Dim-Post strikes again
From the comments section in the previous post:
Violent Bible Book Should be Banned
The Dim-Post
Thursday 1st May 2008Lobby group Family First is calling for the Book of Isaiah, a collection of Old Testament prophecies linked to recent anti-government protests to be banned in New Zealand.
A passage from the eighth century BC text was cited as the inspiration for the ANZAC Ploughshares, the activist group responsible for a recent attack on the GCSB spybase in Waihopai.
A press release from ANZAC Ploughshares released after the incident contained a quotation from Isaiah:
‘They shall beat their swords into ploughshares, their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift sword against nation; and there shall be no more training for war.’
‘This book is directly responsible for inciting terrorist attacks against the New Zealand government,’ said Bob McCoskrie, National Director for Family First NZ. ‘The Old Testament is available to teenagers and young children. There is an overwhelming link between this holy book and the recent surge in spybase related crime.’
A Dominican Priest is believed to have been involved in the attack. The group breached three security fences and used a sickle to deflate the kevlar hood covering one of the two satellite dishes.
McCoskrie blamed the easy availability of sacred scriptures like Isaiah on the statistical increase in crimes committed by Dominican Priests and directly criticised the Labour Government for their reluctance to prohibit the import and manufacture of divine tomes.
‘We reap what we sow,’ McCoskrie said.
Heh.
May 1st, 2008 at 10:51 am
/lol. You have to love Dim-Post. And it’s even funnier the second time around. Do you reckon it’s time for a blog poll around GTAIV?
May 1st, 2008 at 10:56 am
I hope they never used a hammer to break the padlock on the gate or Das Kapital will need to be banned as well.
May 1st, 2008 at 10:56 am
Given the name of the rag (Dim Post), I’m tempted to ask: Is whoar, aka philu, the editor (for life)?
May 1st, 2008 at 11:00 am
A Dominican friar is NOT a priest
May 1st, 2008 at 11:01 am
Actually this is quite clever. Looking foward to the Dim-Post applying its considerable satirical skills to other religious texts (Koran etc). Balance.. and all that.
May 1st, 2008 at 11:01 am
This all just seems a bit smart Alec to me. When I was 16 and read Mad magazine I might have found it funny. Now that I am hopefully grown up I just find it cheeky and smart.
Sadly one hesitates to suggest anything to this government. “Banning the Bible” is an idea that, given their manifest record of anti-Christianity, they might well wish to run with.
May 1st, 2008 at 11:05 am
“‘We reap what we sow,’ McCoskrie said.”
Hear, hear brother!
http://newzblog.wordpress.com/2008/04/24/dpf-national-and-the-christian-right/
May 1st, 2008 at 11:11 am
GWW
I will ask you the same question I asked of the Greens, why do you have sympathy for the Ploughshare religious group given your persecution of the Exclusive Bretheren?…or is it just religious groups who dare speak out against dear corrupt leader?
May 1st, 2008 at 11:15 am
Methinks that they are trying to cover-up for the fact that it was actually a book by Nicky Hager that inspired them!!
http://keepingstock.blogspot.com/2008/04/hager-implicated-in-waihopai-vandalism.html
May 1st, 2008 at 11:45 am
Niice post.
Scott: I just find it cheeky and smart
You say that like those are bad things.
May 1st, 2008 at 11:46 am
Banning the Bible would be an excellent start.
May 1st, 2008 at 11:52 am
I bet these clowns didn’t turn their spears into pruning hooks, you try and cut a wire fence with a pruning hook. Thank God for the loony left they make life interesting.
May 1st, 2008 at 11:54 am
A Dominican friar is NOT a priest
Who stole your sense of humour?
May 1st, 2008 at 12:31 pm
duh.
May 1st, 2008 at 12:50 pm
Hear hear!
Anyone willing to stand up and take the piss out of the “Family Values” / “OF COURSE our laws should reflect my dated creator-worshipping values” mob is almost a hero to me…
May 1st, 2008 at 12:50 pm
More weak try-hard crap from “Slippery” Danyl.
Don’t give up your (tax payer funded) day job DIM.
May 1st, 2008 at 7:17 pm
I see these three are now going on a hunger strike. I do hope its successful…