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Tony Abbott is the leader of the opposition.  He’s also stuck in the 50’s.  Not too long back he said that women should treat their virginity as a ‘gift’.¹.  Back in 2004 he said on Lateline that he had not visited Cardinal Pell when he had.².  Tony the Rabbit has also said that paid maternity leave would happen over the government’s dead body ³.  Tony is your classic conservative politician.  He is unashamedly catholic, and makes no apologies for his attitudes.  He’s the first to admit when he’s wrong and has shown the ability to change tact when in his best political interest.

Then he trots out this line on 60 Minutes

LIZ HAYES: Homosexuality? How do you feel about that?
TONY ABBOTT: I’d probably I feel a bit threatened…
LIZ HAYES: I’m not asking if it’s a personal choice of yours.
TONY ABBOTT: ..as so many people.
LIZ HAYES: When you say ‘threatened’?
TONY ABBOTT: Again, Liz, look, it’s a fact of life and I try to treat people as people and not put them in pigeonholes.

How does a gay person threaten you Tony?  When was the last time you were threatened by a bunch of gays?  This attitude is the sort of confusion from our leaders that makes people think it’s ok to deal with the ‘threat’.  It’s the sort of comment that makes a questioning young gay person feel horrible and question their very being.  It’s careless and horrible.  60 Minutes should not have broadcast it and Rabbithead should have kept his mouth shut.

The next thing he says is just as bad:

“There is no doubt that it (homosexuality) challenges, if you like, orthodox notions of the right order of things” Mr Abbott told Lateline.

Right order?  You condescending bastard.  You with your stupid dress wearing bishops, you with your eating the body of jesus, you with your death worshiping religion.  You want to talk about right order.

This man wants to be PM.  That’d be worse than John Howard, Robert Menzies and Margaret Thatcher all wrapped up in the same conservative leader.

Then the comments on the Herald Sun website, there are both sides of the argument there, but still a clear divide.  He’s comments feed the trolls and create divisions.  It’s not ok to say these things about anybody.  It’s not ok to aspire to be the nations leader and say this shit.

I wish I voted Liberal, just so I could not vote for them next time.

The Love Llama turns.
Be sure to wish him a pleasant turning!

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Bill Muehlenberg is a christian, or something.  He’s got a blog and uses it to defend the ridiculous notion that there is a god and he draws

upon the wealth of wisdom found in the Judeo-Christian tradition.

I guess that means he thinks jesus is his saviour.

You know that god of the judeo-chrisitian tradition, don’t you?  That’s the god that put a tree in the middle of a garden, then put people next to the tree and told them not to eat from it, it’s the god that then punished those people and could only manage to redeem them by killing his only son, that was really himself, and calling it a sacrifice, until his son, which is really himself, came back to life.  So, where’s the sacrifice if nothing was actually given up?

Now, that’s an idiotic claim.  Really, it’s idiotic.  Plain and simple.

Billy babes thinks that it is an idiotic claim to say that teaching religion to children is child abuse.  This is akin to saying that it’s ok to pretend the god of the bible is real and to pretend that that is the truth.  It’s not the truth, it’s rubbish and dangerous.  It promotes distrust of other faiths, in makes people feel superior to others, it’s used to justify homophobia, racism and even greed.

Like so many theists, he really wants to think that atheism is a religion.  He wants to make Richard Dawkins the head honcho of the atheists.  He’s desperate, and can’t understand how anyone can have no  beliefs in anything at all.

It is simply impossible to discuss any vital political or moral question without an appeal to some sort of worldview, some sort of overarching religious point of view, even if that viewpoint happens to be atheism.

Let’s get this right here.  Religion, it’s way out idiotic beliefs, have no place in decision making processes that affect everyone.  We don’t subscribe to your stupid fairytales and they have no place in our rules. You don’t need religion to work out that we are social beings and all we really want to do is get on with each other.   Religion is divisive.  It encourages its followers to believe that they are right and everyone else is wrong.

Bill also can’t see where the indoctrination  of children is child abuse.  He doesn’t see that teaching children that if they don’t behave in a certain way, they’ll go to hell.  He doesn’t see that teaching children that being gay is evil and wrong will cause much pain and anguish in a gay child, it is more likely to lead that child to suicide.  He thinks that indoctrinating children with his filthy hateful religion is a good thing.

Bill has a right to believe what ever he wants, but he really needs to shut up and keep it to himself.

Oh, yes, I have a right to not believe whatever I want, and I really need to shut up and keep it to myself….. you first.

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You just know that somewhere out there in the world wide web some dumbarse christians are thinking the world is about to end.

It only seems like yesterday that Haiti had a big quake that caused much devastation.  Now the pro-death christians have got boners because another big quake has happened and more death and destruction has visited us.

It’s the end of days they cry!  Two earth quakes, big earth quakes!  It’s the end of days, the seals are being broken!  Satan is lose on the earth!  jesus is coming back!  Repent! Repent!

MedHelp is a site that does medical stuff, seems quite good, but buried in their forums are nutters that think they are about to be taken up to heaven in the great rapture.  Earthquakes are a sure sign.  Never mind that earthquakes happen every day.  They take it as a sign.

People I have been saying all along in all my journals that we are living in the last days. & the bible tells us that b4 Jesus returns that earthquakes would increase in the last days!!

Hopefully it’s your last days.

“God, we don’t always understand why some things happen but we are so glad that you are in control”. Thank you God for giving me and so many others the ability and wisdom to recognize the imminent return of Jesus Christ.

You call this control?  Sounds like he’s slipped up a bit, and why is this any more ‘imminent’ than any natural event in the last 2000 years?

God is still in control of everything that goes on! Trust me he does not want it 2b like this because our God is a loving God! But because of the evilness in mans heart & the sinful nature in it! God has 2 punish earth 4 turning its back on God

Sorry?  In control of everything?  If he doesn’t want it to be like this why doesn’t he try some supernatural event instead of a natural event, then we might take notice, as far as I can tell it’s an earthquake.  If your bastard god really wants to get our attention, why doesn’t he do something spectacular, like replace the sun with a giant glowing cross?  Then we would all pay attention and could avoid the end times.  And what’s the idea with the punishment?  That bastard god disappears for thousands of years, the most we get is visions of jesus on toast, so in the absence of any clear proof he wants to punish us for turning our backs on him.  Just who turned their back on whom?

Have a browse through the forum, its quite laughable.  These nutters are going to bring about the end of the world just from their fucking stupidity.

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As if it’s not bad enough with all the politicians and media falling over themselves wanting to get in on the Mary Fucking MacKillop crap, as if it’s not bad enough listening to Tim Fisher and Cardinal Hell wetting themselves with excitment over the impending canonisation of a dead person, now the jews are into it as well.  I guess they didn’t want to feel left out.

It seems that when things were a bit bad for MFM in Adelaide, and she’d been turfed out of her house, who should come along and help her, not a christian, not a politician, not a christian politician, no a jew!  So now, because of the kind Emanuel Solomon we have a jewish connection to MFM.

Praise the lord, miracle!

What next?  She rode a camel owned by an Afghan muslim?  She received a buddha  from a Tibetan monk? She once saw off in the distance a hare krishna dancing?

Once one of my ancestors passed through Adelaide, and MFM was three blocks over as he went through, the story has been passed down and we all now feel so blessed.

Everyone wants in on the MFM bandwagon… hitch yourself up.

Well, yet another blog about MFM.

She’s everywhere, and all our pollies are falling over each other saying what a great thing it is.  Anybody think that it was every catholic in Australia that contributed to the sainthood of MFM.

The media have lots of nice things to say as well, what’s missing here is the dissenting voices.  Then I heard PM¹the other night.  At last I thought, some dissent!

SIMON LAUDER: Chris Udy is the Minister at Killara Uniting Church in Sydney. He’s concerned by the idea that a saint can be a middle man in prayer.

CHRIS UDY: It’s the extra magicality of it that’s problematic or certainly for me; the idea that saints can somehow put you further up the pecking order. I think that would be the issue, the idea that you can somehow peddle influence with God. I think that would be the problem.

In fact it turns upside down a fairly fundamental issue in the life of Jesus and that is that it was actually the least powerful, the people who had least influence and least authority, they were the ones that he spent his time with.

What’s that? Extra magicailty? Extra? You think there’s magic and declaring someone a saint is extra magic? Oh wow. How much make believe can you stick in one sentence. Whether its MFM or the little dead baby jesus himself, only two people got the miracle. Those saints are a lazy bunch of arseholes.

When Adelaide’s chief dress wearing bishop Philip Wilson was asked about how reliable the proof of the miracles is, how well it stands up to scruinty, you know, the sort of question that says something like – show us the proof – he said this:

PHILIP WILSON: Oh I think it’s just been part of our history and tradition that we know that these people are responsible and upright people who do these works and that their judgements are ones that can be trusted.

So, you make a grand claim, the claim that a dead person did two miracles, the church goes off and tests the theory, finds that there is no other reason but the intervention of god and declares a miracle. We want to know how you arrived at that decision, instead we are told by dress flapper Wilson to just trust the responsible and upright people. I think he needs a couple of Beks and a good lie down.

Then the whole commercial enterprise kicks into action. The gift shop at Melbourne’s Mary MacKillop Heritage Centre is reporting a leap in sales and phone calls. They even had to get extra staff in to help sell the fridge magnets and spoons with a picture of MFM on it.²  I’m sure it’s just the start of a huge sale in all things Mary MacKillop.  (You know, even in the church whence I come from long time ago, there’s a MFM banner in a special chapel where you can go down on bended knee and pray.  I think MFM parents are buried out west.)  Here’s a great opportunity to get some first class relics and make an absolute killing.  Dig up the bones of MFM and flog em off.  People have been selling Saints relics³  for years, what a great way to make a small fortune.

I can’t wait.  Think of all the money that’s going to be made from MFM.  The church must be rubbing their pink bits.

I have finally worked out why Mary Fucking MacKillop has only performed two miracles.  It’s because she’s busy in heaven with jesus.  He is so beautiful.

Jesus is neat

You only have to walk around any cemetery to see just how cute he really is.  Nicely trimmed beard, dreamy eyes and a nice taut fit body.  Of course, the heart on the outside of the clothes is a bit of a worry, but it seems to be pumping OK, you’d probably want to get him some shoes and perhaps some band-aids for the cuts on his hands.

And what conditioner and shampoo does he use? I mean how do you get your hair to be so perfect.  It’s wavy and appears to be knot free.  Then there’s the eye shadow, maybe a bit of mascara to highlight his long lashes.

And the beard is to die for.  It looks soft and well groomed and offset by he’s red lipstick, which matches his heart and cloak.  How co-ordinated of jesus, and it only goes to show that the man had a good eye for fashion and knew how to look after himself.  I mean really, doesn’t he just scream “Come play with me now”?

Jesus pokes his heart

So when Elton John said that jesus was gay [SOURCE], perhaps he wasn’t far from the truth.  I bet jesus was telling all his followers how to dress and had a constant supply of tips for the homosexual.

Bill Donahue from the Catholic League in the US certainly wasn’t amused [SOURCE].  He’s still taking the whole jesus thing seriously.

More seriously, to call Jesus a homosexual is to label him a sexual deviant.  We’re not sure what’s worse—John’s ignorance or intolerance

Oh Billy boy, there’s nothing deviant about being homosexual.  There is however, something wrong with you.  You think dead people still do stuff.  Poor bastard.  It’s also rich that someone so homophobic and intolerant of people who are gay should call someone else ignorant and intolerant.

On February 7th 2009 a big fire came and burned the land in Victoria. Black Saturday it’s called. 173 people died.

So, this year, the first anniversary, see’s people falling over themselves holding various memorial services.  Not that I mind that, these fires have touched many people and I’m sure that the passage of time will never dull the pain of losing a loved one, losing your family home, losing every thing that is important to you.

But then, who jumps in on the act.  Churches.  Suddenly these batshit crazy types are holding memorial services.

Advertising Memorial Serivce

“We Remember” says this sign.  “A Service to Honour and Remember Black Saturday”.  You have to be kidding me.  They want you to go to church, they want you to listen to them drone on about how much god loves you and has a plan.  They don’t want you to ask the question “Why did god let this happen”.  That’s because they don’t want to give you the answer that we all know.  There is no god.  If there was a god, an all powerful god that takes an interest in your life then he wouldn’t let you be in the way of a bushfire, there are so many ways that this god thing could have prevented a bushfire, or an earthquake, or a tsunami, but he doesn’t.  Shit happens.  The churches try to gloss over the reality and attempt to give you comfort and meaning. They’re not helping, and they can’t have it both ways.

Remember those who who died.  Remember those who are left behind.  Care for each other, help each other.  Do that and the world will be a much better place.  You don’t need god to do it.

Mary Fucking MacKillop (MFM).  Who the hell was she?  There’s plenty of information on the web, but in a nut shell, born 1842 in Melbourne.  Dead 1909 in Sydney.  In the time in between she was busy setting up catholic schools and helping the down and out.  Sounds like a very noble pursuit, I’m sure worthy of being called an Australian Pioneer.  Curing cancer?  Please.  How rude is that.  Here we have this person who did lots of great things while alive and now we are expected to believe that in her death MFM did even greater things like curing cancer and leukemia.  One each.  There are thousands of people dying from cancer every year in Australia and in death MFM can only get two fixed up.  It is these miracles that we are told proves she’s worthy of sainthood.  Like some stupid dumbarsed medieval flock, we are expected to believe this trash from the catholics¹.

Its stupid. Not just a little bit stupid either, this is really really really stupid times infinity.

The twitterverse is alive with lots of interesting tweets.  I’ve stuck some of them over there on the right (cast your eyes right) there’s some very funny people around!

It’s just irresponsible for the church to continue to propagate this stupid belief that dead people cure life threatening illness.  People need good medical treatment, they need to know that medical science will do all it can for them, they don’t need to have some vague stupid notion that whipping out your rosary beads and praying for a cure will actually work.

While the politicians and clergy fall over each other saying how great all this is, and the media continues to talk about the ‘miracles’ nobody is stepping up to say that it’s the biggest load of hogwash and that the church should pull it’s head in and stop pretending that the ‘cures’ come from MFM, who is without a doubt dead.

While I’m waving my willy about and picking on the catholics about their silly notions of sainthood, it’s important to remember our place in the universe.

The believers would have us believe the their rather pathetic god created the universe.  Yet, when the Hubble telescope was pointed at a dark spot in the sky, a spot no bigger than a grain of sand, this is what it saw.

It’s awesome and should dash any thoughts you have about any god taking an interest in your daily life.  You are small, insignificant and the universe doesn’t give a flying fuck about you.