Access Ministries are the christian education provider that the Victorian government is throwing hundreds of thousands of dollars of funding at for their school chaplaincy program. Until very recently, they had a comic on their website that showed a bullied student seeking help from an arrogant, careless teacher, only to find his own justice by praying to god.

Access Ministries Evil Comic

Access Ministries Evil Comic


Mike Stuchbery, school teacher and commentator for The Drum’s ‘Opinion’ blog, posted his outrage over the comic and Access Ministries scrambled to take the comic offline.

The comic strip, You’re Asking for It, features a brutish teacher who is indifferent to the suffering of a student whose head was flushed down a toilet by school bullies. The teacher only reluctantly punishes the bully after God intervenes. The comic strip, by Rene Pfitzner, says ”Luke 18: Jesus told them all a story to show they should keep praying to God.”

The comic may have been pulled, but from the details of it it’s quite clear that the entire thing was dangerous, ignorant tripe. I fail to see how governments can continue to turn such a blind eye to organisations such as Access Ministries when it’s clear what their true agenda is. They don’t even hide their stupidity.

Next time you think that the chaplaincy program may not be so bad, or that your children won’t be affected, just remember who is being paid by the government to provide these services: single-minded fundamentalists hell-bent on spreading the word of their invisible god to young, impressionable children.