Tim Blair

It's lucky those Alpinis weren't in the vicnity of any Brisbane Easts Rugby Union celebrations where sudden outbreaks of nudity were common place a few years back. The biffo would have spectacular.

Let's try that again...

It's lucky those Alpinis weren't in the vicnity of any celebrations at Brisbane Easts Rugby Union a few years back where sudden outbreaks of nudity were a common occurrence. The biffo would have been spectacular.

"Heat beads"????

I thought Queensland was named for the Queen. Shows you what a dumba$$ Yank I am.

This is a real article, right? There isn't some sort of subtle parody going on here, right? Normally, I wouldn't ask, but I can't -believe- that the last line of that Herald Sun article was anything but deliberate...

I don't subscribe to either religion, but are astrology and Christianity even compatible? Isn't there a conflict between the star's influence on us and God's will? If so, why would someone who believes the astrology religion care about Jesus? And why would a Christian care what some astrologer priest has to say?

This is one of a million reasons why I feel an intense desire to go back in the closet and bang my head against the backboard.

Craig R.- have just looked at the `Astro-Theology' website. I, too, shall bang my head against a brick wall.Universities are descending into superstition , belief in magic, such that soon we shall see metallurgy ditched for the much more productive and recommended method of producing gold and many other metals, alchemy.

Funnily enough, I understand that the good doctor has pinpointed his astrological calculations on the date of 25 December - which as any halfway decent bible scholar can tell you, has an exactly 1 in 365 chance of being the actual date of Jesus' birthday.

Good research, buddy.

Trouble is dan, any half wit can arrive at a reasonable suggestion - just read a few books.McCleary's nonsense is also ciruclar: a confirms b, b confirms a and he aslo claims: a produces b and b produces a- that is not the stuff of even good everyday reasoning,let alone university level work - unless, of course, someone is like Bob Brown and the greens, femonazis, political coreectness police and other ratbags.

Well, as a poof Tim, I found that post of yours - pretty damn funny actually. Apart from being sick and tired of money being wasted of pseudo-academics getting junk degrees, (I recently attended a friend's graduation and was stunned at the puerile rubbish that passed for doctoral theses), I'm also tired of the absolute lack of repect these people show for others. Public spaces by their very nature involve constaints one what you can do, because other people have to use them as well. OK, apparently a statement of the bloody obvious, but lost on pretentious and self-obsessed wankers like McCleary.

Go the Alpini I say!

It gives a new meaning to Psalm 23: "Thy rod and thy staff shall comfort me."

I think you omitted the funniest lines:

"People haven't taken [people who say Jesus was gay] very seriously because they don't have any evidence and they say things so sensationally that people are not really going to listen or just be very angry," Dr McCleary told ABC radio. "What I'm doing is showing a much more theological and also astrological dimension on all this which will make a lot more sense to people."

He has evidence?

I note that Hazard Press is publishing Rollan McCleary's book. Mmmm. Other titles in the HP stable include (and I'm not making this up):

Chocolate Therapy: Dare to Discover your Inner Centre.

Golf Without Guilt (The German Traslation).

Baa Tending: The Beginner’s Guide to Keeping Sheep [Well, it *is* a New Zealand company].

This isn't your top tier academic publisher. See: http://www.hazard.co.nz/

Then Jesus said to Peter, "Get behind me, Satan!"

-- Matthew 16:23

My dissertation "proved" that Jesus was Hispanic...He had a Puerto Rican name ("Hay-sus")

(rimshot)

Thank you.

Just as puerile as McLeary is the University of Queensland - what a pathetic excuse for a institution awarding doctorates. Budding students take note, would you want a devalued degree from UQ?

Ugh. I can't believe this moron is in the same city as me. I'll save my own head and just bang HIS into a brick wall... It'd be more satisfying.

He decided Jesus was gay after calculating Christ's chart?
Excuse me, but in my apostate days I was into astrology, and this is impossible. No one knows the date (25-12-00? 25-3-6 BC? ).
You would need more than the date: you'd need the hour, to calculate what house Venus was in.

But maybe this gentleman managed to channel Mary thru a psychic and get the date and time...

I'm planning a bio of Jesus too witch will suit every cause known to man of the last 20 years.

Jesus was a cool guy who'd read KarlMarx and was getting it right until he was killed. He wrote a might socialist economic thesis demonstrating his intellectual genius, the sermon on the mount.
He identified with everyone becuase while having wrote the brilliant thesis he was nonethless dumbed down and had an IQ of 85. He was legless, and so experienced much descrimination compounded by realising he was a woman and had a sex change operation which didn't quite take-his new bits fell off.
He realised he was black and appreciated all civilastion originated in deepest Africa.

He was kind to worms and in that love discovered he was a greenie.

He liked prostitutes because they were an alternative family, showed us all how to be different.

He blamed the rich for all his defects, claiming he was discriminated against. Only if herod waved his magic wand would there be social justice and empowerment. Herod didn't listen because underneath it all he was part of the military-capitalist pig complex.
Jesus had a nervous breakdown. Herod only put him, out of his misery.
He shucked oysters for breakfast on Wednesdays.

The proofs are the magical Horoscope, and conclusive proofs devised by femmo-nazi theologians and lenin, Che-guverra and Castro. There. Now I just have to write it all up, collect my $60,0000 and the Phd. Blimme, I have just written it up, I want my $60000 pronto.

What a load of twaddle. McCleary is promoting a gay agenda, and incidentally wasting valuable university funds. Whoever awarded this degree have rocks in their heads. This is what I call a junk degree. It does nothing for the reputation of the University of Queensland and its examiners. McCleary comes to this conclusion by studying Jesus'astrological chart! Go back to your books Mr McCleary!