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The catholic Clergy: Sanctuary for Pedophiles and Other Misanthropes

May 31, 2011 in Atheism, Catholic Church, Child Abuse, Ethics, Law, pope, pope Benedict XVI, Sexual Abuse

First of all I would like to apologize for not being online over the last while, but I have spent most of this last month moving and moving related tasks and by being consumed by issues that, while important to me, conflict of interest measures prohibit me from discussing. This being said, getting back to being in a mindset conducive to writing has been difficult, but I am back and want to talk about the catholic church. Read the rest of this entry →

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Dear Catholic Church: I Beg To Differ

May 19, 2011 in Atheism, Homophobia, pope Benedict XVI, Reproductive Ethics

Recently, the United Nations has been moving to give homosexual persons special status under international human rights legislation – but not if the church has anything to say about it. The church, you see, has a longstanding history of not exactly supporting homosexuality or the rights of homosexual persons. And on the heels of the UN trying to make this legislative move, the Church is playing a dishonest semantic game, in efforts to maintain the status-quo. Read the rest of this entry →

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Valid and Invalid Beliefs: The Pope and Other Carlatans

May 19, 2011 in Atheism, Belief, Catholic Church, Christians, Ethics, Evolution, Invalid Belief, Religion, Science, Valid Belief

Over the past week I have engaged a number of christians on Twitter, and it seems as though evidence for beliefs, and specifically, what is it that makes beliefs valid or invalid. So I want to address directly the nature of valid and invalid beliefs, and then would like to shift my focus to one tweeter in particular and the pope and some comments he recently made. Read the rest of this entry →

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Christian Tweeters: Why Your Beliefs Are Fallacious

May 19, 2011 in @MissRaissa, Atheism, Circular Reasoning, John Locke

Let me preface this by saying that what I am about to write applies just as much to Christians who don’t tweet as it does to those that do. Over the past couple of days I have managed to get into a couple of debates or discussions with some Christians on Twitter.

I feel it is time to set the record straight. There is no evidence ever presented for the existence of a deity, much less the existence of the christian model. The only “evidence” you have is one of the most self-contradictory books ever Read the rest of this entry →

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Catholic School Punishing Pro-Choice Students

May 19, 2011 in Catholic Church, Catholic Separate School Board, Child Abuse, Pro-Choice, Pro-Life

It is one thing for the clergy and their goons to support pro-life agendas; as individuals, they are entitled to whatever beliefs they wish, even if they have no evidence on which they base their beliefs. It is altogether different, and malignant, to force high school student to adopt the same principles of belief that you have yourself, when yours are substantiated by nothing more than an ancient book and centuries of closed-minded doctrine. But when you start to punish students for taking positions that oppose your own, you demonstrate how intolerant your own beliefs are, as well as how scared you are of confronting these opposing beliefs. Read the rest of this entry →

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