Category Archives: Christianity

United States Conference of Catholic Bishops Influential in Passage of Let Women Die Act 2011

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. . . [T]he so-called “Protect Life Act” (HR 358), a bill that will endanger women’s lives across the US with an extreme ban on abortion coverage while expanding permission for health professionals to refuse to provide reproductive healthcare services, even in life-threatening situations. . . The Catholic bishops’ actions show an unhealthy obsession with sexual issues. They appear to be hell-bent on wasting real and political capital on dictating to all Americans what their sexual choices should be.
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Too bad there really isn’t a hell, few are more deserving of its residency than this charlatan. Pat Robertson tells a woman who can’t pay her mortgage or bills that she’s just not managing her money properly and must keep tithing if she wants God’s blessing.
This purveyor of bigotry is an idiot!

Right To Opinion: The Dishonest And Indefensible Response To Disagreement

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If a proposition associated with truth value . . . is not backed by reason, argument, and evidence, stating “I have the right to my opinion” does not contribute to any progress in a discussion, lead persons to the truth, or really say anything other than “this is what I believe” and perhaps, curiously more . . . If, after some debate and tackling the fundamental falsehoods of creationism, a creationist happens to say “I have a right to my own opinion,” this says nothing about the truth-value of creationism and perhaps admits that the creationist is not concerned with truth. A proposition about reality is either backed by evidence, reason, and argument and it should be believed . . . or it is not . . . When faced with contradictory evidence for one’s belief, the belief should be relinquished instead of claiming that one has “the right to an opinion.” We should care about holding justified true beliefs and take wondrous delight in challenging falsehoods when the situation calls for it.
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Catholic Voter Guide 2012: Bishops Release Election Advice

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The document was released days after the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops announced they had created a new watchdog committee to challenge what they considered an “assault” on religious liberty from Obama administration policies . . . [T]he document does emphasize statements by Pope Benedict XVI on the duty of lawmakers to serve as a “public witness to our faith.”
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Quote: Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

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Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., (October 15, 1917 – February 28, 2007)
American Historian, Writer, Social Critic, and Agnostic

As a historian, I confess to a certain amusement when I hear the Judeo-Christian tradition praised as the source of our concern for human rights. In fact, the great religious ages were notable for their indifference to human rights in the contemporary sense. They were notorious not only for acquiescence in poverty, inequality, exploitation and oppression but for enthusiastic justifications of slavery, persecution, abandonment of small children, torture, genocide.

Drive-Thru Baloney: Don’t Buy ‘Christian Nation’ Propagandist David Barton’s Junk Food History

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Barton claims that through “exhaustive research” he has become an “expert in historical and constitutional issues” and that he owns a “massive library” filled with “tens of thousands of original writings from the Founding Era.” What he does not say is far more telling – he makes no mention of any degrees or training in history, because he doesn’t have any . . . Drive Thru History America is a revisionist, biased text written by a hack historian and it should be kept out of all classrooms.
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