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Warning: Ignore this “Triangle of Life” Crap

Canterbury Atheists — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 21:00:00 +0000

EXTRACT FROM DOUG COPP'S ARTICLE ON THE: "TRIANGLE OF LIFE"

My name is Doug Copp. I am the Rescue Chief and Disaster Manager of the American Rescue Team International (ARTI), the world's most experienced rescue team. The information in this article will save lives in an earthquake.

This is the start of an e.mail headed 'Earthquake Advice' my household received by well-meaning friends, no less than 6 times, in the wake of the series of earthquakes that have descended (should that be ascended?) on our region of N.Z.

My wife has also helped its viral-spread by sending it to numerous folk in our own address book.

Yet, something about the advice Mr Copp provides in his “Triangle of Life” email didn’t ring true to me, based-on what I had known previously about how to survive an earthquake.

What is loosely called ‘The Duck and Cover Approach’

That’s to say if you are inside during an earthquake get under a sturdy desk, table or bed.

Even to this layman Copps ‘Triangle of Life’ clearly contained dubious & plain stupid stuff like get out of your car in the middle of an earthquake and lay down next to the vehicle as being safer than staying inside and to avoid using door-frames as protection.

It had all the hallmarks of a hoax and on closer inspection my suspicions were proven right.

I simply googled ‘Doug Copps Earthquake’ and was greeted with page after page of rebuttals.

Even Wikipedia had a own page dedicated to exposing Mr Copp’s controversial and mostly dis-proven theories, on how to survive a earthquake.

Go to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangle_of_Life

In short anyone who took Copps advice at face-value and employed-it during a major earthquake, shunning the ‘Duck and Cover’ tactics, would be increasing their chances of being injured or killed.

Red Cross have continually lambasted Copps ‘Triangle of Life’ and are sick of having to re-iterate the basics of earth-quake survival in the western-world.

Exploring this subject further Mr Copp himself proved-to-be what could be politely termed ‘a colourful character’ or if one was less charitable ‘a nut-case.’

He was discovered making an erroneous claim to The September 11th Compensation Fund and exposed as an impostor at the Twin-Towers site and told to leave or be arrested.

Nearly every-time there is major earthquake around the globe the ubiquitous Copp turns-up – uninvited – and generally makes a nuisance of himself.

The team alluded to in the name ARTI is more than often just Copp on his lonesome with his own range of life-saving equipment.

Having failed to convince every credible search and rescue organisation on the planet about his ‘theories’ the prolific Copp resorts to self-promotion via gullible media outlets and the internet.

Thus most Cantabrians now have his potentially dangerous theories (in a literal term of the word) residing in their inbox.

Note: If you have received this ‘Triangle of Life’ email what-ever you do IGNORE IT and tell everyone you know “it’s a lot of crap” and revert back to what we were all first taught at school – get under a desk, door-frame etc.

Sacrilegious Muslims burn effigies of one of Monty Pythons highest deities!

Canterbury Atheists — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 22:22:00 +0000

This frightening vilification of one of the Python team on the streets of Kabul was in-fact predicted over two decades ago:

Stand staunch Python fans in the face of this desecration of our sacred living-deity.

Remember whenever there are 2 or 3 are in one place, we shall perform the parrot sketch.

Just what Canterbury needs right now – a fucking prayer-wheel!

Canterbury Atheists — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 21:32:00 +0000

Let me paint the scene here in Canterbury: some houses still don’t have power, buildings are being demolished, schools closed, police patrol the inner-city to prevent looting and injury, the sleepless population is under stress from on-going after-shocks as high as 6 on the Richter Scale, business’s are closed and struggling to survive.

Faced with a catastrophe of this scale, pray-tell what is New Zealand’s Buddhist Communities solution to Canterbury’s woes?

Well their top-temple up in Auckland is going to spin its giant purpose-built prayer wheel, said to be the worlds largest (wop de fuck) and magically spread ‘calmness’ down to the frazzled peoples of Canterbury.

This is frankly a well-meaning load of cobblers we could do without.

If the Buddhist community wants to genuinely assist Cantabrians I can suggest a more pressing piece of philanthropy that will create more calmness and inner peace than even a prayer-wheel built on the same scale as one of Jupiter’s moons.

Tragically amongst the businesses/buildings damaged in the first quake was New Zealand Breweries operation in Christchurch.

Horror of all horrors imaginable - the pubs in Canterbury are now running dry.

So stop wasting valuable-time spinning that wheel & get your best monks from The Dorje Chang Institute on ‘mercy mission’ down south.

Set them to work repairing our local brewery!

Dad, what causes earthquakes?

Canterbury Atheists — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 01:48:00 +0000

Please turn-on the You Tube as you ponder the differing mind-sets of an atheist and theist when it comes to answering their childs questioning on something-basic like say 'what causes an earthquake?'

1.) Atheists Perspective (in 50 words or less)

"Son, earthquakes are entirely natural occurrences caused by disturbances in the earths-plates"

2.) A Theist Perspective (in 50 words or less)

"Son, The Bible and Koran tell us earthquakes and other natural disasters are caused by God"

These are geometrically (pun intended) different points of view.

Clearly there is a chasm (I’m on a roll here) between the atheist’s belief in the earths tectonics being the cause of earthquakes, and the theists claims for the supernatural intervention of their god Yahweh/Allah.

Do you think we could perhaps solicit the average viewer of Sesame Street to help us decide which position is in-fact right?

And remember it's healthy for society to allow parents to indocrinate their children with what-ever bull-shit they can dream-up.

Allow state-supported schools to teach stuff more befitting of the middle-ages.

Utter crap like god causes earthquakes.

Two more theories on what is causing Canterbury’s earthquakes.

Canterbury Atheists — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 03:31:00 +0000

1.)Pro-rata Canterbury has far-too-many sluts opening their legs for random strangers and getting their tits- out on public view?

2.)Mayoral aspirant Jim Anderton challenged God to do his thing earlier in the night of the big quake and God suitably obliged?

My money is on that double-dipping-socialist and ex minion of The Catholic Church, Anderton, who was safely tucked-up in bed in his home in Wellington when 'the balloon went-up' here on Friday night.

When did The MythBusters and Disney-Channel become the same-thing?

Canterbury Atheists — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 02:25:00 +0000

MythBusters is an immensely popular programme in my household, amongst its joker (translation: male) population.

Where was way cool TV like this in my youth, eh?

But as I watched last nights episode I came to the realisation that despite its best intentions and topical ‘skeptical’ format - MythBusters is very much tabloid fodder – interesting, but strictly throw-away.

My balloon-burst when I came to the conclusion MythBusters never gets its teeth into the ‘good meaty stuff.’

There has been, and never will-be, episodes on homeopathy, chiropractors, The Mystical Order of Rosicrucian etc.

They will never explore the efficacy of say Vitamin C or St Johns Wart etc.

What about tackling the mammoth sized ‘myths’ that are passed-off by large sections of society as fact – like say Jesus’s resurrection and Muhammad's ascendancy to heaven?

If it is good enough to examine and dissemble elaborate You-Tube hoaxes, why not place the ‘blow-torch’ on a weird cult or say the ramblings of L. Ron Hubbard?

Absolute crap like this video from 'Indian Guru' Sri Chinmoy:

So a message to Adam and Jamie and those behind the programme: stop picking the comfortable middle-road and do some gutsy cutting-edge content or face losing your audience who grow-bored with the same PG content directed more at kids than adults.

Also last but not least, have a word to the crew in the wardrobe department and make sure that spunk Kari wears a lot more skimpy stuff in future. Pervs like me want more camera-shots of her like these:

View Poseidon’s Wrath!

Canterbury Atheists — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 21:31:00 +0000

Stark, irrefutable evidence of Poseidon (The God of Earthquakes)wrath directed against the worship places of Canterbury’s false religions. When are people going to take Poseidon's ancient & prophetic teachings more seriously and shun these trendy,modern false-doctrines? This has been a wake-up call. As a society we need to get back to god. Zeus, Hades and Electra etc. We really need to sacrifice something to Poseidon's name, and sooner rather than later!

Footnote: I have started a 'Sacrifice Fund' care of my TAB Account. Goats don't come cheap and are in high demand of late.

Let’s face it Science can tell us nothing about Earthquakes

Canterbury Atheists — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 22:55:00 +0000

Boy those evil-atheist boffins have managed to muddy the waters over last-nights massive earthquake here in Christchurch.

Who needs to deal with those complicated words like Richter-scales and epicentres when for centuries mankind has known full-well the basis for earthquakes and other natural disasters.

In a nut-shell: when God get’s pissed-off with us he shakes-the-earth or makes it rain a lot etc.

Are those scientist’s thick or what?

Praise be to Poseidon, The God of Earthquakes, no one was killed.

The Allan Hubbard Conspiracy

Canterbury Atheists — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 00:59:00 +0000

This week South Canterbury Finance was placed into receivership and the taxpayer came to the rescue of its mum & pop investors (read: National Party stalwarts)

Despite what has been portrayed by vested-interest groups, mostly south of the Rakaia River, there was and is no conspiracy here in the form of neo-fascist Serious Fraud Office interrogating Hubbard and his wife like a scene from ‘The Deer Hunter.’

No evil, malicious government at work trying to destroy the reputation of an elderly and much revered ‘God fearing’ businessman.

SCF and the intertwined companies lent money to people who couldn’t pay back the interest & who were sitting on depreciating assets many of which now have values less than the loans taken, some near worthless - all at a time when the world economies were in a tail-spin.

Another ‘nail in the coffin’ were the investors who, prudently as it turns-out, pulled their money-out on maturity date rather than re-investing it. Thus the day to day operating cash needed to operate, dried-up.

This scenario in South Canterbury Finance is little different than the demise of other finance companies we have seen lately.

If you lend investors money to a 2nd hand car yard, a pub, a land developer or a dairy conversion group in Waimate etc and the recipients can’t pay back the loan – then make these bad choices time after time - the end result is the same. The bad investments drag- down the good and it all turns pear-shaped.

In the case of South Canterbury finance they made around $600 million of bad calls.

Cries that the fatal-demise of this South Canterbury institution would seriously harm the local Canterbury economy ring-hollow when we (its new default share-holders) learnt about the scope of its bad debts, much of which evaporated in the metro-sexual haunts of Auckland’s viaduct, Marlborough Vineyards, Luxury Apartments in Queenstown, a Resort in Fiji and even the ubiquitous Dave Henderson got his mitts on SCF’s investors loot.

$700 to $800 million went into what NBR termed ‘non viable building projects.’

It was those who made the bad-calls to loan other-peoples life-savings, money to these defaulting parties who are at fault and not the SFO, evil public servants in Wellington.

To quote SCF’s Chief Executive Sandy Maier “South Canterbury’s failure is a result of its own actions and activities and poor decisions historically.”

The fact that one director of a failed finance company lead a more frugal existence, went to church on Sunday, donates to SPCA etc and his failed contemporaries were hedonistic flash Aucklanders driving Mercs means nothing to me as a tax-payer. The end result of their respective business’s is the same – blood on the ground and the tax-payer left holding the can without getting any say.

Why New Zealanders should feel any sympathy for the Directors of SCF versus say Hanover Finance is beyond me?

In-fact Hanover’s melt-down didn’t bleed every New Zealander to the tune of $400 each, just it’s share-holders - which is the way it should be in a capitalist economy.

For the record I never invested in any of these defunct finance companies – yet there is not only people wanting me to pay for other peoples bad choices - on top of that, there is also an element who want me to cry crocodile tears at the way Mr & Mrs Hubbard have been treated as well!

Well Fuck You!

Fuck the socialist National Party!

As a country we can’t pay for teachers wage rises but we can find a billion-plus for investors chasing high returns in what turned-out to be a portfolio with high risk investments.

If you are comfortable investing in speculative ventures like resorts in that coup ridden basket-case Fiji, fly-by-night glitzy pubs, ‘boom & bust’ agricultural enterprises like vineyards – be prepared to lose your shirt.

By-in-large the ungrateful National voting investors in SCF weren’t happy with the conservative returns offered by Trading Banks or the volatility of the share-market. The investors of SCF were happy taking the high-returns but squealed like pigs to gutless politicians when their money disappeared down the tubes.

For those misguided souls that still worship the cult of Hubbard here’s a message - why-not dip-into your own pockets & the moment you can re-invest in South Canterbury Finance & Aorangi Securities again – do so- if this is as you suggest a matter of principal and such a vital asset worth saving?

After-all the best thing his supporters and fellow parishioners can do to show solidarity with Hubbard and his fellow directors is, the moment statutory management is lifted, to place your money in South Canterbury Finance, Aorangi Securities etc (or for that matter one of the hundreds of companies Hubbard is a director in – there’s a couple of hundred from all accounts)

So if you truly back Allan Hubbard forget posting empty platitudes on Facebook sites and instead have the fortitude to take your own money out of your own bank account and not mine.

Forget the holiday on The Gold Coast, sell the boat, caravan, house, pets, send the kids up chimneys etc & the give all your worldly wealth to that honest & benevolent financial genius Allan Hubbard and his ably qualified & proven team at SCF to prudently invest on your behalf.

Say finish off that resort in Fiji that is languishing.

Dave Henderson certainly could do with your $'s currently.

Personally I wouldn’t lend SCF or Aorangi etc a brass rarzoo and I don’t mind saying so.

Last and by no means-least, I also think its high-time some of these privileged self-interested investors who have been bailed-out should take time away from sending the Hubbards condolences cards and say “Thank-You.” to suckers like me.

Professor Stephen Hawkings tells the bipedal primates with brains: “There is no place for God in theories on the creation of the Universe”

Canterbury Atheists — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 20:17:00 +0000

For the last few centuries Science and Religion have been playing the equivalent of a game of strip-poker.

Religion is now down-to-its last-vestiges of clothing (a frilly pair of woman’s panties as worn by The Pope) and Science is about to place it’s hand, a Royal Flush, on-to the table.

Rather than the conventional deck these cards come embossed with a simple statement of what is about to be revealed as fact.

GOD DID NOT CREATE UNIVERSE

Read some excepts from Hawkings new book ‘The Grand Design’:

“That makes the coincidences of our planetary conditions - the single Sun, the lucky combination of Earth-Sun distance and solar mass - far less remarkable, and far less compelling as evidence that the Earth was carefully designed just to please us human beings."

"Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing.”

“Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the universe exists, why we exist.”

"It is not necessary to invoke God to light the blue touch paper and set the universe going."

Help the Oingo Boingo Tribe find God and stay out of Hell!

Canterbury Atheists — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 01:10:00 +0000

The small Oingo Boingo tribe have occupied the same hidden valley of Papua New Guinea for millennia.

The jungle-tribe remains oblivious to the outside world, just as the outside world remains unaware of their existence.

Given this scenario how does God communicate with the tribe?

Not even the most fervent and adventurous proselytising missionary has come across their village and the tribe are perfectly happy & comfortable with their existence and feel no need to seek out other human contact.

Why is God happy for generation after generation of the Oingo Boingo tribe to burn in hell?

Less than gentle reminder: Christians, Jews and Muslims all share the same God.

Canterbury Atheists — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:47:00 +0000

Nothing gets your average garden variety Christian and Muslim’s ‘knickers in a knot’ than kindly reminding devotees they revere the same God.

In-fact the ‘Abrahanic threesome’, comprising Jews, Christians and Muslims, all happen to worship the same supreme-being.

Yes indeed ladies & gentlemen, at the core of all three of these monotheist religions is the same God.

Muslims, Jews and Christians may well give this supreme-being differing names, different interpretations, different off-spring who came to earth, customs etc - but the basis of all three religions is the reverence of the same megalomaniac sky-daddy.

Call him Elohim, All Haqq, Yah, Messiah, Allah, Everlasting Father, Jehovah, Al Basir or any other derivation - make no bones about it – this is the same invisible geezer generically called God and theists of all colours need regular reminding of less than palatable fact.

So when the September 11th hijackers praised God as they crashed their planes causing the deaths of 3,000 innocent victims – the God they exalted is the same one worshipped at your local Baptist or Catholic church.

Bin Laden and The Archbishop of Canterbury adulate the same God.

Glenn Beck and The Taliban exalt the same God.

The Pope and wacko Mullah Omar pray to the same supreme-being.

When you put it in this context it’s easy to see they are all bonkers!

A Day in the Life of Catholicism

Canterbury Atheists — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 20:53:00 +0000

ALLENTOWN, USA: After installing a camera in their daughters bedroom Pennsylvanian parents discover their local Priest, a teacher at her school, was having-it- off with her. As a good Catholic Reverend Luis Bonilla Margarito didn’t bother to check out if his school-girl lover was ‘on the pill’ and resultantly she ended ‘up the duff,’ Parents are suing the local diocese. Reverend Margarito is now the proud father of a baby girl.

BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA: Facing charges of abusing a 12-15 year-old girl over a three year period in his defence Father Murray Moffat claimed it was the girl who led him-on and pursued the relationship. This would explain why he gave her gifts like a push-bike and sweets (an oldie but a goodie) The court found him guilty, his employers thought the best treatment at the time his pedophilia was discovered was a ‘retreat’ and five sessions with a psychiatrist.

BELGIUM: The then head of the Catholic Church in Belgium attempted to stop a victim of sex abuse going to the police and the story going public. Knowing the people she was dealing-with could not be trusted the victim took the liberty of recording the meeting she had with Belgium’s head Cardinal Danneels and Bishop Vagheluwe the accused. Despite attempts at a cover-up the recordings of the meeting were released to Belgium media.

These are just three articles I’ve spotted ‘off the media wires’ in the last 24 hours.

A microcosm of The Catholic Churches institutionalised degenerate activities.

Is there any hope this worldwide abuse will ever stop?

What is the solution if Catholics themselves both ignore and dismiss these daily stories of endemic abuse?

Calling-on all Atheists: Let’s stop the baby slaughter!

Canterbury Atheists — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 05:31:00 +0000

Between 10 to 50% of all pregnancies end in spontaneous abortion (better known as miscarriages)

God (a,k.a Yahweh and Allah etc) clearly wants these embryos and fetus’s to die.

God therefore arbitrarily slaughters millions of unborn humans every week of the year and does so with some relish.

God is pitiless in his blood lust.

Natural abortions occur at the same rate in the pregnancies of his devout followers and the population of non-believers.

More disturbingly Gods followers see nothing wrong with this mass-murder and still fall to their knees in homage to his megalomania.

I’m calling on all atheists to take a stand against this pathological baby killer by protesting outside your closest church or mosque.

Let’s show these theists we don’t accept their God’s baby-slaughter.

Catholic Church harboured Priest at centre of Terrorist Cell

Canterbury Atheists — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 22:33:00 +0000

In July of 1973 three car bombs went off in the sleepy Northern Ireland village of Claudy.

The death toll was nine, including children.

Hundreds were injured.

The mastermind of this atrocity was a Northern Ireland Catholic Priest and IRA sympathiser, Fr James Chesney.

In the just released Police ombudsman’s report, 38 years after the terrorist attack, it has been revealed The Catholic Church on both sides of the Irish border knew of Chesney’s murderous role and further-more protected the priest from prosecution.

In damning revelations information has come to light that explosive traces had been found in the boot of Fr Chesney's parish car when he was stopped at an RUC checkpoint in September 1972.

When implicated Chesney gave false testimony to cover-up for himself and his co-conspirators. Similar to cases of pedophilia once ‘the heat went on’ The Catholic Church, under the auspice of it’s then head Cardinal William Conway, conspired to spirit Chesney south to a new position and out of the reaches of the authorities and justice.

The report also reveals that Chesney continued his ‘IRA activities’ in his new diocese - all with full knowledge of those in authority of The Church – who did nothing to stop him or turn him over to Police.

Not unsurprisingly The Irish Catholic Church have long refused, much to the chagrin of victims families, to release its files on their role in harbouring and aiding this terrorist in their midst.

Further proof the Irish Catholic Church knew and abetted in the deaths of eight people and their tacit support of IRA aspirations.

15 of the Gayest Photos of sexually-confused old man

Canterbury Atheists — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 22:52:00 +0000

This is but one sample from a selection of 15 photos of Bene-dick.

An elderly man clearly confused as to his sexual orientation who has found an outlet to his natural desires (not involving the exchange of bodily fluids) that involves dressing flamboyantly using the wardrobe off ‘Priscilla Queen of The Desert’

The other intimate photos can be found here.

The case for Open-Minded Parents

Canterbury Atheists — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 01:11:00 +0000

A few years ago one of my daughter’s mates asked if she would accompany her to a ‘Holiday Camp’ over an extended weekend.

This ‘Holiday Camp’ was run by a local church and there would be a modicum of indoctrination occurring in between the outdoor activities.

This was spelt-out on the info sheet my wife and I were handed, along with a form to sign.

The prothletesing we are talking about here was along the lines of happy-clappy dancing and singing praises to a god of which my daughter was totally unfamiliar. Colouring-in pictures of Jesus and listening to Bible stories etc. Strange as it may sound, these are not the sort of everyday activities that go-on in our household.

In short - I had no problem with her attending this Camp and filled-in the section on the parental permission form under ‘religious affiliation’ with ‘not applicable’ and off she went.

As far as I’m aware she enjoyed the experience.

There was certainly no discernable change in her personality on her return, nor did I question her as to the goings-on other than a cursory open-ended “How did it go?”

Now picture this same scenario in a different light.

1.)The parents of a Muslim child are given the same invite
2.)The parents of Christian child are asked to attend an openly atheist camp

What do you think the chances are of their child attending would be?

How do they explain to a twelve year-old the reasons they can’t go is “these are not people we want you to mix with.” and “we are X and they are Y”?

Why didn’t I feel threatened and yet a Muslim and Christian given the same circumstances would?

Does Christianity flourish in America because Americans are simply more ignorant than the average Westerner?

Canterbury Atheists — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 07:13:00 +0000

I know this heading will attract vitriol and I’m not posting this to be deliberately inflammatory.

So don’t take it personally.

I live in a small remote country called New Zealand. The standard of living, average incomes etc of the average Kiwi are way less than in The United States.

However what we lack economically when measured against the largest economy in the world we tend to make-up in education, ability to adapt and a high degree of worldliness.

By in large New Zealanders know what’s going-on around the world and try to assist as best we can.

N.Z cares say about disasters happening in remote places.

N.Zers can even place these remote places on a map.

I think we ‘box above our weight.’

Cutting to the chase - in all my considerable travels I have yet to meet a more insular people than your average American (the states I’ve visited include CA, WA, CO, OH, IL, MA, NY, NJ and TX) I can say this hand-on-heart.

In my experience most Americans could not place New Zealand on a map nor for that matter answer a basic general knowledge question like “name a famous Englishman?”

I would more likely have more luck getting an answer to that question from a person from China or Brazil than I would a so-called educated American.

Americans only care about America and their own little myopic world.

The result from the Eastern Conference game would mean more to the average ‘Joe-Bloggs’ than the current humanitarian disaster in Pakistan.

This “don’t ask questions” and “never get outside the square” environment is the breeding ground and bedrock of all religions.

Religions flourish in countries where ignorance is endemic, the peoples never get to meet anyone else and see other perspectives on life.

This explains why America is still so into God, when in other comparable countries the populations are leaving churches in droves.

I rest my case with these two 'classic' videos - which never fail to amuse me:

Christchurch Church Charity bans Atheists!

Canterbury Atheists — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 22:29:00 +0000

Struggling to keep-up with demand from Christchurch’s poor to deliver food parcels, Kerry Bensemann’s (above) quasi-church charity ‘0800 Hungry’ has appealed to fellow Christians to assist the group.

These appeals to local Christians to become volunteers have largely fallen on deaf-ears and Bensemann is appalled at this apathy.

So without prompting sympathetic ‘non-Christians’ have stepped into the breech and said “Kerry we’ll help you sort out the food parcels and deliver them and we don't need God to talk us into it, like you."

But the pig-headed Bensemann is openly refusing to accept any volunteer who will not adhere to his dogma stating “I know it sounds really, really stupid, but you’ve got to understand how we’re set up.”

'Set-up' means the voices Bensemanns head commanding him to do Gods bidding's, in much the same way David Berkowitz heard his neighbours Labrador command him to go on a killing spree.

This stunning-refusal by the 0800 Hungry to accept help from the non-religious, was exposed in last Saturdays ‘Press’ newspaper & will in-effect all-but signal the end of Bensemann’s charity in its current form.

Naively Bensemann’s stand to prevent non-Christian participation, has signaled the beginning of the end of the charity.

He and his team have seemingly forgotten that 0800 Hungry relies on donations from the entire community.

The public can now see that 0800 Hungry is little more than a front for Bensemann’s church to recruit membership, from both with-in his circle of volunteers who arrive from other churches and the recipients of his charity.

The reason why other churches have largely ignored his appeals to help is they see 0800 Hungry as a rival & for good reason.

Atheists and non-Christians now see 0800 Hungry as a bunch of born-again bigots more interested in self-serving recruitment than genuine assistance to the needy.

More-ever Atheists as a group are incapable of charity according to those behind 0800 Hungry who are in regular contact & first-name basis with God.

In this piece of vitriol quoted in the paper Bensemann sums ups his group low opinion of Atheists using this analogy “It’s like sending someone who plays ping-pong out to play for The All Blacks.”

The losers will be the poor.

Afghanistan is fucked-up and always will be.

Canterbury Atheists — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 00:40:00 +0000

Last night New Zealand lost its first Serviceman in Afghanistan.

This is a sad day for all New Zealanders, and my heart goes out to the family.

Our countries role in Afghanistan is largely confined to reconstruction work – building roads, bridges and schools etc all of which comes at a cost to the New Zealand tax-payer.

Humanitarian assistance supplied to a country that lacks a shred of humanity.

Similar to every brave soldier who has been killed in this despotic, shit-hole of a country – the death of Lieutenant Timothy Andrew O'Donnell was a needless loss.

That’s him pictured above, the photo was taken-on the day he was decorated for bravery in Timor.

History tells us Afghanistan is an inherently corrupt. fickle and dangerous country.

It always has been and always will be, with or without overseas troops.

Afghanis live largely a patriarchal & superstitious existence - conditions that more resemble medieval times than a modern society you and I would recognise. One village hates the next village in the next valley, xenophobic tribes hate anyone who doesn’t share their gene pool, and to this heady-mix of hostile benevolence – you add the war-like, sexist teachings of Mohammad.

The way Afghan society is set-up perpetuates this system and a change of government here and there changes nothing at ground-level.

New Zealand has learnt, in the harshest fashion, the endemic problem of operating in Afghanistan.

Finish building a hospital in a township one day, and then have the recipients of this charity try-to-blow your brains-out the next.

Basically Afghanistan is a basket-case.

It can only change when its people show a will to do so, and to this date there has been scant indication this will happen in your or my life-times.

The best thing our respective Governments can do is contaminate Afghanistan’s borders with nuclear waste and prevent anyone entering or leaving the place on foot.

Patrol its mountainous borders at arms-length with a massive fleet of airborne drones with specific instructions to ‘shoot to destroy’ anything that moves.

Afghanistan is fucked-up because the people who live there are fucked-up.

10 Reasons Why Ghosts Don’t Exist.

Canterbury Atheists — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 02:03:00 +0000

Only the gullible and those that have mandates to substantiate the after-life believe in ghosts and the paranormal.

Ghosts are simply wishful thinking and a convenient excuse for explaining ‘what goes bump in the night.’

Proving ghosts are a man-made psychosis is in-fact very simple.

1.) Ghosts come in one form – that just happens to be human - which is conveniently what we bipedal-chimps want to see, and not say a dead cow hovering at the end of ones bed. Have you ever heard of the legend of oceans being haunted by ghostly plankton?

2.) Ghosts just happen to be nocturnal, preferring night-time to ‘do their thing’. So when you die you suddenly become adverse to daylight – right?

3.) Like the popular bug-eyed Aliens, modern ghosts are all stereotypical, with the same looks and characteristics. The standard ghost or spectre in China is that of a Chinaman. The standard ghost in an Inuit community resembles the locals and not a six foot six black-man.

4.) Purportedly ghosts have the ‘magical’ capabilities to travel through walls, levitate etc. Powers they didn’t have when they were alive. They move objects all the time – but never get behind the wheels of a car and drive, type a letter on a computer or light-up a Bensons and Hedges. When it comes to interacting with humans all ghosts want to do is scare the shit out of the living in the dead of night or flash their tits at us in photos. Aimless activity, no-one has been able to detect with any surety.

5.) Ghosts are allergic to large crowds. ‘The Ghost of Super Bowl’ or ‘The Ghost of F.A Cup’ – I don’t think so.

6.) Ghosts love hotels and pubs. When you die you head immediately to ‘your local’ for a pint. How else could you explain the disproportionately high number of pubs that are haunted? And it’s always old pubs that act as magnets to the living dead, rather than a Five Star Hilton.

7.) If you can walk through walls why don’t you simply drop through the floor as well?

8.) Why aren’t all ghosts totally naked?

9.) Seeing that potentially we living-humans share the planet with 60 billion spirits, comprising all of humanities dead – where do these hordes of living-dead spend their time? I mean where do they live? Caves? The bottom of the ocean? The stratosphere? Six to a house?

10.) Last but not least – there is not a shred of evidence.

There is of course life after death – just not for the dead people.

Canterbury Atheists — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 23:36:00 +0000

“Boo!”

Scared ya!

Readers of this mornings ‘Press’ were greeted with the headlines ‘Christchurch – it’s a spooky town’ and a new re-hashed self proclaimed group of ‘paranormal investigators’ (photo above)

Their web site is http://www.ghosthunters.co.nz/ , which upon examination gives its mailing address as a post office box in Motueka (a town more renowned for its illicit drug trade rather than being a hotbed of living-dead)

This isn’t the first time our local newspaper has pandered to this motley-crew, comprised largely of what appears to be the over-imaginative, dateless and desperate.

Still everyone knows when creeping shadows, unidentifiable sounds combine with a journalist after a sensationalist story – it’s gotta be a ghost!

This is their head ghost-hunter, Anton Heyrick, pictured at the former Addington Prison, just a couple of months back.

Now one would suppose The Press may well have had the fortitude to ask Anton exactly what they had found in terms of evidence in their earlier search for apparitions at the Addington site, before their four-man team charged around other supposedly haunted sites in Canterbury.

But they didn’t need to ask a rational and logical question like that, now did they?

Along with the readers, of what was formerly was called a newspaper but is now little more than a tabloid - they already knew the answer to the million-dollar question “Hey fella, what have you found so far in terms of evidence?”

So far they found fucking nothing and they will find sweat fuck-all in terms of the after-life in any other places they care to stake-out – be it in Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand, Kazakhstan, Outer Mongolia or the back-blocks of The Amazon.

This is why: ghosts & spirits don’t exist.

The idea of ‘spirits’ or ‘gods’ stranded in a parallel existence, from which they communicate with those of the living with special abilities or can be detected by equipment purchased at Dick Smith Electronics, has in principal been about since time immemorial. The Delphic Oracle any one?

Life after death is a man-made invention.That’s why only dead humans communicate from an after-life, rattle chains in 13th century castles, and we don’t hear the barks from the deceased family Labrador coming from its old kennel.

If you believe in an afterlife and the ability for the 60 billion dead spirits to communicate (and seemingly so, only via psychics who charge for the privilege) with the 10 billion humans alive today and in some form survive-death, you must therefore believe that at some level:

*That every living minute of your life, is being snooped on by at least ten spirit beings, and they take an interest in you. Yes, that includes every time you have a piss, shag the wife, go to sleep etc. Why would these spirits be remotely interested in the mundane lives of you and me, when they can say voyeur the day to day activities of the drummer for Green Day? Following this logic is say Paris Hiltons shower room, the place to be in spooksville?

* What happens when the last living contact of these spirits dies? Who do they go around and watch then? Miss Hilton’s bed-room or the set of the next Porn Blockbuster - the living-world is your oyster. Why the fuck waste a single minute in a fucking re-converted Jail in Christchurch?

* All spirits apparently speak the same language, which fortunately means they avoid taking a crash Berlitz course in Serbo-Croation etc, the moment they pass-over.

* When you die you always prefer a crappy old building to live, the more derelict and unattractive the better. Ever heard of the ghost wandering the passages of the six-star Burj Al Arab Hotel in Dubai?

* In the after-life you retain the physical appearance and body at the moment of your death. With all those old people floating round it must be a fairly quite in the ‘after life’ and the zimmer-frame franchise-holder would be doing a roaring trade, along with sales in Viagra. Put it this way, I wouldn’t be opening a night-club in the next life. I pity the likes of Douglas Bader and invalids who must crawl their way through eternity - what a miserable existence it must be for these poor sods.

*If you are decapitated or placed in a vat of acid, you can still magically communicate and still keep your entire human-form when paranormal investigators open the cupboard you are hiding-in. Wow! Still on the positive, this leads to the conclusion that there's still hope for the ugly people in the after-life.

* The dead must take night classes. That’s so that when a bronze-aged peasant is called upon to communicate with a modern
psychic, they know what say a ‘radio’ or ‘car’ is.

Lets be frank - the whole idea of dead talking to the living, spirits wandering spooky old houses is a load of crap.Those who claim to talk to the dead are nothing but crude charlatans with over active imaginations and a gift for cold-reading.

Those that chase ghostly spirits in the hope of finding evidence that when they die they get a second shot at things, are delusional and should get down to the pub and engage in sex more often (masturbation doesn’t count either)

In other-words start enjoying their one & only shot at life!

Let’s demand a separate system of Medical Care for Theists.

Canterbury Atheists — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 00:52:00 +0000

If we at all are honest as a society, we’d be open and say theist hypocrisy knows no bounds.

When are ‘we’ , 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) oh so conveniently see as theirs alone?

Let’s use these very-same ‘rights’ to bite them in the arse!

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 research and medicine.

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, shown by history to be primordially laughable.

Inevitably what happens is at some later stage these very same protesters, or their loved-ones, needs to seek the same treatment they and their anointed representatives rallied so hard 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 before you read my proposal, don’t feel any sort of compassion towards theists, for these very same individuals want to rob you and your closest of one of the basis rudiments of modern life - all to protect their beliefs. Always keep in the back of your mind, theists want their beliefs to over-ride yours – even if it means watching 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 so-called ‘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.

Automatically no free contraception for Catholics either.

After-all their own ethical representatives have 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. Besides they can call on their local Priest to assist (no, not in a Biblical sense but a pastoral role if that’s what you thought I was inferring to? Although I guess the first premise isn’t entirely out of the realms and would take some pressure off choir-boys)

Why shouldn’t a grateful, appreciative couple who wants 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 skeptical, 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 are more likely to miss appointments, so precedency is both of benefit to the doctors and nurses but also ultimately the maligned, stretched 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.

If you don’t want stem cell treatment – we won’t give it to you.

If you don’t want fertility treatment – we won’t give it to you.

If you don’t want contraception – we won’t give it to you.

If you don’t want an abortion – we won’t give to you.

No exceptions.

Just don’t bother asking retrospectively for any of these things if say you are a Catholic, unless you want to pay or want to wait at the bottom of a long list.

We would then have the foundations of a separate health-system, only you and I wouldn't be funding the religious hospitals where the mortality rates would be on par with Cambodia.

Hypocritical theists can’t have it both ways when it comes to medical treatments that apparently so upset their invisible God ‘Yahweh’ and his emissaries on earth. On one hand theists can’t ask for a separate places to pray and do their thing at hospitals, demand rights that permit 'their own men' on-to 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 high-time for theists to practice what they preach and abdicate themselves from mainstream medicine and get back to basics.

That’s to say: prayer and leeches.

Footnote: this is a re-hash of an earlier article I did.

With The National Party in power Euthanasia will never become a reality in New Zealand.

Canterbury Atheists — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 21:57:00 +0000

Death with Dignity is back in the public arena and there is, I feel, a genuine ground-swell of support from Kiwi’s for some form of euthanasia to be on New Zealand statute-books (N.Z Herald Poll a massive 82% support from received from respondents)

But I know, realistically, this will never become law whilst we have National in power.

Back in 2003 Peter Brown (N.Z First) proposed his ‘Death With Dignity Bill’ and MP’s voted by conscience for it’s inception, rather than say Party lines. At least that was the way it was suppose to work in principal.

In practice most Nationals MP’s (added and abetted by United Future) voted against the bill, and as a result was it failed to pass by the close margin of 60 votes to 58.

Let’s take a look at the some of those, then opposition, National MP’s that voted ‘No’ seven years ago:

Trevor Mallard
Wayne Mapp
Gerry Brownlee
David Carter
Tony Ryall
Bill English
Judith Collins
Paul Swain
Phil Heatley

These names are familiar to all of us, and form the backbone of the current Government running our country.

If just two of those names from above had have voted ‘Yes’ euthanasia would now be a reality.

So don’t hold your breath.

The Reading of Peter Browns Bill and subsequent Parliamentary debate is available here. Rodney Hides impassioned speech is worth a geez.

Christchurch Christian School Sacks Gay Sports Coach – for simply being Gay!

Canterbury Atheists — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 04:12:00 +0000

In February Middleton Grange School in Christchurch, hired a 28 year-old guy to coach their girl's netball team (footnote: a male coaching a female sport like netball was surely a warning sign in itself?)

In case you are not from Christchurch, Middleton Grange is open to Christian children ONLY.

But mind-you - not just any Christian brats qualify - no siree.

Oh no, according to the righteous God-fearing folk who run Middleton Grange - Catholic’s need not apply.

Don’t even ask if your spawn happens to be an Atheist, Hindu or one of the other heathens doomed to ultimately burn in hells flames.

So back to the matter in hand - as it turns-out the part-time Netball Coach happens to be gay, and this touchy-fact gets back to The School Board.

As you would appreciate all Christians hate homos, and New Zealand is no exception to backward bigotry. Nothing gets a Christian zealot more worked-up than man on man sex and people spilling their seed for the fun of it.

The School Board at Middleton Grange was faced with the terrible realisation of having released a real-life sodomite onto its hallowed-grounds.

Their romper-festooned virgins needed protection from this inherently sinful man (not in a Biblical sense of the term of the word ‘man’)

So they simply fired him.

The coach departs to another school and subsequently complains to the Human Rights Department who rightfully demand that the School apologies. Middleton Grange also ended-up paying him reparations.

What is rather ironic in this whole affair is how on one-hand The New Zealand Government sees sexual discrimination as a crime worthy of admonishment, and yet in the next breath it is happy to allow Schools like Middleton Grange to openly discriminate based on a child’s beliefs?

Is this the Greatest Atheist You-Tube Video Ever?

Canterbury Atheists — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 20:38:00 +0000

In my books this video, by the appropriately named Thinking Atheist, is simply ‘the greatest’.

No-one, theist or atheist, can not be touched by the dark, stark reasoning.

The utter stupidity of what is being taught.

The corruption of innocent minds.

Let’s make sure it goes viral by sending the link to everyone we know!

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Rwioe1SGkQ

Aussie Catholic School-Boys go-on Queenstown Crime Spree.

Canterbury Atheists — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 04:13:00 +0000

“Our aim is to develop reflective, compassionate and articulatemen of Christian faith and hope who will give service and leadership in our world” (Mission Statement of Xavier College)

Xavier College is a Jesuit school and one of Melbourne's most elite private boys Catholic colleges. Its fees are about NZ$18,000 a year so clearly the snobby Papist parents of brats who attend Xavier College, are well able to pay for an overseas school-trip to New Zealand for some outdoor recreation (read: skiing) and the accommodation-bill at the towns four star Goldridge Resort.

Evidently 16 boys from a total of 30 pupils, aged 14 to 17, saw the overseas-trip as a green-light to exhibit feral behaviour befitting of Jesuits – by undertaking a mass coordinated shop-lifting spree the day before their plane was due to fly them home.

The sixteen teenaged Catholic criminals roamed the streets of Queenstown on Saturday and stole clothing worth NZ$6,000 from at least seven stores.

Ultimately their thieving was detected by shop-owners and The N.Z Police became involved, as were the embarrassed teachers.

All the boys bags were searched and Queenstown police returned recovered stolen goods to businesses yesterday. Compensation for the clothing damaged when the boys tore off the security tags, was also paid for – by the schools representatives.

Remember folks: Catholic Education makes better citizens.

Spoilt little rat-bags like this lot.

Enlightened Catholic Church puts Child Rape on the same level as say a humble Female Priest!

Canterbury Atheists — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 01:13:00 +0000

Just how sick, repugnant and out of touch with the norms in society is The Catholic Church?

It actually churns my guts to think they have the right to educate kids.

I mean to say is there anyone you know that would deem the following two actions to be on the same par – worthy of the same admonishment and punishment?

Crime(?)One: A female becoming an ordinate priest and having the same status as her male peers.

Crime Two: A Catholic Priest raping a 12 year old boy.

The Vatican has just codified both these so-called ‘grave crimes’ placing them on the same level, subject to the same set of procedures and punishments under their own twisted in-house laws.

Yet, the same unbalanced minds that dreamt this warped ‘law’that want you to look to them for moral guidance!

Imagine a world where the Catholic Church ruled society and put in place it's social agenda?

Oh yeah, that’s right, there was such a time in mankind’s history – it was called ‘The Dark Ages.’
Enlightenment is clearly centuries away for this bunch of flat-earthers.

Wow really? The Catholic Church says Child Porn is Wrong!?

Canterbury Atheists — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 01:53:00 +0000

It’s official, well as official as it can be publicly construed, when it comes to the global fascist cult called The Catholic Church.

Get this stunning revelation fresh from Rome: “Child pornography is a crime against Church law”

Backing the truck-up here and looking at this announcement in the larger context, what we need to ask ourselves is “what sort of organisation needs to tell its members & staff this sort of stuff in the first place?”

Can you remember ever been told by anyone at all specifically - that looking at child porn was a crime and not to do it?

Has say your boss at work ever made specific references to the ramifications of down-loading kiddy porn?

The short answer is “no” – it’s just common sense and an innate trait of decent well-adjusted human-beings.

The Police, Internal Affairs, Parents, Companies etc don’t need to tell you, me and the other decent members of society that looking at child porn is a crime.

So what makes this press-statement significant is its very necessity.

We need to remind ourselves that The Catholic Church is riddled & infested with child-fuckers, deviants and moral reprobates – that we are not dealing with normal ‘Joe Bloggs’.

These are sick people in constant need of moral parameters, and not you and me.

Unlike other sectors of society Catholics, and in particular their clergy, need to be officially reminded not to perv at children being fucked by adults.

What a sad indictment.

Gods Ultimate Reality Show!

Canterbury Atheists — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 00:23:00 +0000

Television programmers take head of this idea for a reality show.

An anointed representative of every religion on the planet lines-up for a 12 hour televised ‘boom or bust’ experiment with a global audience measured in the billions.

Trust me - this will be the biggest T.V program ever screened!

Catholics, Baptists, Jews – you name the superstition – as long as they believe they have a telephone-line to God – there’s a place for their chosen warrior on the show (think ‘David’ in the story with Goliath) In-fact this is one show they couldn’t afford to miss.

Oh yeah, there will also be one Bonobo Chimp as well.

The chimp will be representing the non-believing heathens.

The religious representatives are all lined-up and then given a set of six dice (specially manufactured and tested, then randomly drawn from a lotto type machine on the day)

The chosen warriors of God plus the chimp then have 12 hours to throw as many sixes as they can – an average count of which will determine the ‘winner’ (rest assured it will be all above board and it won’t simply be a matter of the individual who throws the most dice but the average result)

The representatives and their supporters watching at home will be encouraged to evoke Gods support for their cause.

Believers will be motivated to prove to the world it is ‘they’ who have Gods favour above all others.

The chimp will get bananas and beer.

What do you think would be the result after all the dice had been thrown?

LION 1 : NUTTY PROSELYTE 0

Canterbury Atheists — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 06:55:00 +0000

Now and again a more devout Christian will attempt to literally test-out their Gods magical power for intervention (can I take her for a ride around the block?) undertaking some foolhardy enterprise - often with tragic and/or amusing results.

Presumably the high failure rate means God was down at ‘the local’ or too busy starving African children to intervene in a circus side-show.

Who knows?

Theists and the plain-stupid scripting their own demise have always appealed to my own dark sense of humour.

Similarly sometimes Christians also take their Bible way too literally e.g. say that story about Daniel and the lions.

This video (above) encapsulates both.

What Evidence would it take for you to believe a Tyrannosaurus was roaming your city?

Canterbury Atheists — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 03:11:00 +0000

The media is abuzz with reports of the alleged sighting of a T.Rex roaming the forests on the outskirts of your city.

A family is adamant it was a five metre tall, fearsome giant lizard they saw in a wooded area only 10 kilometres from where you live.

Naturally experts are highly dubious at these claims a large carnivorous dinosaur had somehow survived human detection for the past 60 million years.

The media makes fun of the claims, satirising the passionate claimants reports.

Now imagine how you would react to these anecdotal assertions?

What corroborating evidence would you need for you personally to attest to the notion “a T-Rex is indeed on the loose”?

Pictures? DNA samples? Expert confirmation from biologists? Seeing the beast with your own eyes? A combination of some or all of the above?

Now replace T-Rex in your mind with the word/concept of ‘God’ (as in the popular Abrahamic notion of the term)

As outlandish as the stories of a T-Rex running loose in local forests sound, they pale into insignificance when placed against the idea of a super-powerful all-seeing interventionist 'being' who created all life in the universe, existing undetected, watching & influencing all activities – from the birds in the sky to the deepest ocean – from birth to death and then even into the after-life.

Why is the stringent evidence even a layman needs to corroborate say a modern-day T-Rex, never applied to quantify the far more unbelievable being(s) known as ‘God’?

Fuji Minx: # 1 in the Rome Music Charts!

Canterbury Atheists — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 23:22:00 +0000

Apparently no mainstream television station would touch this video by the spunk-goddess, Fuji Minx.

She can put her leather boots and slinky French corset under my bed any-time (even if it meant the body paint she wears never came-out in the wash and she brought along her pet sheep along for ‘the ride’)

I mean to say what’s wrong with a chick getting her tits out and some hard-core blasphemy?

Its anti-Papist rhetoric has attracted the mind-police at You Tube to pull this video under the guise of it being in-appropriate (read: upsetting for the poor Cath-lick bubbsies who want to censor anything that offends their brain-washed minds)

Therefore what more recommendation do you need?

Go out and buy it!

God Texts Fijian Pastor about impending Disaster!

Canterbury Atheists — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 00:20:00 +0000

There’s one thing to be said about the ‘Interim Fijian Regime’ (read: Military-Lead Government) – they don’t take fools lightly.

For the last month or so Pastor Laione Lutumaimuri Nacevamaca (above) and his side-kick Bill Govaka (ironically the one time former head of The Fiji Visitors Bureau) have been telling anyone who is interested, that a major natural disaster was about to hit Fiji – specifically 2:30 pm on Wednesday (23rd) this week.

The reason why the time/date is so specific is because it was God that personally told Pastor Nacevamaca, by way of his cell-phone clock.

That’s right: God telepathically communicated with Nacevamaca, then texted him!

“This is the date and time, mark it on your calendar” is what the excitable & delusional Pastor told the local press.

Sadly there were large tracts of the Fijian populous that believed his prophecy, so when whole villages began moving to higher-ground, tourist resorts were cleared following warning emails sent by Govaka, business’s & schools closed to avoid the impending disaster(s) - the Government acted decisively - by arresting & imprisoning the pair on Tuesday for spreading rumours.

Nacevamaca is charged with maliciously fabricating and spreading by way of mouth that there would be a tsunami, earthquake and strong winds, causing public alarm.

Mr Gavoka was charged with spreading the rumours by e-mail about the tsunami and earthquakes and causing public alarm.

Needless to say the time/date passed without either a ripple on land or sea, nor more than a warm sea-breeze.

Whether God bothered to text Nacevamaca to say “sorry for standing you-up” has yet to come-out.

Note: Off-Air for 10 days (may be less - who knows?)

Why are American Sporting-Teams so Fucking Useless?

Canterbury Atheists — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 00:58:00 +0000

Why is it, that by-in-large American sports-fans are so insular?

Why don’t American sporting teams take pride in representing their country – is it because no one back home gives a rats-arse even if they do well?

More importantly why are American sports teams, with their vast financial resources, so fucking useless?

Whilst most of the planet is embracing The (one true) Football World-Cup, the whole scope of tournament has typically escaped vast tracts of America.

The easy, glib answer to this is of course ‘Football (ooops ‘soccer’) is not a big sport in ‘the states’ even though in reality there’s 18 million players, and it’s the largest participant sport for kids.

By the way neither is football it a ‘big sport’ in New Zealand, but yet the whole country still gets behind its team.

Now go & ask yourself - "what are the ‘big team sports’ in America?"

Well there’s basketball, which it has to be said is a global sport, and with all those NBA players, billions of bucks floating around, surely the U.S should clean-up at every international tournament they turn-up at?

Boy, have I got news for you - the current world-champions are Spain and the tournament before that it was Yugoslavia. The U.S hasn’t been World Champs at basketball for 18 years!

Ice-Hockey, now that’s a popular team-sport in North America.

It goes without saying The U.S must be competitive at The World Ice Hockey Tournament - right?

No, they have performed abysmally and last made a final fifty years ago!

What say Volleyball, another global sport, popular in American schools and colleges?

In the sixty years, no American team (men’s or women’s) has even made the finals at a World Champs.

So what other global team sports do Americans play to any great degree?

Sorry I can’t for the life of me think of any?

Baseball does have a World Championships – but it’s similar to running a so-called World Series - played amongst such a small gene-pool to be unworthy of the mantle ‘World’.

Don’t even suggest American Football – probably one of the worlds least played sport when it comes to countries who participate. Is there even a American Football team as such?

So the only conclusion one can make is Americans don’t care about World Championships and their athletes, teams aren’t interested in succeeding on the world sporting stage at events every-other country takes seriously

They are too interested playing amongst themselves.

What do you call playing with yourself again?

PS: From Saturday on I’m taking a sabbatical for 10 days to catch-up on some things on the home-front. Comments will be cleared when I get other projects finished.

Blood-Sucking Elim Church takes disabled-mans Life Savings!

Canterbury Atheists — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 21:02:00 +0000

This is a Napier rest home resident Whetu Abraham, 54, a partial tetraplegic with head injuries, the result of being hit by a car in 1986. What also makes him further vulnerable is his lack of family – basically he’s a loner with obvious ‘issues’ and sadly little to no immediate support.

Over the last two years Abraham has donated his entire life saving to the Napier City ‘Oasis’ Elim Church, in the belief he was in-effect buying his way into heaven.

When she learned of what was happening the rest home manager, Lucy Dever, tried to intervene on Abrahams behalf with the churches pastor Bruce Collingwood, and make him aware that Mr Abrahams survived on a sickness benefit and was not in a position to be granting them six-figure donations, let alone his entire nest-egg, given he has no other income source.

Pastor Collingwood dismissed her protestations and banked the monies (approx NZ$20,000) telling Dever dismissively it was Abrahams choice.

I ask you what sort of person is this ‘man of god’ Pastor Bruce Collingwood?

What sort of organisation could take the last cent of a vulnerable person – a man clearly not fully in control of his facilities, down on his luck?

The Napier Oasis Church should be hit where it hurts them most i.e. in the pocket.

Their charitable status should be immediately cancelled.

PS: By the way The Oasis Church in Napier happen to have a Facebook site to vent your anger – so why not join in the fun and tell these creeps what you think? The last couple of posts on their ‘wall’ are gems and sum-up the publics anger at their despicable actions: “scum sucking mutha f*cking arrsehole!” and “complete scum”.

Footnote: Bruce Collingwood has commented on this article (comments section below) giving his side of the story. Far dues to him.

Why Football is better than Rugby

Canterbury Atheists — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 21:33:00 +0000

1.) Fans actually get passionate about football and don’t sit like mannequins in their seats chanting like they all have downs-syndrome
2.) The skinny white guys can get in the team, as well as the odd skinny Maori or two (interestingly there were five Maori players on the field against Italy at the end of last nights game and only two playing for The All Blacks on Saturday, no calls a Maori version of the national anthem either)
3.) When you play a meaningless international game of football they call it for what it is – a ‘friendly’ and not a ‘test’.
4.) The 76th ranked nation can draw against the World-Champs (imagine The South African Rugby team failing to beat The Cook Islands!?) A bird-bath has more depth than International Rugby.
5.) The World Football Cup is a ‘World’ Cup and not a beefed-up Commonwealth Tournament.
6.) New Zealand Football doesn’t need to raid The Pacific Islands for its players.
7.) Rivalry in sport generally means some sort of historic competition between two players/teams, rather than miss-matches eg. Everton versus Liverpool. Wales last beat New Zealand at rugby fifty-seven years ago meaning most New Zealansers weren't even born when the term 'rivalry' had any significance in the context.
8.) When New Zealand Football team plays at The World Cup the team over-performs pundit’s expectations. When The All Blacks play at a World Cup Tournament traditionally they under-perform.
9.) You can actually understand the rules of football and the basics of the game don't change season by season and one hemisphere plays by one interpretation and the other by another.
10.) Football is an international language and at this very-moment most people on this planet will know New Zealand is in The World Cup and doing bloody well! It’s currently one of the head-line stories on CBS Sport, ESPN, Telegraph, Guardian, The Sun etc. How many would know about the so-called 'test' in Dunedin?

The Vatican’s centuries-old practices: Grave Robbing & Defiling Corpses

Canterbury Atheists — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 21:06:00 +0000

Defiling corpses is as much an entrenched part of Catholic culture, as say Latin rites or getting a bag of lollies for playing with Father O’Grady’s diddle.

Indeed as you’ll see no part of a dead body is off-limits to the ghoul’s dressed-in dog-collars and women’s robes.

The following is but a small list of some of the venerated human-parts Catholics, in the year 2010, believe still to hold magical powers.

- The toe of ‘Saint’ Francis Xavier as well as three arms that are also claimed to be his
- What’s left of the decapitated head of Saint Catherine
- The heart of St Vincent de Paul
- Jesus Christ’s foreskin as well as his umbilical cord
- The breast milk of Mary Madeline as well as a range of her hair ranging from black to blonde (pick a colour, any colour)
- The finger of Saint Nicholas
- Skull of St Valentine
- Thigh and foot bones of St Thérèse of Lisieux
- Rib(s) of Saint Luke

When they get all worked-up and foaming at the mouth with religious fervor - no part of a body is considered sacred and off-limits to Catholic grave-robbers.

Like some sordid pages of a Dan Brown novel & even before the corpse of a yet-to-be-confirmed saint is cold The Popes henchmen are on the spot hacking the body-apart limb for limb and distributing the parts all over the planet.

A finger is Fedexed to Mexico.

The arm is taken as carry-on luggage to Brazil.

A tooth is wrenched-out and sent for Catholics in Uganda to adulate.

When they get short-on parts The Catholic Church even robs graves!

Centuries old bodies are dug-up, then defiled in the name of their cause.

This debased behaviour is some-how mitigated by calling the remains ‘relics.’

And if this wasn’t morbid and primitive enough for you to contemplate, there are even Catholic churches ‘decorated’ with the bones of dead friars/priests like this one, The Church of Santa Maria della’Immacolata Concezione in Rome.

The whole practice of venerating human remains is uncivilized in the extreme.

Totally primitive and barbaric behaviour & all coming-from people who have the audacity to try and tell you how to run your life!

PS: I've covered the bizarre story of The Holy Prepuce, or Holy Foreskin before. Read: 'Jesus had a big Cock'.

Are all Catholic Priests by definition Effeminate, Head-Cases?

Canterbury Atheists — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 20:26:00 +0000

A question to all males: if you were offered a million dollars to be chemically sterilised, rendered permanently impotent – would you take the money?

Hell no!

Males are hot-wired to seek-out sexual gratification.

The only males I can think-of that would deliberately deny themselves out of volition, as opposed to medical reasons, are lacking a chromosome or two.

Dare I suggest effeminate, thus well suited to an all-male society?

As young boys they were the ones that liked dressing-up-in their mothers underwear and never had friends who ‘understood their feelings.’

Voluntary celibate men are by definition abnormal, biological freaks of nature.

Regardless of sexual orientation, heterosexual, bi-sexual or homosexual – male celibacy is only for weirdos & fringe dwellers in society.

Abnormal behaviour such as sexual-denial invariably spills-over into psychological issues.

These psychological issues could be cured simply & easily with the services of a $50 hooker. Male or female, take your pick.

Until priests are provided with a sexual-outlet for their natural desires (over the age of consent) they will remain by-in-large to be dangerous, ostracized head-cases - never to be left-alone to their own devices & impossible to take seriously.

Good Catholic Children Don’t Jump in Puddles

Canterbury Atheists — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 08:26:00 +0000

The mission statement from St Francis de Sales School in Wellington reads:

To provide quality education,
incorporating Catholic principles and beliefs,
giving each child opportunities for their full development

Showing scant regard for human decency and total disrespect for the dead The Vatican ordered the heart of the original St Francis’s to be ripped from his corpse. De Sales ‘ticker’ is now on display in Rome for the morbid fools to drool over. Mind-you when you think The Catholic Church worships a zombie and ritually drinks his blood – having century old bodily parts strewn about the place seems almost ‘normal’ for this lot.

Perhaps the school in New Zealand that bears his name could ask Rome for some of St Frances heart?

They certainly appear to need a 'heart' of some kind.

Here we have a primary school that has placed a ban on something that is intrinsic childlike behaviour - jumping in puddles.

Following-on from the fine Christian heritage exhibited by Rome, who shamelessly violated the corpse of poor old Francis de Sales, the school-board in Wellington has paid no regard for the part of their mission-statement that claims to “give each child opportunities for their full development.”

These Kiwi children of St Francis de Sales School are being taught a short sharp life-lesson on how fascism works and never to question the authority of ‘the’ church.

Basically they are receiving the ‘good Catholic education’ their parents so-desired.

New Zealand Politician Watches Porn-Movie…..Wop De Fuck!

Canterbury Atheists — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 22:29:00 +0000

Wow what a massive and shocking revelation: a New Zealand man has actually been found looking at pornographic movies!

Next they'll be saying males like sport.

The individual that has been ‘outed’ enjoying porn is current opposition politician, former Cabinet Minister and father of seven, Shane Jones.

Pandering to what he perceives as adverse public opinion a guilt-ridden Jones had dubbed his exposure as "Shane's day of great shame."

“Earth to Shane”… “Earth to New Zealand”

Every New Zealand adult-male, with normal testosterone levels, is sexually stimulated looking at pornography - so wop-de-fuck this male happens to inhabit Parliament.

It is not necessary for any male/female to apologise for exhibiting entirely normal behaviour.

Instead of taking a defensive position Jones would be better to have simply turned-on the throng of journalists latched to his jugular and thrown it back in their hypocritical faces with a statement along the lines “I like looking at porn – don’t you?”

Jones should have gone on the offensive and not pandered to the glib, duplicitous calls for his resignation.

Rather than being embarrassed he should have said “Sorry I don’t see a problem with an adult like myself watching a pornographic movie.”

In doing so he would have the support of the majority of Kiwi’s, who like me, enjoy watching porn and aren't afraid to say so.

New Zealand says no to Jewish Tradition of Animal Cruelty

Canterbury Atheists — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 00:21:00 +0000

In the past religions have had a free-reign in New Zealand to get away with abuses no other sector of society can claim as part of their innate rights being a citizen of this country.

The right to discriminate based-on gender or sexual orientation are two of the more obvious ones still permitted.

Gradually these historic ‘rights’ Governments have granted to one sector of society over another, are being whittled away.

This week New Zealand took another step towards becoming a truly secular country when it banned the inhumane slaughter of animals under the guise of religious practice.

Overnight the Kosher slaughter of lambs and chickens (a ritual called shechita) came to an end here in New Zealand and attracted the ire of the local Hebrew community both here and in Australia.

The president of The Organisation of Rabbis in Australasia, Moshe Gutnick, put all his cards on the table when he said “The science is wrong, but even if the science wasn’t wrong it infringes on the religious rights of the community.”

Basically Rabbi Gutnick was saying “So what it’s cruel - our religion dictates we treat animals in this primitive fashion and that over-rides the rule of the land.”

Gutnick and the Jewish community of New Zealand can of course import Kosher meat, or if they are still smarting from having to follow the same animal welfare laws as the rest of the country – simply go live some where else.

If you think New Zealand is intolerant - try Iran for size.

Footnote: Before anyone plays the “what about the animals killed in New Zealand slaughterhouses under the halal principals?” card, those animals are stunned first – unlike the Kosher killings where the conscious animal has it’s throat slit and bleed.

Chasing Peace? Adopt Atheism!

Canterbury Atheists — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 01:47:00 +0000

Yet again, New Zealand has topped The Vision of Humanities ‘2010 Global Peace Index’.

In a repeat of last year, it’s exclusively the secular countries (below) that are revealed to be the most peaceful.

Just like last year we get to see that the war-mongering countries on this planet are in-fact those inhabited by a population that largely embraces religion and superstition.

The facts are damning and the only conclusion one can make is - if more people dropped their religious hatred and primitive superstitious behaviour – the planet we inhabit would be a safer place.

New Zealand (1 in 2009)
Iceland (4)
Japan (7)
Austria (5)
Norway(3)
Ireland
Denmark (2)
Luxembourg
Finland (9)
Sweden (6)

The bottom ten are:

Iraq (1)
Somalia (3)
Afghanistan (2)
Sudan (5)
Pakistan (8)
Israel (4)
Russia (9)
Georgia
Chad (7)
Congo (6)

F.Y.I: Australia (19) U.K (31) USA (85)

Those can-do-Kiwi’s and their humble scooters spun-my-wheels.

Canterbury Atheists — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 23:58:00 +0000

New Zealanders are very self critical, and I’m contrite enough to confess, at times. I’m the first to employ my own self-imposed list of foibles upon fellow Kiwi’s.

Then something comes along that makes you proud to be a Kiwi.

Something, may be, small in the relative scheme of things.

Some event or act that exposes that Kiwi fortitude, and ‘can-do’ attitude which makes New Zealand still one of the best places on the planet to live.

To me this renewal of Kiwi pride came in the form of the recent ‘Tranz Alpine Scooter Rally.’

Saturday May 29 saw 230 brave & hardy scooterists buzz out of Christchurch mostly on tiny 50cc scooters bound for the wintry Southern Alps and over to the South Islands West Coast - 250kms in roughly 10 hours.

In one-word the weather was “crap” that weekend and there was snow on both mountain passes (check the video out).

This is motorised version of The Coast to Coast Endurance Event also doubles as a fundraiser for the The Cancer Society & their efforts, a week or so back, raised over a hundred grand for a fine cause.

The individuals behind this event should be the ones getting awards and not some stuffy-old Judge or god-bothering band promoters.

May this event prosper.

The only reward fitting for vile Christian Music is banishment!

Canterbury Atheists — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 07:59:00 +0000

When they were notified of their inclusion in The Queens Birthday Honours List, husband & wife team Mark and Christine de Jong admitted to the media they were both “slightly embarrassed.”

Correction time: every New Zealander should be embarrassed with their award.

Whilst true Kiwi musical pioneers like Roger Shepherd (Flying Nun) go unheralded, except by those who have a clue about musical heritage in New Zealand, the country pays tribute to a two minor players in the local musical scene.

The de Jongs are apparently ‘stars’ in the Christian music scene.

Now go and name me one Christian band from New Zealand?

Like Christian music every-where on this planet – no one with a real interest in contemporary music takes their lolly-water musical-masquerade in the slightest bit seriously.

Getting an award for Christian music in New Zealand is like getting a School-Prize for Serbo-Croation.

That’s exactly why 99.9% of Kiwi’s didn’t have the slightest-clue who-the-fuck Mark and Christine de Jong were, prior to their award.

Don’t the dimwits who administer these sycophantic awards know that the teens that turn-up at their ‘Parachute’ concerts do-so because they are Christians and there’s chance of a sly-root? Not to hear the droll crap being inflicted on the crowds ear-drums by bands best suited for The Disney Channel.

If the de Jong’s had any integrity they would hand their awards back out and scuttle-back to their nepotistic waste-lands on the fringes of music.

Kiwi Atheists are far too nice.

Canterbury Atheists — Wed, 26 May 2010 21:12:00 +0000

For the benefit of overseas readers, and to bring some context to this article, this is one of the highly visible ‘Yeah Right’ billboards/signs, marketed by DB Breweries here in New Zealand:

This is the controversial one currently residing outside a Tauranga church:

This is mine:

Now as far as I’m aware there has never been a deliberate piece of vandalism in New Zealand by atheists targeting ‘you are going to burn in hell’ signs like this - or for that matter any religious signage.

Christian Churches such as ‘Bethlehem Community’ tend to forget, that Atheists by their very nature, don’t believe in their megalomaniacal and cruel god called Yahweh.

So local non-believers are hardly going to fall to their knees with fear, at the altar of this, or any church, when confronted with thinly veiled threats of Yahweh’s wrath.

Frankly most Kiwi atheists don’t give a fuck about church signs and ignore simply them.

What up-sets Kiwi atheists, myself included, is when ‘we’ unify as a group and want to place our own signs on public display, we face overwhelming objections to our right to free-speech – by the very group that trumpets their own supreme right to do so – even when it breaks copyright laws.

Christians see it as their right to say what-ever they like, hate minority groups via law exemptions etc but when they feel threatened they get cry-baby-like and gnash-teeth when presented with a counter arguments.

Christians in New Zealand then do what all religious groups do when threatened – they attack!

Christians even attack other Christian messages, as we saw occur in Auckland at Christmas, again over church signage.

Christians threatened those that would air the atheist signs – which just happen to be the local bus companies – forcing them to back down from their commitment to display the same signs that were run overseas.

So here we have Reverend Jim Wallace from Bethlehem Community Church now accusing DB Breweries of being “bullies” when they asked for the sign to be changed due to breech of copyright.

On the Radio Live interview this morning Reverend Wallace used the term “bully” no less than three times in two minutes and ironically drew-comparisions with the atheist bus campaign - which never got off the ground.

Well Reverend Wallace here’s a message for you.

Were the atheists of New Zealand to act in the same dogmatic, angry way the followers of your god behave – then your juvenile sign would have been ripped-down long ago.

You need to thank your vicious and cruel god, that thankfully Kiwi Atheists are more civilized and nicer people than his followers.

All Power to the Mighty Dollar: Leo Schreven hits our shores with tales of impending doom.

Canterbury Atheists — Tue, 25 May 2010 02:21:00 +0000

In his overseas publicity, amongst some of the numerous titles employed, Leo Schreven likes to be known as ‘The Energiser Bunny’ and ‘Master Zenith Trainer.’

Don’t ask me what a ‘Master Zenith Trainer’ is either?

Schreven has dropped both those titles for his New Zealand Tour and resorted to the Hollywood style “ Exciting teachers of life mastery” instead.

Nor does Schreven want the New Zealand public to outwardly know he’s a bible-banging, vehemently anti-Sunday worshipping, evangelical, and author of the worlds most corniest book-title ‘Rich God Poor God’.

The New Zealand public are being told simply that you can ‘Master Your Life in One Weekend’, ' Turn fear and failure into your friends' and ‘Find physical, mental, spiritual, emotional and financial success in a principle based motivation seminar’ etc.

These personal development seminars, coming to a Kiwi town near you, are being marketed by a company called ‘All Power Seminars.’ – not to be confused with ‘Free Go All Power’, ‘Goal Power’, ‘All Power Columbus’, ‘Master Vision Connections’ , ‘All Power Kids’ or ‘All Power Thinking’ which also happen to be part of Schreven’s empire.

Back home in Washington, Schreven is up-front advertising the company he heads as ‘All Power Ministries’ – but here in Kiwiland, Leo has conveniently dropped the God stuff from his front-line publicity – in order not to scare away the natives.

What would further scare the South Pacific natives back into the bush, would be a quick read of Schreven’s 1994 book "Now That’s Clear!" , in which he outlines that anyone who worships on a Sunday is in-fact worshiping the Beast and received his mark ($50 says it's 666) - doomed to burn in hells fires, along with your garden-variety atheist.

Yes indeed New Zealand, underneath the mask of being a motivational speaker of international repute, Schreven is a leading ‘end of times’ dooms-day propagator (refer You Tube Video below , go to http://www.goallpower.com/777/ where you’ll need to have your credit-card at the ready, or if you want a giggle, rather than renting ‘Mad Max’ tonight - why not google: ‘2300 Days, Tribulation and Judgment Hour’?)

But a filthy-rich speaker - it has to be said.

A globe-trotting millionaire which according to the public-record, runs many-of the numerous on-line entities he fronts – tax-free.

Big on ‘the end is nigh’, Shreven has toured The U.S Bible-Belt, telling the hicks about the impending dooms-day, and why they should immediately go into the lobby and buy his $49.99 tapes for the car, in-order to saved being burned in next Tuesdays apocalypse.

Revelations about raptures, plagues, Satanic councils running the world also appear at first glance, to be off the subject-matter for his New Zealand Tour – but given his pedigree they can never be far from the surface.

I’m almost tempted to attend one of his gigs and ask him if he does horoscopes as well?

Life: God has lost his monopoly

Canterbury Atheists — Sat, 22 May 2010 22:19:00 +0000

“We can only reach the conclusion that we need God, the origin of life”.

The Catholic Church has always been a bit-slow on the up-take of scientific and medical discoveries.

It took till 1992 for The Vatican to agree with the proposition that the earth was not stationary & in-fact it revolves around the sun (apparently no one there bothered watching the lunar missions or got hold of satellite photos)

So it’s hardly surprising reports heralding of a new era of era of science – synthetic DNA - were meet with disdain by this backward group.

Nothing pisses-off theists more than when the foundations of their chosen superstition are yet again proven to be rotten –using the most cutting and effective ‘sword’ possible – fact rather than fiction.

This time the venue for these historic revelations and the further debasement of religious teachings, was genome-mapping pioneer, J Craig Venters laboratory.

His team’s project paves the way for designing organisms that work differently from the way nature intended for a wide range of uses.

God has officially lost his monopoly when it comes to creating life.

Ironically, his competition happens to be his pet-creation.

The time has come for the New Zealand news-media to close-down Family First by starving them of publicity.

Canterbury Atheists — Mon, 17 May 2010 08:22:00 +0000

Imagine if every week or so, you produced a ‘Press Release’ and sent it to the varying media-outlets, and then ‘hey-presto’ automatically they went ahead and published your pet-subjects & musings.

No questions asked, nor justification needed – the fact you think you are right and someone-else happens to be wrong - is enough for these releases to see day-light.

Your fringe pet hates & loves don’t need to be of concern to the vast majority of New Zealanders either – they will still turn-up on page four of most daily newspapers.

It could be something as trivial as an advert for Viagra that get’s up your nose, or the promotional activity of a Pizza company.

As ridiculous as this scenario first appears, it happens to be the current reality of the forth estate in New Zealand.

Hardly a week goes by without the irrelevant, evangelical pressure-group Family First issuing a press-statement of some-kind – all of which are published, mostly without critical review and ‘of right.’

Last week it was promoting a return to corporal punishment in New Zealand Schools.

On receipt of the latest release, not one journalist asked pertinent questions like “will this mean the return of the days when 5 year-old Kiwi’s were strapped by teachers?”

Instead of facing critical analysis the ‘release’ and its predecessors were published all but verbatim.

Here is a brief ‘Readers Digest’ list of the sort of narrow-minded, predictable stuff pouring out of Family First, that has managed to garnish both air-time and type-set over the years since the group set-up in 2006, largely as a result of the former champion of its causes, Graham Capill, being imprisoned for child rape and indecencies.

Return of corporal punishment in schools, making prostitution illegal again, ban on abortion, leading advocates for the right of parents to smack their children, banning in-flight movies which are not G rated, banning the TV Series Californication, wanting Gays to be prevented adopting children, promoting abstinence for teens, encouraging mums to stay at home and look after their kids, banning Boobs on Bikes, preventing brothels setting-up in residential areas, chastisement of Broadcasting Standards being too liberal, fighting the right for people to die in dignity, wanting cervical cancer vaccine distribution to be banned, continuing a ban on Easter Trading, placing the rights of married couples above those who choose a civil-union, varying attacks on The N.Z Family Planning Association to do with the distribution of contraception and access to abortion to the point they have even formed a splinter-group dedicated to the closure of Family Planning , fighting the right of parents to choose the sex of their child where there is a medical reasons like a genetic predisposition to a deformity, banning the video game ‘Grand Theft Auto’, highlighting child sexulisation e.g., pretend bra’s for 10 year olds, demanding the judge who let a naked-cyclist off with a warning should lose his job, wanting a Wellington’s shops adverts for sex-toys and bondage gear banned, fatherless families leads to more crime, wanting the internet to be censored, demanding a controversial Church bill board be removed last Christmas, denying Gays the right to marry or have a civil-union, wanted radio adverts for ‘the morning after pill’ to be banned, banning adult magazines in petrol station, banning The Atheist Bus Advert Campaign, getting a ‘clothing optional beach’ closed etc.

The list goes on ad nauseam, but you get a fair idea of the type of stuff Family First are all about & the New Zealand media can’t get enough of this sort of crap.

‘Banning’ and ‘prevention’ are high on Family First’s agenda.

Who takes seriously a group, with less membership than my suburban soccer club, who want to ban on one of the world’s most popular video-games and censor the internet so we can become like North Korea?

A sad minority, group that wants homosexuality to again be outlawed in New Zealand and nationwide cancer-prevention and birth-control policies scrapped.

A petty-minded bunch of bible-bangers with nothing better to do than complain to BP and Shell about girly-magazines on the shelves of their outlets.

An indication of just how out-of-touch Family First are with mainstream New Zealanders - they would rather a couple had a child live with birth-defects than allowing them access to medical-science that could prevent these defects occurring in the first place.

These Old Testament zealots even see it as their ordained ‘right’ to tell other Christians what they can and can’t have outside their church!

The New Zealand Media should treat any sort of broadcast coming from Family First with the derision and scorn it deserved, by placing it straight in the rubbish-bin.

Above all the media should stop giving these bigoted, creationist, flat-earthers, ‘the oxygen’ they need to exist – publicity.

God’s honest truth: The Fall from Grace of Graham Capill.

Canterbury Atheists — Sun, 16 May 2010 00:11:00 +0000

The fall from grace of United States evangelists Ted Haggard and George Rekers, are well known around the globe and bring a smirk to the face of any self-respecting secularist.

In 2005, New Zealand experienced a similar case of the Christian moral guardian ‘life of lies’ being exposed, and in this case his plummet from the moral high-ground, resulted in a ‘crash’ more spectacular than both Haggard and Rekers put-together.

'He' was Graham Capill, and for twelve years prior to his imprisonment for 12 years he led the fundamentalist Christian Heritage Party. At its peak, his Christian Heritage Party fell short of getting into Parliament by only a fraction of a decimal point at the 1996 general-election.

Four years later the parties support had dropped to 1.4 per cent – a decline Capill put down to a plot within Television New Zealand to deny him adequate coverage.

Frustrated at their lack of political success Christian Heritage/Christian Coalition had for some time sought for the threshold of 5 per cent (of party vote) to be reduced.

Over the years Capill has railed against erotic art, prostitution, the size of penises on Maori carvings, homosexuality, gay parenting, a mock crucifixion on Kiwi soap-opera ‘Shortland Street, pornography, The Toyota “bugger” adverts, South Park (both the series and the film), Hero Parade, Marilyn Manson’s tour, the child-smacking ban, liberalised prostitution, Dr Nitschke's visit to New Zealand, the paintings of Keith Haring, Virgin in a Condom sculpture, Family Planning distribution of condoms, award winning children’s book featuring two lesbian characters, the chief film censor, Ministry of Women, a workshop organised by The Post Primary Teachers Association for homosexual members, The United Nations, Repubilcanism, de-facto marriages, free birth control etc etc.

In December 1999 when asked to comment at the number of cabinet members who refused to swear on the Bible at their inauguration, he said it was "ominous (sign) for the country's future".

The month before, he warned New Zealanders of the "terrifying social crisis" – abortion, crime and single parents.

Capill was a staunch supporters of a ban on Easter shopping pointing to New Zealand’s Christian principles (1997) as the basis for continuing with the archaic tradition to deny business’s the right to open when they so choose. He also was the chief supporter of the right for parents to smack on the same-basis of Christian traditions and stated (29th January 1997) “God had given the power and responsibility to parents to train their children and sometimes smacking and strapping was called for”.

Capill, the man who was at one time in The Police Prosecutions Section in his capacity as a lawyer and is on record calling child-molesters “evil” – plead guilty (July 2005) to rape, unlawful sexual connection and three counts of indecent assault charges against two girls under 12.

Like Haggard and Rekers, Capill believed that gay people were inherently evil and could be ‘cured’ through Christian re-education.

At the same time Capill was calling for the introduction of Christian chastity programme for secondary school pupils, in which boys and girls would pledge to abstain from sex until they found a life partner, he was abusing an eight year old girl. One of his three victims (the oldest was 12) was a pupil at the Christian college at which the church minister-turned lawyer was preaching and ironically counselling as well.

“Anyone who uses children as a pawn in a game is playing for high stakes and needs to be careful," is what he told New Zealanders in 1999 in criticism of a radio competition run to ‘create a baby’.

In his trail summing-up, the judge highlighted the warped mind-set of Capill in respect to this victim, and his inability to distingush the boundaries between adult and child "You told the probation officer you were feeling lust and excitement when you were with (the victim). You had a high level of sexual arousal and your purpose was to get her to the point where she wanted sexual intercourse.”

Further evidence of Capills dangerous mental condition came out in an email to friends, in which the father of 10 said that sex with one of his young victims was consensual. In the same email he asked his friends to pray for a lenient judge and prison term before his sentencing.

As a boy he played violin with the National Youth Orchestra and also played the organ in Christchurch Cathedral.

In the court the day of his sentencing was spokeswoman for Lesbian Action For Visibility in Aotearoa, Ann Charlotte, a Christchurch woman who for years was dubbed "sexually perverted" by Graham Capill who made sure she was on hand to witness the fall of the now-disgraced moral crusader.

When I last heard Capill comes up for parole shortly.

Justifiably prior applications for parole have been refused.

Footnote: This song seemed strangely fitting...can’t think why?

My Entry for The First Annual ‘Draw Muhammad Day’ (20th May)

Canterbury Atheists — Sat, 15 May 2010 20:18:00 +0000

Bat Blow-Jobs

Canterbury Atheists — Sat, 15 May 2010 19:10:00 +0000

What you are watching here is Bat Sex.

Fruit bats at it!

Getting down and dirty and re-writing The Kama Sutra.

It’s fairly unique in nature and something you’ll never see in any mere mortal porn movie (trust me on this, I’ve spent at least a decade of my life looking at porn) when the male bat copulates ‘doggy-style’ the female bat contorts herself backwards and licks his penis at the same time!

Aren’t God’s creatures wonderful and such randy-little-bastards when they want to get their jollies-off!?

Pope 101: “Don’t mention the historic genocidal tendencies”

Canterbury Atheists — Fri, 14 May 2010 00:56:00 +0000

Pope Benedict should start taking heed that, like their Italian crime syndicate rivals ‘The Cosa Nostra’, The Catholic Church has never been shy of ‘snubbing-out’ it’s errant leaders, where they have become a liability. Benedict would know full-well that some-where between 8 to 13 of his predecessors have become expendable victims of ‘in-house hits’, and that the last time it happened was less than 25 years ago.

He can also forget playing the dementia card as well – being mentally incapacitated has never been an impinging trait for being a pope – most Catholic expect their pontiffs to come old, doddery, feeble minded and incapable of controlling their bodily functions.

What does ‘up-set the horses’ within the different tares of Catholicism is when the pope himself begins to ‘air the churches dirty laundry’

It’s happened twice in two days.

Firstly Benedict admitted it wasn’t actually the Jews, devil, homos, secular society etc that lead the Catholic Church to become the world largest homosexual pedophile syndicate – it was The Church itself that was ‘the root of all evil.’

Then to follow-up this gaff up, just a day later in his speech to Portuguese faithful he urged them to re-invent their country and re-create their glorious past.

This ‘glorious past’ happens to be the wholesale enslavement, murder, rape and subjugation of fellow humans in the name of Catholicism.

In a re-write of history that puts David Irving to shame, Benedict dismissively termed Portugal’s colonial role butchering and enslaving African, Asians, Central & South Americans in their millions, as a “sense of (their) global responsibility.”

If Benedict wants to live to wear ‘the blessed incontinence nappies’ he needs to take another look at his ‘user manual’ and be re-minded there are some subjects that have become politically incorrect to mention, outside The Vatican smoking-rooms.

Historic church policies like infallibility, extermination of The Jews, rape & plunder of inferior races, inquisitional torture of heathens etc – all need to now be kept under wraps.

Benedict (a.k.a Basil Fawlty)is on thin-ice here and clearly a liability to The Catholic Church, when he talks about ‘the good ol’ days’ of enslavement of heathens & admissions the church is a rotten edifice – and all in public!

Could someone please send him a copy of David Gallops book ‘In Gods Name’?

Attention All Irregulars: The Catholic Church wants to ban funerals for Gay people and annul your wedding!

Canterbury Atheists — Sat, 08 May 2010 20:41:00 +0000

Circles within The Catholic Church have invented a new term to describe & alienate sectors of secular society.

They are now to be known as an “Irregular.”

I’m now awaiting my 'yellow star badge' in the post from Italy and my wife has her needle & thread to sow it to the front of my jersey.

Naturally on-top of the “irregular” list are homosexuals, but also criminals and anyone else who doesn’t tow the churches line will also fall into the undesirables drawn-up by Italian Bishop Francesco Nole.

That’s him in the above photo.

I just wish someone would tell him dressing in permanent ‘fancy dress mode’ is rather gay behaviour in its own right.

To my mind, it’s kind of an "irregular" thing to do - for a male to wear frocks and an oversized rappers crucifix.

Anyway, Bishop Nole and his inner cliché of hardliners rationalize that because anyone who dies and isn’t a Catholic get’s to burn in hell anyway - they don’t deserve a funeral – so why go to the trouble?

Their first target is to push for a total ban on gay funerals.

It looks like The Westboro Baptist Church will soon have company on the funeral picket line.

Next on their ‘Final Solution to The Irregulars Question’ list, is not to recognize the weddings between two non-Catholics.

When you see this sort of twisted-rhetoric spewing forth from the highest quarters of Catholicism one truly has to wonder the mind-set of these so called ‘men of god’ - which is making Jim Jones temple in Guyana look positively inclusive and outward looking.

We also get to see what a dangerous cult The Catholic Church really is when it wants its members to start considering everyone else as an “irregular”.

The Vatican’s links to Nazi Germany are about to be revealed!

Canterbury Atheists — Thu, 06 May 2010 23:17:00 +0000

Something’s go together, like say sausages and tomato sauce, Indian food and a pint of beer.

Another synergy is The Catholic Church and Fascist Dictatorships.

Take a look at my ‘off the cuff’ list of famous fascist dictators and you’ll see they all share a common-bond:

- Hitler
- Mussolini (pictured with his mates at The Vatican)
- Franco (middle)
- Pinochet (photo with Pope John Paul 1987)

It’s not hard to deduce that all these dictators were products of their Catholic education and up-bringing - well versed from a young age how authoritarian regimes are administrated & run.

Universally these dictators enjoyed the tacit support of The Catholic Church in their respective countries.

But what evidence is their The Catholic Church actively assisted these despotic regimes?

Well this definitive evidence of collusion is about to be produced!

The Vatican-sponsored support of Nazi Germany is about to be publicly revealed with the imminent release of German Government files from WW2.

The Vatican has fought ‘tooth and nail’ for these 4,500 pieces of paper, dubbed ‘The Eichmann Files’ to remain confidential, but a German Court has just ruled it is time for them to be scrutinized.

These papers will prove once and for all the links between The Vatican and The Nazi Regime.

The relationship between the highest ranking Nazi’s officials and their Vatican peers will be exposed in black & white for the world to see.

This is another landslide of muck heading down the mountain the Catholic Churches way.

Benny Hill’s Ghostly Prediction from beyond-the grave comes true!

Canterbury Atheists — Wed, 05 May 2010 18:26:00 +0000

This is Baker Maurice Piner from Greymouth.

In yesterdays Christchurch ‘Press’ the neurotic populous of the region were told about the things going bump in the night in his bakery – and it wasn’t drunk patrons from The Railway Hotel on their way home.

Everyone knows when creeping shadows, unidentifiable sounds combine with a journalist after a sensationalist story – it’s gotta be a ghost!

And this is not just any run-of-the-mill spectre either.

Amateur West Coast historian Paul Schramm places Phil’s bakery on the same site as an 18th century boarding house & as it happens in 1891 a lonely Chinese miner called Ah Sing hung-himself.

Joining the dots, using a Ouija-board, yet another local historian Julia Bradshaw (clearly there’s not much to do at night in Greymouth outside genealogy) believes Ah Sing was overcome with guilt having stolen a watch from a mate and took the honorable way out at the time.

Bradshaw confirms, by way of thinly strung innuendo, it’s the ghost of Ah Sing who’s checking out the bakery's gluten-free loaves of bread and chocolate donuts, rather than rattling chains in some Scottish castle.

This story about Chinese miners of course is a total load of crap.

There is a much more logical explanation, an apparition prophesied by none other the demi-god of comedy – the late ‘Benny Hill.’

One could easily think a quaint ditty like ‘Ernie The Fastest Milkman in The West’ (1971) is little more than a amusing throw-away tune.

Wrong!

There is a dark-side to this song.

One only needs look at the forth and last verses of ‘Ernie’ to come to the same spine-tingling conclusion I did:

Now Ernie had a rival, an evil-looking man,
Called Two-Ton Ted from Teddington and he drove the baker's van.
He tempted her with his treacle tarts and his tasty wholemeal bread,
And when she seen the size of his hot meat pies it very near turned her head.

But a woman's needs are many fold and soon she married Ted,
But strange things happened on their wedding night as they lay in their bed.
Was that the trees a-rustling? Or the hinges of the gate?
Or Ernie's ghostly gold tops a-rattling in their crate?

Yes folks, it IS Two-Ton Ted from Teddington that’s haunting that bakery!

If only more people would do their research.

The Bare-Faced Lies of a Pope who both supported and fought for Nazi Germany

Canterbury Atheists — Sun, 02 May 2010 06:12:00 +0000

Taking a leaf out of David Irving’s book, Catholic revisionist historians have attempted to paint Benedict as a innocent young-man growing-up in WW2 Germany, a non-combatant who held an innate hatred towards the Nazi regime.

The known facts however tell us he, his brother and his family, were far from being reluctant participants – they even willing hid SS war criminals fleeing justice after the war’s end!

So let’s look at the historical facts versus the rhetoric spewing forth from The Vatican propaganda ministry.

Here’s the facts about Benedict XVI’s War-Time Record:

Fact One: Joseph Ratzinger has admitted the early victories Germany experienced in WW2 filled himself and his family with patriotic pride. Presumably had fascist Germany won the war this pride would have been magnified and he would have happily accepted a world living under Nazi tyranny and thus the total extermination ‘the inferior races’, particularly The Jews. Joseph Ratzingers patriotism and fervor faded only with the fortunes of the German armed-forces.

Fact Two: Georg Ratzinger, Joseph’s older brother and also a Catholic Priest who has admitted physically assaulting boys under his tutelage, served two years in The Wehrmacht (1942-44) He was wounded fighting Allied troops in Italy. Remember Catholic apologists want us to view the Ratzinger family as some sort of innocent by-standers caught up in the clouds of war – when Georg’s active military service is undeniable.

Fact Three: Joseph Ratzinger manned an anti-aircraft battery outside the BMW factory (Munich) in the later months of 1944 and early months of 1945. Military records for the "Flakhelfer"(part of the Hitler Youth) unit Ratzinger served-in show unequivocally he and his comrades were actively involved in repelling Allied bomber attacks. In one of the most ludicrous and almost farcical excuses possible, Ratzinger claims in his autobiography he wasn’t able to operate his weapon due to a “sore finger.” Here he is in the funeral-pyre that was Germany at that stage of the war, it’s cities in ruin and armies in retreat, occupying a battery with ideologically inspired teens and he turns to them and says “Sorry lads I’ve got a sore finger”. “I’ll think I’ll have to give this raid business a miss tonight.” Any fool can see this mediocre “sore finger” claim as being nothing but a bare-faced lie. After doing their duty in Munich he and his unit were then transferred to Innsbruck so in total Joseph served eight months in uniform – all with a finger affliction which apparently prevented him taking part as a combatant.

Fact Four: Joseph Ratzinger claims he never received a Nazi indoctrination at school and his teachers deplored the National Socialist doctrine. This is another untruth that can easily be dispelled. His head-master was an ardent Nazi and such studies were compulsory in Germany at the time.

Fact Five: Joseph Ratzinger (1944) watched Hungarian Jews being loaded into cattle-trucks on their way to be gassed at Auschwitz (Time Magazine Interview 6th December 1993) and did nothing to stop the greatest crime in the history of humanity.

Fact Six: Unlike the complicit Ratzinger clan several of their Traunstein neighbours bravely & openly resisted the Nazi regime. One of the locals in his old village Traunstein, Elizabeth Lohner, 84, whose brother-in-law was sent to Dachau as a conscientious objector, dismisses outright suggestions Ratzingers war-time story. “It was possible to resist, and those people set an example for others,” she said. “The Ratzingers were young and had made a different choice.” This is a living witness who saw Ratzinger and his brother (also a member of The Catholic Clergy) not, as anti-Nazi’s, but as young-men who went along with the system like millions of others. Other villagers who fought the Nazi’s were Valentin Hasselberger who ironically refused to fight due to his religious beliefs as a Jehovah’s Witness: Rupert Berger who formed a local ‘White Rose’ resistance group and even the a local Catholic Priest called Joseph Stelzle, the son of whom Joseph Ratzinger knew well through his seminary. So for him and his family to say “resistance was futile” is again another easily proven lie.

Fact Seven: In June 1945 the Ratzinger family sheltered & hid two SS soldiers on the run from justice.

Fact Eight: Joseph Ratzinger was taken at the barrel of an American gun from his house and imprisoned by soldiers and then interrogated as to his war-time role. Clearly the American military didn’t see his as an innocent teen and saw the household as one which offered sanctuary to war-criminals.

Fact Nine: Virtually all of the entrants to The Freising seminary in 1946 served in The German armed-services & many still harboured Nazi sympathies.

So there we have some inconvenient truths The Vatican and Pope Benedict XVI to sweep- under-the-carpet as if they never happened.

Not all of us are that gullible – once a Nazi always a Nazi.

One who has found a natural home as an ecumenical dictator to one-billion followers.

Even Hitler would be jealous of his success.

By the way that’s him in the photo with Pope Pius XII's representative and as it happens it's Pius who’s about to be made a saint - thanks to none other than Pope Benedict XVI!

Kiwi Teacher fired over Shakespearean Play.

Canterbury Atheists — Sun, 02 May 2010 01:39:00 +0000

Suzette Martin, herself a Christian, has been dismissed from her teaching role at Keikeri’s Westmount school in July 2009 after giving her year 13 class a modern version of Shakespeare’s immortal play ‘King Lear’ she down-loaded from the internet to cut costs.

Westmount is a faith-based school which adheres to the insular and cult-like principals of the Exclusive Brethren Church. Every year New Zealand tax-payers fund 15 Westmount schools to the tune of 2.6 million dollars which goes to subsidise just 1620 enrolled students. Only Brethren children are permitted to enrol and the church bans it's members attending University or seeking similar higher education.

To rub salt into Martin’s wound, her complaint to The Employment Relations Authority for unjustified-dismissal, has just been rejected.

The ERA sided with the cults trustees, that teaching 17 year old teenagers the works of ‘the bard of Avon’ was inappropriate given the Brethrens closeted and narrow-minded indoctrination.
The schools protocols allowed only material that “reflected Bible values” like mass-murder, incest, talking snakes etc and rejected outright the secular-evils contained in one of the greatest master-works of the English language.

The term the school committee used to describe King Lear in Martins 'don't come Monday' letter was "corrupting and morally defiling".

Martin was deemed to be in the wrong by not running the play past the schools trustees for their approval – despite the fact it formed part of the national English curriculum and her requests for the school to fund the authorised version of the play were turned down by the very ‘powers that be’ at the same school that fired her!

Once again we get to see the true-essence of faith-based education in this country exposed in all its glory: state-approved bigoted brain-washing of innocent minds.

Watch the stage death of a Psychic Fraudster

Canterbury Atheists — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 01:41:00 +0000

To say this fraudster, James Van Praagh, is caught-floundering on Australian Television , is an understatement.

It’s embarrassing just how few hits this losers cold-reading gets from the bemused and increasingly cynical studio-audience.

Check out the faces and body language of Van Praagh, the audience and then the shows-host - who obviously gets the word from the producer to bring the public-humiliation to a premature end whilst they still have people at home watching.

Positively cringe-worthy.

Who the hell believes this sort of crap?

Here are some of the Islamic Countries that legislate to allow Child Sex.

Canterbury Atheists — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 20:31:00 +0000

Imagine, as sickening as the proposition is, betrothing your own two year-old daughter to a forty year-old?

Then at 9 years-old you allow your daughter to ‘shack-up’ with her fiancé.

At 11 she is formally married and then consummation takes place.

She gives birth at 12 years-old.

As abhorrent as this scenario sounds, what has been outlined is the ‘norm’, and it is permissible under Islamic law in the following countries - that’s to say young-girls getting married and having sexual relations with their husbands, who are often decades older:

- Afghanistan
- Bahrain
- Iran
- Kuwait
- Nigeria
- Oman
- Pakistan
- Saudi Arabia
- United Arab Emirates
- Yemen

Girls are seen as objects in these countries, chattels for their fathers to dispose-of like cattle.

Kiwi’s would rather worry about whales and native-bush, conveniently turn a blind-eye to the oil-producers, rather than standing-up for what should be basic civilised human-rights for the female population in The Middle East and Africa.

New Zealanders and their allies are spilling-blood in Afghanistan for a turpitude, corrupt regime that has enshrined in it’s statute-books a carte-blanche for men to fuck girls – using the excuse “they are married in the eyes of our God and his book”

We are happy to sell meat to feed the faces of what in its lowest denominator are child-rapists.

Tut, tut silly old-me mentioning civilization and Islam in the same paragraph.

Footnote(s):

- All these very same countries ban homosexuality and imprison and torture anyone caught engaging-in male/male sex.
- Not to be outdone, the age of consent in that bastion of propriety, The Vatican City, is set at just 12 years-old.
- At 54 y.o, Islam’s prophet married one of his wives when she was a mere 6 year-old and began sexual relations with her just three years later. Thus the religious enshrinement that has lead to its practice in 2010.
- Some of these countries do set a minimum age for marriage – most frequently its nine years-old and nothing less than thirteen.
- In Nigeria a senator & state governor in their Government paid a dowry for a 12 year-old Egyptian girl who he whisked back-home and married a year later.

When Aliens Attack!

Canterbury Atheists — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 21:00:00 +0000

Professor Stephen Hawking is bang-on-the-money when he warns us to avoid seeking-out contact with other intelligent life-forms – foreboding mankind that there’s a good chance these technologically superior extraterrestrials may well harbour the same nihilistic traits we humans exhibit – thus bringing ‘the enemy to our door’ and ultimately our decimation and/or enslavement.

His analogy is a fitting-one “If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn’t turn out well for the native Americans.”

Hawking correctly suggests we are best to shut-up and stay contented on our non-descript planet in our corner of the vast universe, rather than tempt fate and attract unwanted attention.

Actively searching the skies for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) with “come around for a cup of coffee” invitation is just the sort of thing Hawking believes we should avoid.

Understating the peril to avoid scaring the children, Hawking describes attempts to actively see-out alien life-forms as “a little too risky”.

Let’s take his well-founded warnings seriously.

The ‘Spot The Creepy Pope’ Challenge

Canterbury Atheists — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 21:35:00 +0000

Firstly turn-on the subject-relevant music (above) then take-your-time picking-out the interloper I’ve strategically placed amongst the real photos of Pope Benedict 16th.

Take your time – this is more difficult than it first appears.

Answer is in the comments section.

Ever wondered what causes earthquakes?

Canterbury Atheists — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 20:59:00 +0000

These!

Yep, boobs!

Background on this ground-breaking (get the pun?) seismic (I’m on a roll) discovery here.

“The Kids asked for it!” claims Catholic Bishop

Canterbury Atheists — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 06:47:00 +0000

Unable to take ownership of the issues which have lead to 1 in 25 priests being accused of child-molestation – The Catholic Church has been doing its best to deflect attention from its own endemic immorality and blame instead a large range of outside influences.

Just to re-cap on why exactly Catholic Priests love fucking kids (straight from the Propaganda Ministry of The Vatican) so far we’ve heard it’s all down-to:

1.) Satan: Yes, the arch-boogey man was dragged-out, early-on in the piece.

2.) A Secular Society: Per RATzinger it was societal woes that were behind the 15,000 cases in Ireland, Catholicism was guiltless.

3.) The Jews: An oldie but a goodie - it’s the Jewish controlled media that’s pumping this thing up. Then in an amazing turn-around, in the next breath The Vatican wanted the world to know they were being persecuted like The Jews!

4.) The Homo’s: It’s all because those hell-bound faggots have infiltrated our ranks en-masse. RATzingers # 2 that dreamed that one-up.

Now you can add another two pathetic & delusional excuses to this load-of-crock why Catholic Priests love fucking Children and have been doing-so for its entire history:

5.) Pornography: Per The Mexican Bishop Felipe Arizmendi it’s all down to Internet porn. His words speak volumes of the type of sycophantic character The Catholic Church sees fit to tell us how to live our own lives:

“With so much invasion of eroticism, sometimes it’s not easy to stay celibate or to respect children. If on television and on the Internet and in so many media outlets there is pornography, it is very difficult to stay pure and chaste".

Ah so that explains all those pre-Internet historic cases. What a sad-fuck Bishop Arizmendi must be - perfect characteristics for one so high-up in The Catholic Church.

6.) The Kids asked for it! Yet, another Bishop, Bernando Álvarez now wants us to feel sorry for all those poor Priests having eight-year old boys throwing themselves on them like some sort of groupies. His insulting & inflammatory words to the 30,000 known victims of clergy abuse were:

“There are 13 year old adolescents who are under age and who are perfectly in agreement with, and what’s more wanting it, and if you are careless they will even provoke you”

That’s right – you read it right - all those abused kids asked for it!

The Priests were the innocent party and were “provoked” into raping children.

This is the same sort of twisted, sickening rhetoric you hear from a lifelong pedophile, unable to distinguish the boundaries between child and adults.

It beggars belief just what depths can this Church can stoop to when it is now blaming innocent children.

The Catholic Church has a 2,000 Year-Old History of Child Abuse.

Canterbury Atheists — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 00:38:00 +0000

Manifestly the abuse of children by Catholic priests has been a stable part of ‘life’ with-in The Catholic Church since its inception.

Pedophilia has been rampant for 2,000 years & successive Popes have failed to reduce this insidious plague – of this there can be no argument.

Through-out history there has been a rare Pope that have tried to stop this abuse – but their attempts ultimately ended in failure - the sickening mental, physical and sexual abuse of children being intertwined with the history of Catholicism -part of 'the wood-work.'

Without exception every Pope has a practiced some-form of cover-ups of the child-abuse amongst its ranks & protection of Churches good-name remains to this day The Vatican’s major priority.

Popes were guilty of child-abuse themselves.

The raping of children is as much an intrinsic ritual within the church as baptism.

This video exposes the sordid history of pedophilia within Catholicism that dates back 2,000 years.

Why do so many Catholics Priests love fucking children?

Canterbury Atheists — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 21:07:00 +0000

Italy, Ireland, Germany, Chile, Australia – there isn’t a single country on the planet where the endemic abuse of the vulnerable perpetrated by Catholic priests, hasn’t taken place.

Even the closest Catholic Church to my house had a case.

Catholic apologists on this global pedophilia plague, continually like point-out that it is “only a small minority” even when faced with a study from their own Church that indicates the rate of offending in the ranks of clergy, is an horrendous 1 in 25 (refer my article from last week)

There are of course many other groups I can think-of that have such access and authority over children – both religious and secular.

Take for example humanitarian groups like The Red Cross and Save The Children.

These aid groups have access to vulnerable children on a mass scale, frequently-in places where the recipients are un-educated - the perfect hunting grounds for those that prey on children for their perversion.

Why isn’t the media full of “child sex scandals” surrounding say the ranks of The Red Cross?

Clearly there are other global religions – so why aren’t their ordained members abusing the children in their congregations on every continent?

Surely if the rate of child-abuse within Islam was on the same-scale as that of The Catholic Church – we would have heard about it – but because it happens so infrequently it’s a non-issue.

Muslim Imam’s and Anglican Ministers can administer their flocks without corrupting the younger members of their mosques & churches - but not Catholic priests.

The most obvious & logical answer is: Catholic Priests love fucking children and something is going-on in their heads that warps their own perspective on human sexuality.

If not, offer me a better explanation?

There’s a long-rich history of sexual deviants becoming Popes – so what’s so strange about another one?

Canterbury Atheists — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 02:46:00 +0000

Sergius III (? – 911) murdered his predecessor to come to power, defiled his corpse, fathered an an illegitimate son to his mistress who was 14 at the time, and then ensured it was his bastard son that would take his pontificate upon his death.

Pope John XII (937 – 964) was another one who liked ‘keeping it in the family’ – his niece fathered one of his brats. Once personally castrated one of his subdeacons and then cut the rest of him up.

Pope John XIII (965-72) was, for the most part, an embarrassment to the Roman Catholic Church and remains so even to this day. He was a randy geezer – so much so that he converted The Latern Palace into a brothel. Was known to prey-on female pilgrims to St. Peter's. It was John Paul XIII stray-rooting that lead to his untimely demise. An irate husband who came home to find his wife in bed with the pontiff took the matter into his own hands and stabbed him to death!

As usual as his death may appear, he wasn’t the first Pope to die in the act of sexual congress.

John Paul’s predecessor, Pope John XII happened to die in exactly the same circumstances!

Pope Benedict IX (c. 1012 – 1065/85) had an incestuous relationship with his cousin and then sold the papacy to his own godfather because he was sick of the job.

Pope Clement VI (1291-1352) watched two thirds of his congregation die of the plague ravaging Europe who blamed The Jews for the outbreaks origins. Clement didn’t mind admitting he was “a sinner amongst sinners” which he was - on a scale with no parallel in its day. He and his cardinals use to dine with their harem of prostitutes in what were called "Banquets of the Walnuts". After the meal, the gathered Cardinals had all of the prostitutes who had dined with them disrobe. Then a bucket of walnuts was scattered across the floor and the women ordered to pick them up, on hands and knees, the better for the Cardinals to see and choose from among the vulvas present for their carnal pleasure His lavish spending almost bankrupted the church.

Pope Alexander VI (1431 – 1503) Bribed his way to The Papacy and whilst in power he sired at least seven different illegitimate children by his mistresses, and didn’t hesitate to reward them with handsome endowments at the church’s expense. His breeding didn’t stop there. He had an incestuous relationship with his daughter Lucrezia and fathered a son by her. Had an affinity for throwing orgies that usually culminated with little naked boys jumping out of large cakes.

Pope Leo X (1475 – 1521) Died in the bed of his homosexual lover.

Pope Julius III (1555 odd) Julius discovered a 13 year old beggar called Innocenzo on the streets of Parma before ascending to the pontificate, and he adopted him as his own nephew. Innocenzo openly slept in the same bed as Julius and boasted of the boy's prowess.

So what we currently have another rat-bag wearing the fishermans-ring?

Benedict XVI has a long illustrious list of predecessor to look-up-to.

He's just learning-his-trade.

Message to all Catholics: Rest easy all these problems in the church are down to The Homo’s and Jews.

Canterbury Atheists — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 00:46:00 +0000

After esoteric excuses, namely ‘Satan’, failed convince rational-humans & stop the keys on journalists type-writers clattering away, The Catholic Church has now turned to more traditional escape-goats to explain-away its current problems.

Now cornered, The Vatican wants you to now know all this messy child-molestation and cover-ups business - is all down to the Homo’s and Jews!

According to no lesser person that The Vatican Foreign Minister, who is on a visit to Chile, “there is a relationship between homosexuality and paedophilia.”

Meanwhile states-side it looks like U.S Catholic’s have entered the denial phase of their grieving-process.

We have a Catholic Bishop there now blaming the almost daily media reports on Ratzingers complicity in child-abuse cases as being part of a Jewish media conspiracy.

This is not just a Church in crisis - it is a Church in melt-down without a single ounce of moral fortitude between the whole-lot of them.

A sad bunch of twisted, old men bereft of the honesty to own-up to the problems besieging their organisation.

All Catholics should be shamed at this latest outburst.

But of course as ‘good Catholics’ they won’t be.

Catholics believe in everything they are told from The Church as literal truth – even when it is bare-faced lies, like pedophilia in its ranks is down to some-sort of homosexual infiltration and all the media reports are being beefed-up by a cliché of powerful Jews.

If there wasn’t such perverted & sinister motives to their deluded utterances - like The BBC is owned & run by a Jewish family - it would almost be amusing.

The sad-case of The Whistle-blowing Catholic Brother abandoned by his Church

Canterbury Atheists — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 06:23:00 +0000

During his later years Brother Peter Burke was a round peg in a square hole.

As Australasian head of ‘The Order of St John of God’ he tried his best to deal with the hundreds of cases of intellectually disabled boys on both sides of the Tasman raped and abused by Catholic brothers within the order over four decades - handling these numerous complaints with honesty & openness accorded to the victims, police & media alike.

Saying “sorry” where it was needed.

Burke didn’t cover-up and follow the protocols set-out by The Vatican at the time which was to keep things in-house and relocate the offending priest to a remote location. Papua New Guinea to this day remains a favourite regional dumping-zone for pedophile priests. He assisted Police investigations which lead to his compatriots being imprisoned.

For his honesty and transparency Peter Burke was treated as a pariah by fellow members of The Order of St John of God.

Abandoned by his colleges as someone who didn’t tow the party line he spent his retirement in 2007 prior to his death in February of this year - alone in his Sydney one-bedroom flat – a broken man.

Contrast the scurrilous treatment Burke received as a ‘whistle-blower’ with that The Order of St John of God now lavish-on Canterbury’s biggest pedophile – Rodger William Maloney – the brother Burke helped bring to justice.

Since his recent release into the Christchurch community Maloney has being in the care of The Order of St John of God.

Maloney still maintains he is innocent of his years of offending to the point he is embittered that he was some-how personally hard-done-by by Burke and society as a whole.

Last week a shameless Maloney left prison and was welcomed back with open-arms by The Order of St John of God.

Never stripped of his priesthood Maloney has been ingratiated back into the very environment that spawned his abuse and wrecked the lives of hundreds of boys, now men.

When his 12 month parole in New Zealand is over, The Order of St John already have made plans for Maloney to be re-located to sunny Queensland to see out his days amongst his peers, who patently care little of his heinous criminal record and potential to re-offend given he still sees himself as the victim.

If anyone wonders why sexual abuse will never be stamped-out in The Catholic Church, one only needs look at this case.

Catholics should look-forward to prospect of The Pope being arrested during his U.K Visit.

Canterbury Atheists — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 22:23:00 +0000

"This man is not above or outside the law. The institutionalised concealment of child rape is a crime under any law and demands not private ceremonies of repentance or church-funded payoffs, but justice and punishment." [Christopher Hitchens]

Richard Dawkins and his right-hand man Christopher Hitchens are planning a legal ambush to have the Pope arrested during his September state visit to Britain “for crimes against humanity”.

The pair believe they can exploit the same legal principle used to arrest Augusto Pinochet, the late Chilean dictator, when he visited Britain in 1998.

All Catholics who believe he is innocent, should look-forward to his arrest and questioning by British Police, so all these baseless allegations made against him, can be put to rest.

What does an innocent man like him have to fear?

Even should British Police prosecutors feel there is a case to answer, Papal apologists who believe Ratzinger is innocent of covering-up sexual abuse within the Catholic Church, should welcome the chance for him to prove his innocence in an open court of law.

He would have the best team of defence-lawyers money could buy.

Ratzingers trial will be one of the biggest in world-history and his innocence or guilt could be measured in a court of law rather than the current ‘court of media’.

Things could be put-to-rest once and for all with such a trial.

Surely ‘justice’ is something that means something and is still in the vocabulary of The Vatican and the billion Catholics around the globe should be welcoming & embracing the prospect of Ratzinger facing his accusers and proving his innocence once-and-for-all.

Anyone who is trying to rally-against his questioning by British Police clearly thinks he has something to hide.

And to those who think that think Ratzinger is a head-of-state and can claim diplomatic immunity, they need a little history lesson that it was the fascist dictator Benito Mussolini that bestowed The Vatican the title ‘state’ and The United Nations doesn’t recognise their sovereignty any more than the Sea-Org head-quarters of The Scientologists in Florida.

At least one in 25 Catholic Priests has faced sexual abuse allegations!

Canterbury Atheists — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 23:02:00 +0000

A comprehensive, long-term study commissioned by the Catholic Bishops' Council in the United States found that approximately 4 per cent of ordained priests had sexual misconduct allegations made against them between 1950 and 2002.

This equates to a ratio one in 25 ordained priests, and let’s not forget most sexual abuse victims chose to keep their suffering secret, so the actual number/percentage would likely be greater than this, given these were only the priests reported-to Church authorities.

This sad & frightening statistic comes from none-other than the Catholic Church itself, and makes a mockery of apologists false & misleading claims that only “a small number of priests are involved.”

Confirmation that at least 1 in 25 priests faced allegations of sexual abuse goes to prove just how endemic and rife sexual deviancy is within The Catholic Church clergy.

In-fact I would suggest it is so rife, as to be impossible to root-out completely.

Catholic Church harbours Serial Pedophile Priest in Canterbury’s midst!

Canterbury Atheists — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 21:54:00 +0000

This is Rodger William Moloney.

Father Rodger William Moloney.

Moloney abused over a hundred boys, many of them ‘special needs’ entrusted to his care, whilst he headed The St John of God residential-school, located in Oakland (Christchurch)

These are the known, reported victims of Father Moloney – doubtless the real-list of those who suffered at his hands would be much greater – the varying handicaps of the victims impinging further investigation.

Yet, despite being found guilty of mass-abuse , The Catholic Church paying over 5.0 N.Z Million dollars in compensation to his victims – Moloney still claims he is innocent and all the boys made-up the decades of assorted physical & sexual deviancy.

Father Maloney, is an unrepentant mass-pedophile with no parallel in Canterbury’s history who preyed on the most vulnerable of the vulnerable - yet perplexingly is considered by The Parole Board to now be ‘safe’ enough to be released back into the Christchurch community after serving less that one-third of his sentence?

The weak system of justice here in New Zealand having meant Father Moloney served less than four days prison-time for every one of his known victims.

And to rub salt into the wounds of these victims, many of which still carry the mental scars - where was it that the scum-bag Father Rodger William Moloney was recently paroled to?

Back to the care of St John of God - that’s where!

That’s right, as bloody unbelievable as sounds, the very group & place Moloney perpetrated all his numerous crimes was deemed to be the safest place for the community at large.

Clearly to anyone who looks at this case, St John of God was unable to stop or detect his abuse over numerous years when he last served in the Order, yet in a stunning decision The N.Z Parole Board now thinks this is the perfect place for his rehabilitation.

To further spit-in-the-face of restorative-justice the New Zealand public demands, once Moloney has finished his 12 months of parole at St John of God in Christchurch the order plans to whisk him-off to Australia’s Gold Coast where he can see out his days – still as a priest!

Note: Moloney’s partner in crime was Brother Bernard McGrath and I’ll cover his sordid life shortly and what he's up-to shortly.

Group founded by Deviant Priest alive and well in New Zealand!

Canterbury Atheists — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 20:24:00 +0000

Father Marcial Marciel (1928-2008) is a Mexican priest who founded of the Catholic Orders ‘Legionaries of Christ’ and ‘Regnum Christi’ (think Opus Dei)

Marciel was also a sexual deviate with a taste for young boys & pre-pubescent girls, embezzled money, fathered at least six children - some of which he began fucking, abused drugs and had serious mental-issues – the perfect CV for one in such a pious and lofty position within The Catholic Church.

Most if not all of Marciels activities the current Pope, in his old capacity, knew was happening & did what we now know he normally did at the time....nothing substantive!

Championed by Pope Paul II (cuddly photo of both above)after founding the Legion of Christ in Mexico in 1941, Marciel built a vast network of schools, colleges, seminaries and lucrative real estate holdings. At its peak the Legion had an annual budget of US$650 million, more than 650 priests and 60,000 members all around the planet – a large number of which knew their leader intimately it appears.

His network extended to New Zealand and his ‘good work’ is carried on by Catholics in New Zealand to this day.

At one-stage Dunedin, apostolates from Regnum Christi even ran their own radio program to relay Marciel's ‘good-word’ to the peoples of Otago. Which parts of his doctrine these devotees espoused during this air-time is open to conjecture.

New Zealanders also flew to Rome which houses the H.Q of the Legion of Christ to seek Marciels personal instruction - even knelling in his presence and kissing his ring - both subservient acts many of those who had a private audience with him over the years, got to do (in a Biblical sense of the terms)

Empowered with their trip to Rome & taking a leaf-out-of their illustrious founders book (no doubt the pages would be stuck together & have a centre-fold) Regnum Christi members started a nationwide campaign amongst The Catholic Community of New Zealand for fathers and sons to bond together. These man/boy bonding sessions involve weekends away (I assure you, even I couldn’t make this sort of stuff-up!) and are rather appropriately, if not ironically marketed as ‘Conquest Events.’ (I promise you I’m not making this up!)

Indeed instructing children appears to be a major part of Regnum Christi’s modus-operandi in New Zealand. Their publicity trumpets ‘week long-summer camps for youth’, first communion programs for youngsters and some-thing they call ‘Priest Appreciation Evenings’. One boggles what-goes-on at one of these ‘appreciation’ evenings run by a group that falls under the banner of a lay-movement and is mandated by a lying, reprobate who liked nothing better than playing ‘hide the sausage’ with any kids he could get his grubby hands-on.

Obviously the credibility of The Regnum Christi and Legionaries of Christ sects in New Zealand is in tatters - permanently tainted with their founder’s sordid, ribald legacy.

It doesn’t take my jibes to tell them their days are over – their credibility is on par with a white-power skinhead group.

Immediate closure is their only credible option.

Good riddance too!

Meet the 10,000th Kiwi baby The Catholic Church wanted dead!

Canterbury Atheists — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 23:26:00 +0000

The babies name is Zoe and her doting and proud parents are Aucklanders Natasha & Anish Martis.

Any parent can look at this photo can share their joy.

Zoe is unique - she’s New Zealand’s 10,000th IVF baby!

So what sort of cold-hearted person would deny couples like Natasha & Anish the chance to have children?

What sort of person could deny Zoe a life and brand this small 11 day-old baby as intrinsically ‘evil’ and tag her parents as 'moral deviants'?

Those callous heartless individuals happen to come with a title like ‘father’ or ‘sister’.

Those cold-blooded, semi-humans can be identified by dog-collars and habits – befittingly black in colour, like their hearts.

Today these very-same savage celibate men who wanted to deny Zoe, and 9,999 other children like her, a life are actually instructing others how to be "good" using their own warped & twisted version of the term.

In the year 2010 The Catholic Church in New Zealand still considers IVF treatment to be “gravely evil” and “morally unacceptable.”

The Vatican would like to see a worldwide ban on IVF.

The Catholic Churches stand against fertility treatment is totally repugnant and an affront to normal decency.

In-fact the policy is evil.

Criticism of The Catholic Church is tantamount to anti-Semitism – you read that right.

Canterbury Atheists — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 19:45:00 +0000

History was made yesterday.

You were alive to hear the worlds ‘richest’ statement – ever!

The gold-medal in the specialist event, known as: ‘the pot calling the kettle black.’

Here it is......

“Anyone who criticises The Catholic Church is committing an abuse comparable with those committed against the Jewish religion.”

In other-words, those spoken yesterday by of none-other than Vatican spokesman Rev Federico, criticism of The Catholic Church is tantamount to the act of anti-Semitism.

That’s right peoples – the group with the longest and most bitter history of Jew hating and the prime faith of those who orchestrated the atrocity known as The Holocaust – wants to label and silence its detractors by labeling them as acting like anti-Semites!

As I said in my intro, this has to be the “richest” statement of all time.

Ironically this outrage and abuse of the true meaning of the term anti-Semite came on the same-day The Archbishop of Canterbury stated the Roman Catholic Church has lost "all credibility" over the way it had dealt with paedophile priests.

This anti-Semitism parallel is further proof, if it were necessary, that The Catholic Church has indeed no credibility.

No mandate to preach to anyone on any subject, given it is the world’s largest historic abuser of children, lead by an ex-Nazi who covered-up acts of this abuse.

Just how low can this morally bankrupt group stoop?

Footnote: As you know I normally post a relevant piece of music to the article. Well one song that has recently come to my attention is by an artist, I admit I’ve never been a fan of – that was until now (must be getting old). This haunting humanist song by Joni Mitchell is worth a spin on any secularists turn-table. It's long but worth the listen.