Imagine you come across a child wandering, lost and distraught.

The natural inclination is to protect the safety of that child and then to re-unite him/her with their parents.

That is what I would call a basic human response – one that is innate & contained within the make-ups of all homo-sapiens as part of our common ancestry.

A universal trait we are born with, to protect the young and vulnerable, but one which through indoctrination can be wiped-out and replaced with a more sinister motive.

The American Baptist movement has for a couple of decades become the Christian equivalent of the Taliban. In the Indian province of Tripura their members have supported and funded terrorism. Their rabid members wander the globe, foaming at the mouth and thumping bibles, on a mission from God to convert everyone to their cause – even if it means ripping young children from the arms of their parents. The laws of human-decency mean nothing to them. The end always justifies the means. In the twisted and dangerous minds of these zealots, it is in the child’s interests to be taken from their godless parents and re-educated.

And when I mention abstract terms like ‘mission from god’ this is not just a journalistic liberty on my behalf to make these people look deranged. They do this quite well themselves.

They literally believe god, the big Santa in the sky, tells them telepathically what to do – thus somehow justifying their actions – even when unlawful.

Their latest sickening and disturbing mission on behalf of their god (I’m guessing Yahweh?) is to seize children from their parents in the ravaged countryside of Haiti and take them across the border to the neighbouring Dominican Republic – where they would be put up for adoption to ‘nice white American Christian households.’

Fortunately these child kidnappers underestimated the Haitian authorities who arrested the ten involved in stealing 33 children (aged 2 to 12) at the border.

Freed from her captors one nine-year old girl was crying, and telling authorities that “I am not an orphan. I still have my parents.”

Shortly after that local police said the Dominican orphanage where the children were to end-up charging adoptive parents USD 10,000 a child.

A nice little earner for someone – who I wonder?

The missionaries now face a trial for child-kidnapping and criminal association – the later being an apt description of this literal ‘mission from god.’

These ten missionaries are going to need more than just faith to survive in a Haitian prison and it would be a brave god to enter through its gates.

Breaking the Yale study down further we see it’s Hindu and Buddhist countries in particular who were the worst offenders in their treatment of the environment.

At the other end of the scale the statistics prove it was mostly the atheistic countries – the ones that embraced science over superstition – that overall came-out as the communities that cared the most about their local environment and the planet as a whole.

The report is a stark reminder that it’s up-to the Atheistic peoples of Earth to lead the battle for environmental survival.

“values and goals from the life and teaching of Jesus”

“ to have respect for God and others”

Had of course it have been mostly current and ex students of St Bedes that had have been involved with pulling an injured family from a burning-car that night, rather than street thuggery involving some 50 teenagers, I’m sure Rector Boyle and Catholics around town would be trumpeting how it was ‘their schooling and faith that made them better citizens.’

But in cases of adverse publicity such as this, we have merely encountered similar public-relations tactics used globally by Catholic institutions in pedophile cover-ups – in other words St Bedes College goes into ‘damage control mode.’

Don’t worry about the innocent victim who was knocked unconscious (not an Old Boy of the school by the way) who is lying in hospital after trying to intervene to save his friend from receiving a prolonged beating.

Rule One: Care about protecting the Churches ‘good name.’

Rule Two: Then just care about protecting the Schools ‘good name’

Rule Three: Never take responsibility – blame someone else (parents in this case)

Tell the Christchurch public 'none of this is down to what we taught them at school' – all those years of the so-called ‘religious education that moulds young men.’ is ineffective.

Above all protect the name of The Catholic Church and the school - even if this is tantamount to admitting St Bedes Colleges so-called ‘special character’ actually counts for jack-shit.

St Bedes religious education was wasted on large tracts of its student population.

Why didn’t Rector Boyle simply not come-out and tell The Press - when the school bell-rings at the end of the day at St Bedes – it’s every man for himself?

Footnote: If memory serves me right Mr Boyle was himself a victim of a random attack a couple of years back – the perpetrators of which, if my recollection is again correct, were never caught. So if Boyle was serious about ‘values’ and ‘respect’ amongst his charges – he now has the grand opportunity to show Christchurch he treats crime such as this seriously. That means suspending the guilty and not merely “speaking to them” and hoping over time the actions of his prodigies will be forgotten.

Hello there citizens,

I have decided this blog ‘Canterbury Atheist’ has largely done its dash.

Articles will now fall to a trickle.

I will continue blogging in the New Year under a new alias but with a broader auspice and subject matter.

I am in the last throws of completing my first work of fiction – black comedy to be exact – now comes the giant hurdle of getting it published.

So it is writing of a more profitable kind I intend mostly pursuing – plus I’ve decided to make a short film of a futuristic nature.

Mind-you I have said this before and made a come-back from ‘the dead’ so who knows.

See you round.

Paul...vanishes into the ether in a puff of smoke.

Clearly things are tough to the members of this church forced into prostitute themselves by offering this ‘service’ to random passers-by.

But then again, is she merely letting strangers know what she gets up-to in the privacy of her bedroom? Indicative of the fact Christians are more open-minded than I give them credit for?

Using the backward reasoning of ‘when in Rome’ FIFA and the participant countries have all turned a blind-eye to the imminent slaughter of cows as a part of blessing ceremonies at each of South Africa’s stadia.

This is not a pleasant and humane method of slaughter for the poor cattle, sacrificed to appease the superstitious Zulu’s who seek the blessing of their dead relatives.

For those who are squeamish it may pay to give this You Tube video a miss.



For The South Africans who want to present their country and the continent in a new light these sacrifices will go to prove their detractors jibes about ‘primitive natives’ and bring in to focus their ability to host the worlds largest sporting event.

Justification’s that the inhumane slaughter of animals is part of African values and culture speaks volumes about these very values and culture.

One hopes The N.Z Football Association, who have so-far failed to say a word on this issue, will have the guts to speak-out against this mass animal abuse.

Christmas is the one time of the year where you would anticipate all of Christianities variants would unite to celebrate the birth of their messiah – bury the hatchet.

But there has been few Christian good-tidings for St Michaels Anglican Church in Auckland over the festive season.

Recently they placed this risqué poster outside their church to simulate debate amongst all peoples about the story of Christ’s birth , including non-believers, or as Archdeacon Glynn Cardy put-it “We actually think God is about the power of love as shown in Jesus, which is something quite different than a literal man up in the sky,"

The archdeacon says the plan behind the billboard was to lampoon the literal interpretation of the Christmas conception story – and frankly they did a good job and get my congratulations on a great marketing job – it’s a winner.

However whilst atheists may have gotten a giggle out of this novel approach to ‘bring Christ back into Christmas’ – not so the fundamentalists in the Christian ranks.

And it doesn’t get any more fundamentalist in New Zealand than Family First and The Catholic Church.

Their followers and ilk have been stirred into action and in the ultimate act of Christian charity first vandalized and then ripped the poster down.

St Michaels office phone has forced to go straight to a message centre after be lambasted with abusive calls and threats.

The Police are now involved.

Like any good fundamentalists the Christian Taliban see themselves as ‘the true believers’ and ‘holders of the truth’ and will break the law, threaten and abuse those that stand in their way – even if their targets are the largest Christian denomination in New Zealand.

To interpret The Bible any other way than their own – is to quote several threats emailed to the church ‘blasphemy’.

Well here is my own Christmas message to the spokespeople of Family First and Catholic Church, Bob McCoskrie and Lyndsay Freer and those who wish to stifle freedom of speech.

“Who needs Atheist bus adverts when there are bigots like you doing the job for free?”

If you want to doom yourself to the political wastelands in this country – mention God and voters will run a mile.

Then ask Peter Dunne how hard it is to control the religious zealots in ones ranks.

The blinkered & superstitious M.P’s who vote for God before country and turn their backs on the very political-party they owe their livelihoods too, all to appease their invisible deity.

New Zealand voters learnt exactly what sort of ‘DNA’ makes-up The National Party last week when it’s ‘Christian’ M.P’s voted down legislation that would have meant more liberalised Easter Shopping.

These National members of parliament deliberately stepped away from the mainstream of their party and voted for their superstition first – party politics & their constituents second.

In other-words they spat in the faces of those that elected them thinking, wrongly as it turns-out, National was a pro-business, pro-choice party.

It’s not till you take a look at the backgrounds of these National MP’s that sided with Labour and Greens to see the Easter Shopping Legislation defeated you see why National has a mini-caucus that answers only to the God of The Old Testament and not to mortals.

MP’s that are happy to turn their backs on both the voters and the party they supposedly back and rode into power on.

BILL ENGLISH: Papist with eleven children.

ERIC ROY: Presbyterian Church Leader in the real world

JONATHAN YOUNG: Senior Minister of City Church in West Auckland

SAM LOTU LIGA: High-up in Penrose/Greenlane Christian Centre

TIM MACINDOE: Was the Deputy Head of Anglican Boys School

CHESTER BURROWS: Lay-Preacher on his days off

Someone else can expand on the religious affiliations of the other four National MP’s (Phil Heatley, Shane Arden, Katrina Shanks) who showed their ‘true colours.’ when it comes to matters of conscience.

Mark my words this won’t be the last time this ‘moral-minority’ will embarrass National and their voters.