Wed, 22 Aug 2007

Brethren meet PM in his office

Brethren meet PM in his office From TheAge. Says it all really.

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Businesses Owned by Exclusive Brethren in Australia

These secretive virulent meme complex infestation carriers are secretly but actively combating positive progress in Australia. They evidently control a network of businesses in Australia, but which ones?

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Sun, 18 Mar 2007

"He's a Christian guy. He made lots of Christian CDs."

Police said a motorist beat a former Soviet political prisoner to death with a rock Thursday at a New Jersey highway rest stop after the victim declined to buy his religious CDs. link to article

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Mon, 05 Mar 2007

When God Sanctions Killing, The People Listen

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/02/070223143009.htm

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Sat, 30 Dec 2006

2006 Darwin Awards - Priest Tries to walk on water, drowns

In August, a congregation's 35-year old pastor insisted one could literally walk on water, if only one had enough faith.

more information

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Mon, 25 Dec 2006

Happy Hijacked Festival!

Yuletide, quoted from Wikipedia:
Many of the symbols associated with the modern holiday of Christmas such as the burning of the Yule log, the eating of ham, the hanging of boughs, holly, mistletoe, etc. are apparently derived from traditional northern European Yule celebrations. When the first missionaries began converting the Germanic peoples to Christianity, they found it convenient to provide a Christian reinterpretation for popular feasts such as Yule and allow the celebrations themselves to go on largely unchanged, versus trying to confront and suppress them. The Scandinavian tradition of slaughtering a pig at Christmas (see Christmas ham), and not in the autumn, is probably the most salient evidence for this. The tradition derives from the sacrifice to the god Freyr at the Yule celebrations. Halloween and Easter are likewise assimilated from northern European pagan festivals.

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Tue, 06 Jun 2006

"God will save me" says man just before jumping into Lion enclosure and getting mauled to death.

KIEV (Reuters) - A man shouting that God would keep him safe was mauled to death by a lioness in Kiev zoo after he crept into the animal's enclosure, a zoo official said on Monday.

"The man shouted 'God will save me, if he exists', lowered himself by a rope into the enclosure, took his shoes off and went up to the lions," the official said.

"A lioness went straight for him, knocked him down and severed his carotid artery."

-- links to yahoo and BBC story.

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Fri, 12 May 2006

EVIL BIBLE

Sites like EVIL BIBLE.com are great, laying out some of the repugnant and annoying things about religion in a clear, punchy in your face manner.

Found while googling around after reading about the crimes of Internet Evangelist and Bible Basher Charles Michael Balfe

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Sun, 26 Mar 2006

Religious tolerance - UK vs Afghanistan

Interesting to compare the struggle of Shabina Begum in the UK with Abdur Rahman in Afghanistan.. maybe they should trade places and they both will be happy?

Meanwhile, in the US it seems those loving gentle Xtians have declared open season on any Atheists who dare stick to their opinions.

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Thu, 09 Feb 2006

those cartoons...

.. were published IN EGYPT in November to not a whisper of offence or protest. Seems to make a difference when you have a tour of troublemaking immans with a few extra fake cartoons thrown in touring to whip up trouble against the infidels... (who did pay for all those Danish flags? where did they get them?)

Meanwhile here are a few peace loving happy joy joy cartoons from arab countries.

On a a lighter note here are some funny sites

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Sat, 24 Sep 2005

God is for Suckers

Amazing wordpress blog site, has a lot of the interesting scraps of info I wish I had the time n assorted religious topics to trawl the net for:
http://gods4suckers.net/

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Tue, 06 Sep 2005

well it isn't tooooooo incorrect..

You scored as atheism. You are... an atheist, though you probably already knew this. Also, you probably have several people praying daily for your soul. Instead of simply being "nonreligious," atheists strongly believe in the lack of existence of a higher being, or God.

atheism

75%

Satanism

67%

agnosticism

54%

Paganism

29%

Judaism

21%

Buddhism

21%

Christianity

8%

Islam

8%

Hinduism

4%

Which religion is the right one for you? (new version)
created with QuizFarm.com

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Sun, 07 Aug 2005

USA - Convert or go to Jail

So much for freedom of religion.

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Tue, 05 Jul 2005

Obvious Hoax fallen for by the followers of Yet Another Meme Complex

If they can fall for this one so easily what else have they been suckered into? .. not that others haven't been suckered in either.

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Wed, 29 Jun 2005

Dennis Rader - Christian Church Leader and Mass Murderer.

Former church leader admits 10 murders

... said she began corresponding with Rader around March, "as one person of faith to another."
"We eventually began talking about writing a story about his life, which would have a Christian message," Casarona said.
from the Wichita Eagle

I guess at least he is a "person of faith", I mean if he was a Marilyn Manson fan there would be hell to pay!

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Wed, 22 Jun 2005

boy killed by christians

Terrance Cottrell, an 8 year old boy was killed by christians attemting to exorcise his autism. The Charlotte Observer/August 29, 2003 By Monica Davey
Milwaukee -- Terrance Cottrell Jr. died on the floor of a hot storefront church in a strip mall.
His shirt was drenched in sweat when the church members who were holding him down, saying they wanted to rid him of demons, finally noticed that he was dead. He had urinated on himself, and his small brown face had a bluish cast.
He was 8.
Terrance, who was autistic, was supposed to start third-grade special-education classes at 65th Street Elementary School on Tuesday. Instead, he will be buried here today.
Relatives and neighbors on the city's north side this week mourned the boy's asphyxiation death with small tributes -- three stuffed animals and a few room deodorizer candles on the window ledge of his apartment, a photocopy of his picture taped to the church door. i
Some also denounced a prosecutor's plans for consequences in the death, ruled a homicide by the medical examiner, as far too lenient.

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Sun, 19 Jun 2005

religious maniac kills family after isolated demented existance heavy in bible readings

Marcus Wesson, a controlling patriarch who taught his family that he was Jesus and fathered babies with his daughters and nieces, was found guilty of murdering nine of his children Friday
full story at the LA Times site.
Wesson was also a strict disciplinarian who punished his children with a stick and subjected them to long Bible lessons

I guess he didn't want any of those evil secular humanists to be a bad influence on them

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Crucified Nun dies in excorcism

A Romanian nun has died after being bound to a cross, gagged and left alone for three days in a cold room in a convent, Romanian police have said.
full link at the BBC
If this was a non mainstream religion doing this....

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Sun, 22 May 2005

Burning The Koran For Little Baby Jesus

Seems like despite Condoleeza Rice saying that disrespect for the Koran is abhorrent and will never be tolerated by the United States it doesn't match what the ardent conservative heartland of Fundamentalist Christians are up to as they seem to be taking a lot of satisfaction in burning the Koran in public, which just like burning flags, is constitutionally protected free speaach in the USA.

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Mon, 07 Feb 2005

BARE FACED MESSIAH

One of my favourite books of all time is Russell Miller's Bare Faced Messiah, a great expose of Dianetics and Scientology and just an amazing read. I have a battered paperback copy somewhere but I'm still kicking myself I didn't pick up the hardback I saw in a book shop once.

Luckily due to the wonders of the intraweb there is a whole copy of this amazing book on Dienetics and Scientology and L. Ron Hubbard online

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Sun, 30 Jan 2005

if it's the religion of truth..

..then why tell lies?

but all of this can be understood perfectly in the the context of a particularly vicious struggle between two similar but competing meme complexes.

Religions are special because they use just about every meme-trick in the book (which is presumably why they last so long and infect so many brains). Think of it this way. The idea of hell is initially useful because the fear of hell reinforces socially desirable behaviour. Now add the idea that unbelievers go to hell, and the meme and any companions are well protected. The idea of God is a natural companion meme, assuaging fear and providing (spurious) comfort. The spread of the meme-complex is aided by exhortations to convert others and by tricks such as the celibate priesthood. Celibacy is a disaster for genes, but will help spread memes since a celibate priest has more time to spend promoting his faith.

Another trick is to value faith and suppress the doubt that leads every child to ask difficult questions like "where is hell?" and "If God is so good why did those people get tortured?". Note that science (and some forms of Buddhism) do the opposite and encourage doubt.

Finally, once you've been infected with these meme-complexes they are hard to get rid of. If you try to throw them out, some even protect themselves with last-ditch threats of death, ex-communication, or burning in hell-fire for eternity. - from here

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Mon, 17 Jan 2005

no god

Getting quite fed up with all the religious bullshit going down... why don't these people think for themselves instead of taking the easy way out and going for voluntary self brainwashing.

GOD DOES NOT EXIST
And furthermore...

Paraphrased from my good mate Jon's web page.

I could go on and on about the various logical fallacies and inherent contradictions in religion but it's a waste of time.. just observe the strange blank facial expression of a fundy whenever you catch them out as the cogs in their brain jam up and then the brainwashing kicks in and changes the subject for them.

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