Friday, May 29, 2009

God the Ultimate Comic Book-Hero



Marvel Comics have a good grasp of the human psyche.

Create super-humans, with the appearance of common-man, but with powers we hairless chimps desire, yet can never realise.

Super-Humans, with moral a compass pointing only to good.

Modern-day Greek Gods, created by-in-large, for an audience that can read and write, fully aware of their humble place in the scheme of things – but which still craves that innate , eternal human desire, to ‘fly like a bird’ , have ‘the strength of an elephant’ etc.

Good to triumph over evil.

The desire to be ‘all-powerful’, more than, mere human.

Now, run-through-your-mind, the attributes of these Super-Heroes.

Then think-about what attributes, one would give a God, if you were on the project-team at Marvel creating ‘God, the Ultimate Super-hero’?

X-ray vision?

The strength of twenty elephants?

The power, to read minds?

The same-way a comic-creator plays on human-frailties in creating a super-hero, or villain for that matter, is virtually identical to the process all cultures, undertook when the human-mind came to hammering-out their god or deity.

With one important addition, no comic entity can match.

That’s the power to defy death.



Thursday, May 28, 2009

Christchurch Author details abuse at hands of Catholic Church


Ann Thompson’s crime, in the eyes of her abusers, was she was born ‘a bastard’.

Her earliest childhood recollections were being told, her mother was evil, and she would end-up in hell, unless the devils inside her, could be beaten-out.

Thompson, arrived at Christchurch’s, Nazareth House in 1951, aged 10, and the abuse at the hands of the nuns started, just weeks after her arrival.

When she was aged 15, she suffered sexual abuse from a priest.

The horror of her childhood, is outlined, in a just published book ‘Say Sorry’.

The title is her plea to The Catholic Church to finally say “sorry” after all the years, of suffering.

She is hoping the sordid details outlined in the book, will spark some humanity from within The Catholic Church in New Zealand, towards not just her own plight, but hundreds of others New Zealanders, with similar tales.

Given what we have seen as a systemic worldwide policy to avoid responsibility – I’m not personally holding-out much chance Ann will receive the over-due “sorry” she should be accorded.

Avoiding culpability is of course something The Catholic Church are experts at.
These nuns & priests showed universal distain, for human dignity.

Human cockroaches.

From Ireland to New Zealand, The Catholic Church oversaw beatings, rapes, starvation & psychological abuse of vulnerable children.

Ann’s story is but one.
Footnote: Please watch the You-Tube Song, dedicated to her cause.



Wednesday, May 27, 2009

I See Dumb People: Pope orders Catholics not to report sightings of The Virgin Mary.

Here’s a News-Report to digest,and titillate at(and no, not the photo,I'll get to that last)

Catholics who claim they have seen the Virgin Mary will be forced to remain silent about the apparitions until a team of psychologists, theologians, priests and exorcists have fully investigated their claims under new Vatican guidelines aimed at stamping out false claims of miracles.

The Pope has instructed the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, formerly the Holy Office of the Inquisition, to draw up a new handbook to help bishops snuff out an explosion of bogus heavenly apparitions.


Benedict XVI plans to update the Vatican's current rules on investigating apparitions to help distinguish between true and false claims of visions of Jesus and the Virgin Mary, messages, stigmata (the appearances of the five wounds of Christ), weeping and bleeding statues and Eucharistic miracles.

Monsignor Luis Francisco Ladaria Ferrer, a respected Spanish Jesuit archbishop, has been placed in charge of drawing up the handbook, known as a "vademecum", which will update the current rules set in 1978.


According to Petrus, an Italian online magazine which leans towards conservative elements in the Vatican, anyone who claims to have seen an apparition will only be believed as long as they remain silent and do not court publicity over their claims. If they refuse to obey, this will be taken as a sign that their claims are false.

The visionaries will then be visited by a team of psychiatrists, either atheists or Catholics, to certify their mental health while theologians will assess the content of any heavenly messages to see if they contravene Church teachings.

If the visionary is considered credible they will ultimately be questioned by one or more demonologists and exorcists to exclude the possibility that Satan is hiding behind the apparitions in order to deceive the faithful.


Guidelines for the approval of apparitions and revelations were last issued in 1978. They lay down that a diocesan bishop can "either on his own initiative or at the request of the faithful" choose to investigate an alleged apparition. He then submits a report to the Vatican for approval.

So where does one, start on, delusional psychotics, who believe in this sort of drivel?

1.) If people see a mystical entity resembling Mary Magdalene – how will they tell it’s her in the first place? Does she wear a name tag? Will your friendly local church do a line-up of apparitions at some later stage, and ask you to pick-out, the one you saw?

2.) How often do Scientologists, Hindus and Muslims etc, report seeing visions of this ‘Mary’ chick?

3.) If this Virgin, tells you “I was raped by God” will the Church take your claims more seriously?

4.) Surely if you believe in aspirations, the most normal human reaction, would be to tell some one, not bottle it-up for six months, and casually bring-it-up a dinner party?

5.) How can a layman tell the difference between a heavenly apparition, or say one, disguised by nasty-old Satan to appear like it?

6.) When first confronted with an apparition claiming to be The Virgin Mary, should you ask for evidence her hymen is still in tact?

Boy, oh boy, what an absolute load of utter cobblers - surely, no rational educated person can believe any of this stuff?

Sadly, the answer is yes, there are people that have this as their 'reality', and by & large,they don't happen to live in mud-huts, in deepest Africa.


There are over a billion ‘fellow’ humans, your neighbours, who believe in this superstitious crap, to be real as the nose on their face.

PS: 'Mary' the well-stacked lady at the top of the page, is the inspiration of Chilean fashion-designer Ricardo Oyazun. Only his 'vision', was not shared by The Catholic Church and its followers, who 'decorated' his house in human excrement, and made threats to kill him & his family. Perhaps he should have followed the official process?

Pope Benedict – Self Confessed Coward or Defender of his Homeland?











Undeniably Joseph Ratzinger, fought for Nazi Germany in WW2.

Let me define, the word ‘fought’ in this context, so we are all singing off the same script.

- Ratzinger, was a part of an anti-aircraft battery, manned by Hitler Youth, defending the BMW plant, near Munich

- Ratzinger, later trained in the army and served in an anti-tank battalion, in northern Germany and Hungary.

Irrefutable historic records show, Ratzingers units saw action in WW2, at the same times/dates Ratzinger was present.

Now if one believes Ratzingers recollections, he never fired a shot himself, even if everyone around him was engaged in defending their country, and at the very least, protecting their own lives.

Making tank traps, carrying a weapon as part of being a trained soldier, being part of an ac-ac crew – seems to me at least, to be low level participation, in the context of the times.

But, active-service, never-the least.

If you believe Ratzinger (as per his biography), rather than fight, every-time there was ‘action’, he skulked-off back home, or hid-out in a forest until it was time to surrender to the Americans.

The later ascertain, flies in the face of U.S Army records, which show he was captured as a Wermacht soldier.

So at the very least, by his own admission, Ratzinger was a self-confessed coward.

The current Pope is happy for the world to know, as a teenager, he did not even have the fortitude, to protect his own family, nor his own countrymen against attack.

Catholic revisionists who like to paint Benedicts war-record as ‘lily-white’, have painted themselves into a corner.

Either Ratzinger was a cowering coward, who didn’t want to fight for his country, when it was under attack?

Dropped his weapon and ran, whilst his countrymen stood their ground and fought.

Either that, or he was merely following orders along with millions of his countrymen, who were not necessarily national-socialists, but simply Germans fighting for Germany?

Which one is it?

You can’t have it both ways.