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Source: Syracuse Cultural Workers
The Archdiocese of Cincinnati requires all employees to sign contracts stating that they’ll adhere to Catholic social teachings, including the assertion that being pregnant sans husband is a gravely immoral act. Someone tell that to the Virgin Mary.
Perhaps appropriately, the man who fired Dias, Rev. James Kiffermeyer, was himself suspended in 2002 after allegations arose that he engaged in sexual misconduct with two male high school students. He was reinstated in 2006.
The pope said more in his homily than “look behind the pretty sparkly glitter.” He said . . .
Anyone wishing to enter the place of Jesus’ birth has to bend down. It seems to me that a deeper truth is revealed here, which should touch our hearts on this holy night: if we want to find the God who appeared as a child, then we must dismount from the high horse of our “enlightened” reason. . .
There’s the voice of the cleric telling you to ditch the best thing about you so that you can be stupid and ignorant so that he can go on wearing expensive robes.
No we must not, you evil bastard.
Considering that Bolivia is a Roman Catholic Country, and each family discussed in this video is burdened with feeding, caring, and rearing six to seven children one wonders where are the Catholic missions? Better yet, upon their arrival, instead of passing down another generation of religious childhood indoctrination, why don’t they instead pass out condoms? While the former leads to a false sense of hope at best, the latter leads to a significant decrease in unwanted pregnancies, and the added bonus of decreased venereal diseases, prevention of the spread of HIV-AIDS. Wait, I forgot; the Catholic Church would rather see increased venereal diseases, unwanted pregnancies, increased poverty, child malnutrition, child starvation, various sanitation diseases, etc. than see a parishioner use a condom. My bad, what the fuck was I thinking! [MSH]
The great names one learns at school — Voltaire and Rousseau, Newton and Locke, Leibniz and Kant — turn out never to have been willing or able to think themselves through to the new. Israel’s real heroes were hard-nosed atheists, materialists and revolutionaries who brooked no compromise with the status quo.
Israel traces the lineage of this Radical Enlightenment to Baruch Spinoza, the 17th-century philosopher who serves here as the father of all atheists and “one substance” materialists who rejected the suspiciously spiritualist dualism of mind and body. Spinoza was certainly a radical critic of Scripture, who denied miracles and seemed to equate “God” with nature.
. . . There are good reasons to think that making a conscious effort to be open and deliberate in your godlessness would be better for you and those around you. So perhaps it’s worth considering some new year’s resolutions related to being atheist, secular, and godless today.
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