earthquake – Bruce Llama

Old churches

Bruce — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 17:31:10 +0000

I’m all for keeping old things about.

The ChristchurchÂ CathedralÂ was a fine example of a church, before an earthquake shook it so much that it collapsed.

Now people want to chain themselves to it to prevent it from being demolished.

Move on people, it’s just a building, and just because you think it’s special, doesn’t mean you get to keep it.

The owners of the church, the anglicans, say it’ll cost them $100 million dollars to fix it up. Â You could feed a lot of people for that much money.

Alistair Cox, a descendent of the first bishop of Christchurch who was the driving force behind the construction of the cathedral, said the demolition had to be stopped.

Yep, a descendent of the first bishop gives him instant credibility. Â One of my ancestors was involved in Federation, therefore we should remove the monarchy.

They would not demolish the Eiffel Tower, the Empire State Building, Big Ben, the Opera House or any of these well known icons.

Yeah they would, if they were damaged beyond repair. Â They may replace them with something similar, but they wouldn’t let them stand.

Meanwhile in this article,

Bishop Victoria Matthews told reporters that all efforts will be made to salvage historic features, and the demolishing project will be undertaken with care and respect.

“There will be no bulldozers, there will be no wrecking balls, this will be done with deep love and respect for a building that has served us so well,”

Why the fuck not? Â What are you going to do, dismantle it stone by stone and carry it away in a wheelbarrow? Â Maybe they have a bunch of slaves to do the work for them.

Get real, it’s a building that’s unsafe and expensive to repair, time to move on.

If it wasn’t a place of worship there would be no question about what to do.

Earthquakes and god

Bruce — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 03:21:27 +0000

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Those crazy jews over at AJN Watch have made an important link between an earthquake yesterday in Victoria and the tragic earthquakes in Christchurch New Zealand.

The New Zealanders tired to stop the ritual and brutal killing of chickens, which is carried out to enable the faithful jews to eat their chicken in theÂ knowledgeÂ that it was killed without stunning. Â Oh, and look, there’s talk of doing similar things in Australia.

The whole concept of only being allowed to kill an animal that isÂ consciousÂ by cutting it’s throat is ratherÂ abhorrentÂ to most people. Â If you have to eat the thing, it make sense to render it unconscious as quickly and as painlessly as possible.

So, no more kosher killing in New Zealand, earthquake. Â No more kosher killing in Australia, earthquake.

Let’s hope the quakes don’t get so violent that theirÂ shtreimels fall off.

Don’t say you haven’t been warned!

Useless god

Bruce — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 02:30:53 +0000

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Encounter is a program on Radio National – part of the ABC. Â It’s a sort of religious program that apparently ‘explores the connections between religion and life’. Â This week they did a story on the floods in Central Victoria and asÂ Martyn Scrimshaw a salvation army officer based in Bendigo was talking I was talking back to him:

Sometimes you really have to think about the response.

I’d suggest you’re not thinking about your responses enough.

Floods I think are – droughts and floods are probably a little bit easier, in that we live in a country where we will have droughts, and we will have flooding rains, and when the rain comes it does flood.

Well yes, you’ve got that right. Â The response is fairly inane. Â The question you really need to ask is why do we have floods and droughts if your god really cares?

And to a certain extent, talking to farmers and things,

You talk to things?

it puts hope in, like they might have lost their crop,

Not only have they lost a crop to flooding, but they’ve had many failed crops because of lack of water.

but the fact is that we needed a flood to fill dams, we needed a flood to fill the lakes and reservoirs, the long-term benefit of that flooding rain will be incredible.

OK, I agree, we need rains. Â But really, what’s the point? Â Surely your god is clued up enough to understand theÂ devastationÂ his lack of attention to details causes. Â Rather than allow ten years of drought and then fill the damns over one weekend, why not give us about 30mm of rain a month, enough to keep everything topped up and prevent flooding. Â He could also arrange for the rain to happen about 4.00 a.m. so it causes minimal disruptions. Â Once a month we should have a bloody good thunderstorm with lots of thunder andÂ lightning, I like a good thunderstorm.

The farmers can plant now knowing that the soil’s moist enough to plant, without worrying about looking at the sky.

I’ve yet to meet a farmer who doesn’t worry about the rain, just the right amount. Â They are always looking at the sky, probably hoping now that they get good follow up rains with no more flooding, and then wondering if they’ll get enough water next season.

We just hope that the winter is fairly kind to us. But that’s the country we live in.

Would that be the country that your god created? Â Your bastard god must’ve known that eventually we’d be trying to grow crops to feed the world. Â Perhaps it was his day off.

How do we explain earthquakes and tsunamis and things like that? I don’t really know, all I know is that there is still hope.

Hope? Â You’re hoping for earthquakes, tsunamis and things like that (are they the same things you talk to?). Â If you don’t know how to explain them, then talk to a scientist. Â Earthquakes happen when the crust of the earth moves. Â It’s in big slabs and the slabs rub against each other as they move, causing shocks. Â The shocks stir up the water, the water makes a wave and crashes when it hits the land. Â See easy, and no need to wonder if god did it!

And while creation might groan, and nature throws these things at us,

If creation could groan, it’d be groaning about stupid religious types who thinks nature throws things. Â Nature doesn’t give a flying fruit bat’s piss about you.

it’s out of that that we see incredible human good, how people support each other, encourage each other, that we haven’t got empty pockets, that we can still reach out.

Really? Â Could it be that people just really care for their family and friends, their communities. Â Not because of an evil godÂ character, but because that’s how we do it in this society. Â When you look at the devastation in Haiti after their earthquake you’ll see what little impact a few floods have actually had. Â The people of Haiti now live an even worse existence with roaming gangs and no law. Â The reason we handle natural disasters so well is because we have good government, wealth and support systems.

I believe that just shows us the good side that God created.

The good side? Â So, your arsehole god also created a bad side that causes the death and destruction just so you can see the good side? Â What an arse about system you believe in.

Coming up on Encounter:

The King James Bible – The Translation

Sunday 01 May 2011

First in a two-part series marking the 400th anniversary of the publication of the King James Bible. This week: the story of how six companies of men produced a new translation that has come to be regarded as one of the greatest works in the entire canon of English literature.

Oh, how exciting. I can hardly contain myself…

God used the Earthquake to teach them a lesson

Bruce — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 07:56:01 +0000

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Every now and then I read a blog that really sets my teeth on edge.Â Bill Muehlenberg Mugbatwallaby has used the Haiti earthquake to claim that it’s all his god’s doing.

His god is an absolute bastard then.Â But worse than that, for some person to wipe away the pain and anguish by simply stating that its all for the good of the people is to display the biggest amount of insensitive disrespect for every single one of the 230,000 that died.Â To pretend that the event was some how condoned by his god shows just how away with the fairies he really is.Â It’s disgusting and makes me think he’s worthy of a trip around the Large Hadron Collider, on the inside.

If God only exists to keep us in a state of happiness and pleasure, then yes, disasters would indicate Godâ€™s absence or displeasure.

Oh please.Â What does that even mean?

It is certainly possible that the judgment of God was an element of the January quake. We are often not in a position to clearly know these things, at least not as clearly as in the Old Testament when God sent prophets to inform people about his activities in the world.

So, you’re saying that its ‘certainly possible’, leaving a way out if you happen to be wrong?Â You know you’re wrong don’t you.Â You’re not in a position to clearly know, but that doesn’t stop you spreading your vile words, and why oh why are his god’s people subjected to this violent and sudden death, why the fuck are there no prophets to warn them?Â Why do christian arseholes say this crap after the event.Â Does Mr Mugbatwallaby stick his tongue out and go ‘na nah, na nah’?

The Confraternite Missionaire Baptiste dâ€™Haiti has said just recently that over 40,000 Haitians have made professions of faith in Jesus Christ since the earthquake occurred.

My understanding is that the Haitians are a deeply superstitious lot.Â What’s the betÂ they’re just hedging their bets, and it’s too fucking late, the disaster has already been.Â Nobody seriously believes that accepting jesus now will save you from the next quake.Â What’s the bet that their bastard god does not prevent the rains that are about to fall on the island, causing much more grief, death and suffering.

So God is not finished yet with Haiti. He is still at work there, and we can give thanks that even out of this enormous disaster, some long-term good is occurring, both physically and spiritually.

On one hand you say you can’t clearly know that god is responsible, and on the next hand you say that he hasn’t finished.Â Which is it?

Who ever is in charge there needs to kick the christians out.Â This level of fairy tale is revolting.Â The christians are in there rubbing there sacred beads around their phallic members getting off on how they’re doing gods work.Â How they’re saving souls.

It would be so easy for this bastard god to simply change the colour of the sun, change the colour of the water, put snow out on a really hot day, have it rain but stop the water from hitting the ground and running off on unseen gutters.Â You know, do something supernatural.Â Instead, the fucking christians use a very natural event to invoke their bronze age god and say “look, you’ve pissed him off, you better come and worship him otherswise something really bad will happen”

You arseholes.Â They need help, not your stupid fucked religion that makes them feel like it’s their fault.Â You have made the victims of this horrible natural event the perpetrators.Â This is akin to telling them that the quake is all their fault, “look at the 500,000 people you have killed and injured, its all your fault, you better pull your fingers out and smarten up.”Â For some strange reason you appear to be taking delight in the whole tragic situation, you’re happy because now you can proclaim how brilliant jesus is.

I know where the pulled out fingers need to be shoved, better if they were wrapped around something solid, metal and hot.

Quake in Chile

Bruce — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 10:49:39 +0000

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You just know that somewhere out there in the world wide web some dumbarse christians are thinking the world is about to end.

It only seems like yesterday that Haiti had a big quake that caused muchÂ devastation. Â Now the pro-death christians have got boners because another big quake has happened and more death and destruction has visited us.

It’s the end of days they cry! Â Two earth quakes, big earth quakes! Â It’s the end of days, the seals are being broken! Â Satan is lose on the earth! Â jesus is coming back! Â Repent! Repent!

MedHelp is a site that does medical stuff, seems quite good, but buried in their forums are nutters that think they are about to be taken up to heaven in the great rapture. Â Earthquakes are a sure sign. Â Never mind that earthquakes happen every day. Â They take it as a sign.

People I have been saying all along in all my journals that we are living in the last days. & the bible tells us that b4 Jesus returns that earthquakes would increase in the last days!!

Hopefully it’s your last days.

“God, we don’t always understand why some things happen but we are so glad that you are in control”. Thank you God for giving me and so many others the ability and wisdom to recognize the imminent return of Jesus Christ.

You call this control? Â Sounds like he’s slipped up a bit, and why is this any more ‘imminent’ than any natural event in the last 2000 years?

God is still in control of everything that goes on! Trust me he does not want it 2b like this because our God is a loving God! But because of the evilness in mans heart & the sinful nature in it! God has 2 punish earth 4 turning its back on God

Sorry? Â In control of everything? Â If he doesn’t want it to be like this why doesn’t he try some supernatural event instead of a natural event, then we might take notice, as far as I can tell it’s an earthquake. Â If your bastard god really wants to get our attention, why doesn’t he do somethingÂ spectacular, like replace the sun with a giant glowing cross? Â Then we would all pay attention and could avoid the end times. Â And what’s the idea with the punishment? Â That bastard god disappears for thousands of years, the most we get is visions of jesus on toast, so in the absence of any clear proof he wants to punish us for turning our backs on him. Â Just who turned their back on whom?

Have a browse through the forum, its quite laughable. Â These nutters are going to bring about the end of the world just from their fucking stupidity.

Catholic Bible

Bruce — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 02:19:42 +0000

In case you didn’t know, there’s a catholic bible. Â It’s the same babble as the rest of the holy babbles out there (and there’s thousands) and of course, there’s websites.

Over at Catholic Bible in a Year.org you can find out how to read the bible in a year, true dinks. Â The catholic version of it that is.

Today’s lesson isÂ predestination. Â You know what destination is don’t you – its the place you are aiming for, the final place of your trip and so on. Â Pre means before, in this case predestination means that the trip is all sorted out before you get there, and in the case of catholic belief that’s about god having a plan for you. Â Neat.

First of all it does not mean that God is in any way arbitrary in his dealings with us or others. Secondly Predestination does not mean that we are not responsible for our own actions before God.

Right, he’s not arbitrary, tell that to the thousands who died in the tsunamis, bushfires and earthquakes. Â Anyway, they’re saying that while god has a plan, you can do what you like because god has a plan and while you can’t change the plan (predestination) you are responsible for the actions of the plan.

It means that Godâ€™s plan for our lives is not an accident. It does not mean that we are at the mercy of forces that operate at random. Destination means that Godâ€™s plan for us was intended from the very beginning â€” and that he has carefully thought out, in complete detail, all that needs to be done for our Salvation, as well as for our continued spiritual growth.

So, the plan is not an accident, it’s a plan. Â We are not at the mercy of forces – i.e. fire, earthquake, giant people drowning waves. Â God’s plan was intended… from the beginning… and it’s carefully thought out, in complete detail.

My head hurts.

Look, either we are in control of our own decisions or not. Â Either god made a plan, a detailed plan for us, and knows the outcome or he doesn’t. Â You can’t have it both ways.

If the plan is already there, then the catholic god is a bastard and he should return to the local TAFE college to do a course in simple time management and planning, because quite honestly, he sucks at it.

Bibles in Haiti

Bruce — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 00:09:25 +0000

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Get this, the group that calls themselves “Faith Comes By Hearing” are sending a bunch of audio bibles, solar powered, into Haiti.

Jesus fucking christ. Â What is wrong with you?

Faith Comes By Hearing, an international Audio Bible group, is working withÂ Convoy of Hope to provide spiritual relief in Haiti.

Spiritual relief is a good thing, educate people of the waste of time that god is, give them relief from religion.

…wait on a minute….

do they mean they are going into a disaster area to spread the word of god? Â How is that relief? Â I’m glad you asked.

Haitians will need that long-term hope and comfort that comes from knowing God has not forgotten them through this tragedy

This is that same god that built the world in the blink of an eye and made sure that the tectonic plates overlapped to allow slippage and cause earthquakes that could kill over 100,000 people in one rumble? Â That god arsehole seems to have not thought it through too well. Â He can see all of time and knows all that has happened and will happened and yet he still built the world to allow for such disasters so that wankers from Faith By Hearing can arrive in their nice clothes and hand the locals a copy of the holy babble that is solar powered. Â So he really hasn’t forgotten about them, the bastard designed the disaster and planned to leave behind children, fathers and mothers. Â He let it happen so that they could starve and die a horrible and slow death. Â He let it happen so a bunch of useless fucking christians could descend upon the island like pigeon shit on a statue and minister in a useless way that does no good for anyone.

If only they would think.

If only they would do something useful.

Haiti comment ‘stupid’

Bruce — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 22:21:41 +0000

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Pat Robertson, a man who think god talks to him¹, claimed that the Haitian’s made a pact with the devil². I made mention of it over here

As I have said before, not enough people in authority call these god-lovers out on this wacko concepts – they just seem to get away with saying outlandish unsupported claims, then like a ray of sunshine from heaven, the archangel did descend upon the earth and have a spokesperson from the White house call the remarks stupid.Â At last, proof that there is a god!

“It never ceases to amaze, that in times of amazing human suffering, somebody says something that could be so utterly stupid,” Mr Gibbs said.

I bet those are words you’d never hear from the mouth of the god fearing bush administration.Â At last, some common sense.

The spokesman also called the remarks ‘completely inappropriate’

Now if we could just call the pope stupid for thinking condoms in Africa³ are bad, if we could just call them on Mary Fucking MacKillop⁴ curing people of cancer and if we could just call silly and inane the concept of god then the world would be a much better place for llamas… and people.

Pat Roberston toldÂ CBS 60 minutes in 2004 that god told him Bush would get re-elected SOURCE ↩
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Condoms and AIDS – my blog ↩
My blogs on Mary Fucking MacKillop ↩

Where is god?

Bruce — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 06:31:19 +0000

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Things are pretty grim in Haiti.Â The body count to date is 70,000 people.Â I grieve for the loss of that many fellow humans.Â Nobody knows how many are dead, maybe we’ll never know.Â I’ve read stories where they say it might be up to 200,000 people.Â That’s a lot of people to go at the same time.

And yet… there’s faith.Â People still think that god is there watching over them.Â They turn to him now and ask him for help.

Your god is an arsehole.

If ever you wanted proof of the non-exisitence of any supernatural forces, here it is.Â Nobody deserves to die the way the 70,000 and more have died.Â It’s horrible, nasty and unacceptable.Â There is no room for god in this story.

Preachers are preaching, getting people to pray.Â What the fuck for?Â Get your arses in to gear, this is no time to be dilly-dallying in useless pursuits.Â People need your help now.Â God isn’t going to bring anyone back, god isn’t going to bring you food and water, god doesn’t exisit.

Life is not a disaster. Life is joy! You donâ€™t have food? Nourish yourself with the Lord. You donâ€™t have water? Drink in the spirit.

Like that’s gonna fucking help anyone.Â This is a disaster, there is little joy at present.Â You’re hungry and thirsty and that same god that you now expect to help you out and bring the life saving miracle is the same one that just snuffed out tens of thousands of lives.

If you haven’t already, give some money to help the relief effort.Â Just make sure it isn’t going to some useless toss pots who think that god is going to help.

Indonesia and christian Relief Groups

Bruce — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 23:03:38 +0000

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As the death toll continues to rise, Christian relief agencies face steep challenges as they try to meet the demands of several natural disasters throughout Indonesia. One of these challenges is balancing faithfulness to the Great Commission and humanitarian aid.

The death toll continues to rise….. the challenge….. faithfulness to the Great Commission?

Let me get this right, people need help, real help, life saving help and you want to preach the fucking gospel? The Great Commission is the silly christian notion that jesus told them to spread their vile nasty religion to everyone in the world, so now they have a dilemma, how to actually do something useful, i.e. help someone or how to do some thing useless i.e. tell them about jesus.

“It isn’t necessarily helpful when a ministry spokesperson gets on television and spouts off about the Gospel,” said Rusty Goodwin, Director of Communication for World Help. “Sometimes you have to work in stealth mode and be sensitive to the culture – to achieve long term success.”

Stealth mode?Â Sensitive to the culture?Â Long term success?Â What the fuck is this? You do understand that the Indonesian people may be at the lowest point in their lives and you think its a good idea to drop into some sort of stealth mode to slip jesus in under radar.Â You cunts, jesus fucking christ, these people are suffering and you want to talk about god to them? You bunch of silly bible bashing toss pots.

“It does stir up persecution. It is mostly out of fear because they don’t understand. But the Lord promised that persecution would come as part of the price of preaching the Gospel.”

So you encourage some poor sod who you have ‘helped’ to accept little baby jesus as their lord, then that poor sod is persecuted by his neighbours because he switched sides.Â So not only has he lost everything in the earthquake but now he’s ostracize and you then turn around and tell him that’s ok because jesus said it was ok and then you fuck off back home to your warm bed and ample supplies of food.

May your testicles be boiled in a billy and feed to the ducks.

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