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Thursday 19 June 2008, 10:40 pm

Bridgit Gread

Categories: Australia Decides '07, Freaks, Religion

Tags: ballots, Jesus, Lord

Following on from God’s SMS message to the world comes this electoral education material, currently on display in not-so-sunny Ballarat:

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25 Comments

Ant Rogenous (Thursday 19 June 2008, 10:52 pm) #

Preferential voting, I take it?

And where’s the box for “Leftist”?
Bridgit Gread (Thursday 19 June 2008, 11:21 pm) #

Lord
Liar
Lunatic, and…

Leninist.
Bruce (Thursday 19 June 2008, 11:26 pm) #

Lewis’s trifercation.

There are more options than just “Lord”, “Liar” and “Lunatic”, nor are the three mutually exclusive. One can be a liar and a lunatic.

I’m glad that Tolkien re-converted him to religion. The theists, they can have him. His scholarly work wasn’t (much to poor Tolkien’s distress), and his fiction was shite.

Maybe all that crazy theology kept his mind off of the little girls, so I guess there may have been an upside to the woo.
Bruce (Thursday 19 June 2008, 11:27 pm) #

Trifurcation rather. Sorry.
Bruce (Thursday 19 June 2008, 11:29 pm) #

Hey, is that an illegal use of the Coat of Arms of Australia I see there?!?!?!
Montague "Pitty-Pat" Smythe-JeJones (Friday 20 June 2008, 2:06 am) #

I think the message is that you are supposed to tick all three, otherwise anything less than 3/3 is considered a fail.

This isn’t Danny Nalliah’s church, is it? He would certainly get all three correct.
The Editor (Friday 20 June 2008, 7:41 am) #

I wonder what the Australian Government would think about the use of the coat of arms on God’s ballot paper?
The Editor (Friday 20 June 2008, 7:41 am) #

Fuck! Maybe I should read Bruce’s comment before I leave my own.
Thalesian (Friday 20 June 2008, 8:16 am) #

Jesus says “Whoever is not with me is against me”…

I wondered where Dubya got his material from.
keri (Friday 20 June 2008, 8:23 am) #

Where’s the “Lesbian” option?
Mikey (Friday 20 June 2008, 10:10 am) #

No way is that real. Is it?
John Surname (Friday 20 June 2008, 10:30 am) #

BAM. I think its quite good in a “if you’re not with us, you’re against us” kind of way.
Wah (Friday 20 June 2008, 10:38 am) #

I don’t get the point of it. Is it encouraging people to forgo their democratic right to vote in favour of committing all their faith in Jesus?
Or is it somehow anti-religion?
I is teh stoopid on dis wun.
Jason (Friday 20 June 2008, 10:52 am) #

My experiences with the guy suggest that “Liquored-up” and “Loose” should be voting options, too.
Krypto (Friday 20 June 2008, 11:28 am) #

what happens if you don’t vote? does God send goons around to break your legs?
Krypto (Friday 20 June 2008, 11:29 am) #

by the way, I think there’s a bit of branch stacking going on up there in heaven.

Jesus beat out three better qualified saviours for the nomination.
keri (Friday 20 June 2008, 11:30 am) #

I believe he gets Gabriel onto you, Krypto.

Personally, I want to see a tick box for Leper-Loving-Lothario.
Jeremy (Friday 20 June 2008, 11:44 am) #

Please, God, when will the alliteration end?
keri (Friday 20 June 2008, 11:47 am) #

When I stop finding it funny.
Ant Rogenous (Friday 20 June 2008, 12:19 pm) #

Speaking of alliteration, has anyone read The Great American Novel by Philip Roth? There’s a hilarious scene where the dimwitted US president is showing off the abilities of his exceptionally gifted friend, the writer Word Smith, to a visiting prime minister:

PRESIDENT: Smitty, what do you call that stuff where all the words begin with the same letter?

SMITH: Alliteration, Mr President.

[...]

PRESIDENT: The reason they call that ‘elimination’, Prime Minister, is on account of you leave out all the other letters but the one. Right, Smit?

SMITH: Well, yes, Mr President, if they did call it that, that would be why.
Bridgit Gread (Friday 20 June 2008, 4:41 pm) #

I wondered where Dubya got his material from.

I was so sceptical that I looked up the Biblical reference cited (Matthew 12:30) and yup, it was there. Who’d have thought the Bible could be full of such crazy stuff?

Personally I think God should run a proportional voting system, where the Lunatics could sneak into the House of Heaven with a 7% quota and hold the balance of power. Actually, it may already have happened.
LTRFTC (Friday 20 June 2008, 5:33 pm) #

Jesus Christ !!,

Tell me, where is the Love?

You have given us Legislation which has led to Litigation.
We endure Life as Lambs, for you to slaughter at will.
I can’t Live with you anymore. Please Leave me alone, like, now and forever.

Amen.
Lucky.
Mikey (Saturday 21 June 2008, 8:40 am) #

Yes, it is illegal to use a coat of arms without permission. Someone should shop these fuckers to the APS.
Bridgit Gread (Saturday 21 June 2008, 4:32 pm) #

I’m actually trying to find out who’s responsible for creating the poster and/or putting it up, before I think about possible action. Which is not as easy as it sounds; apparently there’s no obligation for billboard owners/renters to disclose their identity to the general public.
Bruce (Saturday 21 June 2008, 10:11 pm) #

Bridget,

I think that down in the bottom left hand corner there is a logo or something that displays who is behind it. It was however blurred somewhat in the higher res photo.

Oh and BTW, cheers for that. ;-)