This is a Tumblrlog, a virtual scrapbook, of the ramblings of an Australian Atheist (sub-class Secular Humanist). In it you will find items that amuse, excite, confuse or anger me. Just don't take it too seriously, I know I don't.
"Something I don't have can't possible burn in a place that doesn't exist for a nonsensical period of time." - Me
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Sathnam Sanghera, “Workers, you have nothing to lose but your petitions” (via Times Online)
Blogging about it doesn’t work either.
Father Gabriele Amorth, The Vatican’s Chief Exorcist, “Four exorcisms a day. Yes, it’s a devil of a job” (via Times Online)
Well if they know where He lives you’d think they’d do something about Him .. then again if they did they’d do themselves out of a job.
When the Pope was just a cardinal he allowed a man he knew to be paedophile to continue to act as a priest. The priest went on to re-offend. and was convicted of child abuse.
Australian of the year, Professor Patrick McGorry, has thrown his weight behind the calls for an Australian Government inquiry into the Church of Scientology.
His cause for concern is that CoS denies the reality of mental illness (well they would have to, how else could they have Tom Cruise as a member?) and are putting people’s lives at risk.
“I’m concerned that any restriction or any discouragement of access to mental health care will cost lives and result in unnecessary disability for people,” Professor McGorry said.
A New Zealand woman has successful sold two vials that she clams contained ghosts. The vials fetched AUD$1,540 (USD$1,328) via a hotly contested on-line auction; proving the stupidity of humans knows no bounds and has no financial sense either.
The woman claimed that she captured the ghosts after an exorcism session, she placed the ghosts (making sure not to cross beams) into holy water.
The woman claims that she will donate the money, minus exocisim costs, to charities fighing animal cruelety.
One can only hope that Ghost Liberation ogransisations will lead a boycott against the new owners, an electronic cigarette company, until they release the ghosts from their in-humane confinment.
Prior to the start of the Global Atheist Convention in Melbourne a 100 students from 20 Universities launched the Freethought University Alliance. The FUA is a coalition of atheist, humanist, secularist and rationalist groups which will share speakers, connect student leaders and provide resources.
The Archbishop of Vienna states the bleeding obvious when he recently acknowledged that priestly celibacy is one of the causes of the sex abuse scandals that continue to rock the Catholic Church.
No it’s not a Death Star. it is in fact one of Saturn’s moons, Mimas. Run over to Bad Astronomy to discover more.
Google censors Aboriginal Flag.
The top picture is the original artwork by student Jessie Du. The picture on the bottom will appear today (Australia/Invasion Day) on the Google website. The flag that Google chose to remove is the Australian Aboriginal flag
Bugger! Guess I’ll just give up practicing …
Eureka Aerospace have developed an electromagnetic pulse gun to help in police car chases. The pulse from the gun is supposed to disable a car’s microprocessor system … no mention of what happens to the perp’s gonads.
A US company that has been putting biblical references on its gun-sights has said that they will remove them.
Trijicon, a deeply religious Michigan company that sells military hardware, supplies gun-sights to the US, British, Australian and New Zealand military, has for years put encoded biblical inscriptions on its gun-sights. Now due to criticism from home and abroad their will now supply military organizations with kits to remove them.
