Comments on: Bushfires are “judgement of God” banned pastor claims

By: Ian Modjo

Ian Modjo — Wed, 15 Jan 2020 23:43:06 +0000

Banning this guy is a start although Oz was the, what?, thirty third to do so? Typical of this government, poll driven, hang back and see how the land lies before you make a decision. Now for the pentecostals and the evangelicals whose unchecked proselytising is every bit as dangerous. I am working on a novel in which God and Satan, in the eighteenth century, are forced to join forces to defeat a looming and as yet unknown threat to the very existence of humanity which will manifest itself in the 21st century. This will turn out to be not Islamist extremism but rampant Evangelicalism, the secret weapon of a mentally deranged American president.

By: Jayboy

Jayboy — Wed, 15 Jan 2020 23:07:16 +0000

He’s certainly got a big opinion of himself. God is burning a whole country because we banned this lunatic.. didn’t know the Goddess was such a big fan of this idiot.. which clearly she isn’t..

I’m so frustrated that these fires are being blamed on God, the gays, marriage equality, poor luck and freak conditions.

It’s climate change driven by man made activities like coal mining and burning, factory emissions and just poor land management.

Until we admit this and start changing our behaviours, it’s going to get a lot worse before it gets better.

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 14 Jan 2020 06:17:40 +0000

As I’ve noted before on these pages, religious types seizing on whatever misfortune hits anyone anywhere as evidence of their deity’s anger at the rest of us for not jumping on their particular agenda is a very old trick. How old? It literally predates history.

Humankind was still living in caves when witch doctors were arranging sacrifices and declaring any misfortunes to be evidence that the gods were angry. Our species and our societies have evolved a long way since then, but not these dickheads. After all, they don’t believe in evolution. And that’s why they’re pulling exactly the same shit they’ve been pulling for 30,000 years.

By: James LEONARD

James LEONARD — Tue, 14 Jan 2020 01:21:27 +0000

There will be many more like him in Australia now that we have a government playing games to prolong the licensing of religious hate speech and even making gifts of public money to a Happy Clappers group connected to the prime minister