If you’re lucky you’ll never again see something quite as spitefully evil as the latest epistle from the nutjob “Catch The Fire” ministries.
CTFM leader, Pastor Danny Nalliah said he would spearhead an effort to provide every assistance to devastated communities, although he was not surprised by the bush fires due to a dream he had last October relating to consequences of the abortion laws passed in Victoria.
According to their events page Pastor Danny is coming to Canberra from 6-8 March when “Pastor Danny will be the guest speaker at the Full Gospel Business Men’s Fellowship International NSW / ACT Convention at the Rydges Eagle Hawk Resort, Federal Highway, ACT.
If you feel so inclined you can tell Rydges what you think of them playing host to this creature.
UPDATED: Crikey took a look a few weeks ago at some of the past hits from “Catch The Fire”.
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Eagle Hawk is actually in NSW, not ACT… So I guess he couldn’t get a visa to visit our fine city
Catch teh Fire? He needs to die in a fire.
God punished believers, good Christian people and their families, by burning them to death, because other people enacted laws which this moron doesn’t like?
Religious stupidity at it’s finest.
What if it wasn’t Pastor Danny’s god, but one of the copious other Gods that did it?
Thankfully, this sort of crazy is dying out, otherwise any arsonists caught could claim they were possessed by the hand of Pele, Hawaiian Goddess of Fire.
Sadly they’re not dying out.
These simplistic happy clappy bigots are spreading like wildfire.
No, pommy bastard. He took them into His arms to stand at His Righteous Right Side forever so that they might be spared meeting somebody who’d had an abortion. It was a close shave. Praise Jeebus!
Sadly they’re not dying out.
Well, hopefully people are more cynical, less gullible, and more intelligent in 2009, than to listen and to believe.
IMHO, I can’t believe people still recognize a god when there are so many to choose from, yet there (according to whatever religion you pick) can be only one.
If you’re lucky you’ll never again see something quite as spitefully evil
I hope you’re right. Unfortunately, I bet you’re wrong and there’ll be a bigger more charismatic loon on the horizon.
Look out Pastor Arsewipe, I had a dream the other night that some narrow minded bigot got his arse kicked from one end of Eaglehawk to the other because he’d blamed the VIC bushfires on an abortion law being passed.
Let’s hope Castello doesn’t change his mind about becoming Liberal leader – according to the Crikey link these idiots are strong backers of his.
from a vision…
Jesus again puts His hands on Peter Costello’s shoulders but I notice the right hand has fingers and thumb spread out.
This signifying 5 members and in the 5th term for coalition, the governmental leadership will be on Peter Costello’s shoulders. Current prayer need on my heart is the new Treasurer to stand with Peter Costello as P.M.
Didn’t work out did it! Amen!
The Brad said :
I guess they feel that the fact that different beliefs exist doesn’t necessarily invalidate the possibility of a singular and objective truth.
As wacky and unwelcome as CTFM are, I’m not sure that they are spreading like wildfire. Such groups remain on the fringe of society, and, indeed, on the fringe of the religious spectrum.
A bigger concern than how many people they actually have on the ground is the magnitude of influence they have with politicians. Any smart politician (Zed, can you hear me?) should be wary of endorsement from divisive and small-minded groups like CTFM.
I had a dream too… and that was people had actually woken up to themselves and accepted religion was just a figment of their imagination! I had always thought religion came about as a result of human fears and insecurities of death but who knows. I also think it comes down to some silly idea that we all exist for a reason and that things don’t just evolve but are created. But some people just can’t see the fact (evidence) from the fiction (faith). But seriously what a delusional crock of shit and to think this moron is coming to Canberra-ish (Eagle Hawk) and that people would actually go and listen to him. Do people have to pay? That’s scary… Anyway, instead of CTFM, let me be your light and your way, at least I will tell you how it is… for real! I believe in the Flying Spaghetti Monster and the celestial teapot. Come and preach with me…
[of course all this is my own opinion and not the editors of RiotACT lol]
Pastor Danny is certainly trying to put the fear of god into people, so he saw a vision, dream whatever, of course he would say a vision as he wouldn’t say he was psychic as that would be demonic in his eyes
Enjoy your freedom to hate and vilify Christians while you have it. If religious vilification legislation comes in you might find most of these posts could cause a bit of trouble. Hang on, it’s already there in Victoria. Oops.
housebound said :
Well so long as the same applies to non-religious folk. Christians have no right to expect vilification protection if non-religious people can’t have equal rights too. In fact, in most western countries there is a higher percentage of non-religious people than there are of people belonging to minority religions. eg. there are more non-religious in USA than there are Jews.
But whilst it might not appear so in my previous post I do respect people’s right and freedom of religion, I just don’t agree with them and I especially don’t agree with the paltry excuses being conjured up (by CTFM) that suggest natural disasters are the result of human actions of some sort that just happen not to be aligned with their own narrow beliefs. These things clearly have no correlation.
May I suggest interested folk do a search on Bill Maher: Religulous.
housebound said :
And this is one of the compelling reasons that we should not have a “Bill of Rights”
The second we try to codify “rights” , it is open slather for everyone, either for, against, or ambivalent, to any point of view to claim their “rights” are being infringed upon if someone disagrees with them.
bigfeet said :
Heck I think some people have a pretty good crack at that right now even without a Bill of Rights!
Sure… but by codifying them, it will only make it worse. And aside from that, it will actually take away what people assume are their rights. Because …’whatever’… is not expressly listed in the Bill… then you have no right to …’whatever’…
Pommy bastard said :
“Caedite eos. Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius.” — “Kill them all, the Lord will recognise His own.” – Arnaud-Amaury, Abbot of Cîteaux and crusader
housebound said :
I agree we should all bow down and obey the edicts of the Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, Confucianism, Christianity, Judaism, cults, or their god may randomly burn areas of the country and kill people.
Sounds a bit like when the US televangelists blamed September 11 on “God no longer looking after us because of our tolerance for sinful activities”. Oh, and on the subject of Vic’s religious vilification laws, Pastor Danny ran foul of them when his ministry made disparaging remarks about Muslims.
Enjoy your freedom to hate and vilify Christians while you have it. If religious vilification legislation comes in you might find most of these posts could cause a bit of trouble. Hang on, it’s already there in Victoria. Oops.
I support the right of women to consider abortion. Even more strongly I support the right of the Victorian people (through their elected representatives or otherwise) to create laws legalising abortion. This man has claimed that an entity he communicates with daily has committed mass murder for religious or political reasons. I think that all the anti-vilification laws should be used against him.
Beautiful point p1.
i had a look at the CTF website. i feel dirty now. I hope costello continues to associate with CTF, i think it will be a death sentence to any chance of becoming PM. I dont want the most spineless politician in history to be our leader.
I feel sick.
For those of you who are sneakily suspicious that there’s something slightly suss about organised religion, I would highly recommend you go here http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/
Tim Costello is the sane brother.
Zeitgeist (the movie) is hilarious.
It’s a shame that they had to go down the whole Sep 11 conspiracy route, if they’d just left it at the god-botherer bashing it wouldn’t have been so easily dismissed.
Yeah, I thought that myself… although I did like the Venus project bit too. We could use some futuristic architecture!
I enjoyed Parts 1 (religion) and 3 (Fiat Currency). Part 2 (Sept 11 conspiracies) was meh.
I didn’t necessarily agree with much of the film (for example I’m more of a Friedmanite on the issue of fiat currency/gold standard) but it was still quite interesting. You take the good information that you can get out of it.
It was much better than Loose Change, which is embarrassingly stupid.
I like researching conspiracy theories though which is always fun. My current favourite is http://www.lennonmurdertruth.com
This conspiracy theory alleges that John Lennon was really murdered by author Stephen King at the behest of Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan.
God I love the internet.