THIS week saw the state of Queensland suffer what is said to be its worst-ever cyclone. And blame for the disaster has been laid squarely on Australia’s atheist Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, who lamentably failed to fall on her knees and beseech God to avert the looming disaster.
Dr Daniel Nalliah, President of a loopy fundamentalist outfit called Catch the Fire Ministries, fulminated:
Catch the Fire pastor Daniel Nalliah blesses a church member when the religious group sought to cleanse Canberra of evil spirits in 2009. Photo: Andrew Sheargold
It is very sad that this dark chapter in Australia’s history is led by an atheist Prime Minister in Julia Gillard and an openly homosexual Greens leader … both who have no regard for God nor prayer …. It is very well known that throughout history, in a time of national crisis, kings, prime ministers and presidents of countries around the world have turned to God, irrespective of whether they were Christian, Buddhist, Hindu or Muslim and asked for help or at least called the nation to pray for protection and for the victims of the disaster.
According to this report, Nalliah, a former Family First candidate who was asked to leave the party for his controversial views, has already blamed the Queensland floods on Kevin Rudd speaking out against Israel.
He also blamed the Victorian bushfires on that state’s liberalisation of abortion laws.
Nalliah said right through the flood crisis across Australia, he had:
Not heard our Prime Minister call the people of Australia to pray and ask God for protection and for help for the tens of thousands of people who have become victims of this major disaster. Even the secular media personalities stated several times, ‘Our prayers and thoughts are with you’, but did we hear our PM make any such statements at all or did I just miss out on it?
How many more disasters will it take before our nation, starting from the Prime Minister, would fall on our knees and ask for God’s protection and turn back to Him?
The record-breaking flooding in Australia, followed by Cyclone Yasi, have, of course, nothing whatsoever to do with God’s wrath, or Gillard’s atheism. This report clearly points out that global warming lies at the root of the phenomena:
The warmer seas intensify the La Nina and El Nino cycles in the region, making them more frequent and more intense. El Nino brings Australia droughts, which have been more intense. La Nina blows winds that pile up warm water in the western Pacific and around Australia.The ocean around Australia is now warmer than at any time in history.
In 2009 the dotty Nalliah and his delusional followers inadvertently set off an impromtu, fun-filled festival in Canberra when they arrived to clear the city of dark forces:
[The event] brought a glad and mad blast of colour to Canberra at the weekend. First was the arrival of the God-fearing folk from the Catch the Fire Ministries who ascended the city’s Mount Ainslie on Saturday to pray for demons to be cast out of the hearts of the politicians below.
The reason for this earnest pilgrimage was the rumour that satanic rituals were taking place on the mountain’s summit, infecting politicians with the devil’s work.
Overjoyed at this turn of events, all sorts of gaily attired characters turned up to help the Catch the Fire folk in their efforts: the Australian Sex Party threw a halal sausage sizzle and brought along a fetching young woman in a corset, the gay community danced around (and one chap dropped his pants), unbelievers hoisted posters (”atheists – a non-prophet organisation”), bikers roared up the hill and pagans and Goths arrived in pointed hats. Witchcraft, in short, was the order of the day.
Hat tip: Pete H
The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
February 3rd, 2011 at 11:41 am
As much as i want to laugh at them (and i am) i guess it makes sense from an old testament POV. God punished the israelite/judahite kings by invading their countries with barbarian armies and causing natural disasters.
I guess even if everyone did turn to his religion and pray, when things went wrong he would blame it on the unfaithful or unwilling.
February 3rd, 2011 at 11:42 am
Daniel Nalliah
Am I really a member of the same species as this idiot.
February 3rd, 2011 at 11:48 am
From a cursory glance at Wikipedia, it seems like Queensland is the more conservative part of Australia and that the south is where all the “nasty” stuff happens.
Julia Gillard is from Victoria and Bob Brown is from Tasmania.
So why did God attack Queensland? Did he just miss?
February 3rd, 2011 at 11:56 am
As ever, Bob ‘Deluded’ Hutton seems to think that the appalling natural disasters hitting Australia are god’s way of saying he doesn’t like atheist PMs or legalised abortion.
Twat.
Anyway, if you want to see his deranged diatribe in full and leave him an appropriate message (which he won’t have the guts to actually publish), here’s a link:
http://bobhutton1.blogspot.com.....ralia.html
February 3rd, 2011 at 12:10 pm
Well Marcus it seems you and Bob are finally hitting it off. He’s leaving your comments on so that’s a start.(well some comments)
and he says that if they’re sensible he’ll leave them on.What Bob the twat deems sensible is anyones guess.
P.S. I like the thought of gay velociraptors but with such short arms would they be able…………oh never mind.
February 3rd, 2011 at 1:08 pm
Homosexual behaviours have been observed in many different species and is not uncommon. So it’s plausible to suppose Veloceraptors were engaging in activities Bob might consider unbefitting a ruthless carnivore in the eyes of its creator.
February 3rd, 2011 at 1:11 pm
“It is very well known that throughout history, in a time of national crisis, kings, prime ministers and presidents of countries around the world have turned to God, irrespective of whether they were Christian, Buddhist, Hindu or Muslim and asked for help or at least called the nation to pray for protection and for the victims of the disaster.”
Does it not beg the question as to why he/she/it allowed the disaster to happen in the first place??
February 3rd, 2011 at 1:23 pm
Marcus, I recently posted a comment on Bob the Knob’s blog, asking why he had failed to pen a piece about his buddy “Birdshit” Green after the Christian Voice lunatic was exposed as a delusional child and wife beater. My comment never saw the light of day, but he did email me, saying he was waiting for Green’s side of the story.
And talking of Green, who now describes himself as “a hard-nosed engineer who came to faith in God through seeing ducks on a pond”, I notice he’s now gunning for Radio 4′s John Humphrys, who, on Feb 1, described creationists is “slightly bonkers”.
See:
http://christianvoiceuk.blogsp.....phrys.html
February 3rd, 2011 at 2:12 pm
Wonder if that nob head knows our knob head who said the same thing over here.
February 3rd, 2011 at 2:16 pm
Nothing to do with the top story but wondered how many folks had seen this, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-12351583
February 3rd, 2011 at 2:24 pm
AngieRS, I understand from nobhead No 1 (Bob) that he does know nobhead No 2 (Green), and regards him with wide-eyed awe and admiration. (I think they have the hots for each other.)
February 3rd, 2011 at 3:34 pm
Wonder where you god is gonna be when I’m beating you to death. Way to move society forward by still living in the dark ages. I’m not a violent person but I will enjoy hurting you!
February 3rd, 2011 at 4:06 pm
As the believer, surely it’s Nalliah’s fault for either not praying hard enough or for doing or saying something to upset God. As for Gillard not praying, surely god would have ignored the prayers of an Atheist anyway.
February 3rd, 2011 at 4:11 pm
I’m not having that, Barrie. Our nobhead over here should be no1, bad enough the Aussies beating us at the cricket…
If they do have the hots for each, I’d be more than willing to chip in on the air fare to buy Green a ticket and bugger off over there. Their God knows they deserve each other.
February 3rd, 2011 at 5:26 pm
@ chrsbol Censorship is most definitely the name of the game with Bob the deluded one. For every comment he actually lets through there are many more he completely ignores – not because they are in any way offensive (I do actually try to abide by his house rules), but because he quite simply doesn’t have any answers and so chooses to pretend that the comment never existed. The man is a despicable, spineless arse.
@ Barry Given how close Hutton’s views are to Birdshit’s, there will almost certainly be similar skeletons in his own dark cupboard. (I note that on his blog he claims his wife and children are all ‘saved’ – wonder how many beatings and depravations it took for them all to fall in line?) I did touch on the Birdshit point in a comment I sent to him recently, but lo and behold it didn’t get past the board of censors. Sorry – board of censor.
February 3rd, 2011 at 5:36 pm
As much as this schite for brains idiot is – well – an IDIOT!!!
The really sad part is that there thousands of other really brain dead idiots that think he is right!
February 3rd, 2011 at 6:42 pm
Gillard was doing something practical & useful like saving people, not pretending to as in praying for them.
February 3rd, 2011 at 6:52 pm
This God chap really does have bad aim doesn’t he. Someone does summat he doesn’t like, and does he smite the individual(s) concerned? Nope, he carpet-bombs the entire bloody region just to make sure he gets ‘em.
Marcus: I told Bob to either publish all my comments or stop sending me messages when he has new posts up. Guess which option he took…
February 3rd, 2011 at 6:55 pm
Absolutely, Woggler. “Greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world,” and all.
February 3rd, 2011 at 6:56 pm
Not being that clued up on religion rituals, what the hell is the pokey forehead thing they are doing in the picture about?
February 3rd, 2011 at 7:02 pm
Mike.
I assume he’s tapping so that he can hear how hollow the chap’s head is…
February 3rd, 2011 at 7:08 pm
@ Daz Erm…. he published all you comments, of course! (Clutches sides laughing.)
February 3rd, 2011 at 7:12 pm
@ Mike I just assumed it was that ‘get off my feckin’ doorstep’ pokey forehead thing that I do when the lovely JWs come a calling.
February 3rd, 2011 at 8:17 pm
I too love the picture. How stupid does the guy on the left look? I wonder how stupid he is in reality? well pretty stupid obviously.
February 4th, 2011 at 1:24 am
Nalliah is quoted in the threadhead:
“It is very well known that throughout history, in a time of national crisis, kings, prime ministers and presidents of countries around the world have turned to God, irrespective of whether they were Christian, Buddhist, Hindu or Muslim and asked for help or at least called the nation to pray for protection and for the victims of the disaster.”
A terrific study point. The obvious inference is that a freethinker and a homosexual brought this disaster upon their people. Not far afield from the insanity of the bible, when David fucked Bathsheba and murdered her husband, or when Solomon worshipped false gods with his pagan wives, the loving, forgiving father, Yahweh, brought disaster upon the Israelites. Never forget the flood.
But, let’s compare it to the facts. The most devastating natural disaster in human history was the christmas tsunami, 2004. http://www.chacha.com/question.....r-24,-2004
The hardest hit nations were Indonesia and Thailand. While Indonesia is a very religious country,(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Indonesia), Thailand is a tourist spot where you can connect with someone, anytime, who can hook you up with sex partners of any age, sex or species. So, who really took the most profound hit? Banda Aceh, Indonesia http://www.spike.com/video/tsu.....eh/2662562
To be specific about the religion of Aceh, wiki says: “The Aceh province has the highest proportion of Muslims in the country with regional levels of Sharia law.”
Yet, despite their religious fervor, the entire island society of Banda Aceh “suddenly cried out and then were silent” (quote from Obi Wan Kenobi
). What was once an island now has no dry ground. My conclusion is that religion doesn’t help.
I could examine the cyclone in Myanmar soon after, or the decades of starvation and disease in several African provinces, and compare it to the prayer of it’s citizens and leaders, but I will spare you. Suffice it to say that adoring your regional god does not spare you the wrath of nature, it has no ears, nor a conscience.
NeoWolfe
February 4th, 2011 at 2:18 am
Sorry to railroad posts, but I just want to bitch about CNN. For the last week, the planet has been so tiny that there are only two stories to report. Snow in the US midwest, and unrest in Egypt. The whole story of the cyclone in Australia (ahah!!!! On topic) got buried into the ticker on the bottom of the screen. That’s not journalism, it’s sensationalism.
No wonder their ratings suck and they’re dying as a viable news source. Even Fox, with Sarah Palin and Carl Rove, the nuttiest fundies in America, are putting them in the gutter. Yet, they do get the clue. Unbelievable.
NeoWolfe
February 4th, 2011 at 8:14 am
So, did this twat fall down on *his* knees and beg his sky pixie to move the storm away? If not, why not? If yes, seems the Big Guy wasn’t listening to him.
Actually, god didn’t send the storm to punish the Atheists and gays. We gay Atheists are in control of the weather and we REALLY hate Australia for reasons too secret to divulge. We were sitting in our lair, under a volcano, playing with the Weather-Control-o-tron and accidentally pushed a few switched. Whoops!
February 4th, 2011 at 10:27 am
Re, the real reason: I left a post on Bob’s blog suggesting that what God was trying to say is that he was annoyed about a recent episode of Home-and-Away. But it didn’t pass the censor.
February 4th, 2011 at 10:41 am
I think God is really pissed off about all the homophobes in Australia.
February 4th, 2011 at 3:15 pm
Hang on a sec. Isn´t praying to God to avert a disaster going against his will? Can he do anything about it anyway?
Can omniscient God, who
Knows the future, find
The omnipotence to
Change His future mind?
Karen Owens
February 4th, 2011 at 4:47 pm
Barry, don’t know if you caught it but Green’s side of the story is that the Mail printed -
“a catalogue of smears and distortions stitched together by a tabloid journalist who specialises in TV, showbiz, gossip and celebrity features, and which was based solely on comments attributed to my former wife.”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/scie.....daily-mail
Yes, and had it been written by somebody who usually submitted articles about deep sea diving and knitting patterns it would have made all the difference. Notice also how Green says “smears and distortions” rather than “lies” so that he doesn’t actually deny that the violent episodes happened.
February 4th, 2011 at 11:25 pm
David Anderson: God does not change his mind – how could he, and even if he could why would he?
http://www.skepticsannotatedbi.....epent.html
February 6th, 2011 at 6:24 am
Re comment above “We were sitting in our lair, under a volcano, playing with the Weather-Control-o-tron and accidentally pushed a few switched. Whoops!”. Are you there with Tom Cruise? I’m in Cairns north Queensland. The big storm missed us by only a few miles, at the last minute it seemed it would hit our city directly. Fundy Xian next door neighbour says it was gawds grace. Great grace in supposedly creating said storm in the firstplace. Fundy neighbour seemed disappointed that our home was not damaged as my partner and myself are of that most evil tribe: Gay! Neighbours garden shed blew away, ours didn’t. Ha!