Daily Archives: 08.10.2011

Article/Audio: “Barton On Spanking: ‘We Do The Same Thing With Horses'”

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Barton argues that a judge had no right to convict her because, he explained, the Bible justifies and even encourages spanking. He claims that if anything parents should spank their children not with their hands but with “belts or hairbrushes (sic), or they can use a paddle or whatever it is,” because “always in the Bible discipline is with a rod, it’s not with a hand.” Barton goes on to say “we do the same thing with horses,” saying spanking children is like beating horses with a rod or crop.

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Article/Video: “Barton: If Christians Ran Things, Schools Would Institute Prayer & Government Wouldn’t Help The Poor”

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During the discussion, Barna asked Barton how America would be different if people actually followed the teaching of Jesus, to which Barton explained that everything from our economic to our foreign policy would be drastically different and that public schools would start the day off with prayer because “the fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge” and the government would stop helping the poor.

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Essay: Robert G. Ingersoll, “What would You Substitute for the Bible as a Moral Guide?”

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*****THIS ESSAY COMES HIGHLY RECOMMEND; IT IS A MUST READ*****

We cannot depend on what are called “inspired books,” or the religions of the world. These religions are based on the supernatural, and according to them we are under obligation to worship and obey some supernatural being, or beings. All these religions are inconsistent with intellectual liberty. They are the enemies of thought, of investigation, of mental honesty. They destroy the manliness of man. They promise eternal rewards for belief, for credulity, for what they call faith. This is not only absurd, but it is immoral.

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Aticle: “Ireland Grows Increasingly Anti-Clerical”

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The secularist movement in Ireland is growing in support, power, and influence. I expect that few Irish or even experts on Ireland would have expected such a shift a couple of decades ago, but it is happening and the momentum right now is very much with the advocates of increased secularism rather than with apologists for clericalism and for the church.

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Article: “Medical Malpractice: Ky. Hospital Merger Places Health Care Under Church Control”

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What’s going on in Louisville, Ky., is especially alarming. A University of Louisville-affiliated hospital that serves a mostly low-income population is planning a merger with a Catholic health-care system. An array of services may be lost, hitting a population that can ill afford to see them go.

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