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I'm all for strict control of who plays violent videogames - but we feel that sometimes the message about protecting children is somewhat ruined by nutters like Anglican Synod lay member Tom Benyon.

Benyon has been frothing at the mouth about games - so much so he's had to actually invent game content to get upset about, a bit like those preachers adding their own backwards messages to rock and roll in the sixties.

"There is a bubbling sewer of gratuitously violent and sexual pornography and games all around us. I have seen its pernicious effect. A family member saw a so-called ‘game’ and he had nightmares. The images remained with him for months," he most probably lied.

The comments came in a church Synod debate calling on the government to introduce stricter controls on games. Benyon then went on to focus on some imagined games - we have no idea where he saw some of this stuff...

"Why is it acceptable, indeed lawful, to portray the killing and burning of a woman in Fatality, [or] the sawing up of a woman in Mortal Kombat, or playing football with severed heads; the chainsaw killing of a man in Saw III, rape, torture and so on?”

Rape sir? Rape? We challenge you to tell us which game you saw this in?

In the interest of balance I should point out my wife is an Anglican priest. She was horrified by this story too. But horrified that yet again various nutters seem to be doing their best to show the church in the very worst light.

I bet he gets in a lot of trouble for this, poor bloke.

A Church of England vicar has said that he is fed up with officiating at cremations where Tina Turner is played as the bodies of people with no hope of resurrection are “popped in the oven”.

The Rev Ed Tomlinson, 35, said he wondered why he bothered as mourners listen to ear-splitting songs and bad poetry during cremations. He feared that his presence at funerals was “pointless” and said he had a hundred better things to do with his time.

I have to say, I actually agree with him. Full story in The Times Online.

Well if Christianity is ever going to prove to people it's not a crock of stupidity then it's not going to get much help from the organisation Living Waters, which has put together a quite astonishing version of Darwin's Origin of the Species.

An entire generation has been (and is being) brainwashed by atheistic evolution, and it's radically changing the culture of our nation.

In an effort to combat this, we produced a special 280-page full color cover edition of Origin of Species, which contains a 50-page introduction. This introduction gives the history of evolution, a timeline of Darwin’s life, Hitler’s undeniable connections to the theory, Darwin’s racism, his disdain for women, and his thoughts on the existence of God. It lists the theory’s many hoaxes, exposes the unscientific belief that nothing created everything, points to the incredible structure of DNA, and the absence of any species-to-species transitional forms.

The mind boggles really. Living Waters is your God so small he needs the protection of liars like you? But who am I to argue? I'll leave that to a much more learned soul, St Augustine -

It often happens that even a non-Christian knows a thing or two about the earth, the sky, the various elements of the world, about the movement and revolution of the stars and even their size and distance, about the nature of animals, shrubs, rocks, and the like, and maintains this knowledge with sure reason and experience. It is offensive and ruinous, something to be avoided at all cost, for a nonbeliever to hear a Christian talking about these things as though with Christian writings as his source, and yet so nonsensically and with such obvious error that the nonbeliever can hardly keep from laughing.

I'm with St Augustine on this. Creationism is just plain laughable. By the way this site is now the top Google search for "dinosaurs didn't exist", which is nice.

Patrick and Kitty have developed their own belief system of late. It seems that there is a dinosaur in the sky who watches over them.

You would think this was rather scary and would lead to many a sleepless night - after all our boy Pat is afraid of next door's cat, every dog in the world, hoovers, lawn mowers, his own shadow and the creepy motorbike man at Westbay.

But you would be wrong, because both twins talk of the dinosaur in the sky with love and reverence. When it rains they are greatly concerned for their dinosaur deity - "oh no, dinosaur in sky get wet" they say.

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Link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8164079.stm

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Once again evil right wing fundamentalist crazies have proved why abortion should continue to legal. Because a world where they weren't allowed to be born would be a better world.

You can usually rely on Rowan Williams to come up with something bonkers if news is quiet and he's excelled himself now. He says that God isn't going to stop us destroying the planet and ourselves.

God is going to do nothing.

So er...that about wraps it up for God then?

Can the last one out turn the light off please.