Posts by Izazael:

Christians caught lying, again.

May 16th, 2011

Christians certainly aren’t the only religious denomination in the world that lie. You may be surprised to know that atheists lie fairly well too. But it’s always great to poke fun at Christians when they get caught lying because they seem so intent on calling atheists immoral and claiming that the Bible is the only true authority on morality. They usually do this before, during, or after acting in ways directly opposed to what secular society would consider “good behavior.” Things like repressing women, homosexuals, and ethnic minorities — or covering up the fact that their priestly representatives enjoy slipping the occasional nine year old the Holy Salami.

ACCESS Ministries, the organisation funded to provide chaplains in Victorian schools, has been caught out multiple times in the last month openly promoting their goal to brainwash school children into their religion.

On top of the comic fiasco, there is Evonne Paddison’s embarrassing speech proclaiming that ACCESS Ministries have the responsibility of making disciples out of school kids. This isn’t just annoying for atheists who know without a doubt that the Christian faith is a bunch of hokum, but it is a direct breach of the chaplaincy program guidelines.

Our federal and state governments allow us to take the Christian faith into our schools. We need to go and make disciples.

We can only hope that a thorough review is performed, that funding is cut, and that this entire chaplaincy program is seen for what it is — taxpayer-funded religious brainwashing — and abandoned.

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Access Ministries Comic Infuriates Teacher

May 6th, 2011

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


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.

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Praying Down Crime

May 4th, 2011

This is definitely one religious trend that I hope never migrates from the US to Australia: prayer walkers. Yes, you read that right; religious citizens of Newark, New Jersey, have started a Pray Down Crime campaign that they claim will rid their streets of crime!

Who needs cops when you have god? Apparently Newark does, because after cuts to the police force and other departments, crime actually rose (despite what the Pray For Newark website’s spiffy video claims).

If you feel like a good chuckle, check out the full article on the matter over on Talk2Action.org

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Antitheist Daily – Public Forum

April 15th, 2011

Sometimes comments just aren’t enough; you need to vent your spleen in a traditional forum where people can flame you and post a bunch of nasty spam!

You’ve been asking for it, so we’ve provided it! The new Public Forum is available for you to use and abuse!

The new forum will be shared with the Adelaide Atheists community once their website is rebooted in early May, so hopefully there will be a decent amount of cross-pollination and discussion.

So get in there and cause a stir! What do you think about the charges being laid against the Pope? Do you support or hate the chaplaincy program in Australia? What are your thoughts of the banning of the burqa in France?

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Pope assigns blame for child abuse on secular society

December 21st, 2010

In a move that boggles the mind and puts the Pope’s mental capacity in question, Pope Benedict XVI has pointed the finger at an increasingly secular society as a reason for the Catholic Church’s long history of child abuse.

“The psychological destruction of children, in which human persons are reduced to articles of merchandise, is a terrifying sign of the times.”

The revelation came during his traditional Christmas speech to Vatican officials in which he tried to blame the sexual abuse on a society that now, supposedly, accepts child pornography and sexual tourism.

For more information, check out the Yahoo! news article and an opinion piece in The Examiner.

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Pope blames Bad Seeds for child abuse

May 17th, 2010

In a typical move, the pope has claimed that the bad seeds (read: thousands of child-molestors taking refuge in his rich, international faith organisation) shouldn’t eclipse the good done by the nice priests (the ones who, presumably, don’t stick their cock inside children).

In these last months we have had to repeatedly confront news that aims to take away the joy in the church, to obscure it as a place of hope.

Nick Cave has declined to comment.

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On a lighter note: fake science!

May 17th, 2010

Just for some Monday morning giggles: http://www.buzzfeed.com/donnad/5-examples-of-awesome-fake-science-bif

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Pakistani Muslim men sodomise Christian barber

May 3rd, 2010

It seems that no profession is safe anymore, especially if you’re a barber in a radical Islamic community that considers hair to be sacred.

A Christian barber in Pakistan was asked by a student to shave off the students beard, and after some refusals, the barber finally agreed. That was his first mistake.

The student’s brother, a radical Muslim, happened to wander past and see the heinous act in progress and did what any member of the peaceful religion of Islam would do: he starting wrecking up the place and beating the barber in the head with his shoes.

The barber was then kidnapped, locked in a room, beaten, and sodomised by eight men as punishment for getting happy with the Gillette. The local police force has so far done nothing.

Moral of the story: cancel your next holiday to Pakistan.

http://freethinker.co.uk/2010/04/30/barber-sodomised-for-beard-abuse/

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Alternatives to religious studies are needed

April 12th, 2010

Alternatives to religious studies are desperately needed for Australian school children, says Leslie Cannold in an article in the Sydney Morning Herald.

I know many people (friends, co-workers, family) who have succumbed to sending their children to religious schools despite being atheists, and having to suffer the inevitable dilemma of allowing their kids to attend indoctrinating ‘religious studies’ lessons or having the young ones stuffed into a corner for 45 minutes doing nothing.

Where are the alternatives? Why is it religious studies or nothing? Is it something that we’re expected to simply put up with if we choose a religious school for our child’s education? Leslie and a lot of Australia parents think not.

But in the long-term Karen, and others like her, must fight. Beat on the door of the Education Minister until she amends the department’s policy that prescribes suitable alternatives being provided for kids whose parents say no to scripture.

The full article can be found on the Sydney Morning Herald site.

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What happens when a minister decides there’s no God?

April 12th, 2010

Daniel Dennett speaks about his experiences delving into the mystery of faithless ministers in an interview on boston.com.

The point is that this is a dirty little secret that many people in the church know but the general public doesn’t, and we think it’s important and we think it’s interesting.

It really does highlight the need for a more supportive atheist community for the ex-religious to be welcomed by, and possibly more structure and ritual to help replace some of the more ’spiritual’ and ’social’ aspects of religious communities.

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