Marlene Lester, from Ballina, is convinced that something that happened to her and her grandson, Jackson, recently was much more than coincidence, but a divine intervention.

Oooo, this will be good, a divine intervention!

At the very least, it’s an act of generosity from strangers.

Marlene earlier this year almost lost her house to a fire – but the fire was stopped by a neighbour.

The fire was stopped by a stranger… not by the divine?  Did the divine get the neighbour to stop the fire?

The story appeared in The Northern Star, and then on the Bundaberg News website through the APN News and Media network.

A Queensland couple read the story, and knew of Marlene through a Catholic internet forum about Saint Mary MacKillop they are both involved with.

The Queensland couple read it on the internet and made a connection because they have remember her from a forum.  Nothing divine about that.

The couple sent a letter and a book about Saint Mary to Marlene to give to nine-year-old Jackson.

They also promised to give Jackson a statue of Australia’s first saint – but it had to be ordered and they couldn’t say when it would arrive.

So the couple felt some empathy because the house fire almost caused some damage, wanted to show they cared, thought, ‘Oh, I bet she’d like a statue and a book about Mary Fucking MacKillop’ and posted one over.  Makes sense, the only way they know her is through an internet forum about MFM.  If they knew she liked murder mysteries perhaps they would have sent her a book and a statue of Agatha Christie.

On September 12 Jackson told Marlene about a dream he had the night before in which he saw Mary MacKillop in their house.

So the mother is a mad MFM fan, shares that with her son and he has a dream about her.  He probably has lots of dreams about MFM, some of them wet.

At that moment, there was a knock on the door, and a parcel arrived.

It was the promised statue of Mary.

“We both got a shock,” Marlene said.

Why?  It was going to happen at some stage, the knock on the door and the delivery.  It is just a coincidence.  It’s not strange, it might be a bit humourous, but there’s nothing really odd about it.

She has reported the “divine intervention” to the Catholic Church.

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Over at the blog called “The REAL Mary MacKillop” that says “A WEBLOG DEDICATED TO MARY MACKILLOP” we find a story that has nothing to do with Mary Fucking MacKillop.  It’s written by ultra-conservative catholic die-hard Arnold Jago

 Three women from a punk/rock band have been sentenced to two years prison for bursting into Moscow Cathedral and singing blasphemous songs last February.

I love it when people burst into churches, it’s so dramatic!

The charge is “hooliganism motivated by religious hatred”.

Sounds like a pretty decent charge.  Can’t have people bursting into churches and picking on the faithful.   Perhaps a better response from the faithful would be to simply laugh at them?  You know, they have the almighty on their side and if he wanted to he could smite them very roughly.

A spokeswoman for the US State Department has said: “We urge Russian authorities to review this case and ensure that the right to freedom of expression is upheld.”
Nothing said about protecting the right of Christians to worship without being subjected to insulting sacrilege.

Freedom of expression is really important, sure, it’s not nice to burst into churches, but two years in jail is very excessive when the only thing hurt was someone’s prayers to an imaginary friend.

Other Western governments have called the sentences “disproportionate”.

That’s because it is.  What’s wrong with a hefty fine.  It’s not like anyone was hurt.

What punishment would be “proportionate” for insulting Almighty God?
Hanging?
Shooting?
Flogging?

Let’s hope that’s tongue in cheek.  But who says your god was insulted?  It’s not possible to measure how upset your god may be, because nobody has ever heard from him.  You’re simply making an assumption based on an outdated text.

Fortunately God doesn’t always respond proportionately to our contempt for his goodness.

Well, there is no god to respond, that’s why he never responds.  It’s only you religious lot that pretend that god is upset.  If your god is so almighty, surely he can look after it himself?  Why does he need your help?

Two years in prison for doing an inappropriate thing in church is quite frankly appalling.  How does this sentence compare with the woman who stole $40,000 from her employer?  She got two years. Maybe this woman who drowned her baby.  She got three years.

Every day churches parade their offensive messages and inappropriate communications, giving false hope and outright lies.

It’d be nice if they would keep that crap to themselves.

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Arnie “Sweetie” Jago

Arnold Jago is a doctor from Mildura, which is in North West Victoria.

He’s one of those catholics that think the Inquisition was a pretty good idea and we should do it again.

He runs a website called The Real Mary MacKillop and has even written a book about Mary Fucking MacKillop.

Part of the MFM site is his blog, where he loves to suck up to popes and priests.  He’s latest offering:

160-plus members of the National Council of Priests of Australia are in Warrnambool for a convention.

Let’s hope that the convention covers how to handle the abuse of children and the cover up of the church.

A guest speaker is “outspoken” British priest, Father Timothy Radcliffe.
Fr Radcliffe is in trouble with the Pope.
Why?
Here is a quote from one of his addresses:
“We begin by standing by gay people, as they hear the voice of the Lord that summons them to a life of happiness. We accompany them as they wrestle with discovering what this means and how they should walk etc.”
Standing by? Accompanying them as they wrestle? What is he talking about?

You know, Arnie baby, he’s talking about letting people know that it’s ok to be gay.  He’s helping them over come the religious bigotry that exists and that people like you continue to perpetuate.

If the Catholic Priests of Australia really love people with same-sex attractions – with a selfless love as God’s children — why not tell them the truth?

The truth that their god created them gay perhaps?  The truth that they were created in his image?

Why not remind them that the Church has always taught that homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered, contrary to Natural Law, under no circumstances to be approved?

Oh, yeah, that’s love.  Let’s throw out all the good science and instead rely on the ramblings of an old virgin because that’s how you show love.  Calling people disordered and against nature is a sure way to build up the confidence in gay people.  The church is clearly wrong on this.  Time to grow up Arnie honey.

If priests instead condone homosexual acts and same-sex “marriage” — giving their blessing to public commitments to a lifetime of disordered activity—are they truly Catholic?

Priests seem to condone child abuse, are happy to cover up for their fellow ministers, but instead you want to talk about condoning homosexual acts, and not in a good way.  Instead you focus on a perfectly natural expression of people’s sexuality by calling it disordered.  It’s time that priests and the faithful asked the question Arnie sweetie, if the catholic church is wrong (and it is) on matters of sexuality, what’s the point in being catholic?

Time to give it up.

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Father Paul has received a Medal of the Order of Australia, after being instrumental in the international recognition of Australia’s first Catholic Saint, Mary MacKillop.

Seems we’ll give medals to people who spend a vast majority of their time wasting it in tasks that benefit nobody.

I worked at it for a long time and did work that needed to be done…

The good father could have spent his time doing something useful, like helping poor people get on with their lives.  Instead he works for 25 years elevating some dead nun to sainthood.  A process that is more about the catholic church PR machine than anything remotely useful.

Read more on MFM – I’ve written plenty of blogs about it.

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We were lost at the time, and speeding to get to the ball. As we drove along, there was a ‘Merging Lanes’ sign which was just before a crest on a hill. We got to the top of the hill and all of a sudden our road literally just ended and turned into gravel. The driver panicked and he slammed on the brakes, which caused the car to swerve. We lost control and hit a tree, which was the only tree on the whole stretch of road. Stupidly, I wasn’t wearing a seat belt so I flew out of the car and landed on the ground.

Lesson 1.  Put your seat belt on stupid.

Lesson 2.  Tell the driver to slow down.

Lesson 3.  Slow down when getting to a crest of a hill

Hospital – mend broken bits, cut off skull to release pressure from brain swelling, insert acrylic plate.  Wow, clever stuff what those them doctors can do now-a-days.

Mummy dear was of course very worried:

When I saw Fr Kean, I just said off the top of my head, ‘I want everyone to please pray to Mother Mary MacKillop.’

Of course, talking to dead people always helps.  I’d be asking for coffee.

When I think back I’m not sure why I said her, as Therese of Lisieux¹ has always been my favourite saint.

Wait… you can have a favourite saint.. I bet Therese of Lisieux is feeling rejected now.

And I hadn’t even thought of Mary MacKillop’s canonisation later that year. But during that time, Mary MacKillop came to me so clearly.

She came to you?  Clearly?  OK… you must be under a lot of pressure.

Whenever any of the parishioners came in, it’d just come out of my mouth, ‘Let’s pray to Mother Mary MacKillop – Micaela is going to make it through this’.

Just as well the doctors and nurses didn’t throw you out you idiot.

Everyone we knew was praying to Mary MacKillop. We had people from as far away England and America emailing us and praying for us. I’ve kept hundreds of emails sent to us.

Everyone knew talking to dead people is stupid.

In my mind and heart, Micaela’s survival and recovery is a miracle. I thank everyone who prayed for Micaela, and I thank St Mary of the Cross.

**splutter**  Your daughters survival was because of the expert medical attention she received.  Mary Fucking MacKillop did nothing at all, on account of her being dead and all, and even if she was alive, the best she could do was probably bring towels and boil water.

I hope you also thanked all those professional who are alive and highly trained.

Why can’t these miracle making saints do something practical, like made sure that they left on time, made sure they didn’t miss the turn off, made sure they put their belt on, moved the tree, made the car run out of petrol or any other way to prevent something really bad from happening… that’s right, god works in mysterious ways.

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Let’s check how this great ‘honour’ for Australia has changed Australia.

Checking….

Checking….

Yep, as I thought.. no wait… what about this:

Sister Julianne Murphy will be channelling the spirit of Australia’s first saint, Mary MacKillop when she embarks on a national road trip this week. [SOURCE]

Way to go Sister!  This nun will be driving around Australia raising money.  Apparently the dead MFM can’t raise her own funds!

Or how about this for your after dead saintly service:

St Mary MacKillop has been proclaimed the Patron of the Diocese of Port Pirie by Bishop Greg O’Kelly,  according to a media release by the Diocese. [SOURCE]

What an honour!  Now she’s a saint and a patron.  She’ll be sure to take a great deal of interest in the diocese of Port Pirie.

So it would seem that MFM has done SFA.  No surprises there.

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Oh the PR machine has kicked in big time at the Catholic Churchâ„¢.  It’s busy hanging it on the gays whenever it can¹, telling priests not to report pedophiles² and worried about hepatitis on it’s holy bread³, what it needs is a boost, something that’ll make the faithful feel connected, a feel good story.  Oh, I know, that old pope that died recently – let’s make him a saint!

Now, as we know from our recent experience with MFM⁴the whole making a saint thing of dead people brings lots of money, lots of media and lots of alpacas out who then think more about god and give money to the church.

It’s a process to become a saint, let me again go over the key criteria if you’re thinking of applying for the job:

He looks pretty dead

1. You’re not allowed to want to be a saint
2. You have to be dead
3. You have to perform a miracle when you’re dead
4. You have to be beatified after that miracle
5. You have to perform another miracle after the first
6. The pope needs to divert attention away from scandals

Before you get to number two, you have to do stuff when you are alive.  Notably, give yourself to god, be a devoted catholic, do good things.

Of course your whole life will be investigated to see if you really are holy and did it by the book.

So, John Paul II is dead, and he’s performed his first miracle.  Some French nun

Marie Simon-Pierre was miraculously cured of Parkinson’s disease through the intercession of John Paul II, who also suffered from Parkinson’s.

So, the old pope responded to the prayers of the other nuns and cured this biddy of her Parkinson’s disease.  Lovely.  My old mum has it, could you do a job on her?  It seems that about 6 million people world wide have the disease⁵ He’s going to have his work cut out for him, being dead and all.  I wonder if he has to actually touch each of them to cure them.  Perhaps the sick just have to say his name and they’re cured.  I suggest the vatican prints a little prayer on plastic cards and sends them priority post to everyone who’s sick.

Now that would be a miracle.  Everyone in the world cured of Parkinson’s disease.

I don’t know if or how the old nun got better.  But just because we don’t know, doesn’t mean that some stale old homophobic dead man did anything.  There are so many possibilities, she was never sick, she was misdiagnosed, she’s not better, aliens cured her, she had sex.

The church needs to make this old dead pope a saint, it will bring them fame and fortune, pilgrims will flock to see him, well his grave, there will be much adulation and all those bishops and cardinals will wet themselves with excitement.  They’ll be doing wet farts of glee.

So, let’s get this straight, again… dead people don’t do anything but rot (and they don’t even do that, it’s a natural process that requires no action on the part of the rotting person).  Dead people don’t talk to god, they’re dead and there is no god.  Dead people don’t perform miracles or hear you mutter their name, they’re dead.

Let the circus begin!

In a related story, a vial of his blood will be placed in an altar at a new church in Poland.  It seems that he had blood taken, quite deliberately, before he died.  It’s known as a relic and in the olden days relics would perform miracles too … standby for action!!!

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Mary Fucking MacKillop was a nun. She was trying to provide education to the poor. Perhaps she did it really well. I don’t know.

I don’t know just how worthy MFM¹ is of all this rubbish about sainthood. For all I know she was a manipulative horrible nun that spent her time trying to further her own career and make her life more comfortable, or she was a genuine person out to help those less fortunate than herself. She may be a hero, I don’t know and I don’t care.

But… when toss pots like Cardinal Hell saying inane things like this:

“Australians overwhelmingly are good people, but we need to be reminded of the reality of the supernatural, of the importance of God, the reality of life after death, the importance of spiritual values,” he said. [SOURCE]

I have to respond.
Point 1: Australians are overwhelmingly good people… well duh. Most people are good, Australian or otherwise, we all understand we must have some empathy towards others to get on in life.
Point 2: We need to be reminded of the reality of the supernatural. Fuck you. Show us the supernatural, just because you can wear a dress doesn’t mean that there’s anything supernatural going on.
Point 3: Reality of life after death… wait on, what reality, when was the last time someone who had died actually communicated with you? Are you hearing voices?
Point 4: Importance of spiritual values… ummm, the what? Spiritual values? How are they determined, and by whom. Oh wait, you get to determine them.

This stupid devotion to dead people really has to stop. The evil Pope and his cohort Cardinal Hell are in Rome to say the magic words to make MFM a fucking saint. Thousands of people have gone to Rome to view the whole show, and a stage show it is. Meanwhile, people continue to starve, people continue to die from unnecessary disease and MFM and the rest of her saintly tribe sit at the right hand of god and do fucking nothing other than pick some poor random catholic who muttered their name a couple of times and heal them.

It’s horrible, really horrible. It’s about time we got on with helping the living and forgot about the dead, because, well, they’re dead, and can’t help anything or anyone any more.

Shame on all of you for wasting the earths valuable resources and ignoring the plight of so many people the world over just so you can sing the praises of dead people who would have much prefer you spent the money on actually doing something useful.

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The love llama and myself are off to meet other flocculent types, to enjoy the gathering of masses, to listen to some of the finest minds in the world,  OK, to listen to some others with similar outlooks.  A bit of religion-free free thinking, no need to donate to the plate or eat the dead body of anyone.

I wonder if there will be a Mary Fucking Mackillop stall.

I’ll be updating on twitter and maybe a blog.

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As if it’s not bad enough with all the politicians and media falling over themselves wanting to get in on the Mary Fucking MacKillop crap, as if it’s not bad enough listening to Tim Fisher and Cardinal Hell wetting themselves with excitment over the impending canonisation of a dead person, now the jews are into it as well.  I guess they didn’t want to feel left out.

It seems that when things were a bit bad for MFM in Adelaide, and she’d been turfed out of her house, who should come along and help her, not a christian, not a politician, not a christian politician, no a jew!  So now, because of the kind Emanuel Solomon we have a jewish connection to MFM.

Praise the lord, miracle!

What next?  She rode a camel owned by an Afghan muslim?  She received a buddha  from a Tibetan monk? She once saw off in the distance a hare krishna dancing?

Once one of my ancestors passed through Adelaide, and MFM was three blocks over as he went through, the story has been passed down and we all now feel so blessed.

Everyone wants in on the MFM bandwagon… hitch yourself up.

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