4 month ago
deusx : Pharyngula: The Great Desecration - "By the way, I didn't want to single out just the cracker, so I nailed it to a few ripped-out pages from the Qur'an and The God Delusion. They are just paper. Nothing must be held sacred. Question everything. God is not great, Jesus is not
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12 month ago
plasticbag : On similarly disturbing territory, Tony Blair has converted to the Catholic faith... - Pretty fascinating stuff. This is a man who had his authoritarian streak, clearly - and evidently believed in a faith I find near absurd. Also a man who protected a woman's right to choose and made gay people more equal than ever...
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12 month ago
deusx : "Compass" under fire over religious content - Yahoo! News - I'll never understand why so many religious people are so scared by the existence of and being exposed to information contrary to their beliefs.
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14 month ago
nelson : operation: pedopriest - A satirical computer game "like Diner Dash with child rape"
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23 month ago
plasticbag : The Archbishop of Westminster has written a letter to Tony Blair saying that Catholic adoption agencies should not be able to refuse gay couples... - My favourite bit is the place where the agencies will currently refer gay couples to places where they could adopt, but consider that doing it themselves would not be in the best interests of the children. Hardly a matter of principle then...
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23 month ago
plasticbag : The BBC asks, "Should church be able to opt out of gay rights laws?" - An interesting and fairly-balanced set of comments from people. Interesting point, it is already against the law to refuse to look at candidates for adoption on the grounds that they're devoutly Catholic...
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