Comments on: The (overcrowded) grassy knoll on the Vic bushfires http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/02/10/the-overcrowded-grassy-knoll-on-the-vic-bushfires/ now with extra source Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:48:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: tiptoe http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/02/10/the-overcrowded-grassy-knoll-on-the-vic-bushfires/#comment-5593 tiptoe Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-5593 I am seriously gobsmacked - whatever that means! There are some people who are saying we should thank god that we are alive due to his mercy. Tell that to the loved ones of those who are dead. What have you done to be alive that those corpses didn't? Anyone who can find anything good about the fires has got to be happy they are not in a padded room somewhere. I am seriously gobsmacked - whatever that means! There are some people who are saying we should thank god that we are alive due to his mercy. Tell that to the loved ones of those who are dead. What have you done to be alive that those corpses didn’t? Anyone who can find anything good about the fires has got to be happy they are not in a padded room somewhere.

]]> By: roger brown http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/02/10/the-overcrowded-grassy-knoll-on-the-vic-bushfires/#comment-5594 roger brown Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-5594 Catch the fire ministery, sounds like they lit the fires to punish Victoria for voting for abortions???? Sounds like a terrorist church costello?? When will they realise that he or she has had 2000 years to come back and hasnt. Stop all these churches being a tax free haven, i dont want my tax helping these clowns spread their lies. Funny no jamesk.to day, must be pill day. Catch the fire ministery, sounds like they lit the fires to punish Victoria for voting for abortions???? Sounds like a terrorist church costello?? When will they realise that he or she has had 2000 years to come back and hasnt. Stop all these churches being a tax free haven, i dont want my tax helping these clowns spread their lies. Funny no jamesk.to day, must be pill day.

]]> By: Geoff Tapp http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/02/10/the-overcrowded-grassy-knoll-on-the-vic-bushfires/#comment-5595 Geoff Tapp Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-5595 Oh Danny, Danny, Danny you demented drongo...while your god was overseeing the systemic rape, abuse and mutilation of females from the age of 6 months in the Democratic Republic of Congo (among myriad other non-stop unspeakable atrocities all over the world) you are loudly proclaiming him to be "The Way" even though Victoria burns! If that's the way then I'm happy to take a detour. As your imaginary friend is omnipresent and omnipotent then if it exists at all then it must be both aware of, and responsible for, all things both good and bad. Oh Danny boy, don't you realise you can't have it both ways? (Rhetorical question, obviously). Oh Danny, Danny, Danny you demented drongo…while your god was overseeing the systemic rape, abuse and mutilation of females from the age of 6 months in the Democratic Republic of Congo (among myriad other non-stop unspeakable atrocities all over the world) you are loudly proclaiming him to be “The Way” even though Victoria burns! If that’s the way then I’m happy to take a detour. As your imaginary friend is omnipresent and omnipotent then if it exists at all then it must be both aware of, and responsible for, all things both good and bad. Oh Danny boy, don’t you realise you can’t have it both ways? (Rhetorical question, obviously).

]]> By: Andrew Seagrim http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/02/10/the-overcrowded-grassy-knoll-on-the-vic-bushfires/#comment-5596 Andrew Seagrim Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-5596 Here endeth the sermon.<br /><br />Amazing how, in CTFM's opinion, an all compassionate, all loving sky fairy, can kill pensioners and children for the transgressions of the Victorian Parliament. <br /><br />To quote Heather McDonald:<br /><br />"It is a sad fact of human relations that unqualified adulation often produces from the adored one contempt and a kick in the chops, rather than gratitude and kindness. Apparently, the same applies to human-divine relations.<br />So, let the human race play hard to get. Imagine God's discombobulation if, after the next mass slaughter of human life, the hymns of praise and incense do not rise up. He checks the Sunday census; the pews are empty. Week after week, the churches and mosques are unattended; the usual gratitude for his not wiping out even more innocent children does not pour forth.<br />He starts to worry. Has he gone too far this time? Maybe he should've exercised his much heralded powers of intervention, the same powers that his erstwhile worshipers presupposed every time they prayed for him to cure a cancer victim, or get them into law school.<br />And so, no longer guaranteed an adoring public, he starts to make nice. He calls back avalanches poised to wipe out whole villages; he brings rain to drought-stricken communities; he cures fatally handicapped babies in the womb, or prevents such flawed conceptions before they happen. He presents tokens of his love to malaria victims and children paralyzed by auto accidents. Africa blooms with peace and prosperity."<br /><br />And amputees begin to grow replacement limbs - now THAT would be a miracle! Here endeth the sermon.

Amazing how, in CTFM’s opinion, an all compassionate, all loving sky fairy, can kill pensioners and children for the transgressions of the Victorian Parliament.

To quote Heather McDonald:

“It is a sad fact of human relations that unqualified adulation often produces from the adored one contempt and a kick in the chops, rather than gratitude and kindness. Apparently, the same applies to human-divine relations.
So, let the human race play hard to get. Imagine God’s discombobulation if, after the next mass slaughter of human life, the hymns of praise and incense do not rise up. He checks the Sunday census; the pews are empty. Week after week, the churches and mosques are unattended; the usual gratitude for his not wiping out even more innocent children does not pour forth.
He starts to worry. Has he gone too far this time? Maybe he should’ve exercised his much heralded powers of intervention, the same powers that his erstwhile worshipers presupposed every time they prayed for him to cure a cancer victim, or get them into law school.
And so, no longer guaranteed an adoring public, he starts to make nice. He calls back avalanches poised to wipe out whole villages; he brings rain to drought-stricken communities; he cures fatally handicapped babies in the womb, or prevents such flawed conceptions before they happen. He presents tokens of his love to malaria victims and children paralyzed by auto accidents. Africa blooms with peace and prosperity.”

And amputees begin to grow replacement limbs - now THAT would be a miracle!

]]> By: Jim http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/02/10/the-overcrowded-grassy-knoll-on-the-vic-bushfires/#comment-5597 Jim Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-5597 And to think... Catch the Fire is the group that Peter Costello is involved with.<br /><br />Thank God he's not PM. He'd be banning abortion in the hope it would stop the fires. And to think… Catch the Fire is the group that Peter Costello is involved with.

Thank God he’s not PM. He’d be banning abortion in the hope it would stop the fires.

]]> By: Greg Angelo http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/02/10/the-overcrowded-grassy-knoll-on-the-vic-bushfires/#comment-5598 Greg Angelo Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-5598 I believe that the God being referenced here also belongs to the Jews murdered in the Holocaust. How many of them were saved by abject prayer. My understanding is that raving lunatics can be restrained under the Mental Health Act, so somebody should alert the authorities to take some action. <br /><br /> I believe that the God being referenced here also belongs to the Jews murdered in the Holocaust. How many of them were saved by abject prayer. My understanding is that raving lunatics can be restrained under the Mental Health Act, so somebody should alert the authorities to take some action.

]]> By: JamesK http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/02/10/the-overcrowded-grassy-knoll-on-the-vic-bushfires/#comment-5599 JamesK Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-5599 Talking about f-ckwits incongruously apportioning blame. There was Clive Hamilton in Crikey yesterday.<br />But what about Freya Mathews' (who?) piece given loads of oxygen in today's Age newspaper. Makes the bizzare Backman piece is that caused so much controversy several weeks ago look positively sober:<br /><br />"Fires the deadly inevitability of climate change"<br />http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/fires-the-deadly-inevitability-of-climate-change-20090209-8289.html?page=-1<br /><br /> Talking about f-ckwits incongruously apportioning blame. There was Clive Hamilton in Crikey yesterday.
But what about Freya Mathews’ (who?) piece given loads of oxygen in today’s Age newspaper. Makes the bizzare Backman piece is that caused so much controversy several weeks ago look positively sober:

“Fires the deadly inevitability of climate change”
http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/fires-the-deadly-inevitability-of-climate-change-20090209-8289.html?page=-1

]]> By: Andrew Seagrim http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/02/10/the-overcrowded-grassy-knoll-on-the-vic-bushfires/#comment-5600 Andrew Seagrim Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-5600 Here endeth the sermon.<br /><br />Amazing how, in CTFM's opinion, an all compassionate, all loving sky fairy, can kill pensioners and children for the transgressions of the Victorian Parliament. <br /><br />To quote Heather McDonald:<br /><br />"It is a sad fact of human relations that unqualified adulation often produces from the adored one contempt and a kick in the chops, rather than gratitude and kindness. Apparently, the same applies to human-divine relations.<br />So, let the human race play hard to get. Imagine God's discombobulation if, after the next mass slaughter of human life, the hymns of praise and incense do not rise up. He checks the Sunday census; the pews are empty. Week after week, the churches and mosques are unattended; the usual gratitude for his not wiping out even more innocent children does not pour forth.<br />He starts to worry. Has he gone too far this time? Maybe he should've exercised his much heralded powers of intervention, the same powers that his erstwhile worshipers presupposed every time they prayed for him to cure a cancer victim, or get them into law school.<br />And so, no longer guaranteed an adoring public, he starts to make nice. He calls back avalanches poised to wipe out whole villages; he brings rain to drought-stricken communities; he cures fatally handicapped babies in the womb, or prevents such flawed conceptions before they happen. He presents tokens of his love to malaria victims and children paralyzed by auto accidents. Africa blooms with peace and prosperity."<br /><br />And amputees begin to grow replacement limbs - now THAT would be a miracle! Here endeth the sermon.

Amazing how, in CTFM’s opinion, an all compassionate, all loving sky fairy, can kill pensioners and children for the transgressions of the Victorian Parliament.

To quote Heather McDonald:

“It is a sad fact of human relations that unqualified adulation often produces from the adored one contempt and a kick in the chops, rather than gratitude and kindness. Apparently, the same applies to human-divine relations.
So, let the human race play hard to get. Imagine God’s discombobulation if, after the next mass slaughter of human life, the hymns of praise and incense do not rise up. He checks the Sunday census; the pews are empty. Week after week, the churches and mosques are unattended; the usual gratitude for his not wiping out even more innocent children does not pour forth.
He starts to worry. Has he gone too far this time? Maybe he should’ve exercised his much heralded powers of intervention, the same powers that his erstwhile worshipers presupposed every time they prayed for him to cure a cancer victim, or get them into law school.
And so, no longer guaranteed an adoring public, he starts to make nice. He calls back avalanches poised to wipe out whole villages; he brings rain to drought-stricken communities; he cures fatally handicapped babies in the womb, or prevents such flawed conceptions before they happen. He presents tokens of his love to malaria victims and children paralyzed by auto accidents. Africa blooms with peace and prosperity.”

And amputees begin to grow replacement limbs - now THAT would be a miracle!

]]> By: Bob Joyce http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/02/10/the-overcrowded-grassy-knoll-on-the-vic-bushfires/#comment-5601 Bob Joyce Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-5601 Thankyou, Pastor Nalliah. I am sure it is of great comfort to those of us who lost friends and relatives in the fires, just to know that they died because your god wanted them dead. Thankyou, Pastor Nalliah. I am sure it is of great comfort to those of us who lost friends and relatives in the fires, just to know that they died because your god wanted them dead.

]]> By: paddy http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/02/10/the-overcrowded-grassy-knoll-on-the-vic-bushfires/#comment-5602 paddy Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-5602 Goodness me. Talk about Catch The Fire!!!<br />They're so off the wall, they make "Pete the Preacher" sound positively rational. Goodness me. Talk about Catch The Fire!!!
They’re so off the wall, they make “Pete the Preacher” sound positively rational.

]]> By: mike smith http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/02/10/the-overcrowded-grassy-knoll-on-the-vic-bushfires/#comment-5603 mike smith Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-5603 Geez, Crikey, don't give these bottom-feeders oxygen! Geez, Crikey, don’t give these bottom-feeders oxygen!

]]> By: Andrew Seagrim http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/02/10/the-overcrowded-grassy-knoll-on-the-vic-bushfires/#comment-5604 Andrew Seagrim Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-5604 Here endeth the sermon.<br /><br />Amazing how, in CTFM's opinion, an all compassionate, all loving sky fairy, can kill pensioners and children for the transgressions of the Victorian Parliament. <br /><br />To quote Heather McDonald:<br /><br />"It is a sad fact of human relations that unqualified adulation often produces from the adored one contempt and a kick in the chops, rather than gratitude and kindness. Apparently, the same applies to human-divine relations.<br />So, let the human race play hard to get. Imagine God's discombobulation if, after the next mass slaughter of human life, the hymns of praise and incense do not rise up. He checks the Sunday census; the pews are empty. Week after week, the churches and mosques are unattended; the usual gratitude for his not wiping out even more innocent children does not pour forth.<br />He starts to worry. Has he gone too far this time? Maybe he should've exercised his much heralded powers of intervention, the same powers that his erstwhile worshipers presupposed every time they prayed for him to cure a cancer victim, or get them into law school.<br />And so, no longer guaranteed an adoring public, he starts to make nice. He calls back avalanches poised to wipe out whole villages; he brings rain to drought-stricken communities; he cures fatally handicapped babies in the womb, or prevents such flawed conceptions before they happen. He presents tokens of his love to malaria victims and children paralyzed by auto accidents. Africa blooms with peace and prosperity."<br /><br />And amputees begin to grow replacement limbs - now THAT would be a miracle! Here endeth the sermon.

Amazing how, in CTFM’s opinion, an all compassionate, all loving sky fairy, can kill pensioners and children for the transgressions of the Victorian Parliament.

To quote Heather McDonald:

“It is a sad fact of human relations that unqualified adulation often produces from the adored one contempt and a kick in the chops, rather than gratitude and kindness. Apparently, the same applies to human-divine relations.
So, let the human race play hard to get. Imagine God’s discombobulation if, after the next mass slaughter of human life, the hymns of praise and incense do not rise up. He checks the Sunday census; the pews are empty. Week after week, the churches and mosques are unattended; the usual gratitude for his not wiping out even more innocent children does not pour forth.
He starts to worry. Has he gone too far this time? Maybe he should’ve exercised his much heralded powers of intervention, the same powers that his erstwhile worshipers presupposed every time they prayed for him to cure a cancer victim, or get them into law school.
And so, no longer guaranteed an adoring public, he starts to make nice. He calls back avalanches poised to wipe out whole villages; he brings rain to drought-stricken communities; he cures fatally handicapped babies in the womb, or prevents such flawed conceptions before they happen. He presents tokens of his love to malaria victims and children paralyzed by auto accidents. Africa blooms with peace and prosperity.”

And amputees begin to grow replacement limbs - now THAT would be a miracle!

]]> By: Rod http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/02/10/the-overcrowded-grassy-knoll-on-the-vic-bushfires/#comment-5605 Rod Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-5605 Someone should check the whereabouts of CTFM members when the fires started. Someone should check the whereabouts of CTFM members when the fires started.

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