A group of men with no real background in law or medicine, but blessed with a strong personal interest in women’s bodies, have quietly influenced all of the major anti-abortion legislation over the past several years.
– Huffington Post
Morality is doing what is right, regardless of what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told, regardless of what is right.
Source: reddit
As is so particularly demonstrable by American Christians!
. . . I am convinced that defending the faith makes otherwise brilliant people look stupid. I mean it. That’s what faith does to a person. . .
Christians also live in two separate compartmentalized lives. In one life–their ordinary or working one–they live in reality by thinking for themselves and following the evidence wherever it leads as best as they can. But in their other life–their life of faith, the one they were raised to believe, the one that gives them their needed false hope, the one they prefer to be true–they abandon reality, thinking, and evidence altogether.
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Clinton Richard Dawkins, Ph.D., (born 26 March 1941)
Ethologist, Evolutionary Biologist, Author, and Outspoken Atheist
Personal opinion, which is not informed by evidence, is not of interest.
Source: The Atheism News Magazine on 01.06.2012
When a totalitarian regime aids and abets the rape of tens of thousands of children one would expect it to be shunned by governments and citizens alike. And any statements it might issue on matters of morality accorded no respect. Why should we make an exception when the regime is the Catholic Church? . . .
That the Catholic Church is guilty of widespread rape is also undeniable. A few years ago there was a spate of news items when sexual abuse cases first surfaced in Boston and a few other cities. Media coverage since then has withered but the issue has not. Just the opposite. In 2011 allegations of sexual abuse of minors have spread to 26 countries. . .
The Vatican has been a state since 1929, when it was granted that status by Benito Mussolini in return for its support for his dictatorship. Comprising 110 acres, an area smaller than Washington’s National Mall, and 800 people Vatican City is by far the smallest nation in the world.
Some might say that an institution, even a totalitarian institution, cannot be blamed for the actions of a small fraction of its members. But when stories of sexual abuse were first raised the Catholic Church ignored them. Later it often reassigned the rapacious priest to another parish where he might prey on other minors. . .
Instructively, virtually all of the Church’s most aggressive policy interventions relate to sex. (e.g. contraception, abortion, gay rights).
Indeed, the Catholic Church acts of if it believes that sex matters above anything else. It will not go to the mat to fight against poverty or injustice but it will pull out all the stops to prevent people of the same sex from marrying.
Always Question Authority 