Category Archives: Politics

Richard Dawkins, “A Knack for Bashing Orthodoxy”

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His epiphanies follow on the heels of long sessions of reading and thought, and a bit of procrastination. He is an elegant stylist with a taste for metaphor. And he has a knack, a predisposition even, for assailing orthodoxy . . . His impatience with religion is palpable, almost wriggling alive inside him. Belief in the supernatural strikes him as incurious, which is perhaps the worst insult he can imagine. “Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers,” he says. “It’s a sort of crime against childhood.” Read more . . . 

Catholic Mum Lives in Terror of The Gays

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She raged: We are responsible citizens. We live by the rules, we pay our taxes, we take care of our things. I’m supposed to be able to influence what goes on in my community, and as a voter I do exercise that right. But I’m outnumbered. I can’t even go to normal places without having to sit silently and tolerate immorality.

Oh the irony, of a Catholic speaking out about having to “live in terror” witnessing the affection of two consenting gay adults, yet she speaks not a word concerning the innumerable child rapes committed by Catholic Priests raping non-consenting little boys. I find the raping of innocent little boys to be quite more terrorizing than witnessing the public affection of two loving adults. [MSH] Read more . . . 

It’s not ‘class warfare,’ it’s Christianity

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Americans sharing more equally in the burden of pulling our country out of massive debt, and using tax revenue to stimulate the economy and create jobs isn’t “class warfare,” it’s actually Christianity . . . According to some Christian conservatives, unregulated capitalism, with all its inherent inequalities of wealth, is God’s plan. . . . Just reduce taxes and let the “job creators” do their thing. Remember “trickle down economics” from the Reagan years? This is the belief system that launched the Reagan Revolution in the U.S. and started the decades long reduction in real wages of the American middle class and the rise in American poverty levels. Read more . . .