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EAP: Parents and teachers are aghast at the latest extreme stunt by Denis Shorter, a brimstone fundamentalist pastor who takes advantage of compulsory religious scripture class state public schools in New South Wales, offered to church ministers, priests and pastors to take one period a week to instruct children in their particular denominations. The policy has bipartisan political support across the board although it is a sore point for secularists who believe public school is no place for religious mumbo jumbo. The Flamboyant pastor visits a Sydney western suburbs public school and spends his half hour shouting, screaming and gesticulating wildly, so much so that the Catholic class instructed by Father O'Brien next door has on several occasions complained of the volume of his instructive delivery. One technique used by the pastor is to catch the eye of one student during a delivery walk up to that student screaming and shouting, only stopping a few centimeters or an i...

This is one I posted to alt.atheism in 2004. EAP: Sydney 25 Nov 2004. 11 year old Petersham schoolgirl Lisa Hemmings isn't as sure footed as she used to be but evangelicals are excited that Lisa's problems may be a sign of things to come. Lisa has episodes of levitating a couple of inches above the ground. "I may be walking along the street when suddenly my foot can not find the path and I am moving my feet through thin air. It's like I'm in space trying to move by waving my arms and legs. It happens when I pray at church. Typically I rise about 1/2 an inch above the pew but kneeling is most comfortable now when my knees do not touch the floor. I can now make myself levitate just by thinking about Jesus". But members of the Petersham Baptist Church where Lisa's family worships have interpreted Lisa's as a subtle prerapture tremor before the big rapture quake. Says Lisa, "The first time it happened I was walking with some friends al...