Sendai Anonymous has the scoop on how the enemy of our enemy may not be our friend. Your Thoughts?
-
Intro Link and Graphics
-
Top Categories
-
Counter and Badges
Category Archives: Roman Catholic Church
About Those Germans Trying To Get The Pope Charged With Crimes Against Humanity…
February 27, 2011 – 8:47 amVatican Confirms Widespread Rape Of Nuns By Priests In 23 Countries
February 26, 2011 – 3:12 pmSickening: The Catholic Church in Rome made the extraordinary admission yesterday that it is aware priests from at least 23 countries have been sexually abusing nuns. The Catholic Church in Rome made the extraordinary admission yesterday that it is aware priests from at least 23 countries have been sexually abusing nuns. Most of the abuse [...]
Christopher Hitchens Rebuts The Atheist Atrocities Charge
February 23, 2011 – 1:08 amConvincing? Your Thoughts?
“Hell’s Angel” (Christopher Hitchens’s Documentary On Mother Theresa)
February 20, 2011 – 11:14 pmI went looking for this documentary on the site just now thinking for sure I must have it here, but alas I was aghast not to find it. I may never have posted it. This must be rectified post haste. An oldie but a goodie from Hitch: Your Thoughts?
Just How Much Control Over Their Children’s Thought Are Parents Entitled To?
January 31, 2011 – 10:39 amIn reply to yesterday’s open philosophical question whether a Swedish law banning any school, even private ones, from indoctrinating students by teaching their religious tenets as truths (with the ulterior motive of undermining Islamic schools’ abilities to radicalize their students), Mary Young makes a rigorous and eloquent case against such bans well worth highlighting (and [...]
The Pope’s Weaselly Excuses For Church Child Abuse In The ’70s
January 11, 2011 – 6:24 pmOn Christmas, the Pope Benedict XVI tried, pathetically, to minimize the Church’s responsibility for the pedophilia scandals: Victims of clerical sex abuse have reacted furiously to Pope Benedict’s claim yesterday that paedophilia wasn’t considered an “absolute evil” as recently as the 1970s. In his traditional Christmas address yesterday to cardinals and officials working in Rome, [...]
Being Personally Moral Is Not Enough, Atheists Need A Coherent Metaethics
January 11, 2011 – 5:05 pmAtheists can be as moral as anyone else. When theists imply that atheism by itself entails that people will either likely or necessarily be less moral, they trade in oblivious, self-satisfied, prejudicial thinking which besmirches atheists unfairly. But it is not mere prejudice for theists to demand atheists give an account of their metaethical positions. [...]
This Could Actually Turn Me Catholic
January 2, 2011 – 11:21 amAs any one who knows me knows I find the idea that there is something supernaturally powerful and life saving, even god-incarnating, about Doritos pretty freaking compelling. Based on my experience with Doritos and my experience with communion wafers, only the former make any sense as a possible conduit in which Jesus comes back to [...]
Blaming The Victims Of Anti-Gay Violence
October 11, 2010 – 12:58 amAndrew Sullivan quotes Joseph Cardinal Ratzinberger’s 1986 “Letter On The Pastoral Care Of Homosexual Persons”: The proper reaction to crimes committed against homosexual persons should not be to claim that the homosexual condition is not disordered. When such a claim is made and when homosexual activity is consequently condoned, or when civil legislation is introduced [...]
Calling The Conservative Catholic’s Bluff On Gay Suffering
October 10, 2010 – 10:07 amMichael Voris, who explicitly and unapologetically argued that our democracy should be replaced by a benevolent dictatorship in the form of a Catholic theocracy, recently made another video, advancing a familiar line of reasoning from conservative Catholic theology that homosexuals have been specially chosen by God for their suffering and that they can be a [...]
What Does It Mean To Be “Pro-Catholic”?
September 25, 2010 – 11:11 amJohann Hari makes the case that the most pro-Catholic thing to do is to arrest the pope:
Richard Dawkins’s Case Against The Pope
September 19, 2010 – 12:23 pmThis brilliant, efficient, and so very importantly true speech needs to go viral, do your part to make it happen. Your Thoughts?
Hitler’s Remarks About Religion (And, Specifically, Christianity)
September 17, 2010 – 5:05 pmIn Engalnd, the pope is trying to terrify people into avoiding atheism by once again blaming Nazism on godlessness. The first simple fact is that even were Hitler an atheist (which he manifestly wasn’t) it would not mean either that atheism was false or that his views on morality were at all necessarily entailed by [...]
Louie CK On God
September 9, 2010 – 8:11 amBelow is Louie CK’s NSFW full episode of his show “Louie” devoted to religion, focusing for the most part on the dubious means by which children in particular are emotionally manipulated through the Roman Catholic Church’s emphasis on the violent death of Jesus which they are told is their fault. Your Thoughts?
Roman Catholic Adoption Agency In Britain Not Allowed To Refuse To Place Kids With Gays
August 22, 2010 – 4:17 pmGreat news: LONDON (RNS) A Roman Catholic adoption agency has lost its fight for the right to continue its policy of refusing to place children with same-sex couples based on religious principles. The agency, Catholic Care, saw its battle to limit its adoption services to heterosexual-only parents collapse in a ruling Thursday (August 19) by [...]
Gay Sex And Reality
July 18, 2010 – 10:58 amRecently a University of Illinois adjunct professor in a course on Catholicism got into unfairly lost his job over expressing his philosophical opposition to homosexuality in an e-mail to his student in what seems to me like a pretty clear violation of academic freedom. As to the substance of his arguments though, PZ Myers does [...]
Towards Atheistic Religions (Or Away From Them, Depending On How You Define “Religions”)
July 13, 2010 – 10:24 amIn a rare occurrence, I am being taken to task for giving religion too much credit and atheists too little! Here are the offending paragraphs I wrote on Friday: I would say that various practices called religious, if stripped of all their dogmatism, traditionalism, literalism, and authoritarianism, can and do certainly coexist with and complement science [...]
Jesuit Priest Criticizes Church Demands For Lock Step Agreement
July 10, 2010 – 10:20 pmJames Martin, a Jesuit priest and Colbert Show regular turns to the Huffington Post to criticize the Roman Catholic Church’s top down approach to thinking and the culture of fear it engenders: Today in the Catholic Church almost any disagreement to almost any degree with almost any church leader on almost any topic is seen [...]
On God As The Source Of Being But Not Of Evil
July 9, 2010 – 11:15 amIntroduction This post is a long one but an important one for understanding what sophisticated Roman Catholic philosophers have traditionally meant when they have said that “God is good” and that the existence of evil is not to be taken as counter-evidence to their belief in God’s goodness. Very often we atheists are dismissed as [...]
Do You Like Anti-Catholicism Mixed In With Your End Times Delusions?
July 8, 2010 – 1:42 pmIf so, the new Jack Chick tract on the end times will really hit the spot! (If you’ve ever just wondered what it would be like if Glenn Beck wrote a Jack Chick tract, this seems the closest approximation.) H/T: Secular Outpost. Your Thoughts?
A Dictatorship Of Relativism?
July 3, 2010 – 9:20 pmBBC Radio 4 analyzes the pope’s catchphrase, “a dictatorship of relativism”, used for describing the secular West. Here’s the program description: The idea that no one has a monopoly on the truth seems to be fixed in the modern Western psyche. But it’s an idea that is under attack. Pope Benedict claims that we are [...]
Beyond Agnosticism: More Details About How I Know Various Kinds Of Gods Do Not Exist, Based On Scientific And Philosophical Reasons
June 30, 2010 – 11:41 amWhile I agree with, and vigorously defend, the notion that there is an important difference between lacking a belief in gods (as an agnostic atheist) and believing there are no gods (as a gnostic atheist), I also think that atheists should not, based on the best available scientific evidence and philosophical arguments, merely lack belief [...]
Daily Hilarity: Children’s Guide To Religion
June 29, 2010 – 5:18 pmThanks to Das for the hilarious find: “Sometimes I think God drinks my tears and pees them back on my life.” Your Thoughts?
Contortions Of Catholic Philosophy: Eve Tushnet Argues Gay Sex Is Not OK But Sex Changes Are
June 28, 2010 – 2:20 pmTushnet’s moral choice for herself and for other gays is celibacy or gender reassignment. Of course for some people, specifically some of the transgendered, a sex change is entirely appropriate and preferable to gay sex because from a gender(rather than a sex) perspective, those who are pre-op transgendered and are attracted to members of their [...]
On The "Compassion" In The Catholic Bishops’ Letter To Congress Against Gay Rights
June 21, 2010 – 5:17 amRecently, United States bishops petitioned Congress to not protect gays from being fired for their sexual orientation. Andrew Sullivan already precisely attacked the bishops’ immoral political calculation by which they explicitly committed themselves to a perverse moral contradiction whereby they simultaneously concede that homosexuality is to a significant extent not a choice and argue that [...]
-