Vote early, vote often

Posted by Bridgit Gread on Thursday 19 June 2008, 10:40 pm
Categories: Australia Decides '07, Freaks, Religion  Tags: , ,

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 on “Vote early, vote often”

  1. Thursday 19 June 2008, 10:52 pm #Ant Rogenous

    Preferential voting, I take it?

    And where’s the box for “Leftist”?

  2. Thursday 19 June 2008, 11:21 pm #Bridgit Gread

    Lord
    Liar
    Lunatic, and…

    Leninist.

  3. Thursday 19 June 2008, 11:26 pm #Bruce

    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.

  4. Thursday 19 June 2008, 11:27 pm #Bruce

    Trifurcation rather. Sorry.

  5. Thursday 19 June 2008, 11:29 pm #Bruce

    Hey, is that an illegal use of the Coat of Arms of Australia I see there?!?!?!

  6. Friday 20 June 2008, 2:06 am #Montague "Pitty-Pat" Smythe-JeJones

    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.

  7. Friday 20 June 2008, 7:41 am #The Editor

    I wonder what the Australian Government would think about the use of the coat of arms on God’s ballot paper?

  8. Friday 20 June 2008, 7:41 am #The Editor

    Fuck! Maybe I should read Bruce’s comment before I leave my own.

  9. Friday 20 June 2008, 8:16 am #Thalesian

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

    I wondered where Dubya got his material from.

  10. Friday 20 June 2008, 8:23 am #keri

    Where’s the “Lesbian” option?

  11. Friday 20 June 2008, 10:10 am #Mikey

    No way is that real. Is it?

  12. Friday 20 June 2008, 10:30 am #John Surname

    BAM. I think its quite good in a “if you’re not with us, you’re against us” kind of way.

  13. Friday 20 June 2008, 10:38 am #Wah

    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.

  14. Friday 20 June 2008, 10:52 am #Jason

    My experiences with the guy suggest that “Liquored-up” and “Loose” should be voting options, too.

  15. Friday 20 June 2008, 11:28 am #Krypto

    what happens if you don’t vote? does God send goons around to break your legs?

  16. Friday 20 June 2008, 11:29 am #Krypto

    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.

  17. Friday 20 June 2008, 11:30 am #keri

    I believe he gets Gabriel onto you, Krypto.

    Personally, I want to see a tick box for Leper-Loving-Lothario.

  18. Friday 20 June 2008, 11:44 am #Jeremy

    Please, God, when will the alliteration end?

  19. Friday 20 June 2008, 11:47 am #keri

    When I stop finding it funny.

  20. Friday 20 June 2008, 12:19 pm #Ant Rogenous

    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.

  21. Friday 20 June 2008, 4:41 pm #Bridgit Gread

    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.

  22. Friday 20 June 2008, 5:33 pm #LTRFTC

    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.

  23. Saturday 21 June 2008, 8:40 am #Mikey

    Yes, it is illegal to use a coat of arms without permission. Someone should shop these fuckers to the APS.

  24. Saturday 21 June 2008, 4:32 pm #Bridgit Gread

    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.

  25. Saturday 21 June 2008, 10:11 pm #Bruce

    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. ;-)

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