Readers will doubtless be thrilled to learn that Canberra’s answer to the Ku Klux Klan, the Concerned Citizens of Canberra for their vile bit of dog whistling in Gungahlin against the long planned mosque.
It’s true the story kicked off on 28 June but the comments waged long and loud as bigots crawled out of the woodwork to show their sickening true colours.
Ending up with 246 comments and spawning a couple of extra stories it was a worthy Mully Cup winner for July 2012.
(The Mully Cup is awarded monthly to the entity stimulating the most comment on this website. It is named in memory (if not in honour) of Justin Mully Williams who both improved our world, and set the record for comments, in his departure)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dietrich_Bonhoeffer
This is an article about a German theologian who was adamantly opposed to the Nazis and executed by the Gestapo. He has a statue inside Westminster Abbey, alongside Martin Luther King.
HenryBG said :
HenryBG said :
Are you arguing against yourself now HenryBG?
I suggest a cup of tea, a Bex and a good lie down.
HenryBG said :
HenryBG, given that it’s clear from your earlier post that you don’t know basic history such as the contribution Islam had made to the world’s knowledge by the turn of the 11th century, it looks as though you must have got your grasp of this from a quick google/wikipedia search!
johnboy said :
Who fed you that, JB?
The biggest Protestant group in 1930s Germany (Deutsche Christen) was a group whose aim was to combine Nazism with Christianity to create a new Nationalist Christian cult. They picked through their religion to get rid of anything that seemed too “foreign” or “jewish”.
The Nazis themselves regarded themselves as militant Christians, although there was a lot of revived weirdo Teutonic pagan nonsense going on as well.
There was nothing godless about them – that’s just the propaganda put about since the end of the 1,000-year Reich by the rest of the world’s Christian god-botherers, embarrassed as they are that the world’s 2nd-worst regime of mass-murderers was adamantly inspired by the Christian religion.
AAMC said :
Can we not just make it bigger? Stick another hubcap and layer of cans on. I’m happy to provide empty woodstocks if someone else supplies the cap.
Full woodstocks only for the mully!
It should be noted that the big german theologians went to the mat and paid with their lives in opposing nazism which was essentially godless.
And Godwin.
Pork Hunt said :
The NSDAP was a political rather than a religious movement, most members of the party and those under its governance would have probably claim adherence to some branch of mainstream Christianity.
Your point is ….?
What religion did the Nazis observe?
p1 said :
I visited for a month about 15 years ago.
It is absolutely fantastic. I’m pretty well travelled and I would say that Iceland tops the list of places I’ve visited.
4W-Driving on Vatnajokull Glacier is pretty hard to beat, as are the Northern lights, and the absolutely mad Icelandic people. If you want a good drinking buddy find an Icelander.
It’s not all that far off the beaten track – a quick flight from Heathrow, and now that their economy has tanked I would guess it’s a fair bit cheaper than it was in the past.
Highly recommended.
johnboy said :
And haven’t given a wardrobe acquisition update. Ms Manners is appalled, after all those nice people helped.
LSWCHP said :
Iceland has always been pretty high on my list of places to visit. Considerably higher on the list then Japan, all other things being equal.
For the record, I have no Icelandic friends, but I have a friend who was arrested there once.
johnboy said :
Ok, But Iceland? Of all the fantastic travel destinations available in the world, why Iceland?
Now Japan, I can understand that. I spent a week there (mostly on a warship in Yokosuka harbour unfortunately) in 1997, and one day I intend to go back there. It’s a fantastic place.
Oh I never went there! Just met icelanders out and about in parts other.
Thumper said :
Sounds like my boss.
johnboy said :
Icelandic friends? Seriously? Is there actually an Icelandic community (ie more than 2 people) in Canberra?
Believe it or not I have strayed beyond the ACT border from time to time. Why just last weekend I was in Japan.
AAMC said :
I like (1) – I would buy one if I won it. And I like (2), if we can do it during summergnats, and only if it travels in the back of a white commodore.
If (as someone suggested in the past) another tier is added, I would like to suggest that a large chrome hub-cap is used, as that is what the better class of bogans have on their cars
Jim Jones said :
The satanic statements sum up and represent how myself and most satanists I know view Satan. It is a representation rather than an all powerful god-like figure. Besides, belief in invisible beings that you talk to and that control your life is nothing more than insanity.
Baldy said :
Possibly, but I’ve yet to find any evidence of it, having said that, the Horned God of pagan beliefs (which again could be Herne, the Green man, Jack in the Green, or many other derivatives) was later used by the church as the image of Satan.
Interestingly numerous christian churches have Green Man images carved onto them, this is believed to be somewhat of a homage to the old Gods and incredibly these images can even be found on churches in Australia.
Hey JB, I note the inaugural Mully Trophy is quickly running out of space to record it illustrious recipients names and contributions.
Are there any plans to produce a new symbol of Riot act hysteria; a Mully mark 2″
Can I suggest that, if the Mully is to be replaced, the RA:
1. Produce a commemorative 1/16th scale “mully” for purchase.
2. Give it an appropriate send off, maybe a parade up northbound (We could get Lorie daily to drop it off the back of a mini moke)
poetix said :
Shaitan is a different kind of beast to the Christian Satan, and is more derived from the Old Testament satan, who is ‘the adversary’ – an accuser appointed by God to test men’s faith (kind of like a devil’s advocate), rather than an enemy of God. The whole ‘battle of light and dark’ thing owes a lot to Manicheanism and religious paranoia.
Unsurprisingly, a lot of the Norse revivalists have unsavoury links with the far right.
Thumper said :
Good point with the Satan worship but is it possible that Satan was just another god that got absorbed and demonisd into Christianity. They certainly did a lot of that when taking over new land.