 330px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5510700799703240994" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/THnxLi3F0SI/AAAAAAAABkk/Si1H5QgJBgs/s400/God+the+abortionist+good.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Between 10 to 50% of all pregnancies end in spontaneous abortion (better known as miscarriages)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;God (a,k.a Yahweh and Allah etc) clearly wants these embryos and fetus’s to die. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;God therefore arbitrarily slaughters millions of unborn humans every week of the year and does so with some relish. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;God is pitiless in his blood lust.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Natural abortions occur at the same rate in the pregnancies of his devout followers and the population of non-believers. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;More disturbingly Gods followers see nothing wrong with this mass-murder and still fall to their knees in homage to his megalomania. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;I’m calling on all atheists to take a stand against this pathological baby killer by protesting outside your closest church or mosque.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Let’s show these theists we don’t accept their God’s baby-slaughter.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="640" height="385"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/_m_HPFUjbb0?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/_m_HPFUjbb0?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5352263427762940860-7121335859873478722?l=canterburyatheists.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/feeds/7121335859873478722/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5352263427762940860&amp;postID=7121335859873478722&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/7121335859873478722'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/7121335859873478722'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/2010/08/calling-on-all-atheists-lets-stop-baby.html' title='Calling-on all Atheists: Let’s stop the baby slaughter!'/><author><name>Canterbury Atheists</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09900223059660267657</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/SX_en79GC5I/AAAAAAAABBc/uCl_34C4fdE/S220/Black+Sheep+2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/THnxLi3F0SI/AAAAAAAABkk/Si1H5QgJBgs/s72-c/God+the+abortionist+good.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5352263427762940860.post-6879718007825599833</id><published>2010-08-26T10:33:00.002+12:00</published><updated>2010-08-26T10:51:22.405+12:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Catholic Church'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Christian Terrorism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Catholic Church Abuse'/><title type='text'>Catholic Church harboured Priest at centre of Terrorist Cell</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;In July of 1973 three car bombs went off in the sleepy Northern Ireland village of &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;Claudy&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The death toll was nine, including children.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hundreds were injured.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The mastermind of this atrocity was a Northern Ireland Catholic Priest and IRA sympathiser, Fr James &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;Chesney&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the just released Police ombudsman’s report, 38 years after the terrorist attack, it has been revealed The Catholic Church on both sides of the Irish border knew of &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;Chesney&lt;/span&gt;’s murderous role and further-more protected the priest from prosecution. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;In damning revelations information has come to light that explosive traces had been found in the boot of Fr &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"&gt;Chesney's&lt;/span&gt; parish car when he was stopped at an &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"&gt;RUC&lt;/span&gt; checkpoint in September 1972. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;When implicated &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"&gt;Chesney&lt;/span&gt; gave false testimony to cover-up for himself and his co-conspirators. Similar to cases of pedophilia once ‘the heat went on’ The Catholic Church, under the auspice of it’s then head Cardinal William Conway, conspired to spirit &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"&gt;Chesney&lt;/span&gt; south to a new position and out of the reaches of the authorities and justice. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;The report also reveals that &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7"&gt;Chesney&lt;/span&gt; continued his ‘IRA activities’ in his new diocese - all with full knowledge of those in authority of The Church – who did nothing to stop him or turn him over to Police. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;Not unsurprisingly The Irish Catholic Church have long refused, much to the chagrin of victims families, to release its files on their role in harbouring and aiding this terrorist in their midst.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana;"&gt;Further proof the Irish Catholic Church knew and abetted in the deaths of eight people and their tacit support of IRA aspirations.      &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="385" width="480"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/m2Gov4tTB7M?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/m2Gov4tTB7M?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5352263427762940860-6879718007825599833?l=canterburyatheists.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/feeds/6879718007825599833/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5352263427762940860&amp;postID=6879718007825599833&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/6879718007825599833'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/6879718007825599833'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/2010/08/catholic-church-harboured-priest-at.html' title='Catholic Church harboured Priest at centre of Terrorist Cell'/><author><name>Canterbury Atheists</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09900223059660267657</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/SX_en79GC5I/AAAAAAAABBc/uCl_34C4fdE/S220/Black+Sheep+2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5352263427762940860.post-2981576010518027081</id><published>2010-08-22T10:52:00.005+12:00</published><updated>2010-08-22T11:03:37.472+12:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Catholic Church'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Pope is Gay'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Homosexuality'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Gay'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Humour'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Pope'/><title type='text'>15 of the Gayest Photos of sexually-confused old man</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/THBZMApGM6I/AAAAAAAABkQ/jyxQB3pDeQw/s1600/Gay+Pope.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 221px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5508000407139791778" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/THBZMApGM6I/AAAAAAAABkQ/jyxQB3pDeQw/s320/Gay+Pope.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;This is but one sample from a selection of 15 photos of Bene-dick.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;An elderly man clearly confused as to his sexual orientation who has found an outlet to his natural desires (not involving the exchange of bodily fluids) that involves dressing flamboyantly using the wardrobe off ‘Priscilla Queen of The Desert’ &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The other intimate photos can be found &lt;a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/the-15-gayest-pictures-of-the-pope"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5352263427762940860-2981576010518027081?l=canterburyatheists.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/feeds/2981576010518027081/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5352263427762940860&amp;postID=2981576010518027081&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/2981576010518027081'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/2981576010518027081'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/2010/08/15-of-gayest-photos-of-sexually.html' title='15 of the Gayest Photos of sexually-confused old man'/><author><name>Canterbury Atheists</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09900223059660267657</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/SX_en79GC5I/AAAAAAAABBc/uCl_34C4fdE/S220/Black+Sheep+2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/THBZMApGM6I/AAAAAAAABkQ/jyxQB3pDeQw/s72-c/Gay+Pope.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5352263427762940860.post-6545421126106175216</id><published>2010-08-20T13:11:00.003+12:00</published><updated>2010-08-20T13:24:06.017+12:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Religious Education'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Childhood Indoctronation'/><title type='text'>The case for Open-Minded Parents</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;A few years ago one of my daughter’s mates asked if she would accompany her to a ‘Holiday Camp’ over an extended weekend.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;This ‘Holiday Camp’ was run by a local church and there would be a modicum of indoctrination occurring in between the outdoor activities.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This was spelt-out on the info sheet my wife and I were handed, along with a form to sign.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The prothletesing we are talking about here was along the lines of happy-clappy dancing and singing praises to a god of which my daughter was totally unfamiliar. Colouring-in pictures of Jesus and listening to Bible stories etc. Strange as it may sound, these are not the sort of everyday activities that go-on in our household.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In short - I had no problem with her attending this Camp and filled-in the section on the parental permission form under ‘religious affiliation’ with ‘not applicable’ and off she went.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As far as I’m aware she enjoyed the experience.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There was certainly no discernable change in her personality on her return, nor did I question her as to the goings-on other than a cursory open-ended “How did it go?”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now picture this same scenario in a different light.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1.)The parents of a Muslim child are given the same invite&lt;br /&gt;2.)The parents of Christian child are asked to attend an openly atheist camp&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What do you think the chances are of their child attending would be?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How do they explain to a twelve year-old the reasons they can’t go is “&lt;em&gt;these are not people we want you to mix with.&lt;/em&gt;” and “&lt;em&gt;we are X and they are Y”&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why didn’t I feel threatened and yet a Muslim and Christian given the same circumstances would?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="385" width="640"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/DDG8xqz7BIk?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/DDG8xqz7BIk?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5352263427762940860-6545421126106175216?l=canterburyatheists.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/feeds/6545421126106175216/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5352263427762940860&amp;postID=6545421126106175216&amp;isPopup=true' title='9 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/6545421126106175216'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/6545421126106175216'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/2010/08/case-for-open-minded-parents.html' title='The case for Open-Minded Parents'/><author><name>Canterbury Atheists</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09900223059660267657</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/SX_en79GC5I/AAAAAAAABBc/uCl_34C4fdE/S220/Black+Sheep+2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>9</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5352263427762940860.post-252944516006826323</id><published>2010-08-11T19:13:00.003+12:00</published><updated>2010-08-11T19:21:07.186+12:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Religion in America'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='America'/><title type='text'>Does Christianity flourish in America because Americans are simply more ignorant than the average Westerner?</title><content type='html'>I know this heading will attract vitriol and I’m not posting this to be deliberately inflammatory.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So don’t take it personally.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I live in a small remote country called New Zealand. The standard of living, average incomes etc of the average Kiwi are way less than in The United States.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However what we lack economically when measured against the largest economy in the world we tend to make-up in education, ability to adapt and a high degree of worldliness.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By in large New &lt;span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-error"&gt;Zealanders&lt;/span&gt; know what’s going-on around the world and try to assist as best we can.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;N.Z cares say about disasters happening in remote places.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;N.&lt;span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-error"&gt;Zers&lt;/span&gt; can even place these remote places on a map.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I think we ‘box above our weight.’&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cutting to the chase - in all my considerable travels I have yet to meet a more insular people than your average American (the states I’&lt;span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-error"&gt;ve&lt;/span&gt; visited include CA, WA, CO, OH, IL, MA, NY, NJ and TX) I can say this hand-on-heart.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In my experience most Americans could not place New Zealand on a map nor for that matter answer a basic general knowledge question like “name a famous Englishman?”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I would more likely have more luck getting an answer to that question from a person from China or Brazil than I would a so-called educated American.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Americans only care about America and their own little myopic world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The result from the Eastern Conference game would mean more to the average ‘Joe-&lt;span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-error"&gt;Bloggs&lt;/span&gt;’ than the current humanitarian disaster in Pakistan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This “don’t ask questions” and “never get outside the square” environment is the breeding ground and bedrock of all religions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Religions flourish in countries where ignorance is endemic, the peoples never get to meet anyone else and see other perspectives on life.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This explains why America is still so into God, when in other comparable countries the populations are leaving churches in droves.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I rest my case with these two 'classic' videos - which never fail to amuse me:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="640" height="385"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/C6r1IcY1pv0&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/C6r1IcY1pv0&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="640" height="385"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/mWHeF0W-l0I&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/mWHeF0W-l0I&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5352263427762940860-252944516006826323?l=canterburyatheists.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/feeds/252944516006826323/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5352263427762940860&amp;postID=252944516006826323&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/252944516006826323'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/252944516006826323'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/2010/08/does-christianity-flourish-in-america.html' title='Does Christianity flourish in America because Americans are simply more ignorant than the average Westerner?'/><author><name>Canterbury Atheists</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09900223059660267657</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/SX_en79GC5I/AAAAAAAABBc/uCl_34C4fdE/S220/Black+Sheep+2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5352263427762940860.post-3211391465122990324</id><published>2010-08-08T10:29:00.004+12:00</published><updated>2010-08-08T16:07:45.994+12:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='0800 Hungry'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Christian Charity'/><title type='text'>Christchurch Church Charity bans Atheists!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/TF3e2KFgCLI/AAAAAAAABkI/EA_6AqckWiE/s1600/0800.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 267px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5502799341718341810" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/TF3e2KFgCLI/AAAAAAAABkI/EA_6AqckWiE/s320/0800.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Struggling to keep-up with demand from Christchurch’s poor to deliver food parcels, Kerry Bensemann’s (above) quasi-church charity ‘0800 Hungry’ has appealed to fellow Christians to assist the group.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These appeals to local Christians to become volunteers have largely fallen on deaf-ears and Bensemann is appalled at this apathy.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So without prompting sympathetic ‘non-Christians’ have stepped into the breech and said “Kerry we’ll help you sort out the food parcels and deliver them and we don't need God to talk us into it, like you." &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But the pig-headed Bensemann is openly refusing to accept any volunteer who will not adhere to his dogma stating &lt;em&gt;“I know it sounds really, really stupid, but you’ve got to understand how we’re set up.” &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;'Set-up' means the voices Bensemanns head commanding him to do Gods bidding's, in much the same way David Berkowitz heard his neighbours Labrador command him to go on a killing spree. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This stunning-refusal by the 0800 Hungry to accept help from the non-religious, was exposed in last Saturdays ‘Press’ newspaper &amp;amp; will in-effect all-but signal the end of Bensemann’s charity in its current form.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Naively Bensemann’s stand to prevent non-Christian participation, has signaled the beginning of the end of the charity. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He and his team have seemingly forgotten that 0800 Hungry relies on donations from the entire community.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The public can now see that 0800 Hungry is little more than a front for Bensemann’s church to recruit membership, from both with-in his circle of volunteers who arrive from other churches and the recipients of his charity.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The reason why other churches have largely ignored his appeals to help is they see 0800 Hungry as a rival &amp;amp; for good reason. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Atheists and non-Christians now see 0800 Hungry as a bunch of born-again bigots more interested in self-serving recruitment than genuine assistance to the needy. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;More-ever Atheists as a group are incapable of charity according to those behind 0800 Hungry  who are in regular contact &amp;amp; first-name basis with God. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In this piece of vitriol quoted in the paper Bensemann sums ups his group low opinion of Atheists using this analogy &lt;em&gt;“It’s like sending someone who plays ping-pong out to play for The All Blacks.” &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The losers will be the poor.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/IWO4JxM3nDc&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/IWO4JxM3nDc&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5352263427762940860-3211391465122990324?l=canterburyatheists.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/feeds/3211391465122990324/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5352263427762940860&amp;postID=3211391465122990324&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/3211391465122990324'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/3211391465122990324'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/2010/08/christchurch-church-charity-bans.html' title='Christchurch Church Charity bans Atheists!'/><author><name>Canterbury Atheists</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09900223059660267657</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/SX_en79GC5I/AAAAAAAABBc/uCl_34C4fdE/S220/Black+Sheep+2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/TF3e2KFgCLI/AAAAAAAABkI/EA_6AqckWiE/s72-c/0800.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5352263427762940860.post-6592566426084812058</id><published>2010-08-04T12:40:00.003+12:00</published><updated>2010-08-04T12:57:55.089+12:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Islam'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Afghanistan'/><title type='text'>Afghanistan is fucked-up and always will be.</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/TFi3LSflhhI/AAAAAAAABkA/q9luwxmWuK0/s1600/Lt+O%27Donnell.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5501348349403825682" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 214px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/TFi3LSflhhI/AAAAAAAABkA/q9luwxmWuK0/s320/Lt+O%27Donnell.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Last night New Zealand lost its first Serviceman in Afghanistan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is a sad day for all New Zealanders, and my heart goes out to the family.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our countries role in Afghanistan is largely confined to reconstruction work – building roads, bridges and schools etc all of which comes at a cost to the New Zealand tax-payer. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Humanitarian assistance supplied to a country that lacks a shred of humanity.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Similar to every brave soldier who has been killed in this despotic, shit-hole of a country – the death of Lieutenant Timothy Andrew O'Donnell was a needless loss.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That’s him pictured above, the photo was taken-on the day he was decorated for bravery in Timor.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;History tells us Afghanistan is an inherently corrupt. fickle and dangerous country.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It always has been and always will be, with or without overseas troops. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Afghanis live largely a patriarchal &amp;amp; superstitious existence - conditions that more resemble medieval times than a modern society you and I would recognise. One village hates the next village in the next valley, xenophobic tribes hate anyone who doesn’t share their gene pool, and to this heady-mix of hostile benevolence – you add the war-like, sexist teachings of Mohammad.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The way Afghan society is set-up perpetuates this system and a change of government here and there changes nothing at ground-level.   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;New Zealand has learnt, in the harshest fashion, the endemic problem of operating in Afghanistan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Finish building a hospital in a township one day, and then have the  recipients of this charity try-to-blow your brains-out the next. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Basically Afghanistan is a basket-case.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It can only change when its people show a will to do so, and to this date there has been scant indication this will happen in your or my life-times.   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The best thing our respective Governments can do is contaminate Afghanistan’s borders with nuclear waste and prevent anyone entering or leaving the place on foot.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Patrol its mountainous borders at arms-length with a massive fleet of airborne drones with specific instructions to ‘shoot to destroy’ anything that moves.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Afghanistan is fucked-up because the people who live there are fucked-up.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5352263427762940860-6592566426084812058?l=canterburyatheists.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/feeds/6592566426084812058/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5352263427762940860&amp;postID=6592566426084812058&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/6592566426084812058'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/6592566426084812058'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/2010/08/afghanistan-is-fucked-up-and-always.html' title='Afghanistan is fucked-up and always will be.'/><author><name>Canterbury Atheists</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09900223059660267657</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/SX_en79GC5I/AAAAAAAABBc/uCl_34C4fdE/S220/Black+Sheep+2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/TFi3LSflhhI/AAAAAAAABkA/q9luwxmWuK0/s72-c/Lt+O%27Donnell.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5352263427762940860.post-2357074476973020561</id><published>2010-08-02T14:03:00.001+12:00</published><updated>2010-08-02T14:07:40.640+12:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Paranormal'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Ghosts'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Life After Death'/><title type='text'>10 Reasons Why Ghosts Don’t Exist.</title><content type='html'>Only the gullible and those that have mandates to substantiate the after-life believe in ghosts and the paranormal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ghosts are simply wishful thinking and a convenient excuse for explaining ‘what goes bump in the night.’&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Proving ghosts are a man-made psychosis is in-fact very simple.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1.) Ghosts come in one form – that just happens to be human - which is conveniently what we bipedal-chimps want to see, and not say a dead cow hovering at the end of ones bed. Have you ever heard of the legend of oceans being haunted by ghostly plankton?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2.) Ghosts just happen to be nocturnal, preferring night-time to ‘do their thing’. So when you die you suddenly become adverse to daylight – right?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3.) Like the popular bug-eyed Aliens, modern ghosts are all stereotypical, with the same looks and characteristics. The standard ghost or spectre in China is that of a Chinaman. The standard ghost in an Inuit community resembles the locals and not a six foot six black-man.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4.) Purportedly ghosts have the ‘magical’ capabilities to travel through walls, levitate etc. Powers they didn’t have when they were alive. They move objects all the time – but never get behind the wheels of a car and drive, type a letter on a computer or light-up a Bensons and Hedges. When it comes to interacting with humans all ghosts want to do is scare the shit out of the living in the dead of night or flash their tits at us in photos. Aimless activity, no-one has been able to detect with any surety.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5.) Ghosts are allergic to large crowds. ‘The Ghost of Super Bowl’ or ‘The Ghost of F.A Cup’ – I don’t think so.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6.) Ghosts love hotels and pubs. When you die you head immediately to ‘your local’ for a pint. How else could you explain the disproportionately high number of pubs that are haunted? And it’s always old pubs that act as magnets to the living dead, rather than a Five Star Hilton.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;7.) If you can walk through walls why don’t you simply drop through the floor as well?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;8.) Why aren’t all ghosts totally naked?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;9.) Seeing that potentially we living-humans share the planet with 60 billion spirits, comprising all of humanities dead – where do these hordes of living-dead spend their time? I mean where do they live? Caves? The bottom of the ocean? The stratosphere? Six to a house?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;10.) Last but not least – there is not a shred of evidence.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="385" width="640"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/DSiLJQiOIVk&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/DSiLJQiOIVk&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5352263427762940860-2357074476973020561?l=canterburyatheists.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/feeds/2357074476973020561/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5352263427762940860&amp;postID=2357074476973020561&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/2357074476973020561'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/2357074476973020561'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/2010/08/10-reasons-why-ghosts-dont-exist.html' title='10 Reasons Why Ghosts Don’t Exist.'/><author><name>Canterbury Atheists</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09900223059660267657</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/SX_en79GC5I/AAAAAAAABBc/uCl_34C4fdE/S220/Black+Sheep+2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5352263427762940860.post-2367695811810400003</id><published>2010-07-29T11:36:00.003+12:00</published><updated>2010-07-29T11:55:19.092+12:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Paranormal'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Ghosts'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Life After Death'/><title type='text'>There is of course life after death – just not for the dead people.</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/TFC_7CelS9I/AAAAAAAABj4/uRz10O0SM-k/s1600/Ghostbusters++Christchurch.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5499106166017706962" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 186px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/TFC_7CelS9I/AAAAAAAABj4/uRz10O0SM-k/s320/Ghostbusters++Christchurch.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;“Boo!”&lt;/em&gt; &lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Scared ya! &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Readers of this mornings ‘Press’ were greeted with the headlines &lt;em&gt;‘Christchurch – it’s a spooky town’&lt;/em&gt; and a new re-hashed self proclaimed group of ‘paranormal investigators’ (photo above)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Their web site is &lt;a href="http://www.ghosthunters.co.nz/"&gt;http://www.ghosthunters.co.nz/&lt;/a&gt; , which upon examination gives its mailing address as a post office box in Motueka (a town more renowned for its illicit drug trade rather than being a hotbed of living-dead) &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This isn’t the first time our local newspaper has pandered to this motley-crew, comprised largely of what appears to be the over-imaginative, dateless and desperate.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Still everyone knows when creeping shadows, unidentifiable sounds combine with a journalist after a sensationalist story – it’s gotta be a ghost!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is their head ghost-hunter, Anton Heyrick, pictured at the former Addington Prison, just a couple of months back.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5499105978310775394" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 186px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/TFC_wHNw0mI/AAAAAAAABjw/g39nZcILSVQ/s320/Ghostbusters++Christchurch+Jail.jpg" border="0" /&gt; &lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now one would suppose The Press may well have had the fortitude to ask Anton exactly what they had found in terms of evidence in their earlier search for apparitions at the Addington site, before their four-man team charged around other supposedly haunted sites in Canterbury.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But they didn’t need to ask a rational and logical question like that, now did they? &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Along with the readers, of what was formerly was called a newspaper but is now little more than a tabloid - they already knew the answer to the million-dollar question &lt;em&gt;“Hey fella, what have you found so far in terms of evidence?” &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;So far they found fucking nothing and they will find sweat fuck-all in terms of the after-life in any other places they care to stake-out – be it in Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand, Kazakhstan, Outer Mongolia or the back-blocks of The Amazon.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This is why: ghosts &amp;amp; spirits don’t exist.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The idea of ‘spirits’ or ‘gods’ stranded in a parallel existence, from which they communicate with those of the living with special abilities or can be detected by equipment purchased at Dick Smith Electronics, has in principal been about since time immemorial. The Delphic Oracle any one?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Life after death is a man-made invention.That’s why only dead humans communicate from an after-life, rattle chains in 13th century castles, and we don’t hear the barks from the deceased family Labrador coming from its old kennel. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;If you believe in an afterlife and the ability for the 60 billion dead spirits to communicate (and seemingly so, only via psychics who charge for the privilege) with the 10 billion humans alive today and in some form survive-death, you must therefore believe that at some level:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333333;"&gt;*That every living minute of your life, is being snooped on by at least ten spirit beings, and they take an interest in you. Yes, that includes every time you have a piss, shag the wife, go to sleep etc. Why would these spirits be remotely interested in the mundane lives of you and me, when they can say voyeur the day to day activities of the drummer for Green Day? Following this logic is say Paris Hiltons shower room, the place to be in spooksville?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* What happens when the last living contact of these spirits dies? Who do they go around and watch then? Miss Hilton’s bed-room or the set of the next Porn Blockbuster - the living-world is your oyster. Why the fuck waste a single minute in a fucking re-converted Jail in Christchurch?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* All spirits apparently speak the same language, which fortunately means they avoid taking a crash Berlitz course in Serbo-Croation etc, the moment they pass-over.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* When you die you always prefer a crappy old building to live, the more derelict and unattractive the better. Ever heard of the ghost wandering the passages of the six-star Burj Al Arab Hotel in Dubai? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333333;"&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* In the after-life you retain the physical appearance and body at the moment of your death. With all those old people floating round it must be a fairly quite in the ‘after life’ and the zimmer-frame franchise-holder would be doing a roaring trade, along with sales in Viagra. Put it this way, I wouldn’t be opening a night-club in the next life. I pity the likes of Douglas Bader and invalids who must crawl their way through eternity - what a miserable existence it must be for these poor sods. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*If you are decapitated or placed in a vat of acid, you can still magically communicate and still keep your entire human-form when paranormal investigators open the cupboard you are hiding-in. Wow! Still on the positive, this leads to the conclusion that there's still hope for the ugly people in the after-life. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* The dead must take night classes. That’s so that when a bronze-aged peasant is called upon to communicate with a modern&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt; &lt;span style="color:#333333;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;psychic, they know what say a ‘radio’ or ‘car’ is.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Lets be frank - the whole idea of dead talking to the living, spirits wandering spooky old houses is a load of crap.Those who claim to talk to the dead are nothing but crude charlatans with over active imaginations and a gift for cold-reading.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Those that chase ghostly spirits in the hope of finding evidence that when they die they get a second shot at things, are delusional and should get down to the pub and engage in sex more often (masturbation doesn’t count either) &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;In other-words start enjoying their one &amp;amp; only shot at life!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="385" width="480"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/2t8kb9HTSt4&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/2t8kb9HTSt4&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5352263427762940860-2367695811810400003?l=canterburyatheists.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/feeds/2367695811810400003/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5352263427762940860&amp;postID=2367695811810400003&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/2367695811810400003'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/2367695811810400003'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/2010/07/there-is-of-course-life-after-death.html' title='There is of course life after death – just not for the dead people.'/><author><name>Canterbury Atheists</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09900223059660267657</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/SX_en79GC5I/AAAAAAAABBc/uCl_34C4fdE/S220/Black+Sheep+2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/TFC_7CelS9I/AAAAAAAABj4/uRz10O0SM-k/s72-c/Ghostbusters++Christchurch.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5352263427762940860.post-7297590050587292912</id><published>2010-07-26T12:52:00.003+12:00</published><updated>2010-07-26T13:09:20.890+12:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Medicine'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Law and Religion in New Zealand'/><title type='text'>Let’s demand a separate system of Medical Care for Theists.</title><content type='html'>If we at all are honest as a society, we’d be open and say theist hypocrisy knows no bounds.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When are ‘we’ , the growing percentage of non-superstitious in New Zealand society, going to start say “enough is enough” and ‘return-fire’ using ironically the same rights Christians (and their allies) oh so conveniently see as theirs alone?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let’s use these very-same ‘rights’ to bite them in the arse!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Time after time we’ve seen groups of Christians fighting every-step of the way to prevent medical breakthroughs, such as we see currently with stem-cell research and medicine.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As soon as medical/scientific advancements are in conflict with religion, like stem-cell is currently - castigation and obtrusion occurs.Protest is of course every-ones right, but later in the passage of time these evangelical protests are always proven to be self-centred platitudes, shown by history to be primordially laughable.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Inevitably what happens is at some later stage these very same protesters, or their loved-ones, needs to seek the same treatment they and their anointed representatives rallied so hard against.These two-faced, hypocrites have no compulsion seeking such treatment either.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On the other-hand God-fearing luddites are perfectly happy for others to be denied access to medical treatments, even if it means a miserable life or premature death for some other poor unfortunate – but only, if they themselves are not afflicted.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So as before you read my proposal, don’t feel any sort of compassion towards theists, for these very same individuals want to rob you and your closest of one of the basis rudiments of modern life - all to protect their beliefs. Always keep in the back of your mind, theists want their beliefs to over-ride yours – even if it means watching your own child die in a pitiless painful, fashion – when a cure is available, but denied to you because of their ancient superstitions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Large tracts of so-called ‘loving’ Jesus followers in this country, want to deny childless couples the opportunity to have a family using medical treatments.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cutting to the chase, &lt;strong&gt;what I’m suggesting is where resources are stretched in the health system, care is given to those who will appreciate it &amp;amp; respond. &lt;/strong&gt;This is the same as an oncologist who opts to treat a non-smoking lung-cancer patient, ahead of one who continues to puff away.Therefore our health-system already rations medical care, so my proposition is not as radical as it first appears.Doctors, make ethical ‘life &amp;amp; death’ choices on daily basis and we don’t raise an eye-brow.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So where resources are stretched, why aren’t Health Boards using the discretionary powers available to them to allocate care to those who want it first?As an example, Catholics would automatically go to the bottom of IVF treatment.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Automatically no free contraception for Catholics either.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After-all their own ethical representatives have fought tooth and nail to get IVF banned. Yet, when it suits them Catholic couples will seek out the very-same treatment that they tried hard to prevent – so it’s hard to feel sorry for them. Besides they can call on their local Priest to assist (no, not in a Biblical sense but a pastoral role if that’s what you thought I was inferring to? Although I guess the first premise isn’t entirely out of the realms and would take some pressure off choir-boys)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why shouldn’t a grateful, appreciative couple who wants a baby and have no objection to IVF treatment get priority over a couple who aren’t at all enthusiastic about the treatment due to ethical grounds?Further, the outcomes from couples who embrace a treatment such as IVF, are surely going to be more positive overall than those who are skeptical, and acting under duress, facing outside pressure to reject the ungodly procedure.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Based-on experience health-providers have a fair-idea which of the couples in this example are more likely to miss appointments, so precedency is both of benefit to the doctors and nurses but also ultimately the maligned, stretched tax-payer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our medical practitioners already respond to religious/cultural beliefs.Hospitals bow to pressure from the superstitious, giving them their own separate areas, actively assisting a policy of sectarianism and supporting a policy of privilege writing-it into law.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jehovah Witness’s for example, are given the right to die rather than submit to a blood transfusion.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The religious precedent is already in existence – I’m merely taking the same entrenched statutory privileges bestowed on religion to their logical conclusion. Asking for exclusive rights is not a one-way street and should come with barbs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you don’t want stem cell treatment – we won’t give it to you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you don’t want fertility treatment – we won’t give it to you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you don’t want contraception – we won’t give it to you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you don’t want an abortion – we won’t give to you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No exceptions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Just don’t bother asking retrospectively for any of these things if say you are a Catholic, unless you want to pay or want to wait at the bottom of a long list.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We would then have the foundations of a separate health-system, only you and I wouldn't be funding the religious hospitals where the mortality rates would be on par with Cambodia.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hypocritical theists can’t have it both ways when it comes to medical treatments that apparently so upset their invisible God ‘Yahweh’ and his emissaries on earth. On one hand theists can’t ask for a separate places to pray and do their thing at hospitals, demand rights that permit 'their own men' on-to the ward at the tax-payers expense, then in the next breath announce “we are the same and demand the same treatment.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If all these two-faced theists all had true belief in their convictions, like say the witless but gutsy Jehovah Witness’s, there would be plenty of spare hospital beds for us Atheists, and over-flowing cemeteries with crosses on the graves.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So what is wrong with giving priority treatment to someone who wants it, over say someone who wants it stopped full-stop, or objects to it on ethical or religious grounds?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If it is exclusivity through extra rights, they want – let’s give it to them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Let’s embrace those who abandon reason &amp;amp; science for superstition as it frees more beds for those who appreciate it.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let the Hospitals and health-providers play their bluff when it comes to modern treatments that upset their sensibilities, let’s give them what they want &amp;amp; fought for.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It’s also high-time for theists to practice what they preach and abdicate themselves from mainstream medicine and get back to basics&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That’s to say: prayer and leeches.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Footnote: this is a re-hash of an earlier article I did. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="385" width="480"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/nW7C9lnTyWo&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/nW7C9lnTyWo&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5352263427762940860-7297590050587292912?l=canterburyatheists.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/feeds/7297590050587292912/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5352263427762940860&amp;postID=7297590050587292912&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/7297590050587292912'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/7297590050587292912'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/2010/07/lets-demand-separate-system-of-medical.html' title='Let’s demand a separate system of Medical Care for Theists.'/><author><name>Canterbury Atheists</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09900223059660267657</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/SX_en79GC5I/AAAAAAAABBc/uCl_34C4fdE/S220/Black+Sheep+2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5352263427762940860.post-918321532795036633</id><published>2010-07-23T09:57:00.002+12:00</published><updated>2010-07-23T10:03:24.822+12:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Religion and Politics in New Zealand'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Christian Politicans in New Zealand'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Euthanasia'/><title type='text'>With The National Party in power Euthanasia will never become a reality in New Zealand.</title><content type='html'>Death with Dignity is back in the public arena and there is, I feel, a genuine ground-swell of support from Kiwi’s for some form of euthanasia to be on New Zealand statute-books (N.Z Herald Poll a massive 82% support from received from respondents)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But I know, realistically, this will never become law whilst we have National in power.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Back in 2003 Peter Brown (N.Z First) proposed his &lt;em&gt;‘Death With Dignity&lt;/em&gt; &lt;em&gt;Bill’&lt;/em&gt; and MP’s voted by conscience for it’s inception, rather than say Party lines. At least that was the way it was suppose to work in principal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In practice most Nationals MP’s (added and abetted by United Future) voted against the bill, and as a result was it failed to pass by the close margin of 60 votes to 58.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let’s take a look at the some of those, then opposition, National MP’s that voted &lt;em&gt;‘No’&lt;/em&gt; seven years ago:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Trevor Mallard&lt;br /&gt;Wayne Mapp&lt;br /&gt;Gerry Brownlee&lt;br /&gt;David Carter&lt;br /&gt;Tony Ryall&lt;br /&gt;Bill English&lt;br /&gt;Judith Collins&lt;br /&gt;Paul Swain&lt;br /&gt;Phil Heatley&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These names are familiar to all of us, and form the backbone of the current Government running our country.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If just two of those names from above had have voted &lt;em&gt;‘Yes’&lt;/em&gt; euthanasia would now be a reality.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So don’t hold your breath.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Reading of Peter Browns Bill and subsequent Parliamentary debate is &lt;a href="http://www.parliament.nz/en-NZ/PB/Debates/Debates/c/5/1/47HansD_20030730_00001096-Death-with-Dignity-Bill-First-Reading.htm"&gt;available here&lt;/a&gt;. Rodney Hides impassioned speech is worth a geez.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="385" width="480"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/khPvE9JMg5A&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/khPvE9JMg5A&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5352263427762940860-918321532795036633?l=canterburyatheists.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/feeds/918321532795036633/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5352263427762940860&amp;postID=918321532795036633&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/918321532795036633'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/918321532795036633'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/2010/07/with-national-party-in-power-euthanasia.html' title='With The National Party in power Euthanasia will never become a reality in New Zealand.'/><author><name>Canterbury Atheists</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09900223059660267657</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/SX_en79GC5I/AAAAAAAABBc/uCl_34C4fdE/S220/Black+Sheep+2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5352263427762940860.post-6774790181973095251</id><published>2010-07-21T16:12:00.002+12:00</published><updated>2010-07-21T16:18:20.324+12:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Law and Religion in New Zealand'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Religious Discrimination'/><title type='text'>Christchurch Christian School Sacks Gay Sports Coach – for simply being Gay!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;In February Middleton Grange School in Christchurch, hired a 28 year-old guy to coach their girl's netball team (footnote: a male coaching a female sport like netball was surely a warning sign in itself?)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In case you are not from Christchurch, Middleton Grange is open to Christian children ONLY. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5496207851032058994" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 285px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/TEZz65x6nHI/AAAAAAAABjo/CVYYZOuVrLE/s320/Dr+Seuss+sneetches.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;But mind-you - not just any Christian brats qualify - no siree.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oh no, according to the righteous God-fearing folk who run Middleton Grange - Catholic’s need not apply.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Don’t even ask if your spawn happens to be an Atheist, Hindu or one of the other heathens doomed to ultimately burn in hells flames.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So back to the matter in hand - as it turns-out the part-time Netball Coach happens to be gay, and this touchy-fact gets back to The School Board.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As you would appreciate all Christians hate homos, and New Zealand is no exception to backward bigotry. Nothing gets a Christian zealot more worked-up than man on man sex and people spilling their seed for the fun of it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The School Board at Middleton Grange was faced with the terrible realisation of having released a real-life sodomite onto its hallowed-grounds.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Their romper-festooned virgins needed protection from this inherently sinful man (not in a Biblical sense of the term of the word ‘man’)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So they simply fired him.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The coach departs to another school and subsequently complains to the Human Rights Department who rightfully demand that the School apologies. Middleton Grange also ended-up paying him reparations.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What is rather ironic in this whole affair is how on one-hand The New Zealand Government sees sexual discrimination as a crime worthy of admonishment, and yet in the next breath it is happy to allow Schools like Middleton Grange to openly discriminate based on a child’s beliefs?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="385" width="640"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/gaC7na66lA4&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/gaC7na66lA4&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5352263427762940860-6774790181973095251?l=canterburyatheists.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/feeds/6774790181973095251/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5352263427762940860&amp;postID=6774790181973095251&amp;isPopup=true' title='10 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/6774790181973095251'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/6774790181973095251'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/2010/07/christchurch-christian-school-sacks-gay.html' title='Christchurch Christian School Sacks Gay Sports Coach – for simply being Gay!'/><author><name>Canterbury Atheists</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09900223059660267657</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/SX_en79GC5I/AAAAAAAABBc/uCl_34C4fdE/S220/Black+Sheep+2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/TEZz65x6nHI/AAAAAAAABjo/CVYYZOuVrLE/s72-c/Dr+Seuss+sneetches.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>10</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5352263427762940860.post-1610200589853810747</id><published>2010-07-20T08:38:00.001+12:00</published><updated>2010-07-20T08:44:22.456+12:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Atheist Videos'/><title type='text'>Is this the Greatest Atheist You-Tube Video Ever?</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;&lt;object height="385" width="640"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/1Rwioe1SGkQ&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/1Rwioe1SGkQ&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;"&gt;In my books this video, by the appropriately named &lt;em&gt;Thinking Atheist&lt;/em&gt;, is simply ‘the greatest’.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No-one, theist or atheist, can not be touched by the dark, stark reasoning. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The utter stupidity of what is being taught.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The corruption of innocent minds.   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let’s make sure it goes viral by sending the link to everyone we know!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Link: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Rwioe1SGkQ"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;"&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Rwioe1SGkQ&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5352263427762940860-1610200589853810747?l=canterburyatheists.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/feeds/1610200589853810747/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5352263427762940860&amp;postID=1610200589853810747&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/1610200589853810747'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/1610200589853810747'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/2010/07/is-this-greatest-atheist-you-tube-video.html' title='Is this the Greatest Atheist You-Tube Video Ever?'/><author><name>Canterbury Atheists</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09900223059660267657</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/SX_en79GC5I/AAAAAAAABBc/uCl_34C4fdE/S220/Black+Sheep+2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5352263427762940860.post-5932926428947490266</id><published>2010-07-19T16:13:00.004+12:00</published><updated>2010-07-19T16:23:03.067+12:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Religion and Crime'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Catholic Education'/><title type='text'>Aussie Catholic School-Boys go-on Queenstown Crime Spree.</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="color:#666666;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;“Our aim is to develop reflective, compassionate and articulatemen of Christian faith and hope who will give service and leadership in our world” (Mission Statement of Xavier College)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#666666;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Xavier College is a Jesuit school and one of Melbourne's most elite private boys Catholic colleges. Its fees are about NZ$18,000 a year so clearly the snobby Papist parents of brats who attend Xavier College, are well able to pay for an overseas school-trip to New Zealand for some outdoor recreation (read: skiing) and the accommodation-bill at the towns four star Goldridge Resort.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Evidently 16 boys from a total of 30 pupils, aged 14 to 17, saw the overseas-trip as a green-light to exhibit feral behaviour befitting of Jesuits – by undertaking a mass coordinated shop-lifting spree the day before their plane was due to fly them home.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The sixteen teenaged Catholic criminals roamed the streets of Queenstown on Saturday and stole clothing worth NZ$6,000 from at least seven stores.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ultimately their thieving was detected by shop-owners and The N.Z Police became involved, as were the embarrassed teachers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All the boys bags were searched and Queenstown police returned recovered stolen goods to businesses yesterday. Compensation for the clothing damaged when the boys tore off the security tags, was also paid for – by the schools representatives.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Remember folks: Catholic Education makes better citizens.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Spoilt little rat-bags like this lot.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="385" width="480"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ls-p0xbGUJQ&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ls-p0xbGUJQ&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5352263427762940860-5932926428947490266?l=canterburyatheists.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link 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width='32' height='20' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/SX_en79GC5I/AAAAAAAABBc/uCl_34C4fdE/S220/Black+Sheep+2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5352263427762940860.post-2671775080449837986</id><published>2010-07-17T13:13:00.003+12:00</published><updated>2010-07-17T13:17:43.113+12:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Catholic Church'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Catholic Church Abuse'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Pope'/><title type='text'>Enlightened Catholic Church puts Child Rape on the same level as say a humble Female Priest!</title><content type='html'>Just how sick, repugnant and out of touch with the norms in society is The Catholic Church?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It actually churns my guts to think they have the right to educate kids.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I mean to say is there anyone you know that would deem the following two actions to be on the same par – worthy of the same admonishment and punishment?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333333;"&gt;Crime(?)One: A female becoming an ordinate priest and having the same status as her male peers. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333333;"&gt;Crime Two: A Catholic Priest raping a 12 year old boy. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Vatican has just codified both these so-called ‘grave crimes’ placing them on the same level, subject to the same set of procedures and punishments under their own twisted in-house laws.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yet, the same unbalanced minds that dreamt this warped ‘law’that want you to look to them for moral guidance!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Imagine a world where the Catholic Church ruled society and put in place it's social agenda?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oh yeah, that’s right, there was such a time in mankind’s history – it was called &lt;em&gt;‘The Dark Ages.’&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Enlightenment is clearly centuries away for this bunch of flat-earthers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="640" height="385"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/KuxdDGBcts8&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/KuxdDGBcts8&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5352263427762940860-2671775080449837986?l=canterburyatheists.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/feeds/2671775080449837986/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link 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src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/SX_en79GC5I/AAAAAAAABBc/uCl_34C4fdE/S220/Black+Sheep+2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5352263427762940860.post-4842177971838448185</id><published>2010-07-16T13:53:00.003+12:00</published><updated>2010-07-16T14:05:21.803+12:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Catholic Church Abuse'/><title type='text'>Wow really? The Catholic Church says Child Porn is Wrong!?</title><content type='html'>It’s official, well as official as it can be publicly construed, when it comes to the global fascist cult called The Catholic Church.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Get this stunning revelation fresh from Rome: &lt;em&gt;“Child pornography is a crime against Church law”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Backing the truck-up here and looking at this announcement in the larger context, what we need to ask ourselves is &lt;em&gt;“what sort of organisation needs to tell its members &amp;amp; staff this sort of stuff in the first place?”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Can you remember ever been told by anyone at all specifically - that looking at child porn was a crime and not to do it? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Has say your boss at work ever made specific references to the ramifications of down-loading kiddy porn?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The short answer is “no” – it’s just common sense and an innate trait of decent well-adjusted human-beings.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Police, Internal Affairs, Parents, Companies etc don’t need to tell you, me and the other decent members of society that looking at child porn is a crime.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So what makes this press-statement significant is its very necessity.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We need to remind ourselves that The Catholic Church is riddled &amp;amp; infested with child-fuckers, deviants and moral reprobates – that we are not dealing with normal ‘Joe Bloggs’.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These are sick people in constant need of moral parameters, and not you and me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Unlike other sectors of society Catholics, and in particular their clergy, need to be officially reminded not to perv at children being fucked by adults.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What a sad indictment.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="385" width="480"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/waqzKCat1lM&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/waqzKCat1lM&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5352263427762940860-4842177971838448185?l=canterburyatheists.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/feeds/4842177971838448185/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5352263427762940860&amp;postID=4842177971838448185&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/4842177971838448185'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/4842177971838448185'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/2010/07/wow-really-catholic-church-says-child.html' title='Wow really? The Catholic Church says Child Porn is Wrong!?'/><author><name>Canterbury Atheists</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09900223059660267657</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/SX_en79GC5I/AAAAAAAABBc/uCl_34C4fdE/S220/Black+Sheep+2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5352263427762940860.post-5427795701185205855</id><published>2010-07-16T12:23:00.004+12:00</published><updated>2010-07-16T12:35:55.647+12:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Non Existence of God'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Religious absurdaties'/><title type='text'>Gods Ultimate Reality Show!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/TD-nnPDQayI/AAAAAAAABjg/dnyF3fcGXG0/s1600/reality_show.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5494294362912221986" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/TD-nnPDQayI/AAAAAAAABjg/dnyF3fcGXG0/s320/reality_show.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Television programmers take head of this idea for a reality show.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;An anointed representative of every religion on the planet lines-up for a 12 hour televised ‘boom or bust’ experiment with a global audience measured in the billions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Trust me - this will be the biggest T.V program ever screened!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Catholics, Baptists, Jews – you name the superstition – as long as they believe they have a telephone-line to God – there’s a place for their chosen warrior on the show (think ‘David’ in the story with Goliath) In-fact this is one show they couldn’t afford to miss.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oh yeah, there will also be one Bonobo Chimp as well.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The chimp will be representing the non-believing heathens.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The religious representatives are all lined-up and then given a set of six dice (specially manufactured and tested, then randomly drawn from a lotto type machine on the day)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The chosen warriors of God plus the chimp then have 12 hours to throw as many sixes as they can – an average count of which will determine the ‘winner’ (rest assured it will be all above board and it won’t simply be a matter of the individual who throws the most dice but the average result)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The representatives and their supporters watching at home will be encouraged to evoke Gods support for their cause.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Believers will be motivated to prove to the world it is ‘they’ who have Gods favour above all others.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The chimp will get bananas and beer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What do you think would be the result after all the dice had been thrown?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/FCjiyCBafQU&amp;amp;hl=" width="480" height="385" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" fs="1" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5352263427762940860-5427795701185205855?l=canterburyatheists.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/feeds/5427795701185205855/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5352263427762940860&amp;postID=5427795701185205855&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/5427795701185205855'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/5427795701185205855'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/2010/07/gods-ultimate-reality-show.html' title='Gods Ultimate Reality Show!'/><author><name>Canterbury Atheists</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09900223059660267657</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/SX_en79GC5I/AAAAAAAABBc/uCl_34C4fdE/S220/Black+Sheep+2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/TD-nnPDQayI/AAAAAAAABjg/dnyF3fcGXG0/s72-c/reality_show.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5352263427762940860.post-3083459116811157896</id><published>2010-07-14T18:55:00.002+12:00</published><updated>2010-07-14T19:01:13.256+12:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Christian Humour'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Christian Stupidity'/><title type='text'>LION 1 : NUTTY PROSELYTE 0</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;&lt;object width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/dkLRtKijA74&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/dkLRtKijA74&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Now and again a more devout Christian will attempt to literally test-out their Gods magical power for intervention (can I take her for a ride around the block?) undertaking some foolhardy enterprise -  often with tragic and/or amusing results. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Presumably the high failure rate means God was down at ‘the local’ or too busy starving African children to intervene in a circus side-show.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Who knows?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Theists and the plain-stupid scripting their own demise have always appealed to my own dark sense of humour.      &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Similarly sometimes Christians also take their Bible way too literally e.g. say that story about Daniel and the lions. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This video (above) encapsulates both.    &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5352263427762940860-3083459116811157896?l=canterburyatheists.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/feeds/3083459116811157896/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5352263427762940860&amp;postID=3083459116811157896&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/3083459116811157896'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/3083459116811157896'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/2010/07/lion-1-nutty-proselyte-0.html' title='LION 1 : NUTTY PROSELYTE 0'/><author><name>Canterbury Atheists</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09900223059660267657</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/SX_en79GC5I/AAAAAAAABBc/uCl_34C4fdE/S220/Black+Sheep+2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5352263427762940860.post-8723504766564289849</id><published>2010-07-14T15:11:00.004+12:00</published><updated>2010-07-14T15:17:03.507+12:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Non Existence of God'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='God'/><title type='text'>What Evidence would it take for you to believe a Tyrannosaurus was roaming your city?</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family:Courier New;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/TD0rDt4LUmI/AAAAAAAABjY/V_DV1E1bWSQ/s1600/t-rex.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5493594463316693602" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 281px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/TD0rDt4LUmI/AAAAAAAABjY/V_DV1E1bWSQ/s320/t-rex.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;The media is abuzz with reports of the alleged sighting of a T.Rex roaming the forests on the outskirts of your city.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A family is adamant it was a five metre tall, fearsome giant lizard they saw in a wooded area only 10 kilometres from where you live.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Naturally experts are highly dubious at these claims a large carnivorous dinosaur had somehow survived human detection for the past 60 million years.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The media makes fun of the claims, satirising the passionate claimants reports.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now imagine how you would react to these anecdotal assertions?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What corroborating evidence would you need for you personally to attest to the notion “a T-Rex is indeed on the loose”?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pictures? DNA samples? Expert confirmation from biologists? Seeing the beast with your own eyes? A combination of some or all of the above?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now replace T-Rex in your mind with the word/concept of ‘God’ (as in the popular Abrahamic notion of the term)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As outlandish as the stories of a T-Rex running loose in local forests sound, they pale into insignificance when placed against the idea of a super-powerful all-seeing interventionist 'being' who created all life in the universe, existing undetected, watching &amp;amp; influencing all activities – from the birds in the sky to the deepest ocean – from birth to death and then even into the after-life.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why is the stringent evidence even a layman needs to corroborate say a modern-day T-Rex, never applied to quantify the far more unbelievable being(s) known as ‘God’?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="385" width="640"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/LXh4diT8VsE&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/LXh4diT8VsE&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5352263427762940860-8723504766564289849?l=canterburyatheists.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/feeds/8723504766564289849/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5352263427762940860&amp;postID=8723504766564289849&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/8723504766564289849'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/8723504766564289849'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/2010/07/what-evidence-would-it-take-for-you-to.html' title='What Evidence would it take for you to believe a Tyrannosaurus was roaming your city?'/><author><name>Canterbury Atheists</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09900223059660267657</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/SX_en79GC5I/AAAAAAAABBc/uCl_34C4fdE/S220/Black+Sheep+2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/TD0rDt4LUmI/AAAAAAAABjY/V_DV1E1bWSQ/s72-c/t-rex.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5352263427762940860.post-534119274192909998</id><published>2010-07-09T11:22:00.002+12:00</published><updated>2010-07-09T11:26:07.565+12:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Atheist Music'/><title type='text'>Fuji Minx:  # 1 in the Rome Music Charts!</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Courier New;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;Apparently no mainstream television station would touch this video by the spunk-goddess, Fuji Minx.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;She can put her leather boots and slinky French corset under my bed any-time (even if it meant the body paint she wears never came-out in the wash and she brought along her pet sheep along for ‘the ride’)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I mean to say what’s wrong with a chick getting her tits out and some hard-core blasphemy?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Its anti-Papist rhetoric has attracted the mind-police at You Tube to pull this video under the guise of it being in-appropriate (read: upsetting for the poor Cath-lick bubbsies who want to censor anything that offends their brain-washed minds)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Therefore what more recommendation do you need?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Go out and buy it!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="385" width="640"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/nWY2PgBGTIQ&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/nWY2PgBGTIQ&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span 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href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/2010/07/fuji-minx-1-in-rome-music-charts.html' title='Fuji Minx:  # 1 in the Rome Music Charts!'/><author><name>Canterbury Atheists</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09900223059660267657</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/SX_en79GC5I/AAAAAAAABBc/uCl_34C4fdE/S220/Black+Sheep+2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5352263427762940860.post-8715555908345547163</id><published>2010-06-25T12:20:00.003+12:00</published><updated>2010-06-25T12:29:11.030+12:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Prophecy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Religious absurdaties'/><title type='text'>God Texts Fijian Pastor about impending Disaster!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/TCP2hvGwhPI/AAAAAAAABjQ/aO_6SyK1m3o/s1600/Fiji+Pastor.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5486499830508324082" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 226px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/TCP2hvGwhPI/AAAAAAAABjQ/aO_6SyK1m3o/s400/Fiji+Pastor.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;There’s one thing to be said about the ‘Interim Fijian Regime’ (read: Military-Lead Government) – they don’t take fools lightly.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For the last month or so Pastor Laione Lutumaimuri Nacevamaca (above) and his side-kick Bill Govaka (ironically the one time former head of The Fiji Visitors Bureau) have been telling anyone who is interested, that a major natural disaster was about to hit Fiji – specifically 2:30 pm on Wednesday (23rd) this week.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The reason why the time/date is so specific is because it was God that personally told Pastor Nacevamaca, by way of his cell-phone clock.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That’s right: God telepathically communicated with Nacevamaca, then texted him!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;“This is the date and time, mark it on your calendar”&lt;/em&gt; is what the excitable &amp;amp; delusional Pastor told the local press.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sadly there were large tracts of the Fijian populous that believed his prophecy, so when whole villages began moving to higher-ground, tourist resorts were cleared following warning emails sent by Govaka, business’s &amp;amp; schools closed to avoid the impending disaster(s) - the Government acted decisively - by arresting &amp;amp; imprisoning the pair on Tuesday for spreading rumours.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nacevamaca is charged with maliciously fabricating and spreading by way of mouth that there would be a tsunami, earthquake and strong winds, causing public alarm.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mr Gavoka was charged with spreading the rumours by e-mail about the tsunami and earthquakes and causing public alarm.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Needless to say the time/date passed without either a ripple on land or sea, nor more than a warm sea-breeze.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Whether God bothered to text Nacevamaca to say &lt;em&gt;“sorry for standing you-up”&lt;/em&gt; has yet to come-out.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="385" width="480"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/FudZywj-Q6E&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/FudZywj-Q6E&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;Note: Off-Air for 10 days (may be less - who knows?)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5352263427762940860-8715555908345547163?l=canterburyatheists.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/feeds/8715555908345547163/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5352263427762940860&amp;postID=8715555908345547163&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/8715555908345547163'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/8715555908345547163'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/2010/06/god-texts-fijian-pastor-about-impending.html' title='God Texts Fijian Pastor about impending Disaster!'/><author><name>Canterbury Atheists</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09900223059660267657</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/SX_en79GC5I/AAAAAAAABBc/uCl_34C4fdE/S220/Black+Sheep+2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/TCP2hvGwhPI/AAAAAAAABjQ/aO_6SyK1m3o/s72-c/Fiji+Pastor.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5352263427762940860.post-2431427665334743978</id><published>2010-06-24T12:58:00.004+12:00</published><updated>2010-06-24T13:19:45.658+12:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='American Sport'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Football'/><title type='text'>Why are American Sporting-Teams so Fucking Useless?</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why is it, that by-in-large American sports-fans are so insular?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why don’t American sporting teams take pride in representing their country – is it because no one back home gives a rats-arse even if they do well?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;More importantly why are American sports teams, with their vast financial resources, so fucking useless?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Whilst most of the planet is embracing The (one true) Football World-Cup, the whole scope of tournament has typically escaped vast tracts of America.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The easy, glib answer to this is of course &lt;em&gt;‘Football (ooops ‘soccer’) is not a big sport in ‘the states’ &lt;/em&gt;even though in reality there’s 18 million players, and it’s the largest participant sport for kids.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By the way neither is football it a ‘big sport’ in New Zealand, but yet the whole country still gets behind its team.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now go &amp;amp; ask yourself - &lt;em&gt;"what are the ‘big team sports’ in America?"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;Well there’s basketball, which it has to be said is a global sport, and with all those NBA players, billions of bucks floating around, surely the U.S should clean-up at every international tournament they turn-up at?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Boy, have I got news for you - the current world-champions are Spain and the tournament before that it was Yugoslavia. The U.S hasn’t been World Champs at basketball for 18 years!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ice-Hockey, now that’s a popular team-sport in North America.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It goes without saying The U.S must be competitive at The World Ice Hockey Tournament - right?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No, they have performed abysmally and last made a final fifty years ago!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What say Volleyball, another global sport, popular in American schools and colleges?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the sixty years, no American team (men’s or women’s) has even made the finals at a World Champs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So what other global team sports do Americans play to any great degree?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sorry I can’t for the life of me think of any?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Baseball does have a World Championships – but it’s similar to running a so-called World Series - played amongst such a small gene-pool to be unworthy of the mantle ‘World’.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Don’t even suggest American Football – probably one of the worlds least played sport when it comes to countries who participate. Is there even a American Football team as such?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So the only conclusion one can make is Americans don’t care about World Championships and their athletes, teams aren’t interested in succeeding on the world sporting stage at events every-other country takes seriously&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They are too interested playing amongst themselves.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What do you call playing with yourself again?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;PS: From Saturday on I’m taking a sabbatical for 10 days to catch-up on some things on the home-front. Comments will be cleared when I get other projects finished.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="385" width="480"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Vte_K7YHMmM&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Vte_K7YHMmM&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5352263427762940860-2431427665334743978?l=canterburyatheists.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/feeds/2431427665334743978/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5352263427762940860&amp;postID=2431427665334743978&amp;isPopup=true' title='9 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/2431427665334743978'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/2431427665334743978'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/2010/06/why-are-american-sporting-teams-so.html' title='Why are American Sporting-Teams so Fucking Useless?'/><author><name>Canterbury Atheists</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09900223059660267657</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/SX_en79GC5I/AAAAAAAABBc/uCl_34C4fdE/S220/Black+Sheep+2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>9</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5352263427762940860.post-3633874604555335308</id><published>2010-06-22T09:02:00.004+12:00</published><updated>2010-07-23T09:57:15.155+12:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Elim Church'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Tithing'/><title type='text'>Blood-Sucking Elim Church takes disabled-mans Life Savings!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/TB_VV8bg3eI/AAAAAAAABjI/S4lbCxLLnEM/s1600/Whetu+Abraham.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5485337444136050146" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 238px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 286px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/TB_VV8bg3eI/AAAAAAAABjI/S4lbCxLLnEM/s320/Whetu+Abraham.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;This is a Napier rest home resident Whetu Abraham, 54, a partial tetraplegic with head injuries, the result of being hit by a car in 1986. What also makes him further vulnerable is his lack of family – basically he’s a loner with obvious ‘issues’ and sadly little to no immediate support.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Over the last two years Abraham has donated his entire life saving to the Napier City ‘Oasis’ Elim Church, in the belief he was in-effect buying his way into heaven.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When she learned of what was happening the rest home manager, Lucy Dever, tried to intervene on Abrahams behalf with the churches pastor Bruce Collingwood, and make him aware that Mr Abrahams survived on a sickness benefit and was not in a position to be granting them six-figure donations, let alone his entire nest-egg, given he has no other income source.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pastor Collingwood dismissed her protestations and banked the monies (approx NZ$20,000) telling Dever dismissively it was Abrahams choice.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I ask you what sort of person is this ‘man of god’ Pastor Bruce Collingwood?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What sort of organisation could take the last cent of a vulnerable person – a man clearly not fully in control of his facilities, down on his luck?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Napier Oasis Church should be hit where it hurts them most i.e. in the pocket.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Their charitable status should be immediately cancelled.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PS: By the way The Oasis Church in Napier happen to have a Facebook site to vent your anger – so why not join in the fun and tell these creeps what you think? The last couple of posts on their ‘wall’ are gems and sum-up the publics anger at their despicable actions: &lt;em&gt;“scum sucking mutha f*cking arrsehole!” &lt;/em&gt;and &lt;em&gt;“complete scum”.&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Footnote: Bruce Collingwood has commented on this article (comments section below) giving his side of the story. Far dues to him.   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;object height="385" width="480"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/F1CafkF3lGo&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/F1CafkF3lGo&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5352263427762940860-3633874604555335308?l=canterburyatheists.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/feeds/3633874604555335308/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5352263427762940860&amp;postID=3633874604555335308&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/3633874604555335308'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/3633874604555335308'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/2010/06/blood-sucking-elim-church-takes.html' title='Blood-Sucking Elim Church takes disabled-mans Life Savings!'/><author><name>Canterbury Atheists</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09900223059660267657</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/SX_en79GC5I/AAAAAAAABBc/uCl_34C4fdE/S220/Black+Sheep+2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/TB_VV8bg3eI/AAAAAAAABjI/S4lbCxLLnEM/s72-c/Whetu+Abraham.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5352263427762940860.post-7388152715467425043</id><published>2010-06-21T09:33:00.004+12:00</published><updated>2010-06-21T09:50:36.081+12:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Football'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Rugby'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='World Cup'/><title type='text'>Why Football is better than Rugby</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/TB6KX_DN7XI/AAAAAAAABjA/Q0ehYo0t914/s1600/Shane+Smeltz+Goal.bmp"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5484973540850396530" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 225px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/TB6KX_DN7XI/AAAAAAAABjA/Q0ehYo0t914/s400/Shane+Smeltz+Goal.bmp" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;1.) Fans actually get passionate about football and don’t sit like mannequins in their seats chanting like they all have downs-syndrome&lt;br /&gt;2.) The skinny white guys can get in the team, as well as the odd skinny Maori or two (interestingly there were five Maori players on the field against Italy at the end of last nights game and only two playing for The All Blacks on Saturday, no calls a Maori version of the national anthem either)  &lt;br /&gt;3.) When you play a meaningless international game of football they call it for what it is – a ‘friendly’ and not a ‘test’.&lt;br /&gt;4.) The 76th ranked nation can draw against the World-Champs (imagine The South African Rugby team failing to beat The Cook Islands!?) A bird-bath has more depth than International Rugby.&lt;br /&gt;5.) The World Football Cup is a ‘World’ Cup and not a beefed-up Commonwealth Tournament.&lt;br /&gt;6.) New Zealand Football doesn’t need to raid The Pacific Islands for its players.&lt;br /&gt;7.) Rivalry in sport generally means some sort of historic competition between two players/teams, rather than miss-matches eg. Everton versus Liverpool. Wales last beat New Zealand at rugby fifty-seven years ago meaning most New Zealansers weren't even born when the term 'rivalry' had any significance in the context.  &lt;br /&gt;8.) When New Zealand Football team plays at The World Cup the team over-performs pundit’s expectations. When The All Blacks play at a World Cup Tournament traditionally they under-perform.&lt;br /&gt;9.) You can actually understand the rules of football and the basics of the game don't change season by season and one hemisphere plays by one interpretation and the other by another.   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;10.) Football is an international language and at this very-moment most people on this  planet will know New Zealand is in The World Cup and doing bloody well! It’s currently one of the head-line stories on CBS Sport, ESPN, Telegraph, Guardian, The Sun etc.  How many would know about the so-called 'test' in Dunedin?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5352263427762940860-7388152715467425043?l=canterburyatheists.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/feeds/7388152715467425043/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5352263427762940860&amp;postID=7388152715467425043&amp;isPopup=true' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/7388152715467425043'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/7388152715467425043'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/2010/06/why-football-is-better-than-rugby.html' title='Why Football is better than Rugby'/><author><name>Canterbury Atheists</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09900223059660267657</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/SX_en79GC5I/AAAAAAAABBc/uCl_34C4fdE/S220/Black+Sheep+2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/TB6KX_DN7XI/AAAAAAAABjA/Q0ehYo0t914/s72-c/Shane+Smeltz+Goal.bmp' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5352263427762940860.post-5670494311510983846</id><published>2010-06-18T09:06:00.005+12:00</published><updated>2010-06-18T09:29:28.053+12:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Catholic Church Abuse'/><title type='text'>The Vatican’s centuries-old practices: Grave Robbing &amp; Defiling Corpses</title><content type='html'>Defiling corpses is as much an entrenched part of Catholic culture, as say Latin rites or getting a bag of lollies for playing with Father O’Grady’s diddle.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Indeed as you’ll see no part of a dead body is off-limits to the ghoul’s dressed-in dog-collars and women’s robes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The following is but a small list of some of the venerated human-parts Catholics, in the year 2010, believe still to hold magical powers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- The toe of ‘Saint’ Francis Xavier as well as three arms that are also claimed to be his&lt;br /&gt;- What’s left of the decapitated head of Saint Catherine&lt;br /&gt;- The heart of St Vincent de Paul&lt;br /&gt;- Jesus Christ’s foreskin as well as his umbilical cord&lt;br /&gt;- The breast milk of Mary Madeline as well as a range of her hair ranging from black to blonde (pick a colour, any colour)&lt;br /&gt;- The finger of Saint Nicholas&lt;br /&gt;- Skull of St Valentine&lt;br /&gt;- Thigh and foot bones of St Thérèse of Lisieux&lt;br /&gt;- Rib(s) of Saint Luke&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When they get all worked-up and foaming at the mouth with religious fervor - no part of a body is considered sacred and off-limits to Catholic grave-robbers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Like some sordid pages of a Dan Brown novel &amp;amp; even before the corpse of a yet-to-be-confirmed saint is cold The Popes henchmen are on the spot hacking the body-apart limb for limb and distributing the parts all over the planet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A finger is Fedexed to Mexico.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The arm is taken as carry-on luggage to Brazil.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A tooth is wrenched-out and sent for Catholics in Uganda to adulate.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When they get short-on parts The Catholic Church even robs graves!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Centuries old bodies are dug-up, then defiled in the name of their cause.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This debased behaviour is some-how mitigated by calling the remains ‘relics.’ &lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/TBqQpoZnIZI/AAAAAAAABi4/d6yH5xstnf4/s1600/Bone+Church.bmp"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5483854541170876818" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 251px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/TBqQpoZnIZI/AAAAAAAABi4/d6yH5xstnf4/s320/Bone+Church.bmp" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And if this wasn’t morbid and primitive enough for you to contemplate, there are even Catholic churches ‘decorated’ with the bones of dead friars/priests like this one, The Church of Santa Maria della’Immacolata Concezione in Rome.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The whole practice of venerating human remains is uncivilized in the extreme.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Totally primitive and barbaric behaviour &amp;amp; all coming-from people who have the audacity to try and tell you how to run your life!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;PS: I've covered the bizarre story of The Holy Prepuce, or Holy Foreskin before. Read: &lt;a href="http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/2009/06/jesus-had-big-cock.html"&gt;'Jesus&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/2009/06/jesus-had-big-cock.html"&gt; had a big Cock'.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;object height="385" width="480"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/_raPfoXzJ2Q&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/_raPfoXzJ2Q&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/2009/06/jesus-had-big-cock.html"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5352263427762940860-5670494311510983846?l=canterburyatheists.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/feeds/5670494311510983846/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5352263427762940860&amp;postID=5670494311510983846&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/5670494311510983846'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/5670494311510983846'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/2010/06/vaticans-centuries-old-practices-grave.html' title='The Vatican’s centuries-old practices: Grave Robbing &amp; Defiling Corpses'/><author><name>Canterbury Atheists</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09900223059660267657</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/SX_en79GC5I/AAAAAAAABBc/uCl_34C4fdE/S220/Black+Sheep+2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/TBqQpoZnIZI/AAAAAAAABi4/d6yH5xstnf4/s72-c/Bone+Church.bmp' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5352263427762940860.post-1161148851283585400</id><published>2010-06-17T08:26:00.002+12:00</published><updated>2010-06-17T08:51:59.836+12:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Priest Sex Abuse'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Celibacy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Catholic Church Abuse'/><title type='text'>Are all Catholic Priests by definition Effeminate, Head-Cases?</title><content type='html'>A question to all males: if you were offered a million dollars to be chemically sterilised, rendered permanently impotent – would you take the money?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hell no!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Males are hot-wired to seek-out sexual gratification.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The only males I can think-of that would deliberately deny themselves out of volition, as opposed to medical reasons, are lacking a chromosome or two.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dare I suggest effeminate, thus well suited to an all-male society?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As young boys they were the ones that liked dressing-up-in their mothers underwear and never had friends who ‘understood their feelings.’&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Voluntary celibate men are by definition abnormal, biological freaks of nature.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Regardless of sexual orientation, heterosexual, bi-sexual or homosexual – male celibacy is only for weirdos &amp;amp; fringe dwellers in society.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Abnormal behaviour such as sexual-denial invariably spills-over into psychological issues.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These psychological issues could be cured simply &amp;amp; easily with the services of a $50 hooker. Male or female, take your pick.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Until priests are provided with a sexual-outlet for their natural desires (over the age of consent) they will remain by-in-large to be dangerous, ostracized head-cases - never to be left-alone to their own devices &amp;amp; impossible to take seriously.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="385" width="480"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/rhkNSgjHgSo&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/rhkNSgjHgSo&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5352263427762940860-1161148851283585400?l=canterburyatheists.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/feeds/1161148851283585400/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5352263427762940860&amp;postID=1161148851283585400&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/1161148851283585400'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/1161148851283585400'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/2010/06/are-all-catholic-priests-by-definition.html' title='Are all Catholic Priests by definition Effeminate, Head-Cases?'/><author><name>Canterbury Atheists</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09900223059660267657</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/SX_en79GC5I/AAAAAAAABBc/uCl_34C4fdE/S220/Black+Sheep+2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5352263427762940860.post-4515614927720766281</id><published>2010-06-16T20:26:00.003+12:00</published><updated>2010-06-16T20:39:46.348+12:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Catholic Education'/><title type='text'>Good Catholic Children Don’t Jump in Puddles</title><content type='html'>The mission statement from St Francis de Sales School in Wellington reads:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;                                          To provide quality education,&lt;br /&gt;                                incorporating Catholic principles and beliefs,&lt;br /&gt;                     giving each child opportunities for their full development&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Showing scant regard for human decency and total disrespect for the dead The Vatican ordered the heart of the original St Francis’s to be ripped from his corpse. De Sales ‘ticker’ is now on display in Rome for the morbid fools to drool over. Mind-you when you think The Catholic Church worships a zombie and ritually drinks his blood – having century old bodily parts strewn about the place seems almost ‘normal’ for this lot.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Perhaps the school in New Zealand that bears his name could ask Rome for some of St Frances heart?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They certainly appear to need a 'heart' of some kind.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here we have a primary school that has placed a ban on something that is intrinsic childlike behaviour - jumping in puddles.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Following-on from the fine Christian heritage exhibited by Rome, who shamelessly violated the corpse of poor old Francis de Sales, the school-board in Wellington has paid no regard for the part of their mission-statement that claims to “give each child opportunities for their full development.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These Kiwi children of St Francis de Sales School are being taught a short sharp life-lesson on how fascism works and never to question the authority of ‘the’ church.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Basically they are receiving the ‘good Catholic education’ their parents so-desired.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="640" height="385"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/9Q3hhurq5Fo&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/9Q3hhurq5Fo&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5352263427762940860-4515614927720766281?l=canterburyatheists.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/feeds/4515614927720766281/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5352263427762940860&amp;postID=4515614927720766281&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/4515614927720766281'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/4515614927720766281'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/2010/06/good-catholic-children-dont-jump-in.html' title='Good Catholic Children Don’t Jump in Puddles'/><author><name>Canterbury Atheists</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09900223059660267657</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/SX_en79GC5I/AAAAAAAABBc/uCl_34C4fdE/S220/Black+Sheep+2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5352263427762940860.post-1091548075211907895</id><published>2010-06-11T10:29:00.002+12:00</published><updated>2010-06-11T10:36:23.678+12:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Pornography'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sex'/><title type='text'>New Zealand Politician Watches Porn-Movie…..Wop De Fuck!</title><content type='html'>Wow what a massive and shocking revelation: a New Zealand man has actually been found looking at pornographic movies!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Next they'll be saying males like sport.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The individual that has been ‘outed’ enjoying porn is current opposition politician, former Cabinet Minister and father of seven, Shane Jones.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pandering to what he perceives as adverse public opinion a guilt-ridden Jones had dubbed his exposure as "&lt;em&gt;Shane's day of great shame."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;“Earth to Shane”… “Earth to New Zealand”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;Every New Zealand adult-male, with normal testosterone levels, is sexually stimulated looking at pornography - so wop-de-fuck this male happens to inhabit Parliament.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is not necessary for any male/female to apologise for exhibiting entirely normal behaviour.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Instead of taking a defensive position Jones would be better to have simply turned-on the throng of journalists latched to his jugular and thrown it back in their hypocritical faces with a statement along the lines &lt;em&gt;“I like looking at porn – don’t you?”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jones should have gone on the offensive and not pandered to the glib, duplicitous calls for his resignation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rather than being embarrassed he should have said “&lt;em&gt;Sorry I don’t see a problem with an adult like myself watching a pornographic movie&lt;/em&gt;.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In doing so he would have the support of the majority of Kiwi’s, who like me, enjoy watching porn and aren't afraid to say so.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="385" width="480"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/hTM5oGv8hvM&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/hTM5oGv8hvM&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5352263427762940860-1091548075211907895?l=canterburyatheists.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/feeds/1091548075211907895/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5352263427762940860&amp;postID=1091548075211907895&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/1091548075211907895'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/1091548075211907895'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/2010/06/new-zealand-politician-watches-porn.html' title='New Zealand Politician Watches Porn-Movie…..Wop De Fuck!'/><author><name>Canterbury Atheists</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09900223059660267657</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/SX_en79GC5I/AAAAAAAABBc/uCl_34C4fdE/S220/Black+Sheep+2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5352263427762940860.post-180234810877312160</id><published>2010-06-10T12:21:00.003+12:00</published><updated>2010-06-10T12:55:51.879+12:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Jewish'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Law and Religion in New Zealand'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Religious Discrimination'/><title type='text'>New Zealand says no to Jewish Tradition of Animal Cruelty</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;In the past religions have had a free-reign in New Zealand to get away with abuses no other sector of society can claim as part of their innate rights being a citizen of this country.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The right to discriminate based-on gender or sexual orientation are two of the more obvious ones still permitted.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gradually these historic ‘rights’ Governments have granted to one sector of society over another, are being whittled away.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This week New Zealand took another step towards becoming a truly secular country when it banned the inhumane slaughter of animals under the guise of religious practice.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Overnight the Kosher slaughter of lambs and chickens (a ritual called shechita) came to an end here in New Zealand and attracted the ire of the local Hebrew community both here and in Australia.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The president of The Organisation of Rabbis in Australasia, Moshe Gutnick, put all his cards on the table when he said “The science is wrong, but even if the science wasn’t wrong it infringes on the religious rights of the community.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Basically Rabbi Gutnick was saying “So what it’s cruel - our religion dictates we treat animals in this primitive fashion and that over-rides the rule of the land.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gutnick and the Jewish community of New Zealand can of course import Kosher meat, or if they are still smarting from having to follow the same animal welfare laws as the rest of the country – simply go live some where else. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;If you think New Zealand is intolerant - try Iran for size.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Courier New;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Footnote: Before anyone plays the “what about the animals killed in New Zealand slaughterhouses under the halal principals?” card, those animals are stunned first – unlike the Kosher killings where the conscious animal has it’s throat slit and bleed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="385" width="480"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/bKWnuFTFvxg&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/bKWnuFTFvxg&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5352263427762940860-180234810877312160?l=canterburyatheists.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/feeds/180234810877312160/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5352263427762940860&amp;postID=180234810877312160&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/180234810877312160'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/180234810877312160'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/2010/06/new-zealand-says-no-to-jewish-tradition.html' title='New Zealand says no to Jewish Tradition of Animal Cruelty'/><author><name>Canterbury Atheists</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09900223059660267657</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/SX_en79GC5I/AAAAAAAABBc/uCl_34C4fdE/S220/Black+Sheep+2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5352263427762940860.post-585798703003957124</id><published>2010-06-09T13:47:00.003+12:00</published><updated>2010-06-09T13:54:01.241+12:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Religion and Crime'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Atheist Countries'/><title type='text'>Chasing Peace? Adopt Atheism!</title><content type='html'>Yet again, New Zealand has topped The &lt;a href="http://www.visionofhumanity.org/gpi-data/#/2010/scor"&gt;Vision of Humanities ‘2010 Global Peace Index’.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In a repeat of last year, it’s exclusively the secular countries (below) that are revealed to be the most peaceful.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Just like last year we get to see that the war-mongering countries on this planet are in-fact those inhabited by a population that largely embraces religion and superstition.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The facts are damning and the only conclusion one can make is - if more people dropped their religious hatred and primitive superstitious behaviour – the planet we inhabit would be a safer place.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;New Zealand (1 in 2009)&lt;br /&gt;Iceland (4)&lt;br /&gt;Japan (7)&lt;br /&gt;Austria (5)&lt;br /&gt;Norway(3)&lt;br /&gt;Ireland&lt;br /&gt;Denmark (2)&lt;br /&gt;Luxembourg&lt;br /&gt;Finland (9)&lt;br /&gt;Sweden (6)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The bottom ten are:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Iraq (1)&lt;br /&gt;Somalia (3)&lt;br /&gt;Afghanistan (2)&lt;br /&gt;Sudan (5)&lt;br /&gt;Pakistan (8)&lt;br /&gt;Israel (4)&lt;br /&gt;Russia (9)&lt;br /&gt;Georgia&lt;br /&gt;Chad (7)&lt;br /&gt;Congo (6)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;F.Y.I: Australia (19) U.K (31) USA (85)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="385" width="480"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/l4rd7I0Q75o&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/l4rd7I0Q75o&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5352263427762940860-585798703003957124?l=canterburyatheists.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/feeds/585798703003957124/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5352263427762940860&amp;postID=585798703003957124&amp;isPopup=true' title='10 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/585798703003957124'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/585798703003957124'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/2010/06/chasing-peace-adopt-atheism.html' title='Chasing Peace? Adopt Atheism!'/><author><name>Canterbury Atheists</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09900223059660267657</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/SX_en79GC5I/AAAAAAAABBc/uCl_34C4fdE/S220/Black+Sheep+2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>10</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5352263427762940860.post-3209789807336342232</id><published>2010-06-08T11:58:00.004+12:00</published><updated>2010-06-08T12:15:08.131+12:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Tranz Alpine Scooter Rally'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Kiwi Character'/><title type='text'>Those can-do-Kiwi’s and their humble scooters spun-my-wheels.</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/TA2KJCRoZjI/AAAAAAAABiw/d2UqtUAVgvg/s1600/Scooters+start.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5480188209414039090" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 200px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/TA2KJCRoZjI/AAAAAAAABiw/d2UqtUAVgvg/s400/Scooters+start.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;New Zealanders are very self critical, and I’m contrite enough to confess, at times. I’m the first to employ my own self-imposed list of foibles upon fellow Kiwi’s.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then something comes along that makes you proud to be a Kiwi.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Something, may be, small in the relative scheme of things.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some event or act that exposes that Kiwi fortitude, and ‘can-do’ attitude which makes New Zealand still one of the best places on the planet to live.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To me this renewal of Kiwi pride came in the form of the recent ‘Tranz Alpine Scooter Rally.’&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Saturday May 29 saw 230 brave &amp;amp; hardy scooterists buzz out of Christchurch mostly on tiny 50cc scooters bound for the wintry Southern Alps and over to the South Islands West Coast - 250kms in roughly 10 hours.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In one-word the weather was “crap” that weekend and there was snow on both mountain passes (check the video out).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="385" width="640"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/m5uKwzUW5hY&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/m5uKwzUW5hY&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is motorised version of The Coast to Coast Endurance Event also doubles as a fundraiser for the The Cancer Society &amp;amp; their efforts, a week or so back, raised over a hundred grand for a fine cause.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The individuals behind this event should be the ones getting awards and not some stuffy-old Judge or god-bothering band promoters.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;May this event prosper.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5352263427762940860-3209789807336342232?l=canterburyatheists.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/feeds/3209789807336342232/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5352263427762940860&amp;postID=3209789807336342232&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/3209789807336342232'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/3209789807336342232'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/2010/06/those-can-do-kiwis-and-their-humble.html' title='Those can-do-Kiwi’s and their humble scooters spun-my-wheels.'/><author><name>Canterbury Atheists</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09900223059660267657</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/SX_en79GC5I/AAAAAAAABBc/uCl_34C4fdE/S220/Black+Sheep+2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/TA2KJCRoZjI/AAAAAAAABiw/d2UqtUAVgvg/s72-c/Scooters+start.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5352263427762940860.post-7704317207565296402</id><published>2010-06-07T19:59:00.002+12:00</published><updated>2010-06-07T20:04:28.323+12:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Christian Music'/><title type='text'>The only reward fitting for vile Christian Music is banishment!</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;When they were notified of their inclusion in The Queens Birthday Honours List, husband &amp;amp; wife team Mark and Christine de Jong admitted to the media they were both “slightly embarrassed.” &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Correction time: every New Zealander should be embarrassed with their award. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Whilst true Kiwi musical pioneers like Roger Shepherd (Flying Nun) go unheralded, except by those who have a clue about musical heritage in New Zealand, the country pays tribute to a two minor players in the local musical scene.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;The de Jongs are apparently ‘stars’ in the Christian music scene.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Now go and name me one Christian band from New Zealand? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Like Christian music every-where on this planet – no one with a real interest in contemporary music takes their lolly-water musical-masquerade in the slightest bit seriously. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Getting an award for Christian music in New Zealand is like getting a School-Prize for Serbo-Croation. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;That’s exactly why 99.9% of Kiwi’s didn’t have the slightest-clue who-the-fuck Mark and Christine de Jong were, prior to their award. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Don’t the dimwits who administer these sycophantic awards know that the teens that turn-up at their ‘Parachute’ concerts do-so because they are Christians and there’s chance of a sly-root? Not to hear the droll crap being inflicted on the crowds ear-drums by bands best suited for The Disney Channel. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;If the de Jong’s had any integrity they would hand their awards back out and scuttle-back to their nepotistic waste-lands on the fringes of music. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Eeuy8PD0bFM&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Eeuy8PD0bFM&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5352263427762940860-7704317207565296402?l=canterburyatheists.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/feeds/7704317207565296402/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5352263427762940860&amp;postID=7704317207565296402&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/7704317207565296402'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/7704317207565296402'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/2010/06/only-reward-fitting-for-vile-christian.html' title='The only reward fitting for vile Christian Music is banishment!'/><author><name>Canterbury Atheists</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09900223059660267657</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/SX_en79GC5I/AAAAAAAABBc/uCl_34C4fdE/S220/Black+Sheep+2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5352263427762940860.post-7845234184364724235</id><published>2010-05-27T09:12:00.006+12:00</published><updated>2010-05-27T09:36:21.015+12:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='New Zealand Atheists'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Atheist Bus Campaign'/><title type='text'>Kiwi Atheists are far too nice.</title><content type='html'>For the benefit of overseas readers, and to bring some context to this article, this is one of the highly visible ‘Yeah Right’ billboards/signs, marketed by DB Breweries here in New Zealand:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5475690485454227586" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 225px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/S_2PfC18SII/AAAAAAAABig/3sxSWO92hVE/s320/Yeah+Right+original.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is the controversial one currently residing outside a Tauranga church:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5475690344214415890" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 150px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/S_2PW0rvyhI/AAAAAAAABiY/vE1MF8Aj8fI/s320/Yeah+Right+Atheist.jpg" border="0" /&gt; This is mine:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5475690015669028962" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 153px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/S_2PDswbCGI/AAAAAAAABiQ/ZbnrJlNLlwY/s320/Yeah_Right+Mary.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now as far as I’m aware there has never been a deliberate piece of vandalism in New Zealand by atheists targeting ‘&lt;em&gt;you are going to burn in hell’ &lt;/em&gt;signs like this - or for that matter any religious signage.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Christian Churches such as ‘Bethlehem Community’ tend to forget, that Atheists by their very nature, don’t believe in their megalomaniacal and cruel god called Yahweh.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So local non-believers are hardly going to fall to their knees with fear, at the altar of this, or any church, when confronted with thinly veiled threats of Yahweh’s wrath.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Frankly most Kiwi atheists don’t give a fuck about church signs and ignore simply them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What up-sets Kiwi atheists, myself included, is when ‘we’ unify as a group and want to place our own signs on public display, we face overwhelming objections to our right to free-speech – by the very group that trumpets their own supreme right to do so – even when it breaks copyright laws.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Christians see it as their right to say what-ever they like, hate minority groups via law exemptions etc but when they feel threatened they get cry-baby-like and gnash-teeth when presented with a counter arguments.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Christians in New Zealand then do what all religious groups do when threatened – they attack!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Christians even attack other Christian messages, as we saw occur in Auckland at Christmas, again over church signage.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Christians threatened those that would air the atheist signs – which just happen to be the local bus companies – forcing them to back down from their commitment to display the same signs that were run overseas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So here we have Reverend Jim Wallace from Bethlehem Community Church now accusing DB Breweries of being &lt;em&gt;“bullies”&lt;/em&gt; when they asked for the sign to be changed due to breech of copyright.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On the Radio Live interview this morning Reverend Wallace used the term &lt;em&gt;“bully”&lt;/em&gt; no less than three times in two minutes and ironically drew-comparisions with the atheist bus campaign - which never got off the ground.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well Reverend Wallace here’s a message for you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Were the atheists of New Zealand to act in the same dogmatic, angry way the followers of your god behave – then your juvenile sign would have been ripped-down long ago.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;You need to thank your vicious and cruel god, that thankfully Kiwi Atheists are more civilized and nicer people than his followers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5352263427762940860-7845234184364724235?l=canterburyatheists.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/feeds/7845234184364724235/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5352263427762940860&amp;postID=7845234184364724235&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/7845234184364724235'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/7845234184364724235'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/2010/05/kiwi-atheists-are-far-too-nice.html' title='Kiwi Atheists are far too nice.'/><author><name>Canterbury Atheists</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09900223059660267657</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/SX_en79GC5I/AAAAAAAABBc/uCl_34C4fdE/S220/Black+Sheep+2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/S_2PfC18SII/AAAAAAAABig/3sxSWO92hVE/s72-c/Yeah+Right+original.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5352263427762940860.post-5454731458974049139</id><published>2010-05-25T14:21:00.006+12:00</published><updated>2010-05-25T17:48:09.504+12:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Revelations'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='End of Times'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='All Power Seminars'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Leo Schreven'/><title type='text'>All Power to the Mighty Dollar: Leo Schreven hits our shores with tales of impending doom.</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/S_s0gumBdII/AAAAAAAABhw/dZuz0VM10iU/s1600/leo.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 189px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 290px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5475027508866937986" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/S_s0gumBdII/AAAAAAAABhw/dZuz0VM10iU/s320/leo.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; In his overseas publicity, amongst some of the numerous titles employed, Leo Schreven likes to be known as ‘The Energiser Bunny’ and ‘Master Zenith Trainer.’&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Don’t ask me what a ‘Master Zenith Trainer’ is either?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Schreven has dropped both those titles for his &lt;a href="http://www.allpowerseminar.co.nz/akl/index.htm"&gt;New Zealand Tour &lt;/a&gt;and resorted to the Hollywood style “ &lt;em&gt;Exciting teachers of life mastery”&lt;/em&gt; instead.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nor does Schreven want the New Zealand public to outwardly know he’s a bible-banging, vehemently anti-Sunday worshipping, evangelical, and author of the worlds most corniest book-title &lt;em&gt;‘Rich God Poor God’&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The New Zealand public are being told simply that you can ‘&lt;em&gt;Master Your Life in One Weekend’, ' Turn fear and failure into your friends'&lt;/em&gt; and ‘&lt;em&gt;Find physical, mental, spiritual, emotional and financial success in a principle based motivation seminar’ etc.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;These personal development seminars, coming to a Kiwi town near you, are being marketed by a company called ‘All Power Seminars.’ – not to be confused with ‘Free Go All Power’, ‘Goal Power’, ‘All Power Columbus’, ‘Master Vision Connections’ , ‘All Power Kids’ or ‘All Power Thinking’ which also happen to be part of Schreven’s empire.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Back home in Washington, Schreven is up-front advertising the company he heads as ‘All Power Ministries’ – but here in Kiwiland, Leo has conveniently dropped the God stuff from his front-line publicity – in order not to scare away the natives.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What would further scare the South Pacific natives back into the bush, would be a quick read of Schreven’s 1994 book &lt;em&gt;"Now That’s Clear!"&lt;/em&gt; , in which he outlines that anyone who worships on a Sunday is in-fact worshiping the Beast and received his mark ($50 says it's 666) - doomed to burn in hells fires, along with your garden-variety atheist.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yes indeed New Zealand, underneath the mask of being a motivational speaker of international repute, Schreven is a leading ‘end of times’ dooms-day propagator (refer You Tube Video below , go to &lt;a href="http://www.goallpower.com/777/"&gt;http://www.goallpower.com/777/&lt;/a&gt; where you’ll need to have your credit-card at the ready, or if you want a giggle, rather than renting ‘Mad Max’ tonight - why not google: ‘2300 Days, Tribulation and Judgment Hour’?)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But a filthy-rich speaker - it has to be said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A globe-trotting millionaire which according to the &lt;a href="http://www.taxexemptworld.com/organizations/stevens-county-wa-washington.asp"&gt;public-record&lt;/a&gt;, runs many-of the numerous on-line entities he fronts – tax-free.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Big on ‘the end is nigh’, Shreven has toured The U.S Bible-Belt, telling the hicks about the impending dooms-day, and why they should immediately go into the lobby and buy his $49.99 tapes for the car, in-order to saved being burned in next Tuesdays apocalypse.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Revelations about raptures, plagues, Satanic councils running the world also appear at first glance, to be off the subject-matter for his New Zealand Tour – but given his pedigree they can never be far from the surface.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I’m almost tempted to attend one of his gigs and ask him if he does horoscopes as well?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/LHw02nQzYLw&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/LHw02nQzYLw&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5352263427762940860-5454731458974049139?l=canterburyatheists.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/feeds/5454731458974049139/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5352263427762940860&amp;postID=5454731458974049139&amp;isPopup=true' title='8 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/5454731458974049139'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/5454731458974049139'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/2010/05/all-power-to-mighty-dollar-leo-schreven.html' title='All Power to the Mighty Dollar: Leo Schreven hits our shores with tales of impending doom.'/><author><name>Canterbury Atheists</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09900223059660267657</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/SX_en79GC5I/AAAAAAAABBc/uCl_34C4fdE/S220/Black+Sheep+2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/S_s0gumBdII/AAAAAAAABhw/dZuz0VM10iU/s72-c/leo.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>8</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5352263427762940860.post-4757736738400388017</id><published>2010-05-23T10:19:00.002+12:00</published><updated>2010-05-23T10:25:20.378+12:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Catholic Church'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Science'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='DNA'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='J Craig Venter'/><title type='text'>Life: God has lost his monopoly</title><content type='html'>&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333333;"&gt;“We can only reach the conclusion that we need God, the origin of life”.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Catholic Church has always been a bit-slow on the up-take of scientific and medical discoveries.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It took till 1992 for The Vatican to agree with the proposition that the earth was not stationary &amp;amp; in-fact it revolves around the sun (apparently no one there bothered watching the lunar missions or got hold of satellite photos)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So it’s hardly surprising reports heralding of a new era of era of science – synthetic DNA - were meet with disdain by this backward group.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nothing pisses-off theists more than when the foundations of their chosen superstition are yet again proven to be rotten –using the most cutting and effective ‘sword’ possible – &lt;em&gt;fact&lt;/em&gt; rather than fiction.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This time the venue for these historic revelations and the further debasement of religious teachings, was genome-mapping pioneer, J Craig Venters laboratory.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;His team’s project paves the way for designing organisms that work differently from the way nature intended for a wide range of uses.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;God has officially lost his monopoly when it comes to creating life.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ironically, his competition happens to be his pet-creation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/KG1T_EuNqCY&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/KG1T_EuNqCY&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5352263427762940860-4757736738400388017?l=canterburyatheists.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/feeds/4757736738400388017/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5352263427762940860&amp;postID=4757736738400388017&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/4757736738400388017'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/4757736738400388017'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/2010/05/life-god-has-lost-his-monopoly.html' title='Life: God has lost his monopoly'/><author><name>Canterbury Atheists</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09900223059660267657</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/SX_en79GC5I/AAAAAAAABBc/uCl_34C4fdE/S220/Black+Sheep+2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5352263427762940860.post-4384406124308642765</id><published>2010-05-17T20:22:00.002+12:00</published><updated>2010-05-17T20:43:16.207+12:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Religion and Politics in New Zealand'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bob McCoskie'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Christian Politicans in New Zealand'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Family First'/><title type='text'>The time has come for the New Zealand news-media to close-down Family First by starving them of publicity.</title><content type='html'>Imagine if every week or so, you produced a ‘Press Release’ and sent it to the varying media-outlets, and then ‘hey-presto’ automatically they went ahead and published your pet-subjects &amp;amp; musings.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No questions asked, nor justification needed – the fact you think you are right and someone-else happens to be wrong - is enough for these releases to see day-light.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Your fringe pet hates &amp;amp; loves don’t need to be of concern to the vast majority of New Zealanders either – they will still turn-up on page four of most daily newspapers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It could be something as trivial as an advert for Viagra that get’s up your nose, or the promotional activity of a Pizza company.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As ridiculous as this scenario first appears, it happens to be the current reality of the forth estate in New Zealand.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hardly a week goes by without the irrelevant, evangelical pressure-group Family First issuing a press-statement of some-kind – all of which are published, mostly without critical review and ‘of right.’&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Last week it was promoting a return to corporal punishment in New Zealand Schools.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On receipt of the latest release, not one journalist asked pertinent questions like “will this mean the return of the days when 5 year-old Kiwi’s were strapped by teachers?”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Instead of facing critical analysis the ‘release’ and its predecessors were published all but verbatim.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here is a brief ‘Readers Digest’ list of the sort of narrow-minded, predictable stuff pouring out of Family First, that has managed to garnish both air-time and type-set over the years since the group set-up in 2006, largely as a result of the former champion of its causes, Graham Capill, being imprisoned for child rape and indecencies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Return of corporal punishment in schools, making prostitution illegal again, ban on abortion, leading advocates for the right of parents to smack their children, banning in-flight movies which are not G rated, banning the TV Series Californication, wanting Gays to be prevented adopting children, promoting abstinence for teens, encouraging mums to stay at home and look after their kids, banning Boobs on Bikes, preventing brothels setting-up in residential areas, chastisement of Broadcasting Standards being too liberal, fighting the right for people to die in dignity, wanting cervical cancer vaccine distribution to be banned, continuing a ban on Easter Trading, placing the rights of married couples above those who choose a civil-union, varying attacks on The N.Z Family Planning Association to do with the distribution of contraception and access to abortion to the point they have even formed a splinter-group dedicated to the closure of Family Planning , fighting the right of parents to choose the sex of their child where there is a medical reasons like a genetic predisposition to a deformity, banning the video game ‘Grand Theft Auto’, highlighting child sexulisation e.g., pretend bra’s for 10 year olds, demanding the judge who let a naked-cyclist off with a warning should lose his job, wanting a Wellington’s shops adverts for sex-toys and bondage gear banned, fatherless families leads to more crime, wanting the internet to be censored, demanding a controversial Church bill board be removed last Christmas, denying Gays the right to marry or have a civil-union, wanted radio adverts for ‘the morning after pill’ to be banned, banning adult magazines in petrol station, banning The Atheist Bus Advert Campaign, getting a ‘clothing optional beach’ closed etc. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;The list goes on ad nauseam, but you get a fair idea of the type of stuff Family First are all about &amp;amp; the New Zealand media can’t get enough of this sort of crap.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;‘Banning’ and ‘prevention’ are high on Family First’s agenda.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Who takes seriously a group, with less membership than my suburban soccer club, who want to ban on one of the world’s most popular video-games and censor the internet so we can become like North Korea?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A sad minority, group that wants homosexuality to again be outlawed in New Zealand and nationwide cancer-prevention and birth-control policies scrapped.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A petty-minded bunch of bible-bangers with nothing better to do than complain to BP and Shell about girly-magazines on the shelves of their outlets.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;An indication of just how out-of-touch Family First are with mainstream New Zealanders - they would rather a couple had a child live with birth-defects than allowing them access to medical-science that could prevent these defects occurring in the first place.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These Old Testament zealots even see it as their ordained ‘right’ to tell other Christians what they can and can’t have outside their church!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The New Zealand Media should treat any sort of broadcast coming from Family First with the derision and scorn it deserved, by placing it straight in the rubbish-bin.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Above all the media should stop giving these bigoted, creationist, flat-earthers, ‘the oxygen’ they need to exist – publicity.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/eNNVONAeENo&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/eNNVONAeENo&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5352263427762940860-4384406124308642765?l=canterburyatheists.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/feeds/4384406124308642765/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5352263427762940860&amp;postID=4384406124308642765&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/4384406124308642765'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/4384406124308642765'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/2010/05/time-has-come-for-new-zealand-news.html' title='The time has come for the New Zealand news-media to close-down Family First by starving them of publicity.'/><author><name>Canterbury Atheists</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09900223059660267657</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/SX_en79GC5I/AAAAAAAABBc/uCl_34C4fdE/S220/Black+Sheep+2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5352263427762940860.post-997935439256845833</id><published>2010-05-16T12:11:00.007+12:00</published><updated>2010-05-16T12:36:35.047+12:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Graham Capill'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Christian Hypocrisy'/><title type='text'>God's honest truth: The Fall from Grace of Graham Capill.</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/S-85u8L5jTI/AAAAAAAABho/8Sm0QQmHaTs/s1600/capillgraham.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 124px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 192px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5471655550871244082" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/S-85u8L5jTI/AAAAAAAABho/8Sm0QQmHaTs/s320/capillgraham.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;The fall from grace of United States evangelists Ted Haggard and George &lt;span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-error"&gt;Rekers&lt;/span&gt;, are well known around the globe and bring a smirk to the face of any self-respecting secularist. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In 2005, New Zealand experienced a similar case of the Christian moral guardian ‘life of lies’ being exposed, and in this case his plummet from the moral high-ground, resulted in a ‘crash’ more spectacular than both Haggard and &lt;span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-error"&gt;Rekers&lt;/span&gt; put-together. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;'He' was Graham &lt;span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-error"&gt;Capill&lt;/span&gt;, and for twelve years prior to his imprisonment for 12 years he led the fundamentalist Christian Heritage Party. At its peak, his Christian Heritage Party fell short of getting into Parliament by only a fraction of a decimal point at the 1996 general-election. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Four years later the parties support had dropped to 1.4 per cent – a decline &lt;span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-error"&gt;Capill&lt;/span&gt; put down to a plot within Television New Zealand to deny him adequate coverage. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Frustrated at their lack of political success Christian Heritage/Christian Coalition had for some time sought for the threshold of 5 per cent (of party vote) to be reduced. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Over the years &lt;span id="SPELLING_ERROR_4" class="blsp-spelling-error"&gt;Capill&lt;/span&gt; has railed against erotic art, prostitution, the size of penises on Maori carvings, homosexuality, gay parenting, a mock crucifixion on Kiwi soap-opera ‘&lt;span id="SPELLING_ERROR_5" class="blsp-spelling-error"&gt;Shortland&lt;/span&gt; Street, pornography, The Toyota “bugger” adverts, South Park (both the series and the film), Hero Parade, Marilyn Manson’s tour, the child-smacking ban, liberalised prostitution, Dr &lt;span id="SPELLING_ERROR_6" class="blsp-spelling-error"&gt;Nitschke's&lt;/span&gt; visit to New Zealand, the paintings of Keith Haring, Virgin in a Condom sculpture, Family Planning distribution of condoms, award winning children’s book featuring two lesbian characters, the chief film censor, Ministry of Women, a workshop organised by The Post Primary Teachers Association for homosexual members, The United Nations, &lt;span id="SPELLING_ERROR_7" class="blsp-spelling-error"&gt;Repubilcanism&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span id="SPELLING_ERROR_8" class="blsp-spelling-error"&gt;de&lt;/span&gt;-facto marriages, free birth control etc etc. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In December 1999 when asked to comment at the number of cabinet members who refused to swear on the Bible at their inauguration, he said it was "&lt;em&gt;ominous (sign) for the country's future".&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The month before, he warned New &lt;span id="SPELLING_ERROR_9" class="blsp-spelling-error"&gt;Zealanders&lt;/span&gt; of the &lt;em&gt;"terrifying social crisis" –&lt;/em&gt; abortion, crime and single parents.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span id="SPELLING_ERROR_10" class="blsp-spelling-error"&gt;Capill&lt;/span&gt; was a staunch supporters of a ban on Easter shopping pointing to New Zealand’s Christian principles (1997) as the basis for continuing with the archaic tradition to deny business’s the right to open when they so choose. He also was the chief supporter of the right for parents to smack on the same-basis of Christian traditions and stated (29&lt;span id="SPELLING_ERROR_11" class="blsp-spelling-error"&gt;th&lt;/span&gt; January 1997) &lt;em&gt;“God had given the power and responsibility to parents to train their children and sometimes smacking and strapping was called for”. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span id="SPELLING_ERROR_12" class="blsp-spelling-error"&gt;Capill&lt;/span&gt;, the man who was at one time in The Police Prosecutions Section in his capacity as a lawyer and is on record calling child-molesters&lt;em&gt; “evil”&lt;/em&gt; – plead guilty (July 2005) to rape, unlawful sexual connection and three counts of indecent assault charges against two girls under 12. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Like Haggard and &lt;span id="SPELLING_ERROR_13" class="blsp-spelling-error"&gt;Rekers&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span id="SPELLING_ERROR_14" class="blsp-spelling-error"&gt;Capill&lt;/span&gt; believed that gay people were inherently evil and could be ‘cured’ through Christian re-education. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At the same time &lt;span id="SPELLING_ERROR_15" class="blsp-spelling-error"&gt;Capill&lt;/span&gt; was calling for the introduction of Christian chastity programme for secondary school pupils, in which boys and girls would pledge to abstain from sex until they found a life partner, he was abusing an eight year old girl. One of his three victims (the oldest was 12) was a pupil at the Christian college at which the church minister-turned lawyer was preaching and ironically counselling as well. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;“Anyone who uses children as a pawn in a game is playing for high stakes and needs to be careful,"&lt;/em&gt; is what he told New &lt;span id="SPELLING_ERROR_16" class="blsp-spelling-error"&gt;Zealanders&lt;/span&gt; in 1999 in criticism of a radio competition run to ‘create a baby’. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;In his trail summing-up, the judge highlighted the warped mind-set of &lt;span id="SPELLING_ERROR_17" class="blsp-spelling-error"&gt;Capill&lt;/span&gt; in respect to this victim, and his inability to distingush the boundaries between adult and child&lt;em&gt; "You told the probation officer you were feeling lust and excitement when you were with (the victim). You had a high level of sexual arousal and your purpose was to get her to the point where she wanted sexual intercourse.”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Further evidence of &lt;span id="SPELLING_ERROR_18" class="blsp-spelling-error"&gt;Capills&lt;/span&gt; dangerous mental condition came out in an email to friends, in which the father of 10 said that sex with one of his young victims was consensual. In the same email he asked his friends to pray for a lenient judge and prison term before his sentencing. &lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As a boy he played violin with the National Youth Orchestra and also played the organ in Christchurch Cathedral. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the court the day of his sentencing was spokeswoman for Lesbian Action For Visibility in &lt;span id="SPELLING_ERROR_19" class="blsp-spelling-error"&gt;Aotearoa&lt;/span&gt;, Ann Charlotte, a Christchurch woman who for years was dubbed &lt;em&gt;"sexually perverted&lt;/em&gt;" by Graham &lt;span id="SPELLING_ERROR_20" class="blsp-spelling-error"&gt;Capill&lt;/span&gt; who made sure she was on hand to witness the fall of the now-disgraced moral crusader.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When I last heard &lt;span id="SPELLING_ERROR_21" class="blsp-spelling-error"&gt;Capill&lt;/span&gt; comes up for parole shortly. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Justifiably prior applications for parole have been refused. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Footnote: This song seemed strangely fitting...can’t think why? &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/WXudh2IPbQo&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/WXudh2IPbQo&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5352263427762940860-997935439256845833?l=canterburyatheists.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/feeds/997935439256845833/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5352263427762940860&amp;postID=997935439256845833&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/997935439256845833'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/997935439256845833'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/2010/05/gods-honest-truth-fall-from-grace-of.html' title='God&apos;s honest truth: The Fall from Grace of Graham Capill.'/><author><name>Canterbury Atheists</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09900223059660267657</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/SX_en79GC5I/AAAAAAAABBc/uCl_34C4fdE/S220/Black+Sheep+2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/S-85u8L5jTI/AAAAAAAABho/8Sm0QQmHaTs/s72-c/capillgraham.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5352263427762940860.post-7014538237431780221</id><published>2010-05-16T08:18:00.004+12:00</published><updated>2010-05-16T08:23:50.779+12:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Cartoon'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Draw Muhammad Day'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Mohammed'/><title type='text'>My Entry for The First Annual 'Draw Muhammad Day' (20th May)</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/S-8CHSsE2VI/AAAAAAAABhA/M9K4sXzGX28/s1600/Mo+and+Moon+Spilting.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 393px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5471594396577487186" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/S-8CHSsE2VI/AAAAAAAABhA/M9K4sXzGX28/s400/Mo+and+Moon+Spilting.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5352263427762940860-7014538237431780221?l=canterburyatheists.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/feeds/7014538237431780221/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5352263427762940860&amp;postID=7014538237431780221&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/7014538237431780221'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/7014538237431780221'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/2010/05/my-entry-for-first-annual-draw-muhammad.html' title='My Entry for The First Annual &apos;Draw Muhammad Day&apos; (20th May)'/><author><name>Canterbury Atheists</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09900223059660267657</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/SX_en79GC5I/AAAAAAAABBc/uCl_34C4fdE/S220/Black+Sheep+2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/S-8CHSsE2VI/AAAAAAAABhA/M9K4sXzGX28/s72-c/Mo+and+Moon+Spilting.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5352263427762940860.post-6544164837643044187</id><published>2010-05-16T07:10:00.003+12:00</published><updated>2010-05-16T07:19:02.773+12:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Evolution'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Education'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sex'/><title type='text'>Bat Blow-Jobs</title><content type='html'>&lt;object width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/p0asSZFMQVg&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/p0asSZFMQVg&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What you are watching here is Bat Sex.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fruit bats at it!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Getting down and dirty and re-writing The Kama Sutra.   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It’s fairly unique in nature and something you’ll never see in any mere mortal porn movie (trust me on this, I’ve spent at least a decade of my life looking at porn) when the male bat copulates ‘doggy-style’ the female bat contorts herself backwards and licks his penis at the same time!  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Aren’t God’s creatures wonderful and such randy-little-bastards when they want to get their jollies-off!?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5352263427762940860-6544164837643044187?l=canterburyatheists.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/feeds/6544164837643044187/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5352263427762940860&amp;postID=6544164837643044187&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/6544164837643044187'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/6544164837643044187'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/2010/05/bat-blow-jobs.html' title='Bat Blow-Jobs'/><author><name>Canterbury Atheists</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09900223059660267657</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/SX_en79GC5I/AAAAAAAABBc/uCl_34C4fdE/S220/Black+Sheep+2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5352263427762940860.post-4989143659723121322</id><published>2010-05-14T12:56:00.000+12:00</published><updated>2010-05-14T12:59:59.780+12:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Catholic Church'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Catholic Church Abuse'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Pope'/><title type='text'>Pope 101: “Don’t mention the historic genocidal tendencies”</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family:Courier New;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;Pope Benedict should start taking heed that, like their Italian crime syndicate rivals ‘The Cosa Nostra’, The Catholic Church has never been shy of ‘snubbing-out’ it’s errant leaders, where they have become a liability. Benedict would know full-well that some-where between 8 to 13 of his predecessors have become expendable victims of ‘in-house hits’, and that the last time it happened was less than 25 years ago.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He can also forget playing the dementia card as well – being mentally incapacitated has never been an impinging trait for being a pope – most Catholic expect their pontiffs to come old, doddery, feeble minded and incapable of controlling their bodily functions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What does ‘up-set the horses’ within the different tares of Catholicism is when the pope himself begins to ‘air the churches dirty laundry’&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It’s happened twice in two days.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Firstly Benedict admitted it wasn’t actually the Jews, devil, homos, secular society etc that lead the Catholic Church to become the world largest homosexual pedophile syndicate – it was The Church itself that was ‘the root of all evil.’&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then to follow-up this gaff up, just a day later in his speech to Portuguese faithful he urged them to re-invent their country and re-create their glorious past.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This ‘glorious past’ happens to be the wholesale enslavement, murder, rape and subjugation of fellow humans in the name of Catholicism.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In a re-write of history that puts David Irving to shame, Benedict dismissively termed Portugal’s colonial role butchering and enslaving African, Asians, Central &amp;amp; South Americans in their millions, as a “sense of (their) global responsibility.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If Benedict wants to live to wear ‘the blessed incontinence nappies’ he needs to take another look at his ‘user manual’ and be re-minded there are some subjects that have become politically incorrect to mention, outside The Vatican smoking-rooms.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Historic church policies like infallibility, extermination of The Jews, rape &amp;amp; plunder of inferior races, inquisitional torture of heathens etc – all need to now be kept under wraps.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Benedict (a.k.a Basil Fawlty)is on thin-ice here and clearly a liability to The Catholic Church, when he talks about ‘the good ol’ days’ of enslavement of heathens &amp;amp; admissions the church is a rotten edifice – and all in public!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Could someone please send him a copy of David Gallops book ‘In Gods Name’? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="385" width="480"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/S9ESDDQNXis&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/S9ESDDQNXis&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img 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tendencies”'/><author><name>Canterbury Atheists</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09900223059660267657</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/SX_en79GC5I/AAAAAAAABBc/uCl_34C4fdE/S220/Black+Sheep+2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5352263427762940860.post-4052258941144008765</id><published>2010-05-09T08:41:00.003+12:00</published><updated>2010-05-09T08:52:00.405+12:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Catholic Church'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Gay'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Catholic Church Abuse'/><title type='text'>Attention All Irregulars: The Catholic Church wants to ban funerals for Gay people and annul your wedding!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/S-XM8HLfrLI/AAAAAAAABg4/4KUCg_8MqGM/s1600/francesco_nole.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 225px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5469002655602814130" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/S-XM8HLfrLI/AAAAAAAABg4/4KUCg_8MqGM/s320/francesco_nole.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Circles within The Catholic Church have invented a new term to describe &amp;amp; alienate sectors of secular society.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They are now to be known as an &lt;strong&gt;“Irregular.”&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I’m now awaiting my 'yellow star badge' in the post from Italy and my wife has her needle &amp;amp; thread to sow it to the front of my jersey. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Naturally on-top of the “irregular” list are homosexuals, but also criminals and anyone else who doesn’t tow the churches line will also fall into the undesirables drawn-up by Italian Bishop Francesco Nole.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That’s him in the above photo.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I just wish someone would tell him dressing in permanent ‘fancy dress mode’ is rather gay behaviour in its own right. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To my mind, it’s kind of an "irregular" thing to do - for a male to wear frocks and an oversized rappers crucifix. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyway, Bishop Nole and his inner cliché of hardliners rationalize that because anyone who dies and isn’t a Catholic get’s to burn in hell anyway - they don’t deserve a funeral – so why go to the trouble? &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Their first target is to push for a total ban on gay funerals.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;It looks like The Westboro Baptist Church will soon have company on the funeral picket line. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Next on their ‘Final Solution to The Irregulars Question’ list, is not to recognize the weddings between two non-Catholics.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When you see this sort of twisted-rhetoric spewing forth from the highest quarters of Catholicism one truly has to wonder the mind-set of these so called ‘men of god’ - which is making Jim Jones temple in Guyana look positively inclusive and outward looking. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We also get to see what a dangerous cult The Catholic Church really is when it wants its members to start considering everyone else as an “irregular”.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="640" height="385"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/awTaN_1gQk4&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/awTaN_1gQk4&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" 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href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/2010/05/attention-all-irregulars-catholic.html' title='Attention All Irregulars: The Catholic Church wants to ban funerals for Gay people and annul your wedding!'/><author><name>Canterbury Atheists</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09900223059660267657</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/SX_en79GC5I/AAAAAAAABBc/uCl_34C4fdE/S220/Black+Sheep+2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/S-XM8HLfrLI/AAAAAAAABg4/4KUCg_8MqGM/s72-c/francesco_nole.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5352263427762940860.post-6110950218551718298</id><published>2010-05-07T11:17:00.007+12:00</published><updated>2010-05-08T07:45:43.029+12:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Catholic Church'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Nazi Pope'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Eichmann Files’'/><title type='text'>The Vatican’s links to Nazi Germany are about to be revealed!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/S-NQ0JPw2cI/AAAAAAAABgg/99z6WNWGFqY/s1600/nazi-priests.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 218px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5468303229323368898" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/S-NQ0JPw2cI/AAAAAAAABgg/99z6WNWGFqY/s320/nazi-priests.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 224px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5468304453409282850" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/S-NR7ZUlmyI/AAAAAAAABgo/tT0sSgt-8Jo/s320/mussolini-vatican.jpg" /&gt; &lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 316px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5468304725833393970" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/S-NSLQLjpzI/AAAAAAAABgw/XQOqL7Iv8hs/s320/franco-iglesia.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/S-NQhAW4QgI/AAAAAAAABgY/1weGgOC03F0/s1600/john_paul_ii_bows_to_pinochet_1987.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 288px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5468302900519780866" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/S-NQhAW4QgI/AAAAAAAABgY/1weGgOC03F0/s320/john_paul_ii_bows_to_pinochet_1987.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;Something’s go together, like say sausages and tomato sauce, Indian food and a pint of beer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another synergy is The Catholic Church and Fascist Dictatorships.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Take a look at my ‘off the cuff’ list of famous fascist dictators and you’ll see they all share a common-bond:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;- Hitler&lt;br /&gt;- Mussolini (pictured with his mates at The Vatican)&lt;br /&gt;- Franco (middle)&lt;br /&gt;- Pinochet (photo with Pope John Paul 1987)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It’s not hard to deduce that all these dictators were products of their Catholic education and up-bringing - well versed from a young age how authoritarian regimes are administrated &amp;amp; run.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Universally these dictators enjoyed the tacit support of The Catholic Church in their respective countries.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But what evidence is their The Catholic Church actively assisted these despotic regimes?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well this definitive evidence of collusion is about to be produced!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Vatican-sponsored support of Nazi Germany is about to be publicly revealed with the imminent release of German Government files from WW2.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Vatican has fought ‘tooth and nail’ for these 4,500 pieces of paper, dubbed &lt;em&gt;‘The&lt;/em&gt; &lt;em&gt;Eichmann Files’&lt;/em&gt; to remain confidential, but a German Court has just ruled it is time for them to be scrutinized.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These papers will prove once and for all the links between The Vatican and The Nazi Regime.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The relationship between the highest ranking Nazi’s officials and their Vatican peers will be exposed in black &amp;amp; white for the world to see.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is another landslide of muck heading down the mountain the Catholic Churches way.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5352263427762940860-6110950218551718298?l=canterburyatheists.blogspot.com' alt='' 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rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/SX_en79GC5I/AAAAAAAABBc/uCl_34C4fdE/S220/Black+Sheep+2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/S-NQ0JPw2cI/AAAAAAAABgg/99z6WNWGFqY/s72-c/nazi-priests.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5352263427762940860.post-1079364639878808668</id><published>2010-05-06T06:26:00.004+12:00</published><updated>2010-05-06T06:35:41.421+12:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Ghosts'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Life After Death'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Humour'/><title type='text'>Benny Hill’s Ghostly Prediction from beyond-the grave comes true!</title><content type='html'>&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333333;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/S-G4bUqn7kI/AAAAAAAABgQ/bC7l4NJYxFo/s1600/Baker.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 186px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5467854202147958338" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/S-G4bUqn7kI/AAAAAAAABgQ/bC7l4NJYxFo/s320/Baker.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;This is Baker Maurice &lt;span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-error"&gt;Piner&lt;/span&gt; from &lt;span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-error"&gt;Greymouth&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In yesterdays &lt;a href="http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/3657469/Chinese-whispers-blamed-on-ghost"&gt;Christchurch ‘Press’&lt;/a&gt; the neurotic populous of the region were told about the things going bump in the night in his bakery – and it &lt;span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-error"&gt;wasn&lt;/span&gt;’t drunk patrons from The Railway Hotel on their way home.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Everyone knows when creeping shadows, unidentifiable sounds combine with a journalist after a sensationalist story – it’s gotta be a ghost! &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And this is not just any run-of-the-mill spectre either.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Amateur West Coast historian Paul &lt;span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-error"&gt;Schramm&lt;/span&gt; places Phil’s bakery on the same site as an 18&lt;span id="SPELLING_ERROR_4" class="blsp-spelling-error"&gt;th&lt;/span&gt; century boarding house &amp;amp; as it happens in 1891 a lonely Chinese miner called Ah Sing hung-himself. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Joining the dots, using a Ouija-board, yet another local historian Julia Bradshaw (clearly there’s not much to do at night in &lt;span id="SPELLING_ERROR_5" class="blsp-spelling-error"&gt;Greymouth&lt;/span&gt; outside genealogy) believes Ah Sing was overcome with guilt having stolen a watch from a mate and took the honorable way out at the time.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bradshaw confirms, by way of thinly strung innuendo, it’s the ghost of Ah Sing who’s checking out the bakery's gluten-free loaves of bread and chocolate donuts, rather than rattling chains in some Scottish castle. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This story about Chinese miners of course is a total load of crap.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There is a much more logical explanation, an apparition prophesied by none other the &lt;span id="SPELLING_ERROR_6" class="blsp-spelling-error"&gt;demi&lt;/span&gt;-god of comedy – the late ‘Benny Hill.’ &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One could easily think a quaint ditty like ‘Ernie The Fastest Milkman in The West’ (1971) is little more than a amusing throw-away tune.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wrong!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There is a dark-side to this song. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One only needs look at the forth and last verses of ‘Ernie’ to come to the same spine-tingling conclusion I did: &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333333;"&gt;Now Ernie had a rival, an evil-looking man,&lt;br /&gt;Called Two-Ton Ted from &lt;span id="SPELLING_ERROR_7" class="blsp-spelling-error"&gt;Teddington&lt;/span&gt; and he drove the baker's van.&lt;br /&gt;He tempted her with his treacle tarts and his tasty wholemeal bread,&lt;br /&gt;And when she seen the size of his hot meat pies it very near turned her head.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333333;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333333;"&gt;But a woman's needs are many fold and soon she married Ted,&lt;br /&gt;But strange things happened on their wedding night as they lay in their bed.&lt;br /&gt;Was that the trees a-rustling? Or the hinges of the gate?&lt;br /&gt;Or Ernie's ghostly gold tops a-rattling in their crate?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yes folks, it IS Two-Ton Ted from &lt;span id="SPELLING_ERROR_8" class="blsp-spelling-error"&gt;Teddington&lt;/span&gt; that’s haunting that bakery!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If only more people would do their research.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/6bQhRVVzAyU&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/6bQhRVVzAyU&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5352263427762940860-1079364639878808668?l=canterburyatheists.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/feeds/1079364639878808668/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5352263427762940860&amp;postID=1079364639878808668&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/1079364639878808668'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/1079364639878808668'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/2010/05/benny-hills-ghostly-prediction-from.html' title='Benny Hill’s Ghostly Prediction from beyond-the grave comes true!'/><author><name>Canterbury Atheists</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09900223059660267657</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/SX_en79GC5I/AAAAAAAABBc/uCl_34C4fdE/S220/Black+Sheep+2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/S-G4bUqn7kI/AAAAAAAABgQ/bC7l4NJYxFo/s72-c/Baker.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5352263427762940860.post-7591078807594589260</id><published>2010-05-02T18:12:00.009+12:00</published><updated>2010-05-12T07:46:14.349+12:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Ratzinger War Time Record'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Nazi Pope'/><title type='text'>The Bare-Faced Lies of a Pope who both supported and fought for Nazi Germany</title><content type='html'>&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 253px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5466552451190103074" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/S90Yfcc6HCI/AAAAAAAABgA/vo2POP1uI2w/s320/nazi+pope+indymedia.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Taking a leaf out of David Irving’s book, Catholic revisionist historians have attempted to paint Benedict as a innocent young-man growing-up in WW2 Germany, a non-combatant who held an innate hatred towards the Nazi regime. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The known facts however tell us he, his brother and his family, were far from being reluctant participants – they even willing hid SS war criminals fleeing justice after the war’s end! &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So let’s look at the historical facts versus the rhetoric spewing forth from The Vatican propaganda ministry. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here’s the facts about Benedict XVI’s War-Time Record: &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fact One&lt;/strong&gt;: Joseph &lt;span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-error"&gt;Ratzinger&lt;/span&gt; has admitted the early victories Germany experienced in WW2 filled himself and his family with patriotic pride. Presumably had fascist Germany won the war this pride would have been magnified and he would have happily accepted a world living under Nazi tyranny and thus the total extermination ‘the inferior races’, particularly The Jews. Joseph &lt;span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-error"&gt;Ratzingers&lt;/span&gt; patriotism and fervor faded only with the fortunes of the German armed-forces.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fact Two&lt;/strong&gt;: Georg &lt;span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-error"&gt;Ratzinger&lt;/span&gt;, Joseph’s older brother and also a Catholic Priest who has admitted physically assaulting boys under his tutelage, served two years in The Wehrmacht (1942-44) He was wounded fighting Allied troops in Italy. Remember Catholic apologists want us to view the &lt;span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-error"&gt;Ratzinger&lt;/span&gt; family as some sort of innocent by-standers caught up in the clouds of war – when Georg’s active military service is undeniable. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fact Three&lt;/strong&gt;: Joseph &lt;span id="SPELLING_ERROR_4" class="blsp-spelling-error"&gt;Ratzinger&lt;/span&gt; manned an anti-aircraft battery outside the BMW factory (Munich) in the later months of 1944 and early months of 1945. Military records for the "&lt;span id="SPELLING_ERROR_5" class="blsp-spelling-error"&gt;Flakhelfer&lt;/span&gt;"(part of the Hitler Youth) unit &lt;span id="SPELLING_ERROR_6" class="blsp-spelling-error"&gt;Ratzinger&lt;/span&gt; served-in show unequivocally he and his comrades were actively involved in repelling Allied bomber attacks. In one of the most ludicrous and almost farcical excuses possible, &lt;span id="SPELLING_ERROR_7" class="blsp-spelling-error"&gt;Ratzinger&lt;/span&gt; claims in his autobiography he &lt;span id="SPELLING_ERROR_8" class="blsp-spelling-error"&gt;wasn&lt;/span&gt;’t able to operate his weapon due to a “sore finger.” Here he is in the funeral-pyre that was Germany at that stage of the war, it’s cities in ruin and armies in retreat, occupying a battery with ideologically inspired teens and he turns to them and says “Sorry lads I’&lt;span id="SPELLING_ERROR_9" class="blsp-spelling-error"&gt;ve&lt;/span&gt; got a sore finger”. “I’ll think I’ll have to give this raid business a miss tonight.” Any fool can see this mediocre “sore finger” claim as being nothing but a bare-faced lie. After doing their duty in Munich he and his unit were then transferred to Innsbruck so in total Joseph served eight months in uniform – all with a finger affliction which apparently prevented him taking part as a combatant. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fact Four&lt;/strong&gt;: Joseph &lt;span id="SPELLING_ERROR_10" class="blsp-spelling-error"&gt;Ratzinger&lt;/span&gt; claims he never received a Nazi indoctrination at school and his teachers deplored the National Socialist doctrine. This is another untruth that can easily be dispelled. His head-master was an ardent Nazi and such studies were compulsory in Germany at the time. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fact Five&lt;/strong&gt;: Joseph &lt;span id="SPELLING_ERROR_11" class="blsp-spelling-error"&gt;Ratzinger&lt;/span&gt; (1944) watched Hungarian Jews being loaded into cattle-trucks on their way to be gassed at Auschwitz (Time Magazine Interview 6&lt;span id="SPELLING_ERROR_12" class="blsp-spelling-error"&gt;th&lt;/span&gt; December 1993) and did nothing to stop the greatest crime in the history of humanity. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fact Six:&lt;/strong&gt; Unlike the complicit &lt;span id="SPELLING_ERROR_13" class="blsp-spelling-error"&gt;Ratzinger&lt;/span&gt; clan several of their &lt;span id="SPELLING_ERROR_14" class="blsp-spelling-error"&gt;Traunstein&lt;/span&gt; neighbours bravely &amp;amp; openly resisted the Nazi regime. One of the locals in his old village &lt;span id="SPELLING_ERROR_15" class="blsp-spelling-error"&gt;Traunstein&lt;/span&gt;, Elizabeth &lt;span id="SPELLING_ERROR_16" class="blsp-spelling-error"&gt;Lohner&lt;/span&gt;, 84, whose brother-in-law was sent to Dachau as a conscientious objector, dismisses outright suggestions &lt;span id="SPELLING_ERROR_17" class="blsp-spelling-error"&gt;Ratzingers&lt;/span&gt; war-time story. “It was possible to resist, and those people set an example for others,” she said. “The &lt;span id="SPELLING_ERROR_18" class="blsp-spelling-error"&gt;Ratzingers&lt;/span&gt; were young and had made a different choice.” This is a living witness who saw &lt;span id="SPELLING_ERROR_19" class="blsp-spelling-error"&gt;Ratzinger&lt;/span&gt; and his brother (also a member of The Catholic Clergy) not, as anti-Nazi’s, but as young-men who went along with the system like millions of others. Other villagers who fought the Nazi’s were Valentin &lt;span id="SPELLING_ERROR_20" class="blsp-spelling-error"&gt;Hasselberger&lt;/span&gt; who ironically refused to fight due to his religious beliefs as a Jehovah’s Witness: Rupert Berger who formed a local ‘White Rose’ resistance group and even the a local Catholic Priest called Joseph &lt;span id="SPELLING_ERROR_21" class="blsp-spelling-error"&gt;Stelzle&lt;/span&gt;, the son of whom Joseph &lt;span id="SPELLING_ERROR_22" class="blsp-spelling-error"&gt;Ratzinger&lt;/span&gt; knew well through his seminary. So for him and his family to say “resistance was futile” is again another easily proven lie.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fact Seven&lt;/strong&gt;: In June 1945 the &lt;span id="SPELLING_ERROR_23" class="blsp-spelling-error"&gt;Ratzinger&lt;/span&gt; family sheltered &amp;amp; hid two SS soldiers on the run from justice. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fact Eight&lt;/strong&gt;: Joseph &lt;span id="SPELLING_ERROR_24" class="blsp-spelling-error"&gt;Ratzinger&lt;/span&gt; was taken at the barrel of an American gun from his house and imprisoned by soldiers and then interrogated as to his war-time role. Clearly the American military &lt;span id="SPELLING_ERROR_25" class="blsp-spelling-error"&gt;didn&lt;/span&gt;’t see his as an innocent teen and saw the household as one which offered sanctuary to war-criminals. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fact Nine&lt;/strong&gt;: Virtually all of the entrants to The &lt;span id="SPELLING_ERROR_26" class="blsp-spelling-error"&gt;Freising&lt;/span&gt; seminary in 1946 served in The German armed-services &amp;amp; many still harboured Nazi sympathies. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So there we have some inconvenient truths The Vatican and Pope Benedict XVI to sweep- under-the-carpet as if they never happened. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Not all of us are that gullible – once a Nazi always a Nazi.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One who has found a natural home as an ecumenical dictator to one-billion followers. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Even Hitler would be jealous of his success. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 249px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5466554919955062914" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/S90avJUV4II/AAAAAAAABgI/iu6Ra64EsLQ/s320/Pope+Pius+%26+Hitler.gif" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;By the way that’s him in the photo with Pope Pius &lt;span id="SPELLING_ERROR_27" class="blsp-spelling-error"&gt;XII's&lt;/span&gt; representative and as it happens it's Pius who’s about to be made a saint - thanks to none other than Pope Benedict XVI! &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5352263427762940860-7591078807594589260?l=canterburyatheists.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/feeds/7591078807594589260/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5352263427762940860&amp;postID=7591078807594589260&amp;isPopup=true' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/7591078807594589260'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/7591078807594589260'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/2010/05/bare-faced-lies-of-pope-who-both.html' title='The Bare-Faced Lies of a Pope who both supported and fought for Nazi Germany'/><author><name>Canterbury Atheists</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09900223059660267657</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/SX_en79GC5I/AAAAAAAABBc/uCl_34C4fdE/S220/Black+Sheep+2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/S90Yfcc6HCI/AAAAAAAABgA/vo2POP1uI2w/s72-c/nazi+pope+indymedia.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5352263427762940860.post-6393757313679334885</id><published>2010-05-02T13:39:00.003+12:00</published><updated>2010-05-02T19:24:39.930+12:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Exclusive Brethren'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Law and Religion in New Zealand'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Faith Based Schools'/><title type='text'>Kiwi Teacher fired over Shakespearean Play.</title><content type='html'>Suzette Martin, herself a Christian, has been dismissed from her teaching role at Keikeri’s Westmount school in July 2009 after giving her year 13 class a modern version of Shakespeare’s immortal play &lt;em&gt;‘King Lear’&lt;/em&gt; she down-loaded from the internet to cut costs&lt;em&gt;. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Westmount is a faith-based school which adheres to the insular and cult-like principals of the Exclusive Brethren Church. Every year New Zealand tax-payers fund 15 Westmount schools to the tune of 2.6 million dollars which goes to subsidise just 1620 enrolled students. Only Brethren children are permitted to enrol and the church bans it's members attending University or seeking similar higher education.   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To rub salt into Martin’s wound, her complaint to The Employment Relations Authority for unjustified-dismissal, has just been rejected.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The ERA sided with the cults trustees, that teaching 17 year old teenagers the works of ‘the bard of Avon’ was inappropriate given the Brethrens closeted and narrow-minded indoctrination.&lt;br /&gt;The schools protocols allowed only material that “reflected Bible values” like mass-murder, incest, talking snakes etc and rejected outright the secular-evils contained in one of the greatest master-works of the English language.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The term the school committee used to describe &lt;em&gt;King Lear&lt;/em&gt; in Martins 'don't come Monday' letter was &lt;em&gt;"corrupting and morally defiling".&lt;/em&gt;   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Martin was deemed to be in the wrong by not running the play past the schools trustees for their approval – despite the fact it formed part of the national English curriculum and her requests for the school to fund the authorised version of the play were turned down by the very ‘powers that be’ at the same school that fired her!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Once again we get to see the true-essence of faith-based education in this country exposed in all its glory: state-approved bigoted brain-washing of innocent minds.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/43kH91vHfKo&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/43kH91vHfKo&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5352263427762940860-6393757313679334885?l=canterburyatheists.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/feeds/6393757313679334885/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5352263427762940860&amp;postID=6393757313679334885&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/6393757313679334885'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/6393757313679334885'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/2010/05/kiwi-teacher-fired-over-shakespearean.html' title='Kiwi Teacher fired over Shakespearean Play.'/><author><name>Canterbury Atheists</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09900223059660267657</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/SX_en79GC5I/AAAAAAAABBc/uCl_34C4fdE/S220/Black+Sheep+2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5352263427762940860.post-2788828110592420783</id><published>2010-04-30T13:41:00.002+12:00</published><updated>2010-04-30T13:46:50.302+12:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='James Van Praagh'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Psychic'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Life After Death'/><title type='text'>Watch the stage death of a Psychic Fraudster</title><content type='html'>&lt;object height="385" width="640"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/t07UzTcApMI&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/t07UzTcApMI&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To say this fraudster, James Van Praagh, is caught-floundering on Australian Television , is an understatement.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It’s embarrassing just how few hits this losers cold-reading gets from the bemused and increasingly cynical studio-audience.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Check out the faces and body language of Van Praagh, the audience and then the shows-host - who obviously gets the word from the producer to bring the public-humiliation to a premature end whilst they still have people at home watching.   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Positively cringe-worthy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Who the hell believes this sort of crap?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5352263427762940860-2788828110592420783?l=canterburyatheists.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/feeds/2788828110592420783/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5352263427762940860&amp;postID=2788828110592420783&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/2788828110592420783'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/2788828110592420783'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/2010/04/watch-stage-death-of-psychic-fraudster.html' title='Watch the stage death of a Psychic Fraudster'/><author><name>Canterbury Atheists</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09900223059660267657</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/SX_en79GC5I/AAAAAAAABBc/uCl_34C4fdE/S220/Black+Sheep+2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5352263427762940860.post-7985166123823281274</id><published>2010-04-29T08:31:00.004+12:00</published><updated>2010-04-29T08:40:42.897+12:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Islam'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Religious Discrimination'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sex and Islam'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Religious Sexual Repression'/><title type='text'>Here are some of the Islamic Countries that legislate to allow Child Sex.</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/S9icKD3pqOI/AAAAAAAABf4/EBIAc4qTpKA/s1600/Baby+Brides.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5465289844465445090" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/S9icKD3pqOI/AAAAAAAABf4/EBIAc4qTpKA/s400/Baby+Brides.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/S9icAbU2RJI/AAAAAAAABfw/Y2IUIdd2me4/s1600/Baby+Brides.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Imagine, as sickening as the proposition is, betrothing your own two year-old daughter to a forty year-old?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then at 9 years-old you allow your daughter to ‘shack-up’ with her fiancé.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At 11 she is formally married and then consummation takes place.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;She gives birth at 12 years-old.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As abhorrent as this scenario sounds, what has been outlined is the ‘norm’, and it is permissible under Islamic law in the following countries - that’s to say young-girls getting married and having sexual relations with their husbands, who are often decades older:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Afghanistan&lt;br /&gt;- Bahrain&lt;br /&gt;- Iran&lt;br /&gt;- Kuwait&lt;br /&gt;- Nigeria&lt;br /&gt;- Oman&lt;br /&gt;- Pakistan&lt;br /&gt;- Saudi Arabia&lt;br /&gt;- United Arab Emirates&lt;br /&gt;- Yemen&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Girls are seen as objects in these countries, chattels for their fathers to dispose-of like cattle.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Kiwi’s would rather worry about whales and native-bush, conveniently turn a blind-eye to the oil-producers, rather than standing-up for what should be basic civilised human-rights for the female population in The Middle East and Africa.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;New Zealanders and their allies are spilling-blood in Afghanistan for a turpitude, corrupt regime that has enshrined in it’s statute-books a carte-blanche for men to fuck girls – using the excuse “they are married in the eyes of our God and his book”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We are happy to sell meat to feed the faces of what in its lowest denominator are child-rapists.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tut, tut silly old-me mentioning civilization and Islam in the same paragraph.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Footnote(s):&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- All these very same countries ban homosexuality and imprison and torture anyone caught engaging-in male/male sex.&lt;br /&gt;- Not to be outdone, the age of consent in that bastion of propriety, The Vatican City, is set at just 12 years-old.&lt;br /&gt;- At 54 y.o, Islam’s prophet married one of his wives when she was a mere 6 year-old and began sexual relations with her just three years later. Thus the religious enshrinement that has lead to its practice in 2010.&lt;br /&gt;- Some of these countries do set a minimum age for marriage – most frequently its nine years-old and nothing less than thirteen.&lt;br /&gt;- In Nigeria a senator &amp;amp; state governor in their Government paid a dowry for a 12 year-old Egyptian girl who he whisked back-home and married a year later.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;object height="385" width="480"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/RJOWkF9oUzc&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/RJOWkF9oUzc&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' 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Sex.'/><author><name>Canterbury Atheists</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09900223059660267657</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/SX_en79GC5I/AAAAAAAABBc/uCl_34C4fdE/S220/Black+Sheep+2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/S9icKD3pqOI/AAAAAAAABf4/EBIAc4qTpKA/s72-c/Baby+Brides.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5352263427762940860.post-2828287790452516585</id><published>2010-04-27T09:00:00.004+12:00</published><updated>2010-04-27T09:06:46.202+12:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Aliens'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Stephen Hawking'/><title type='text'>When Aliens Attack!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/S9X_LcM0epI/AAAAAAAABfo/P4kv599E0JA/s1600/baby_alien.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5464554294897572498" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 316px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/S9X_LcM0epI/AAAAAAAABfo/P4kv599E0JA/s320/baby_alien.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Professor Stephen Hawking is bang-on-the-money when &lt;a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/science/space/article7107207.ece"&gt;he warns us to avoid seeking-out contact with other intelligent life-forms &lt;/a&gt;– foreboding mankind that there’s a good chance these technologically superior extraterrestrials may well harbour the same nihilistic traits we humans exhibit – thus bringing ‘the enemy to our door’ and ultimately our decimation and/or enslavement.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;His analogy is a fitting-one &lt;em&gt;“If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn’t turn out well for the native Americans.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hawking correctly suggests we are best to shut-up and stay contented on our non-descript planet in our corner of the vast universe, rather than tempt fate and attract unwanted attention.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Actively searching the skies for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) with “come around for a cup of coffee” invitation is just the sort of thing Hawking believes we should avoid.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Understating the peril to avoid scaring the children, Hawking describes attempts to actively see-out alien life-forms as &lt;em&gt;“a little too risky”.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let’s take his well-founded warnings seriously.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="385" width="480"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/TGNRYNdVT7g&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" 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href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/2828287790452516585'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/2828287790452516585'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/2010/04/when-aliens-attack.html' title='When Aliens Attack!'/><author><name>Canterbury Atheists</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09900223059660267657</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/SX_en79GC5I/AAAAAAAABBc/uCl_34C4fdE/S220/Black+Sheep+2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/S9X_LcM0epI/AAAAAAAABfo/P4kv599E0JA/s72-c/baby_alien.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5352263427762940860.post-5826648719978293338</id><published>2010-04-23T09:35:00.011+12:00</published><updated>2010-04-23T11:01:19.983+12:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Christian Humour'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Pope'/><title type='text'>The 'Spot The Creepy Pope' Challenge</title><content type='html'>&lt;object height="385" width="480"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/UWTD-nXadaI&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/UWTD-nXadaI&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Firstly turn-on the subject-relevant music (above) then take-your-time picking-out the interloper I’ve strategically placed amongst the real photos of Pope Benedict 16th.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Take your time – this is more difficult than it first appears.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Answer is in the comments section. &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5463080977512079282" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 155px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/S9DDNFPNH7I/AAAAAAAABe4/OgxO_UhgXcY/s200/Creepy+Pope+3.jpg" border="0" /&gt; &lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5463082191407495426" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 143px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/S9DETvWbOQI/AAAAAAAABfQ/gDf-72hCP0k/s200/Scary+Pope+1.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img 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src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/S9C5lxX6VXI/AAAAAAAABew/LTy8wKDpHDc/s320/Clevage.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/S9C5MkvIwpI/AAAAAAAABeo/3N1p-4Ti__k/s1600/Clevage.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;These! &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Yep, boobs!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Background on this ground-breaking (get the pun?) seismic (I’m on a roll) discovery &lt;a href="http://www.pollsb.com/photos/o/32695-clevage_over_boob.jpg"&gt;here.&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5352263427762940860-3366052733533898888?l=canterburyatheists.blogspot.com' alt='' 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rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/SX_en79GC5I/AAAAAAAABBc/uCl_34C4fdE/S220/Black+Sheep+2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/S9C5lxX6VXI/AAAAAAAABew/LTy8wKDpHDc/s72-c/Clevage.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5352263427762940860.post-2636600751340496057</id><published>2010-04-21T18:47:00.005+12:00</published><updated>2010-04-21T19:21:58.910+12:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Priest Sex Abuse'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Catholic Church Abuse'/><title type='text'>“The Kids asked for it!” claims Catholic Bishop</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/S86fqBV7pQI/AAAAAAAABeY/-qmdiJdy0vs/s1600/popeposter2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 235px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5462478942310737154" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/S86fqBV7pQI/AAAAAAAABeY/-qmdiJdy0vs/s320/popeposter2.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Unable to take ownership of the issues which have lead to 1 in 25 priests being accused of child-molestation – The Catholic Church has been doing its best to deflect attention from its own endemic immorality and blame instead a large range of outside influences.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Just to re-cap on why exactly Catholic Priests love fucking kids (straight from the Propaganda Ministry of The Vatican) so far we’ve heard it’s all down-to:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1.) &lt;strong&gt;Satan:&lt;/strong&gt; Yes, the arch-boogey man was dragged-out, early-on in the piece.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2.) &lt;strong&gt;A Secular Society&lt;/strong&gt;: Per RATzinger it was societal woes that were behind the 15,000 cases in Ireland, Catholicism was guiltless.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3.) &lt;strong&gt;The Jews&lt;/strong&gt;: An oldie but a goodie - it’s the Jewish controlled media that’s pumping this thing up. Then in an amazing turn-around, in the next breath The Vatican wanted the world to know they were being persecuted like The Jews!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4.) &lt;strong&gt;The Homo’s&lt;/strong&gt;: It’s all because those hell-bound faggots have infiltrated our ranks en-masse. RATzingers # 2 that dreamed that one-up.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now you can add another two pathetic &amp;amp; delusional excuses to this load-of-crock why Catholic Priests love fucking Children and have been doing-so for its entire history:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5.) &lt;strong&gt;Pornography:&lt;/strong&gt; Per The Mexican Bishop Felipe Arizmendi it’s all down to Internet porn. His words speak volumes of the type of sycophantic character The Catholic Church sees fit to tell us how to live our own lives:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#666666;"&gt;“With so much invasion of eroticism, sometimes it’s not easy to stay celibate or to respect children. If on television and on the Internet and in so many media outlets there is pornography, it is very difficult to stay pure and chaste".&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt; &lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ah so that explains all those pre-Internet historic cases. What a sad-fuck Bishop Arizmendi must be - perfect characteristics for one so high-up in The Catholic Church.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6.) &lt;strong&gt;The Kids asked for it!&lt;/strong&gt; Yet, another Bishop, Bernando Álvarez now wants us to feel sorry for all those poor Priests having eight-year old boys throwing themselves on them like some sort of groupies. His insulting &amp;amp; inflammatory words to the 30,000 known victims of clergy abuse were:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#666666;"&gt;“There are 13 year old ado&amp;shy;les&amp;shy;cents who are under age and who are per&amp;shy;fectly in agree&amp;shy;ment with, and what’s more want&amp;shy;ing it, and if you are care&amp;shy;less they will even pro&amp;shy;voke you”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That’s right – you read it right - &lt;strong&gt;all those abused kids asked for it!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Priests were the innocent party and were “provoked” into raping children.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is the same sort of twisted, sickening rhetoric you hear from a lifelong pedophile, unable to distinguish the boundaries between child and adults.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It beggars belief just what depths can this Church can stoop to when it is now blaming innocent children.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/yW-F5LT3Ym4&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/yW-F5LT3Ym4&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5352263427762940860-2636600751340496057?l=canterburyatheists.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/feeds/2636600751340496057/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5352263427762940860&amp;postID=2636600751340496057&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/2636600751340496057'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/2636600751340496057'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/2010/04/kids-asked-for-it-claims-catholic.html' title='“The Kids asked for it!” claims Catholic Bishop'/><author><name>Canterbury Atheists</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09900223059660267657</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/SX_en79GC5I/AAAAAAAABBc/uCl_34C4fdE/S220/Black+Sheep+2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/S86fqBV7pQI/AAAAAAAABeY/-qmdiJdy0vs/s72-c/popeposter2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5352263427762940860.post-451026812321375925</id><published>2010-04-18T12:38:00.002+12:00</published><updated>2010-04-18T12:45:10.985+12:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Priest Sex Abuse'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Catholic Church Abuse'/><title type='text'>The Catholic Church has a 2,000 Year-Old History of Child Abuse.</title><content type='html'>Manifestly the abuse of children by Catholic priests has been a stable part of ‘life’ with-in The Catholic Church since its inception.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pedophilia has been rampant for 2,000 years &amp;amp; successive Popes have failed to reduce this insidious plague – of this there can be no argument.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Through-out history there has been a rare Pope that have tried to stop this abuse – but their attempts ultimately ended in failure - the sickening mental, physical and sexual abuse of children being intertwined with the history of Catholicism -part of 'the wood-work.' &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Without exception every Pope has a practiced some-form of cover-ups of the child-abuse amongst its ranks &amp;amp; protection of Churches good-name remains to this day The Vatican’s major priority.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Popes were guilty of child-abuse themselves.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The raping of children is as much an intrinsic ritual within the church as baptism.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This video exposes the sordid history of pedophilia within Catholicism that dates back 2,000 years.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="640" height="385"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/hJ1_aQz6IuU&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/hJ1_aQz6IuU&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5352263427762940860-451026812321375925?l=canterburyatheists.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/feeds/451026812321375925/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5352263427762940860&amp;postID=451026812321375925&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/451026812321375925'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/451026812321375925'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/2010/04/catholic-church-has-2000-year-old.html' title='The Catholic Church has a 2,000 Year-Old History of Child Abuse.'/><author><name>Canterbury Atheists</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09900223059660267657</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/SX_en79GC5I/AAAAAAAABBc/uCl_34C4fdE/S220/Black+Sheep+2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5352263427762940860.post-5298751194342561701</id><published>2010-04-16T09:07:00.002+12:00</published><updated>2010-04-16T09:13:20.674+12:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Priest Sex Abuse'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Catholic Church Abuse'/><title type='text'>Why do so many Catholics Priests love fucking children?</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Italy, Ireland, Germany, Chile, Australia – there isn’t a single country on the planet where the endemic abuse of the vulnerable perpetrated by Catholic priests, hasn’t taken place.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Even the closest Catholic Church to my house had a case.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Catholic apologists on this global pedophilia plague, continually like point-out that it is “only a small minority” even when faced with a study from their own Church that indicates the rate of offending in the ranks of clergy, is an horrendous 1 in 25 (refer my article from last week)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are of course many other groups I can think-of that have such access and authority over children – both religious and secular.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Take for example humanitarian groups like The Red Cross and Save The Children.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These aid groups have access to vulnerable children on a mass scale, frequently-in places where the recipients are un-educated - the perfect hunting grounds for those that prey on children for their perversion.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why isn’t the media full of “child sex scandals” surrounding say the ranks of The Red Cross?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Clearly there are other global religions – so why aren’t their ordained members abusing the children in their congregations on every continent?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Surely if the rate of child-abuse within Islam was on the same-scale as that of The Catholic Church – we would have heard about it – but because it happens so infrequently it’s a non-issue.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Muslim Imam’s and Anglican Ministers can administer their flocks without corrupting the younger members of their mosques &amp;amp; churches - but not Catholic priests.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The most obvious &amp;amp; logical answer is: &lt;em&gt;Catholic Priests love fucking children and something is going-on in their heads that warps their own perspective on human sexuality.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If not, offer me a better explanation? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="385" width="480"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/qavHMCwouw4&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/qavHMCwouw4&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5352263427762940860-5298751194342561701?l=canterburyatheists.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/feeds/5298751194342561701/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5352263427762940860&amp;postID=5298751194342561701&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/5298751194342561701'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/5298751194342561701'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/2010/04/why-do-so-many-catholics-priests-love.html' title='Why do so many Catholics Priests love fucking children?'/><author><name>Canterbury Atheists</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09900223059660267657</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/SX_en79GC5I/AAAAAAAABBc/uCl_34C4fdE/S220/Black+Sheep+2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5352263427762940860.post-1117583736401134296</id><published>2010-04-15T14:46:00.003+12:00</published><updated>2010-04-15T15:01:23.916+12:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Catholic Church'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Papal History'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Pope'/><title type='text'>There’s a long-rich history of sexual deviants becoming Popes – so what’s so strange about another one?</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/S8Z-UmjEFMI/AAAAAAAABeQ/-Cdw_67wpSI/s1600/Pope+Sex.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5460190490643403970" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 243px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/S8Z-UmjEFMI/AAAAAAAABeQ/-Cdw_67wpSI/s320/Pope+Sex.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Sergius III (? – 911) murdered his predecessor to come to power, defiled his corpse, fathered an an illegitimate son to his mistress who was 14 at the time, and then ensured it was his bastard son that would take his pontificate upon his death.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pope John XII (937 – 964) was another one who liked ‘keeping it in the family’ – his niece fathered one of his brats. Once personally castrated one of his subdeacons and then cut the rest of him up.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pope John XIII (965-72) was, for the most part, an embarrassment to the Roman Catholic Church and remains so even to this day. He was a randy geezer – so much so that he converted The Latern Palace into a brothel. Was known to prey-on female pilgrims to St. Peter's. It was John Paul XIII stray-rooting that lead to his untimely demise. An irate husband who came home to find his wife in bed with the pontiff took the matter into his own hands and stabbed him to death!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As usual as his death may appear, he wasn’t the first Pope to die in the act of sexual congress.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;John Paul’s predecessor, Pope John XII happened to die in exactly the same circumstances!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pope Benedict IX (c. 1012 – 1065/85) had an incestuous relationship with his cousin and then sold the papacy to his own godfather because he was sick of the job.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pope Clement VI (1291-1352) watched two thirds of his congregation die of the plague ravaging Europe who blamed The Jews for the outbreaks origins. Clement didn’t mind admitting he was “a sinner amongst sinners” which he was - on a scale with no parallel in its day. He and his cardinals use to dine with their harem of prostitutes in what were called "Banquets of the Walnuts". After the meal, the gathered Cardinals had all of the prostitutes who had dined with them disrobe. Then a bucket of walnuts was scattered across the floor and the women ordered to pick them up, on hands and knees, the better for the Cardinals to see and choose from among the vulvas present for their carnal pleasure His lavish spending almost bankrupted the church.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pope Alexander VI (1431 – 1503) Bribed his way to The Papacy and whilst in power he sired at least seven different illegitimate children by his mistresses, and didn’t hesitate to reward them with handsome endowments at the church’s expense. His breeding didn’t stop there. He had an incestuous relationship with his daughter Lucrezia and fathered a son by her. Had an affinity for throwing orgies that usually culminated with little naked boys jumping out of large cakes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pope Leo X (1475 – 1521) Died in the bed of his homosexual lover.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pope Julius III (1555 odd) Julius discovered a 13 year old beggar called Innocenzo on the streets of Parma before ascending to the pontificate, and he adopted him as his own nephew. Innocenzo openly slept in the same bed as Julius and boasted of the boy's prowess.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So what we currently have another rat-bag wearing the fishermans-ring?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Benedict XVI has a long illustrious list of predecessor to look-up-to. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;He's just learning-his-trade.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5352263427762940860-1117583736401134296?l=canterburyatheists.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/feeds/1117583736401134296/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5352263427762940860&amp;postID=1117583736401134296&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/1117583736401134296'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/1117583736401134296'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/2010/04/theres-long-rich-history-of-sexual.html' title='There’s a long-rich history of sexual deviants becoming Popes – so what’s so strange about another one?'/><author><name>Canterbury Atheists</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09900223059660267657</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/SX_en79GC5I/AAAAAAAABBc/uCl_34C4fdE/S220/Black+Sheep+2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/S8Z-UmjEFMI/AAAAAAAABeQ/-Cdw_67wpSI/s72-c/Pope+Sex.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5352263427762940860.post-1248342214824819653</id><published>2010-04-14T12:46:00.003+12:00</published><updated>2010-04-14T12:53:28.060+12:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='anti-Semitism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Homosexuality'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Catholic Church Abuse'/><title type='text'>Message to all Catholics: Rest easy all these problems in the church are down to The Homo’s and Jews.</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;After esoteric excuses, namely ‘Satan’, failed convince rational-humans &amp;amp; stop the keys on journalists type-writers clattering away, The Catholic Church has now turned to more traditional escape-goats to explain-away its current problems.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now cornered, The Vatican wants you to now know all this messy child-molestation and cover-ups business - is all down to the Homo’s and Jews!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;According to no lesser person that The Vatican Foreign Minister, who is on a visit to Chile, &lt;em&gt;“there is a relationship between homosexuality and paedophilia.”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Meanwhile states-side it looks like U.S Catholic’s have entered the denial phase of their grieving-process.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We have a Catholic Bishop there now blaming the almost daily media reports on Ratzingers complicity in child-abuse cases as being part of a Jewish media conspiracy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is not just a Church in crisis - it is a Church in melt-down without a single ounce of moral fortitude between the whole-lot of them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A sad bunch of twisted, old men bereft of the honesty to own-up to the problems besieging their organisation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All Catholics should be shamed at this latest outburst.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But of course as ‘good Catholics’ they won’t be.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Catholics believe in everything they are told from The Church as literal truth – even when it is bare-faced lies, like pedophilia in its ranks is down to some-sort of homosexual infiltration and all the media reports are being beefed-up by a cliché of powerful Jews.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If there wasn’t such perverted &amp;amp; sinister motives to their deluded utterances - like The BBC is owned &amp;amp; run by a Jewish family - it would almost be amusing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="385" width="480"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Vb3IMTJjzfo&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Vb3IMTJjzfo&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5352263427762940860-1248342214824819653?l=canterburyatheists.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/feeds/1248342214824819653/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5352263427762940860&amp;postID=1248342214824819653&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/1248342214824819653'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/1248342214824819653'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/2010/04/message-to-all-catholics-rest-easy-all.html' title='Message to all Catholics: Rest easy all these problems in the church are down to The Homo’s and Jews.'/><author><name>Canterbury Atheists</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09900223059660267657</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/SX_en79GC5I/AAAAAAAABBc/uCl_34C4fdE/S220/Black+Sheep+2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5352263427762940860.post-913106166551509140</id><published>2010-04-12T18:23:00.003+12:00</published><updated>2010-04-12T18:37:39.086+12:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Catholic Church Abuse'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='St John of God'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Peter Burke'/><title type='text'>The sad-case of The Whistle-blowing Catholic Brother abandoned by his Church</title><content type='html'>During his later years Brother Peter Burke was a round peg in a square hole.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As Australasian head of ‘The Order of St John of God’ he tried his best to deal with the hundreds of cases of intellectually disabled boys on both sides of the Tasman raped and abused by Catholic brothers within the order over four decades - handling these numerous complaints with honesty &amp;amp; openness accorded to the victims, police &amp;amp; media alike.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Saying “sorry” where it was needed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Burke didn’t cover-up and follow the protocols set-out by The Vatican at the time which was to keep things in-house and relocate the offending priest to a remote location. Papua New Guinea to this day remains a favourite regional dumping-zone for pedophile priests. He assisted Police investigations which lead to his compatriots being imprisoned.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For his honesty and transparency Peter Burke was treated as a pariah by fellow members of The Order of St John of God.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Abandoned by his colleges as someone who didn’t tow the party line he spent his retirement in 2007 prior to his death in February of this year - alone in his Sydney one-bedroom flat – a broken man.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Contrast the scurrilous treatment Burke received as a ‘whistle-blower’ with that The Order of St John of God now lavish-on Canterbury’s biggest pedophile – Rodger William Maloney – the brother Burke helped bring to justice.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Since his recent release into the Christchurch community Maloney has being in the care of The Order of St John of God.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Maloney still maintains he is innocent of his years of offending to the point he is embittered that he was some-how personally hard-done-by by Burke and society as a whole.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Last week a shameless Maloney left prison and was welcomed back with open-arms by The Order of St John of God.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Never stripped of his priesthood Maloney has been ingratiated back into the very environment that spawned his abuse and wrecked the lives of hundreds of boys, now men.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When his 12 month parole in New Zealand is over, The Order of St John already have made plans for Maloney to be re-located to sunny Queensland to see out his days amongst his peers, who patently care little of his heinous criminal record and potential to re-offend given he still sees himself as the victim.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If anyone wonders why sexual abuse will never be stamped-out in The Catholic Church, one only needs look at this case.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="640" height="385"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/tijW_SrCoxs&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/tijW_SrCoxs&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5352263427762940860-913106166551509140?l=canterburyatheists.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/feeds/913106166551509140/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5352263427762940860&amp;postID=913106166551509140&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/913106166551509140'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/913106166551509140'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/2010/04/sad-case-of-whistle-blowing-catholic.html' title='The sad-case of The Whistle-blowing Catholic Brother abandoned by his Church'/><author><name>Canterbury Atheists</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09900223059660267657</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/SX_en79GC5I/AAAAAAAABBc/uCl_34C4fdE/S220/Black+Sheep+2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5352263427762940860.post-379472634405776142</id><published>2010-04-12T10:23:00.004+12:00</published><updated>2010-04-12T10:32:26.724+12:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Catholic Church'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Catholic Church Abuse'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Pope'/><title type='text'>Catholics should look-forward to prospect of The Pope being arrested during his U.K Visit.</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="color:#666666;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;"This man is not above or outside the law. The institutionalised concealment of child rape is a crime under any law and demands not private ceremonies of repentance or church-funded payoffs, but justice and punishment." [Christopher Hitchens] &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Richard Dawkins and his right-hand man Christopher Hitchens are planning a legal ambush to have the Pope arrested during his September state visit to Britain “for crimes against humanity”.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The pair believe they can exploit the same legal principle used to arrest Augusto Pinochet, the late Chilean dictator, when he visited Britain in 1998.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All Catholics who believe he is innocent, should look-forward to his arrest and questioning by British Police, so all these baseless allegations made against him, can be put to rest.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What does an innocent man like him have to fear?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Even should British Police prosecutors feel there is a case to answer, Papal apologists who believe Ratzinger is innocent of covering-up sexual abuse within the Catholic Church, should welcome the chance for him to prove his innocence in an open court of law.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He would have the best team of defence-lawyers money could buy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ratzingers trial will be one of the biggest in world-history and his innocence or guilt could be measured in a court of law rather than the current ‘court of media’.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Things could be put-to-rest once and for all with such a trial.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Surely ‘justice’ is something that means something and is still in the vocabulary of The Vatican and the billion Catholics around the globe  should be welcoming &amp;amp; embracing the prospect of Ratzinger facing his accusers and proving his innocence once-and-for-all.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyone who is trying to rally-against his questioning by British Police clearly thinks he has something to hide.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And to those who think that think Ratzinger is a head-of-state and can claim diplomatic immunity, they need a little history lesson that it was the fascist dictator Benito Mussolini that bestowed The Vatican the title ‘state’ and The United Nations doesn’t recognise their sovereignty any more than the Sea-Org head-quarters of The Scientologists in Florida.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="385" width="640"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/16u0wwCfoJ4&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/16u0wwCfoJ4&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5352263427762940860-379472634405776142?l=canterburyatheists.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/feeds/379472634405776142/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5352263427762940860&amp;postID=379472634405776142&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/379472634405776142'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/379472634405776142'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/2010/04/catholics-should-look-forward-to.html' title='Catholics should look-forward to prospect of The Pope being arrested during his U.K Visit.'/><author><name>Canterbury Atheists</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09900223059660267657</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/SX_en79GC5I/AAAAAAAABBc/uCl_34C4fdE/S220/Black+Sheep+2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5352263427762940860.post-6162368067114579784</id><published>2010-04-09T11:02:00.002+12:00</published><updated>2010-04-09T11:08:38.761+12:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Catholic Church Abuse'/><title type='text'>At least one in 25 Catholic Priests has faced sexual abuse allegations!</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"&gt;A comprehensive, long-term study commissioned by the Catholic Bishops' Council in the United States found that approximately 4 per cent of ordained priests had sexual misconduct allegations made against them between 1950 and 2002.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This equates to a ratio one in 25 ordained priests, and let’s not forget most sexual abuse victims chose to keep their suffering secret, so the actual number/percentage would likely be greater than this, given these were only the priests reported-to Church authorities.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This sad &amp;amp; frightening statistic comes from none-other than the Catholic Church itself, and makes a mockery of apologists false &amp;amp; misleading claims that only “a small number of priests are involved.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Confirmation that at least 1 in 25 priests faced allegations of sexual abuse goes to prove just how endemic and rife sexual deviancy is within The Catholic Church clergy. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In-fact I would suggest it is so rife, as to be impossible to root-out completely.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5352263427762940860-6162368067114579784?l=canterburyatheists.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/feeds/6162368067114579784/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5352263427762940860&amp;postID=6162368067114579784&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/6162368067114579784'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/6162368067114579784'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/2010/04/at-least-one-in-25-catholic-priests-has.html' title='At least one in 25 Catholic Priests has faced sexual abuse allegations!'/><author><name>Canterbury Atheists</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09900223059660267657</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/SX_en79GC5I/AAAAAAAABBc/uCl_34C4fdE/S220/Black+Sheep+2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5352263427762940860.post-2406511498786128926</id><published>2010-04-09T09:54:00.004+12:00</published><updated>2010-04-09T10:21:31.842+12:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Rodger Moloney'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Catholic Church Abuse'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='St John of God'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Catholic Church New Zealand'/><title type='text'>Catholic Church harbours Serial Pedophile Priest in Canterbury’s midst!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/S75S7q4y6qI/AAAAAAAABeI/8PLdhycHwcE/s1600/moloney.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5457890983497886370" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 225px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/S75S7q4y6qI/AAAAAAAABeI/8PLdhycHwcE/s320/moloney.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;This is Rodger William Moloney.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Father Rodger William Moloney.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Moloney abused over a hundred boys, many of them ‘special needs’ entrusted to his care, whilst he headed The St John of God residential-school, located in Oakland (Christchurch)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These are the known, reported victims of Father Moloney – doubtless the real-list of those who suffered at his hands would be much greater – the varying handicaps of the victims impinging further investigation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yet, despite being found guilty of mass-abuse , The Catholic Church paying over 5.0 N.Z Million dollars in compensation to his victims – Moloney still claims he is innocent and all the boys made-up the decades of assorted physical &amp;amp; sexual deviancy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Father Maloney, is an unrepentant mass-pedophile with no parallel in Canterbury’s history who preyed on the most vulnerable of the vulnerable - yet perplexingly is considered by The Parole Board to now be ‘safe’ enough to be released back into the Christchurch community after serving less that one-third of his sentence?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The weak system of justice here in New Zealand having meant Father Moloney served less than four days prison-time for every one of his known victims.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And to rub salt into the wounds of these victims, many of which still carry the mental scars - where was it that the scum-bag Father Rodger William Moloney was recently paroled to?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Back to the care of St John of God - that’s where!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That’s right, as bloody unbelievable as sounds, the very group &amp;amp; place Moloney perpetrated all his numerous crimes was deemed to be the safest place for the community at large.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Clearly to anyone who looks at this case, St John of God was unable to stop or detect his abuse over numerous years when he last served in the Order, yet in a stunning decision The N.Z Parole Board now thinks this is the perfect place for his rehabilitation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To further spit-in-the-face of restorative-justice the New Zealand public demands, once Moloney has finished his 12 months of parole at St John of God in Christchurch the order plans to whisk him-off to Australia’s Gold Coast where he can see out his days – still as a priest!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Note: Moloney’s partner in crime was Brother Bernard McGrath and I’ll cover his sordid life shortly and what he's up-to shortly.&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5352263427762940860-2406511498786128926?l=canterburyatheists.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/feeds/2406511498786128926/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5352263427762940860&amp;postID=2406511498786128926&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/2406511498786128926'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/2406511498786128926'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/2010/04/catholic-church-harbours-serial.html' title='Catholic Church harbours Serial Pedophile Priest in Canterbury’s midst!'/><author><name>Canterbury Atheists</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09900223059660267657</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/SX_en79GC5I/AAAAAAAABBc/uCl_34C4fdE/S220/Black+Sheep+2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/S75S7q4y6qI/AAAAAAAABeI/8PLdhycHwcE/s72-c/moloney.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5352263427762940860.post-6237137658840613664</id><published>2010-04-05T08:24:00.007+12:00</published><updated>2010-04-06T07:49:14.404+12:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Regnum Christi'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Catholic Church Abuse'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Catholic Church New Zealand'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Marcial Marciel'/><title type='text'>Group founded by Deviant Priest alive and well in New Zealand!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/S7j4ck3O6zI/AAAAAAAABeA/lRxlYGE-6wc/s1600/Maciel+Caption.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 310px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5456384118374722354" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/S7j4ck3O6zI/AAAAAAAABeA/lRxlYGE-6wc/s400/Maciel+Caption.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Father &lt;span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-error"&gt;Marcial&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-error"&gt;Marciel&lt;/span&gt; (1928-2008) is a Mexican priest who founded of the Catholic Orders ‘Legionaries of Christ’ and ‘&lt;span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-error"&gt;Regnum&lt;/span&gt; Christi’ (think Opus &lt;span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-error"&gt;Dei&lt;/span&gt;)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span id="SPELLING_ERROR_4" class="blsp-spelling-error"&gt;Marciel&lt;/span&gt; was also a sexual deviate with a taste for young boys &amp;amp; &lt;span id="SPELLING_ERROR_5" class="blsp-spelling-error"&gt;pre&lt;/span&gt;-pubescent girls, embezzled money, fathered at least six children - some of which he began fucking, abused drugs and had serious mental-issues – the perfect CV for one in such a pious and lofty position within The Catholic Church. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Most if not all of &lt;span id="SPELLING_ERROR_6" class="blsp-spelling-error"&gt;Marciels&lt;/span&gt; activities the current Pope, in his old capacity, knew was happening &amp;amp; did what we now know he normally did at the time....nothing substantive! &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Championed by Pope Paul II (cuddly photo of both above)after founding the Legion of Christ in Mexico in 1941, &lt;span id="SPELLING_ERROR_7" class="blsp-spelling-error"&gt;Marciel&lt;/span&gt; built a vast network of schools, colleges, seminaries and lucrative real estate holdings. At its peak the Legion had an annual budget of US$650 million, more than 650 priests and 60,000 members all around the planet – a large number of which knew their leader intimately it appears. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;His network extended to New Zealand and his ‘good work’ is carried on by Catholics in New Zealand to this day.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At one-stage Dunedin, &lt;span id="SPELLING_ERROR_8" class="blsp-spelling-error"&gt;apostolates&lt;/span&gt; from &lt;span id="SPELLING_ERROR_9" class="blsp-spelling-error"&gt;Regnum&lt;/span&gt; Christi even ran their own radio program to relay &lt;span id="SPELLING_ERROR_10" class="blsp-spelling-error"&gt;Marciel's&lt;/span&gt; ‘good-word’ to the peoples of &lt;span id="SPELLING_ERROR_11" class="blsp-spelling-error"&gt;Otago&lt;/span&gt;. Which parts of his doctrine these devotees espoused during this air-time is open to conjecture. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;New &lt;span id="SPELLING_ERROR_12" class="blsp-spelling-error"&gt;Zealanders&lt;/span&gt; also flew to Rome which houses the H.Q of the Legion of Christ to seek &lt;span id="SPELLING_ERROR_13" class="blsp-spelling-error"&gt;Marciels&lt;/span&gt; personal instruction - even knelling in his &lt;span id="SPELLING_ERROR_14" class="blsp-spelling-corrected"&gt;presence&lt;/span&gt; and kissing his ring - both &lt;span id="SPELLING_ERROR_15" class="blsp-spelling-corrected"&gt;subservient&lt;/span&gt; acts many of those who had a private audience with him over the years, got to do (in a Biblical sense of the terms) &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Empowered with their trip to Rome &amp;amp; taking a leaf-out-of their illustrious founders book (no doubt the pages would be stuck together &amp;amp; have a centre-fold) &lt;span id="SPELLING_ERROR_16" class="blsp-spelling-error"&gt;Regnum&lt;/span&gt; Christi members started a nationwide campaign amongst The Catholic Community of New Zealand for fathers and sons to bond together. These man/boy bonding sessions involve weekends away (I assure you, even I &lt;span id="SPELLING_ERROR_17" class="blsp-spelling-error"&gt;couldn&lt;/span&gt;’t make this sort of stuff-up!) and are rather appropriately, if not ironically marketed as &lt;em&gt;‘Conquest Events.’&lt;/em&gt; (I promise you I’m not making this up!) &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Indeed instructing children appears to be a major part of &lt;span id="SPELLING_ERROR_18" class="blsp-spelling-error"&gt;Regnum&lt;/span&gt; Christi’s &lt;span id="SPELLING_ERROR_19" class="blsp-spelling-error"&gt;modus&lt;/span&gt;-&lt;span id="SPELLING_ERROR_20" class="blsp-spelling-error"&gt;operandi&lt;/span&gt; in New Zealand. Their publicity trumpets &lt;em&gt;‘week long-summer camps for youth’&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;first communion&lt;/em&gt; &lt;em&gt;programs&lt;/em&gt; for youngsters and some-thing they call &lt;em&gt;‘Priest Appreciation Evenings’&lt;/em&gt;. One boggles what-goes-on at one of these &lt;em&gt;‘appreciation’&lt;/em&gt; evenings run by a group that falls under the banner of a lay-movement and is mandated by a lying, reprobate who liked nothing better than playing ‘hide the sausage’ with any kids he could get his grubby hands-on. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Obviously the credibility of The &lt;span id="SPELLING_ERROR_21" class="blsp-spelling-error"&gt;Regnum&lt;/span&gt; Christi and Legionaries of Christ sects in New Zealand is in tatters - permanently tainted with their founder’s sordid, ribald legacy. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It &lt;span id="SPELLING_ERROR_22" class="blsp-spelling-error"&gt;doesn&lt;/span&gt;’t take my jibes to tell them their days are over – their credibility is on par with a white-power skinhead group. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Immediate closure is their only credible option.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Good riddance too!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/iaJE3_PYaCU&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/iaJE3_PYaCU&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5352263427762940860-6237137658840613664?l=canterburyatheists.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/feeds/6237137658840613664/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5352263427762940860&amp;postID=6237137658840613664&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/6237137658840613664'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/6237137658840613664'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/2010/04/group-founded-by-deviant-priest-alive.html' title='Group founded by Deviant Priest alive and well in New Zealand!'/><author><name>Canterbury Atheists</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09900223059660267657</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/SX_en79GC5I/AAAAAAAABBc/uCl_34C4fdE/S220/Black+Sheep+2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/S7j4ck3O6zI/AAAAAAAABeA/lRxlYGE-6wc/s72-c/Maciel+Caption.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5352263427762940860.post-4202526676369064566</id><published>2010-04-04T11:26:00.005+12:00</published><updated>2010-04-04T11:49:00.366+12:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Catholic Church'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Medicine'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='IVF'/><title type='text'>Meet the 10,000th Kiwi baby The Catholic Church wanted dead!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/S7fRbRRyqKI/AAAAAAAABd4/InsCF0VJad0/s1600/Zoe.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 238px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 286px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5456059740007344290" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/S7fRbRRyqKI/AAAAAAAABd4/InsCF0VJad0/s320/Zoe.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The babies name is Zoe and her doting and proud parents are Aucklanders Natasha &amp;amp; Anish Martis.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Any parent can look at this photo can share their joy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Zoe is unique - she’s New Zealand’s 10,000th IVF baby!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So what sort of cold-hearted person would deny couples like Natasha &amp;amp; Anish the chance to have children?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What sort of person could deny Zoe a life and brand this small 11 day-old baby as intrinsically ‘evil’ and tag her parents as 'moral deviants'? &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Those callous heartless individuals happen to come with a title like ‘father’ or ‘sister’.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Those cold-blooded, semi-humans can be identified by dog-collars and habits – befittingly black in colour, like their hearts.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today these very-same savage celibate men who wanted to deny Zoe, and 9,999 other children like her, a life are actually instructing others how to be "good" using their own warped &amp;amp; twisted version of the term.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the year 2010 The Catholic Church in New Zealand still considers IVF treatment to be &lt;em&gt;“gravely evil”&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;“morally unacceptable.”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Vatican would like to see a worldwide ban on IVF.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Catholic Churches stand against fertility treatment is totally repugnant and an affront to normal decency.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In-fact the policy is evil.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/LKg4HLsu5gE&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/LKg4HLsu5gE&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5352263427762940860-4202526676369064566?l=canterburyatheists.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/feeds/4202526676369064566/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5352263427762940860&amp;postID=4202526676369064566&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/4202526676369064566'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/4202526676369064566'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/2010/04/meet-10000th-kiwi-baby-catholic-church.html' title='Meet the 10,000th Kiwi baby The Catholic Church wanted dead!'/><author><name>Canterbury Atheists</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09900223059660267657</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/SX_en79GC5I/AAAAAAAABBc/uCl_34C4fdE/S220/Black+Sheep+2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/S7fRbRRyqKI/AAAAAAAABd4/InsCF0VJad0/s72-c/Zoe.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5352263427762940860.post-5696099085312561720</id><published>2010-04-04T07:45:00.003+12:00</published><updated>2010-04-04T07:53:56.958+12:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Catholic Church'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='anti-Semitism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Catholic Church Abuse'/><title type='text'>Criticism of The Catholic Church is tantamount to anti-Semitism – you read that right.</title><content type='html'>History was made yesterday.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You were alive to hear the worlds ‘richest’ statement – ever!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The gold-medal in the specialist event, known as: ‘the pot calling the kettle black.’&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here it is......&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Anyone who criticises The Catholic Church is committing an abuse comparable with those committed against the Jewish religion.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In other-words, those spoken yesterday by of none-other than Vatican spokesman Rev Federico, criticism of The Catholic Church is tantamount to the act of anti-Semitism.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That’s right peoples – the group with the longest and most bitter history of Jew hating and the prime faith of those who orchestrated the atrocity known as The Holocaust – wants to label and silence its detractors by labeling them as acting like anti-Semites!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As I said in my intro, this has to be the “richest” statement of all time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ironically this outrage and abuse of the true meaning of the term anti-Semite came on the same-day The Archbishop of Canterbury stated the Roman Catholic Church has lost "all credibility" over the way it had dealt with paedophile priests.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This anti-Semitism parallel is further proof, if it were necessary, that The Catholic Church has indeed no credibility.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No mandate to preach to anyone on any subject, given it is the world’s largest historic abuser of children, lead by an ex-Nazi who covered-up acts of this abuse.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Just how low can this morally bankrupt group stoop?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Footnote: As you know I normally post a relevant piece of music to the article. Well one song that has recently come to my attention is by an artist, I admit I’ve never been a fan of – that was until now (must be getting old). This haunting humanist song by Joni Mitchell is worth a spin on any secularists turn-table. It's long but worth the listen. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/puMgKiEpRHs&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/puMgKiEpRHs&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5352263427762940860-5696099085312561720?l=canterburyatheists.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/feeds/5696099085312561720/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5352263427762940860&amp;postID=5696099085312561720&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/5696099085312561720'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/5696099085312561720'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/2010/04/criticism-of-catholic-church-is.html' title='Criticism of The Catholic Church is tantamount to anti-Semitism – you read that right.'/><author><name>Canterbury Atheists</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09900223059660267657</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/SX_en79GC5I/AAAAAAAABBc/uCl_34C4fdE/S220/Black+Sheep+2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5352263427762940860.post-5407770960025870477</id><published>2010-04-03T13:55:00.004+13:00</published><updated>2010-04-03T14:26:34.826+13:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Skeptic'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Supersititon'/><title type='text'>North American Indian Tribe on a spiritual-mission to re-stock all of Canterbury’s Salmon!</title><content type='html'>About a hundred years-ago salmon were introduced to Canterbury from North America – to be exact they came from McCloud River in northern California – which has seen hard times lately due to damming, and now has low stocks of these fish.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Resultantly and not unsurprisingly, the native-American tribe from that area would like to see the descendents of the original quinnat-salmon back in the McCloud River.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A two-dozen strong delegation from The Winnemem Wintu tribe in California have just spent two weeks in Christchurch, four days and nights of which involved singing &amp;amp; dancing by the Rakaia River.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These ceremonies were an attempt to &lt;em&gt;“re-establish the tribes relationship”&lt;/em&gt; with the fish.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yes, members of the Winnemem Wintu tribe actually believe that their ceremony would re-home the stocks of N.Z salmon and they would ignore their genetic-programs &amp;amp; miraculously begin the 6,000 mile ocean-swim to California!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However well-intentioned this trip was it is clear to anyone with half-a-brain-cell the whole &lt;em&gt;“spiritual journey”&lt;/em&gt; thing was always going to be a waste of time &amp;amp; money - some-thing to laugh about at the pub over a jug of beer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But because of political correctness and the free-ride superstations of all kinds get in the local media – no one had the guts to starkly tell these folk &lt;em&gt;“you are wasting your time&lt;/em&gt;.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Instead we had to put-up with television reports which made the whole Red-Indian charade look like an episode from a nature-channel hosted by David Attenborough.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Local Fish &amp;amp; Game officers put aside common-sense and made fools of themselves by acting as guides.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Not one reporter in the media bothered to ask a fisheries biologist &lt;em&gt;“what are the chances were of an entire population of salmon re-inventing enmasse their inbuilt migratory mechanisms instructing them to find their home ‘birth’ stream?”&lt;/em&gt; – because they knew damn well the unpalatable answer before asking.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Amongst this sycophantic reporting I was half expecting something like &lt;em&gt;“I suppose you’ll call home using smoke-signals to save on tolls?” &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No-one in this PC malaised-country openly had the guts to state out-loud the bleeding obvious “the emperor has no clothes” least they up-set the tribes right to act like superstitious bumpkins in the face of reality even a 10 year-old could see for what it is.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Footnote: In a concession to the 21st century it appears during their time-here the tribe hedged-their-bets by also investigating about exporting the eggs back home as well.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/uxoWto09Oyg&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/uxoWto09Oyg&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5352263427762940860-5407770960025870477?l=canterburyatheists.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/feeds/5407770960025870477/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5352263427762940860&amp;postID=5407770960025870477&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/5407770960025870477'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/5407770960025870477'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/2010/04/north-american-indian-tribe-on.html' title='North American Indian Tribe on a spiritual-mission to re-stock all of Canterbury’s Salmon!'/><author><name>Canterbury Atheists</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09900223059660267657</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/SX_en79GC5I/AAAAAAAABBc/uCl_34C4fdE/S220/Black+Sheep+2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5352263427762940860.post-4580219101058330392</id><published>2010-04-01T12:36:00.002+13:00</published><updated>2010-04-01T12:39:12.148+13:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Humour'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Catholic Church New Zealand'/><title type='text'>Has there ever been a more appropriately named journalist given the subject matter?</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/S7Pc4GWqE2I/AAAAAAAABdw/oBiMKf24ZJ0/s1600/roger_boyes.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5454946430012232546" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 196px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/S7Pc4GWqE2I/AAAAAAAABdw/oBiMKf24ZJ0/s400/roger_boyes.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5352263427762940860-4580219101058330392?l=canterburyatheists.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/feeds/4580219101058330392/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5352263427762940860&amp;postID=4580219101058330392&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/4580219101058330392'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/4580219101058330392'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/2010/04/has-there-ever-been-more-appropriately.html' title='Has there ever been a more appropriately named journalist given the subject matter?'/><author><name>Canterbury Atheists</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09900223059660267657</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/SX_en79GC5I/AAAAAAAABBc/uCl_34C4fdE/S220/Black+Sheep+2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/S7Pc4GWqE2I/AAAAAAAABdw/oBiMKf24ZJ0/s72-c/roger_boyes.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5352263427762940860.post-811031937829582516</id><published>2010-04-01T11:22:00.003+13:00</published><updated>2010-04-01T11:37:06.164+13:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bible Hypocrisy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Family First'/><title type='text'>The Christian Concept of Marriage includes rape of virgins as a starting-point</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/S7PLkqX_0fI/AAAAAAAABdo/-AnfcwKU2Zc/s1600/Family_First_oops_Fist_Logo.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5454927404386472434" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 235px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/S7PLkqX_0fI/AAAAAAAABdo/-AnfcwKU2Zc/s400/Family_First_oops_Fist_Logo.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;Family First (a.k.a Family Fist) have launched a nationwide billboard campaign to promote the benefits of getting married.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now the term ‘married’ under the glare of the all-seeing eyes of Family First means in the sanctity of an ordained minister – preferably one of the Protestant denominations. In the small-print of their Old-Testament beliefs you’ll also find the concept of a marriage can never extend to same-sex couples either.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yes, indeed this ‘shacking-up’ business must stop, or the country will be on the slippery slope to Sodom and Gomorrah.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Instead what we Kiwi’s need to do is look to The Bible to get our markers on the-sanctity-of-marriage in eyes of Yahweh (he’s a well known modern god by the way, who had a hit song a couple of millennia back)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Say a section of their best-seller penned by Yahweh called Deuteronomy 22: 28-29 for example:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;28: If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, which is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;29: Then the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsel's father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife; because he hath humbled her, he may not put her away all his days.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So any male who wants to go-out and commit rape, does so with the simple proviso he needs to marry his victim after the act(naturally all rape victims want to marry their attackers, eh) and pay her old-man a bounty.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is clear to any good Yahweh-fearing Christian, males simply need identify their prey as being virgins, rape them, then presumably force the traumatized victim to get married in a good-Christian ceremony by a good-Christian minister, whilst her old-man counts his hush-money in the back row of the church.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That’s what that ultimate moral-code: The Bible, clearly states.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="385" width="480"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" 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width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5352263427762940860.post-6880492700400354907</id><published>2010-03-31T09:12:00.000+13:00</published><updated>2010-03-31T09:14:27.081+13:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Skeptic'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Psychic'/><title type='text'>Extreme Reality T.V: Skeptic challenges Guru to kill him live on Indian Television</title><content type='html'>&lt;object height="385" width="480"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/NpwCuv_izn4&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/NpwCuv_izn4&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Self-styled "Indian Guru" Pandit Surender Sharma claimed he could kill a man using nothing but magic powers, so Indian rationalist Sanal Edamaruku put his ‘mind death ray’ to the test live in local television.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Makes amusing fodder.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5352263427762940860-6880492700400354907?l=canterburyatheists.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/feeds/6880492700400354907/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5352263427762940860&amp;postID=6880492700400354907&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/6880492700400354907'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' 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term='Richard Dawkins'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Pope'/><title type='text'>Ratzinger is the perfect Pope states none-other than Richard Dawkins.</title><content type='html'>And of course he’s entirely right!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;His logic is bang-on (when isn’t it?)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It’s Pope Benedict 16th that’s leading the Catholic Church down-the-tubes, exposing it's rotten core to the world, and that has to be something that deserves our support – rather than calls for his resignation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So long may Pope Benedict reign and may he continue to play his fiddle whilst Rome burns.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Full-Article from Washington Times below:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#666666;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Ratzinger is the perfect pope&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#666666;"&gt;"Should Pope Benedict XVI be held responsible for the escalating scandals over clerical sexual abuse in Europe?"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#666666;"&gt;Yes he should, and it's going to escalate a lot further, as more and more victims break through the guilt of their childhood indoctrination and come forward.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#666666;"&gt;"Should he be investigated for how cases of abuse were handled under his watch as archbishop of Munich or as the Vatican's chief doctrinal enforcer?" &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#666666;"&gt;Yes, of course he should. This former head of the Inquisition should be arrested the moment he dares to set foot outside his tinpot fiefdom of the Vatican, and he should be tried in an appropriate civil - not ecclesiastical - court. That's what should happen. Sadly, we all know our faith-befuddled governments will be too craven to do it.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#666666;"&gt;"Should the pope resign?" &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#666666;"&gt;No. As the College of Cardinals must have recognized when they elected him, he is perfectly - ideally - qualified to lead the Roman Catholic Church. A leering old villain in a frock, who spent decades conspiring behind closed doors for the position he now holds; a man who believes he is infallible and acts the part; a man whose preaching of scientific falsehood is responsible for the deaths of countless AIDS victims in Africa; a man whose first instinct when his priests are caught with their pants down is to cover up the scandal and damn the young victims to silence: in short, exactly the right man for the job. He should not resign, moreover, because he is perfectly positioned to accelerate the downfall of the evil, corrupt organization whose character he fits like a glove, and of which he is the absolute and historically appropriate monarch.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#666666;"&gt;No, Pope Ratzinger should not resign. He should remain in charge of the whole rotten edifice - the whole profiteering, woman-fearing, guilt-gorging, truth-hating, child-raping institution - while it tumbles, amid a stench of incense and a rain of tourist-kitsch sacred hearts and preposterously crowned virgins, about his ears.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#666666;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="385" width="480"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/dWErBV0MfEg&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/dWErBV0MfEg&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5352263427762940860-1487742807348937442?l=canterburyatheists.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/feeds/1487742807348937442/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5352263427762940860&amp;postID=1487742807348937442&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/1487742807348937442'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/1487742807348937442'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/2010/03/ratzinger-is-perfect-pope-states-none.html' title='Ratzinger is the perfect Pope states none-other than Richard Dawkins.'/><author><name>Canterbury Atheists</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09900223059660267657</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/SX_en79GC5I/AAAAAAAABBc/uCl_34C4fdE/S220/Black+Sheep+2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5352263427762940860.post-6146192564195185671</id><published>2010-03-29T13:23:00.003+13:00</published><updated>2010-03-29T13:28:45.351+13:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Catholic Church'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Catholic Church Abuse'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Catholic Church New Zealand'/><title type='text'>The Dominion Post states “The Catholic Church has lost its moral authority.”</title><content type='html'>&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#666666;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#666666;"&gt;“Put bluntly, the church is an organisation that harbours child abusers, covers up child abuse and facilitates child abuse by transferring pedophiles to dioceses in which their offending is not known.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Until it puts its own house in order by reporting all cases of sexual abuse, historic and present, to temporal authorities and co-operating fully with investigations, its leaders are in no position to lecture anyone about&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt; &lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#666666;"&gt;abortion, contraception, sex outside marriage, spybases or anything else.” &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;Yes, indeed &lt;a href="http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/opinion/editorials/3519619/Editorial-Church-has-lost-its-moral-authority"&gt;today’s editorial &lt;/a&gt;(excerpts above) in The Dominion Post certainty calls it like it is.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here we have a mainstream New Zealand newspaper attacking the institution called The Catholic Church, suggesting it no longer has any credibility ‘preaching’ to society on a range of moral issues – when it is clear to the public the Church has operated at times in a deliberate amoral fashion.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Contrast this frank report in The Dom.Post with the &lt;a href="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&amp;amp;objectid=10634945"&gt;sycophantic press-release&lt;/a&gt; from Bishop Patrick Dunn (Catholic Bishop of Auckland) that appeared in The New Zealand Herald on the same day. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dunn indicates the media has wrongly targeted Benedict and he finds these reports “astonishing.” and goes on to-use that tied-old line “it was only a small number of priests.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dunn exhibits exactly the traits and arrogance that plague The Catholic Church.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In-fact the root-cause of its current, irrevocable demise.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Essentially Dunn believes in the centuries-old doctrine of papal infallibility – everything is hunky-dory &amp;amp; the church can do no wrong. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mix this mind-set with a liberal dose of paranoia that The New York Times and Das Spiegel have somehow invented the stories about Ratzingers involvement in two cover-ups – including presumably the falsification of court documents, public records and the sworn testimony of dozens, if not hundreds of witness’s. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dunn’s article is an insult to ones intelligence, born of ignorance of the truth - he refuses to see.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5352263427762940860-6146192564195185671?l=canterburyatheists.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/feeds/6146192564195185671/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5352263427762940860&amp;postID=6146192564195185671&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/6146192564195185671'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/6146192564195185671'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/2010/03/dominion-post-states-catholic-church.html' title='The Dominion Post states “The Catholic Church has lost its moral authority.”'/><author><name>Canterbury Atheists</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09900223059660267657</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/SX_en79GC5I/AAAAAAAABBc/uCl_34C4fdE/S220/Black+Sheep+2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5352263427762940860.post-1471520902425545946</id><published>2010-03-26T13:52:00.002+13:00</published><updated>2010-03-26T14:01:19.201+13:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='The Universe'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Mankind'/><title type='text'>You, me and this planet are nothing – get over it!</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;&lt;object height="385" width="480"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/YL4cFjmnQT8&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/YL4cFjmnQT8&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Watching this awesome video made-me-think how we homo-&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;sapiens&lt;/span&gt; have an overly high opinion of ourselves, along with the planet we occupy. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We like to believe our species &amp;amp; the lump of rock we live-on is something ‘special’ and significant in the scheme of things.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Like f*ck!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well I’&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;ve&lt;/span&gt; got news for you, this planet, with the naff name Earth, and all the species on-it are in-fact a mere pimple on the bum of the vast universe – the share size of which is beyond any normal person’s comprehension.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So far mankind has only managed to reach our own insignificant moon – which is like traveling the equivalent of the width of a piece of paper on a journey from Christchurch, N.Z to Anchorage, Alaska.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sooner rather than later, in the vastness of space, we will find evidence of other intelligent life – this is a certainty.   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To think that some supernatural-being built our special ‘little house on the prairie’ along with every-other sun/planet etc floating in space and that ‘we’ are some-how the anointed off-spring of this being – is frankly ludicrous and the realms of  b-grade sci-&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;fi&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In-fact I’m going to go as far as suggesting anyone who believes a singular magic god-creature whipped-up the entire universe, like making a fondue for a large dinner-party – is delusional and a potential danger to the rest of society – unfit to have children in his/her care.      &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Open your mind to our place in the scheme of things - accept the facts with with grace.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Above all, kindly cease inventing bull-shit stories about invisible, supernatural creatures and expecting sane, intelligent people to believe your fairy-stories!     &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5352263427762940860-1471520902425545946?l=canterburyatheists.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/feeds/1471520902425545946/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5352263427762940860&amp;postID=1471520902425545946&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/1471520902425545946'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5352263427762940860/posts/default/1471520902425545946'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com/2010/03/you-me-and-this-planet-are-nothing-get.html' title='You, me and this planet are nothing – get over it!'/><author><name>Canterbury Atheists</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09900223059660267657</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uuEaCUoipUg/SX_en79GC5I/AAAAAAAABBc/uCl_34C4fdE/S220/Black+Sheep+2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
