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The Catholic Church has a new slogan in to fight against those that criticise its handling of sexual abuse by the clergy. "Hey, we are not as bad as others." They still don't get it.

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I’m going to try and get some long read books reviewed over the next whenever. The first one is Hanifa Deen’s The Jihad Seminar. Deen goes over the court case regarding the court case involving Catch the Fire Ministries (CTF) and the Islamic Council of Victoria regarding a law against hate speech.

It is an interesting book and Deen does a great job a taking the reader through the intricacies of the case. She is even handed and even sympathetic at times but that doesn’t make her afraid of dishing out criticism when needed. But instead of the usual review, I’d like to post some sections of the book as Deen makes some observations that are worth reading especially for atheists.

In the extract below, she outlines how CTF tap into Christian persecution around the world to justify their grievances against Muslims.

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Indeed, why not?
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Dear American Patriotics,
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It seems the movie Creation may get a US distributor. Strangely, it could be Mel Gibson’s Icon Productions. Then again, Mel released a movie that killed off Jesus so not why be involved in a movie that kills off God?

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The new biopic, Creation, about Charles Darwin doesn’t have a US distributor.

A new British film about Charles Darwin has failed to land a distribution deal in the States because his theories on human evolution are too controversial for religious American audiences, according to the film’s producer. 

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The great thing about Australia’s number one religious fundy wackaloon, Danny Nalliah, is that he knows not to overplay his hand. If he was popping up all over the place spouting religiously inspired stupidities on a regular basis he’d just be a regular run of the mill fundy. No, Nalliah tends to go for the big play. Whether it be claiming that he had a prophecy of Costello becoming prime minister, stating the Victorian bushfires were a punishment from God or that a bunch of witches are making sacrifices on Mt Ainlsey, you go to admire the timing of his grandiloquent wing nuttery.

Reading through Nalliah’s top urgent message, the lurid details sound as if from a Chick tract. And to think he was welcomed into the court of Howard and Costello.

No-one know whose these witches are we do hope that Belinda Neale and Sophie Mirabella do cast aspersions at each other. Though Belinda may have cause to ask from where John did get his vial of Love Potion No 9.

Those with knowledge of the arcane art of geology pretend to understand that beaches are formed by wave action picking up loose sediment and depositing them on the shore. But of course to Christians, they have no need for geology to thank for beaches. As part of a new advertising campaign, they reckon we should thank Jesus.

So if we owe beaches to Jesus, it raises some interesting questions. Given Genesis says his dad made the world, is Jesus trying to take some credit away from his dad? Or like those what would bewilder people into giving intelligent design credence, is Jesus active out there on the ocean, guiding a few sand particles here, some currents there, all to form a pleasing sandy deposit for us to lounge away a sickie during summer?

It makes you wonder why the churches are trying to give the credit to Jesus and not to his dad. Maybe the assembled clergy are somewhat pissed off at God for hanging around too long and figure that Jesus should finally get the family inheritance.