Gotta watch that black magic

It is with a heavy heart that this morning I opened my email inbox to receive the latest "press release" (read - offensive, fanatical diatribe) from Catch the Fire Ministries based over east.

It started out with a mildly interesting claim that the remains of a black (satanic) altar were found near Canberra and that the head pastor believed "dark forces were at work against the Government and the nation." Some might say dark forces were already at work inside Parliament House - has anyone noticed how grey Malcolm Turnbull's hair has become lately?

So the guy organised a mass Christian prayer session. As you do.
There's a little bit more that's mildly interesting (you know, in the way that a spider spinning a web around a fly is mildly interesting) about this black altar being a possible cause of the Black Sunday bushfires (yawn) before I came across this:

"Our main reason for going to Mount Ainslie is to pull down the strongholds of the devil, to repent and pray against any evil done in our land including the adverse affects of witchcraft, homosexuality and of course the devastation of abortion, so that God will save our land,” Pastor Daniel said."

Ummm, hold on. Homosexuality and abortion? What the fuck has that got to do with the price of eggs??

This sort of thing really upsets me. Perhaps it shouldn't. Perhaps I shouldn't let it. Perhaps I'm giving it too much credence by even writing about it now. One can only hope that the news outlets receiving these "press releases" are doing the same thing I'm doing. Hitting the delete button.