New Zealand Children who Died for their Parents Beliefs

I recommend you play the You Tube verion of Tears for Fears song ‘Mad World’ (below) as you come to terms with the futility contained in the the cases below. The lyrics from the haunting song, made famous in the movie Donnie Darko, seem to echo the sad, senselessness, when extreme faith overcomes reason. When a child dies, needlessly for their parents beliefs.



Caleb Moorehead died aged 6 months in March of 2002 from a pneumonia after his parents took him out of hospital against medical advice, the end result of something as simple as vitamin B12 deficiency caused by being breastfed by his vegan mother.His deeply devout Seventh Day Adventist mother & father , ignored all advice, including that from family friend, Catherine Curtis-Rangihau, who as a social worker repeatedly told the couple Caleb would die, unless proper medical care was continued. Deborah and Jan Moorehead (right) instead, prefered to pray instead calling the illness ‘a test from God’ and treat their young son with herbal remidies.They ignored the fact the poor child teeth had worn a groove through his tongue The parents received five years jail each for manslaughter. Seemingly oblivious a baby had died due to the couple following their teachings ‘to the letter’ The New Zealand Seventh Day Adventist spokesman told the media outside the Auckland High Court , glibbly “people in many countries take genuine beliefs to the point where they end up causing harm”. Deborah’s sister, also a fellow Seventh Day Adventist sad she had done the right thing by denying her nephew the necessities of life. The Police spokesman called it “a tragic case where the Moorheads chose their faith over their son's life".


Liam Williams Holloway, developed neuroblastoma, an aggressive childhood cancer that stands a better than even chance of being cured, if treated early enough. The odds given for survival, via a series of chemotherapy, were given to his parents as 60 to 70%, but this rate drops significantly as the cancer takes hold. Liam was given just one course of chemotheraphy at Dunedin Hospital, but his parents who followed various New Age beliefs, withdrew him from treatment to seek alternative therapies.His doctors went to court and got an order to have Liam treated. His parents went into hiding, as best it was possible to hide from a insatiable & sympathetic media scrum, who sided with the parents rights to seek alternative therapies over proven medicine. Liam’s parents borrowed money and mortgaged their house, solicited public donations and took him to a quack clinic in Tijuana, Mexico – where he died at age of six. Liams parents were never charged.


Whilst most of the media where chasing the Williams-Holliways from hide-away to hide-away, in 1999 a similar case was going-on in Auckland. Tovia Laufau, a 13-year-old Samoan boy, was dying of a cancerous growth on his knee that doctors said at the time could be treated with some confidence. Middlemore Hospital told Mr and Mrs Lafau, Tovia had a 60-70% chance of full recovery; but without it he would die. But his parents, like Liam’s, did not believe in doctors, they prefered to leave the cure in Gods hands. Even when the tumour grew to the size of a basket-ball the parents continued to spurn medical treatment, with the support of their Church . The post mortem, listed the weight of the tumour as 13kgs so it must have been an appaling sight, with horendous discharges, greeting anyone surrounding the pain-ridden Tovia. The defiant and unrepentent parents , Peni and Faafetai Laufau were found guilty of failing to provide the necessaries of life for their teenage son, a charge carries a maximum sentence of seven years imprisonment. However, they received a 15- month ‘suspended sentence’ and walked free from the court. At the trial Tovia's former primary school principal, Russell Burt, has told the court the Laufaus were people who looked after their children and did their very best for them.

In 2003, Catherine and David Tribble's four month old son Caleb died of septicaemia caused by an undiagnosed kidney infection. Like the Lautau’s Caleb Tribble’s parents shunned modern medicine due to their deep-seated Christian beliefs . At the time of Caleb's death, David and Catherine Tribble were caring for eight children under the age of nine on their remote farm outside Whangarei. The Tribble’s philosophy was ‘God will provide’. Following the death of their son, the couple faced a trial for manslaughter, but were found not guilty on that charge, but guilty on the lesser charge of endangering the baby by failing to provide him with the necessities of life. The Whangarei court heard that on the day Caleb before died a District Health Nurse visited the Tribble’s and pleaded with the couple to seek medical help, but instead of taking their seriously ill child to a doctor, they opted to contact David's father John to lead them in prayer session for Caleb's recovery. During cross-examination the jury heard from David that “doctors could curse people by misdiagnosing them with an illness” and that his father had the ability via God to cure broken bones instantly. That’s John and his wife above (Caleb’s grand-parents) clutching their bibles in the photo to the left, taken outside the court.

Medical Care for Theists: Prayer and Leeches only

If we are honest, theist hypocrisy know no bounds.

When is 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)conveniently hide behind?

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.

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, primordially laughable.

Inevitably what happens is, at some later stage, is these very same protesters or their loved-ones, needs to seek the same treatment they rallied against.

These two-faced, hypocrites have no compulsion seeking such treatment either.

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.

So as you are about to read my proposal, don’t feel any sort of compassion towards theists, for these very same individuals want to rob you and your closest, one of the basis rudiments of modern life, to protect their beliefs.

Always keep in the back of your mind, theists want their beliefs, to over-ride yours – even if it means you watched your own child die in a pitiless painful, fashion – when a cure is available, but denied to you because of their ancient superstitions.

Large tracts of ‘loving’ Jesus followers in this country, want to deny childless couples the opportunity to have a family, using medical treatments.

Cutting to the chase, what I’m suggesting is where resources are stretched in the health system, care is given to those who will appreciate it & respond.

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 & death’ choices on daily basis, and we don’t raise an eye-brow.

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.

Their own Church has 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, and besides they can get local Priest to assist (no, not in a Biblical sense but a pastoral one, if that’s what you thought I was inferring to, although I guess the premise isn’t entirely out of the realms)

Why shouldn’t a grateful couple who want 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 sceptical, and acting under duress & facing outside pressure to reject the ungodly procedure.

Based on experience health-providers have a fair idea which of the couples in this example, is more likely to miss appointments, so precedency is both of benefit to the doctors and nurses, also ultimately, the maligned tax-payer.

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.

Jehovah Witness’s for example, are given the right to die, rather than submit to a blood transfusion.

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.

Hypocritical theists can’t have it both ways, when it comes to medical treatments, that upset their primitive God and his best-selling book.

On one hand theists can’t ask for a separate place to pray, 'their men' on the ward, at the tax-payers expense, then in the next breath announce “we are the same and demand the same treatment”.

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.

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?

If it is exclusivity through extra rights, they want – let’s give it to them.

Let’s embrace those who abandon reason & science for superstition, as it frees more beds for those who appreciate it.

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 & fought for.

It’s also time for theists to practice what they preach, and abdicate themselves from mainstream medicine and get back to basics.

Prayer and leeches.

Nazi’s flee Argentina for Rome!

Even for an organised-group with the world’s longest history of anti-semitism, this development over-night, must come as a blow to its already jaded record, and a huge embarrassment.

The Catholic Churches, role in assisting Nazi’s fleeing Europe to South America after World War Two, is well documented and irrefutable.

Now to have one of these favourite haunts for Nazi’s on the run, Argentina, summarily deport a Catholic Bishop for breaking laws against advocating hatred, namely anti-semetic outpourings, this all seems like a plot for a modern-day Gilbert & Sullivan.

Yesterday, Bishop Richard Williamson was asked to leave Argentina, where the Englishman had been living, after he refused to retract his denial of the existence of Nazi gas chambers.

Williamson is also on record for claiming the Israeli Mossad secret service & U.S Secret Service sympathisers, were behind September 11th.

At one stage Williamson was excommunicated by The Vatican, but just last month, they ‘had kissed and made-up’ and he was welcomed back in to the fold.

If for a brief second you thought The Vatican would finally take an ethical stand against their avowed theological enemies, the Jews, with his original excommunication, you would be wrong.

The original excommunication, wasn’t for Bishop Williamsons ongoing rabidly anti-Jewish utterances which continue unabated, it was for other “unrelated matters”, namely, Wlliamson was against The Vatican’s liberal reforms.

In a truly laughable, media statement on the controversial Bishop, The Vatican said “ The Pope had been unaware of Bishop Williamson's views, and had ordered him to recant”.

Evidently what the Vatican want you & me to believe, is they don’t have access to the internet, and they run a policy of ‘see no evil, hear, no evil’.

If only W.S Gilbert where alive today - what a splendid field day he would have with this material.

Nazi’s fleeing Argentina for Rome!

Funny as a play.

Find-out why all Christian Pro-Lifers Support the Termination of Pregnancies

I’m putting my cards on the table here, right from the start – those virtuous Pro-Lifers make me want to puke, they make my skin-crawl, with their two-faced morality.

It’s not that I’m in the least bit interested in the subject of abortion either, like most Kiwis’ it doesn’t register on my radar.

There’s something about these sanctimonious types, spending their whole lives obsessing over a subject like abortion, when there are far greater ills in society – that gets my goat up.

These pro-lifers all have this supercilious ‘fighting the good fight’ approach, and a zealousness that puts a re-education officer from North Korea to shame.

They thrive, showing-us-all gruesome photos, politicking to ‘the cows come home’ and even physically attacking those who believe in a woman’s right to choose.

My own doctor’s wife has fallen foul of these zealots illegal tactics via abuse, vandalism and even death threats.

Let’s cut to the chase here: to a person, Pro-Lifers are Christian busy-bodies with no real-lives, and a myopic view of the world, only possible to focus on with ‘god-goggles’.

What is the most ironic thing about these Christian warriors is their deep-seated belief it is O.K to kill the unborn.

Yes, you read that correctly: all Christian pro-lifers are comfortable with the termination of a pregnancy.

But only, if it’s God does the termination.

Pro-lifers see no problem if their God decided tomorrow, that every pregnant woman on this planet miscarried, yet dare to use the banner pro-life!

Pro-Lifers don’t give a monkeys if your baby, was born was deformed.

Tough-shit buddy, that’s God will.

Footnote: Someone I know had a Christian door-knocker tell her, their son, who has MS, was cursed by God and his parents were to blame for his condition through their sinful ways reducing her to tears! Charming.

Pro-Lifers are comfortable with God drowning millions of pregnant woman, and children in the Biblical flood.

Pro-Lifers don’t give a rats-arse about the Woman & Couples rights – just appeasing their God.

These ‘Warriors of Christ’ don’t care if a woman is raped and becomes pregnant, only following Gods will, that is to say, being defiled and then enduring the ignominy of carrying the attackers child to birth.

If a couple chooses to terminate a birth, due to the detection of a birth deformity in their unborn – this is against the sanctity of Gods word and must be stopped, but if God wants to terminate the same fetus, they see no problem.

A human can act in an immoral fashion – but never their precious God.

Their God can drown millions of children, pregnant women and they don’t take issue with this.

You never see an anti-abortion protest outside a Church, where a seething ‘foaming at the mouth’ mob displays placards with “God Kills Children” , “Stop the Slaughter of the Unborn”, “Gods blood is on your hands” etc.

That’s why Pro-Lifers make me want to puke.

They are inconsistent, moral bankrupts.

PS: Here’s what one of the pro-lifer types wrote me recently when I questioned him about Gods mass-drowning, so you get to know the mentality of these creeps. When reading this folks, just remember “it’s all very simple”!

I know that you won’t agree with this, but there is a difference between God executing judgement and a woman murdering her baby. God is entitled to execute judgement, a woman is not entitled to murder her baby. It’s all very simple: 1) God made the universe, therefore he owns it and he makes the rules 2) Every person has sinned and deserves the death penalty for sin 3) God is merciful and does not want people to die so Jesus died and paid the death penalty for us (he also came back to life to remind us that he is stronger than death). It is like a judge imposing a fine then offering to write a cheque and pay the fine 4) Those who do not accept the offer of the cheque will suffer punishment and final destruction: hell is not a place of endless torture {because God is not a sadist}, it is a place of final death 5) God is entitled to destroy anyone such as yourself who refuses the offer of the cheque, but instead he gives you unmerited favour and allows you to live so that you have plenty of opportunities for accepting the cheque I know that you do not believe any of this, but it is the truth whether or not you acknowledge it as the truth. Likewise “the sun rises in the east” is true even if you believe that it rises in the southwest. That is the nature of objective truth. Remember this always: God is not a cruel spoil-sport, he is love.



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Catholic Church starts peddling Indulgences again.

For those of you not about in the 16th Century, here’s a bit of a re-cap on how indulgences worked with-in the Catholic Church.

Sinner 'X' would approach his local priest and ask for continued permission to indulge in the sin of his choice – let’s say fucking sheep.

For a certain fee (animal sex, would be on the higher scale one expects), the priest would absolve the sinner for punishment in the afterlife.

Thus the Church turned a blind-eye to a range of sins – for a fee.

The practice of indulgences was so corrupt, you could be half-absolved for half price!

Sinners, who took the cheap route, endured extra time in purgatory for being stingy.

It was a great little money-spinner for The Catholic Church, who cared little about the duplicitous nature of sanctifying a range of sins as long as the palms were greased, and Rome’s strict quota’s made.

Well I’m guessing The Catholic Church must be down to their last thousand trillion dollars, because after 150 years on the outer, ‘indulgences’ are now making a come-back.

So what is the official Catholic Church line, on why indulgences are coming to a local church near you?

According to Bishop DiMarzio of Brooklyn, one of the first Churches to readopt the medieval practice, it’s “because there is sin in the world.”

Rather than being simply a money-making exercise, apparently this turn-around is because it “restores the fading traditions of penance”.

It’s also been re-packaged & marketed as “The Blessing of Indulgences” (the bribe that lasts more than ones life-time)

HOLIDAYS IN THEIST HELL-HOLES: JOIN OUR TEN DAY ARMED TOUR OF BRAZZAVILLE

Today’s Holiday Destination: Brazzaville (Republic of Congo)

Chances you’ll run into a fellow theist on the street: 98%

In 2003, a BBC survey voted Brazzaville as ‘The Worst City in the World to Live’ , beating off stern competition from the likes of Khartoum and Baghdad.

At one stage it was considered ‘The Worlds Most Dangerous City’, but it lost that lofty mantle, to Baghdad, shortly after the invasion.

Brazzaville is now only the second most dangerous city on the planet.

The ‘good oil’ has it, officials in the Brazzaville Tourist board, are going all out to obtain ‘the title’ as most dangerous, with a few random mass-killings of their own (mums the word on this, they don’t want the Jihadists in Iraq to find-out)

After decades of social and political turmoil, hunger, poverty, fighting, coups, rampant corruption, disease etc – the city is for all intents & purposes dysfunctional, but with a high density of Churches.

Let’s therefore look past the unspiritual facts like this, and place Brazzaville in its rightful position amongst The Top 10 Most Theistic places one can visit.

Don’t let all this crime & poverty deter you, there’s a spiritual reverence to Brazzaville, that the mainstream media & travel-agents forget.

For example, in 2007, this is deeply religious country, released of stamps to observe ‘World Religion Day’.

Wearing their hearts on their sleeves they’ve tell the world loudly "God is the source of all religions." - in between the highest rates of recorded rape in the world, and dropping dead at an average age of 35.

Yes folks, Brazzaville is a theists dream destination, with amongst the highest density of God-fearing citizens on this planet & most importantly hardly an evil-atheist to bother you.

It’s time to disregard your Government’s Travel Warning, and make that pilgrimage to D.R Congo – to experience being in such a theistic paradise, amongst so many fellow people ‘of faith’.

It’s time to get away from the moral-perils of your sectarian lifestyle back at home.

Abortion, gay-rights etc will all be things of the past, as you relax for 9 nights (10 days for good behaviour) in Brazzaville.

On our 10 day trip of you’ll travel in air-conditioned comfort in our Tour Bus, mingling with the local citizens.

We’ll eat-out nightly, in one of Congo’s numerous ‘Five Star Restaurants’ , as we discuss theocracy with our brothers in God. This trip is a fully escorted, with local guides.

As a special bonus on, the last two days, we’ve bribed local officials to run seminars for those taking our tour, on how to immigrate to the D.R Congo, and make a better life for you and your family – far from that hedonistic, profane society you rally against.

Children discounts are available.

So don’t delay – last years tour was sold-out (the U.N got in first)

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