make no mistake, im well aware they are around, but the important thing is that they arent mainstream and most people are very suspicious of them. we have the Assemblies of God nutbags in SA and their awful ‘Family First’ political wing. Though with Family first not gaining anything in the last election, I think its safe to say that people are wising up to their bullshit.

Its quite interesting to realise that although Hillsong/AOG looks large and on the rise, they have a very high turnover of ‘followers’ - most get disillusioned or chucked out for not being pious enough.

LOL @ Irishthunder.
Let us know how it goes, hehe

The number of Christians is shrinking, and the only reason the number of muslims is rising is because of the number of immigrants.

I guess getting rid of organised religion is better then nothing, but unorganised religiion is, unfortunatly, growing.

In the meanwhile we musn’t cover the negative critisism (against any of the religions) up by censoring it.
It will only work counterproductive and create more negativity.

I think that unfortunately, they are here, just festering below the surface and hoping to emulate their american cousins. Two weeks ago I saw the scientologists setting up their “psychiatry - industry of death” shopfront on broadway in sydney. Hillsong gets bigger every year (although I suspect that is offset by the haemoraging membership of the catholic and anglican churches). I personally know 5 people who are born-again enough to do the whole witnessing thing in the workplace, and I suspect they would just LOVE to have some more U.S. style freakery over here - I though I think only one of them would approve of this video… that would require an actual character flaw…

Me: “Well, professor, I think what slowed down the acceptance of gays in society was the christians, I mean how can they really respect homosexuals if they think that they are all going to hell?”

It’s just too fun to not do it.

yeah. i guess that kind of logic was one of the first things that made be begin to think that christianity/religion was a crock of he say-she say… i remember some ‘friends’ chuckling about islam and how they are waiting for their messiah and that “they’d be waiting a while” chortle chortle… and then another ‘friend’ who actually believed that “only catholics go to heaven”

but then i *wake up* and thank fuck we dont have these religious conservative goons that you guys are stuck with.

I propose a challenge inspired by this silliness.

One guy walks around the Vatican screaming “JESUS WAS A DONKEY FUCKER!” at the top of his lungs.

Another guy walks around Mecca screaming “MOHAMMED WAS A DONKEY FUCKER!” at the top of his lungs.

See who gets his head lopped off first. Or set on fire.

No real winner or loser, I’d just like to see what would happen.

I volunteer the people in this video as our test subjects.