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Posted Tales Inside School: Condoms Cause AIDS to The Pagan Prattle
Australia: It seems an unofficial front for the Catholic Church's contraception disinformation campaign has been sleazing its way through regional New South Wales state school spreading its propaganda about condoms being ineffective in preventing HIV and other sexually transmitted infections. Real Choices Australia operates the program, Choices Decisions Outcomes, mainly in government schools across Australia. One of its directors and spokeswoman, Debbie Garratt, has links to the Catholic Church and has worked with anti-abortion groups. The program is used at Ulladulla High School. Teams are trying to promote it in the Newcastle, Kempsey, Macksville, Port Macquarie and Taree regions....
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Posted Cult Founder Told to Pull Head In After Bizarre Audition Ploy to The Pagan Prattle
Australia: It's been a year since the antics of Kenja have darkened our doorsteps. The cult has since published several more full page ads in high profile Australian papers in strange attempts to convince the locals that their alledged paedophile leader was really a good bloke. At least the last attempt wasn't as libellous as the first and just stuck to lying about Dyers rather than lying about those who accused him of being a naughty boy. But this isn't about glorifying their leader in print, it's about their co-founder bizarre attempts to put the frighteners on a woman...
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Posted Holy See Plunges into Red to The Pagan Prattle
Vatican City: Due to the internets being a bit recalitrant, this gem of fiscal losses has come my way. The Vatican has announced that it has had its first loss in four years and quite a hefty loss it is too at €9.1m (£7.25m or US$14.3m). Not something you're likely to find down the back of the couch. It seems the weak US dollar is being blamed and I was a wee bit baffled by this as I would have thought the Holy See would have been running on the Euro. Much of the Vatican's income comes from donations...
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Posted Brethren Smearing the Greens in Tasmania Again to The Pagan Prattle
Australia: For a cult that loudly proclaims how it doesn't vote, the Exclusive Brethren seem to have extraordinary difficulty in staying the hell out of politics. Their latest bout of interference has been to send a letter to the citizens of Tasmania warning them about the evilness of Greens leader Bob Brown. Considering their usual dabbling in politics comes in the form of smear campaigns that are either unsigned or attributed to dodgy shelf companies, this one was signed off by 51 cult members....
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Posted Cult Caught Kiddie Fiddling Again to The Pagan Prattle
Australia: It appears that the bampots in the Exclusive Brethren have been breeding paedophiles again. By now I expect no one will be surprised that not only was the alleged paedophile a church leader at one point and was the trustee of a private Brethren school. No doubt wangling his way into that position, one he was reportedly very active in, to get closer to his victims. This is the third case of kiddie fiddling that's been brought to light in the past 12 months, but the cult deny any pattern of behaviour. Between paedophilia, child abuse and the...
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Posted Tony Abbott and the Not So Terribly Good Week to The Pagan Prattle
Australia: The Australian Prime Minister, John Howard, has once again been asked to explain the cosy relations he and his minions have with religious extremists. This time it's the foaming loon Danny Nalliah, the head of Melbourne-based Catch the Fire Ministries, who was charged in a test case of Victoria's religious vilification laws for comments he made about Muslims in 2002. It seems Nalliah fronted up to the far right-wing League of Rights, despite being warned that they were anti-Jewish. Pastor Nalliah has been given top-level access in recent months to the Howard Government, which he has endorsed enthusiastically....
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Posted Creationism Will Turn You Into a Serial Killer? to The Pagan Prattle
United States: The creationist loons may have scraped the bottom of the barrel when it comes to digging up testimonials for their cause. Between 1978 and 1991, Jeffrey Dahmer murdered at least 17 men and boys. His murders included gruesome acts and he was sentenced to a lifetime in prison. But during his sentence something changed, and before his death, Dahmer went on MSNBC with his father. When asked what contributed to his new accountability, he told his father, Thanks to you for sending that creation science material....
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Posted That's Not My Penis to The Pagan Prattle
Australia: The Family First Party have always been a paranoid, hypocritical bunch of loons, but one of their current candidates seems determined to outdo his brethren. Andrew Quah was a candidate for the Family First Party, a political front for the Assemblies of God cult, until he was dumped due to his hobbies clashing with the dominionist leanings of his party. They are a group with a serious hate-on for homosexuals, so when photos of him flashing his genitals turned up on gay web sites, they booted him....
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Posted Religiously Justified Child Abuse to The Pagan Prattle
Australia: Exclusive Brethren sanctioned child abuse has featured quite a bit on the Prattle and, oh look, it raises its ugly head yet again. FORMER Family Court chief justice Alastair Nicholson has accused the Exclusive Brethren church of brainwashing and abusing children by denying them access to their non-Brethren parents. Mr Nicholson also accused it of failing to comply with court orders, of stacking Family Court rooms with supporters to intimidate opponents, of using their almost unlimited legal funds to conduct appeals no matter how hopeless, and of unacceptable comments about being above the law....
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Posted Brethren Outed for Illegally Shifting Cash to The Pagan Prattle
Australia: Oh dear, John Howard has finally announced an election and his bestest buddies are sprung illegally moving large sums of cash around the world to fund smear campaigns in his favour. A former member of the Exclusive Brethren has revealed the secretive religious sect has been transferring large sums of money across the world, possibly to fund political campaigns in Australia and the US. In recent years Brethren leaders have met with numerous Liberal ministers, including Prime Minister John Howard. Now ABC TV's Four Corners program has revealed that tens of thousands of dollars in Brethren cash have...
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Posted Brethren Running Political Smear Campaigns Again to The Pagan Prattle
Australia: John Howard hasn't announced the election yet and already it looks like the bampots from the Exclusive Brethren are running their smear campaigns A leaflet had been distributed in parts of Wentworth that warned against voting Labor or Green under the banner Keep Australia Christian. The two parties were accused of the destruction of families through supporting gay marriage and same-sex adoption, and turning a blind eye to drugs, prostitution, pornography and immigration from non-Christian countries. Although the leaflet contains no authorisation required for political advertising, Newhouse believed the extremist material could be the work of the Exclusive...
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Posted Religiously Justified Paedophilia and Incest to The Pagan Prattle
Australia: Here's a delightful tale of religiously justified paedophilia and incest from South Australia. A pastor from a South Australian fundamentalist church has been jailed for eight-and-a-half years after admitting he had sex with two of his teenage daughters. The 54-year-old man, who cannot be named, pleaded guilty to seven counts each of incest and unlawful sexual intercourse. The court heard that the man had sex with his daughters for nearly a decade in the 1990s at the family property. The man later told the court he had sex with the girls to educate them on how to be...
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Posted Cult Attempts to Turn a Paedophile into a Civil Rights Martyr to The Pagan Prattle
Australia: A month has passed since the news of Ken Dyers' suicide and it seems his cult has been attempting to create a martyr out of him, even if that means screwing over his victims. Supporters of the 85-year-old Kenja founder — who shot himself last week while facing 22 counts of child sex assault and indecent assault — took the extraordinary step of placing advertisements in weekend newspapers declaring his innocence. The full-page ads, which were run in The Sydney Morning Herald on Saturday, accused Dyers' two alleged victims of deliberately lying and behaving in an appalling fashion....
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Posted Kiddie-Fiddling Australian Cult Leader Commits Suicide to The Pagan Prattle
Australia: Feòrag's trusty bampot filter brought me the news that professional charlatan, kiddie-fiddler and previous Prattle notable, Ken Dyers, topped himself on Wednesday rather than face court proceedings that he wouldn't be able to weasel out of. Kenneth Dyers, 85, founder of spiritual organisation, Kenja Communications, was found dead at his Bundeena home on Wednesday. Police went to the house in Crammond Avenue, Bundeena around 11am and found a man dead from a gunshot wound. Police media would only say said it was not treating the death as suspicious and police were preparing a brief for the coroner....
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Posted Paedophile Loses Appeal to The Pagan Prattle
Australia: While I was distracted by the tale of a superstitious Melbourne Catholic school refusing to enrol a child with the last name Hell, I missed the news that kiddie fiddler William Little Pebble Kamm has lost his appeal against charges of paedophilia. Amusingly enough his attempts to overturn the case were based more on trying to hide the fact that he's an idiot with a collection of stupid minions, rather than the improper behaviour of a judge. Kamm's grounds for appeal included the jury should have been dismissed because of a note it had sent to the judge...
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Posted Bargain of the Day: The Baby Jesus to The Pagan Prattle
France: The Baby Jesus has returned... as a cured meat product. You know you want some. Baby Jesus has returned… - oranchak.com, 26th June 2007 (via BoingBoing)....
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Posted Priest: it's me or the vibrator! to The Pagan Prattle
United States: A Catholic priest gave his church's organist and choir director a surprising ultimatum; quit her sex toy home party job or quit the church. He claimed that her sale of sex toys was not consistent with Church teachings. Linette Servais, 50, played the organ and sung with the choir for 35 years. Much of her work as choir director and organist was done without pay. When her parish priest asked to meet with her, she thought it was to say thank you. Instead, she was told to quit her sales job with company known as Pure Romance...
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Posted Politicians Lend Support to Cult to The Pagan Prattle
Australia: Danny Nalliah is the nasty little man behind Catch the Fire Ministries, a cult with a history of attacking the opposition. They've managed to wangle free PR out of politicians once again. Prime Minister John Howard and Labor leader Kevin Rudd have sent goodwill messages to an event organised by a controversial Christian group accused of vilifying Muslims. Howard is dumb enough to forget the outcry his last encounter with Nalliah caused, but I would have expected Rudd to have more sense. You think they'd both know by now that shit sticks. PM, Rudd lend support to controversial...
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Posted Brethren Caught Corrupting Local Council to The Pagan Prattle
Australia: There was a recent proclamation from the Brethren via their official PR wonk that they would no longer be dabbling in politics. As with all Brethren claims, that one appears to be a big steaming pile of manure too. Feòrag has pointed me in the direction of a tale about the wingnuts corrupting a local council to get their agenda sorted....
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Posted The Almost Weekly Exclusive Brethren Round Up of Stupidity to The Pagan Prattle
Australia: It's getting so you can't open the paper without reading yet another story of Exclusive Brethren hate-mongering and stupidity. That being the case, let's see what the wingnuts have been up to since we last looked in on them....
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Posted Warm Weather Fires Up the Loons to The Pagan Prattle
Australia: I have a theory that the warmer weather drags the religious loons out, from whatever rock they've been hiding under, to bask in the sun like reptiles. A quick look at the Southern Poverty Law Center's Intelligence Project to map active US hate groups in 2005 shows a larger number of loons running about in the warmer states of Florida, Texas, California, Georgia and South Carolina. Likewise, a warm week in Australia (it's currently 41°C at Prattle Towers Southern Hemisphere) seems to have encouraged the zealots to disengage their tiny brains and loudly proclaim their love of their...
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Posted Court Win Against Cult to The Pagan Prattle
Australia: One of the recent Exclusive Brethren [Prattle archive] court battles has wound up with the Tasmanian Family Court granting access rights to the excommunicated father, which will no doubt be ignored by the cult. Interestingly enough, the judge bowed to cult lunacy and insisted that the father keep his children isolated and ignorant of reality while they're in his custody. An excommunicated member of the Exclusive Brethren sect has been ordered by the Family Court not to expose his children to television, radio or non-members of the church in a landmark decision granting him access rights. Despite finding...
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Posted East Timor: Jumping on the Witch-Burning Wagon to The Pagan Prattle
East Timor: Now that they don't have to worry about their neighbours in Indonesia killing them and taking over the country, it appears that this has freed up time for the bampots to find other methods of entertainment. Burning witches has a long history amongst the more religiously insane, so why should a little original thought stand in the way of loony fundies. Officials say three women accused of being witches have been killed in East Timor before their bodies were burned along with their house in East Timor. The three women, aged 70, 50 and about 25, were...
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