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The Hazards of Belief

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    #932
    robindch
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,401 Mod ✭✭✭✭robindch


    Barrington wrote: »
    How could the child keep it in her mouth long enough to ge outside? Those things melt in your mouth quicker than Skips
    Melt? Flesh doesn't melt in your mouth (unless the priest is doing sous-vide?)

    Still, interesting to see mum trying to calm things down by imply that the daughter was probably chewing gum during mass.


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    #933
    robindch
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,401 Mod ✭✭✭✭robindch


    Uganda, like other countries in Africa just now, is undergoing a nasty anti-gay crusade, which is the result, at least partially, of the efforts of US evangelists who've been eagerly fanning the flames of anti-gay hatred up and down the continent for some years (see here and here).

    A few days ago, David Kato, one of Uganda's leading gay activists was murdered at his home by somebody who beat him to death apparently with a hammer. This follows a newspaper which called for his execution last year. Today was Kato's funeral, but the religious man who was leading the funeral took the opportunity to rant about being gay, while Kato's fellow-villagers refused to bury him, so his friends had to lift up the coffin, carry it to the cemetery and bury it themselves:

    http://www.rte.ie/news/2011/0128/uganda.html?RTEMAILID


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    #934
    Galvasean
    Registered Users Posts: 30,746 ✭✭✭✭Galvasean


    I read about that. About a year ago a newspaper printed a list of Uganda's 100 most influential gay people along with the rather wholesome title, "Hang Them". They have blood on their hands. Sadly, they are fine with that. As is most of their country it would seem.


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    #935
    fuzztone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 114 ✭✭fuzztone


    Absolutely horrifying:

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-12292917


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    #936
    robindch
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,401 Mod ✭✭✭✭robindch


    Stephen Green, who hasn't received much attention here of late, is the guy who runs, Christian Voice, a UK-based one-man pressure group.

    Like Ted Haggard, it turns out that not all is sweetness and light chez Steve:

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1351585/Stephen-Green-rails-immorality-voice-Christian-Britan-private-wife-beater-says-partner.html


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    #937
    Dades
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,558 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dades


    The sad thing is the revelations won't faze a lot of his followers.


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    #938
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 48,559 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    HEY PINHEADS
    EXPLAIN THE MOON

    http://gawker.com/5750082/


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    #939
    Dades
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,558 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dades


    magicbastarder wrote: »
    HEY PINHEADS
    EXPLAIN THE MOON

    http://gawker.com/5750082/
    *Faith in humanity... gone...*


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    #940
    CiaranMT
    Registered Users Posts: 4,092 ✭✭✭CiaranMT


    And which one of you modheads thought that Bill was actually intelligent? C'mon, admit it.


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    #941
    Galvasean
    Registered Users Posts: 30,746 ✭✭✭✭Galvasean


    CiaranMT wrote: »
    And which one of you modheads thought that Bill was actually intelligent? C'mon, admit it.

    He is intelligent.... he's just... ....

    ....

    testing you!

    that's it....


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    #942
    Galvasean
    Registered Users Posts: 30,746 ✭✭✭✭Galvasean


    One of Indonesia's biggest pop stars is going to jail for starring in a sex tape. 1,000 Muslim protestors stormed the building trying to get at him because they reckon he got off too lightly*.
    Apparently they also want one of the women involved to be hanged because she was commiting adultery.
    http://www.aolnews.com/2011/01/31/indonesian-pop-star-nazril-irham-jailed-for-sex-tapes/


    *bad choice of words :o


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    #943
    Delirium
    Moderators Posts: 51,720 ✭✭✭✭Delirium


    Story from Pakistan of a 17 student who is to being charged with blasphemy and which carries the death penalty if he is convicted.
    Pakistan has been urged to drop blasphemy charges against a 17-year-old boy and release him from police custody immediately, by a leading human rights organisation.

    The schoolboy, Muhammad Samiullah, was arrested on 28 January after allegedly writing derogatory remarks about the Prophet Muhammad in his answers on a written school exam in April 2010.

    The death penalty is mandatory for blasphemy in Pakistan, under section 295-C of the country’s penal code.

    “Pakistan has set the standard for intolerance when it comes to misusing blasphemy laws, but sending a schoolboy to jail for something he scribbled on an exam paper is truly appalling,” said Bede Sheppard, senior children’s rights researcher at Human Rights Watch.

    “It’s bad enough that a school official flagged it, but for police and judicial authorities to go ahead and lock up a teenager under these circumstances is mind boggling,” he added.

    Pakistan police have refused to reveal what exactly Samiullah had written – as repeating the offending remarks would amount to blasphemy.

    Human Rights Watch has pointed out that Pakistan is a party to the Convention on the Rights of the Child, which guarantees everyone under the age of 18 the right to freedom of expression, thought, conscience, and religion.

    Pakistan’s controversial blasphemy law has come under international scrutiny recently as a result of the Asia Bibi case. Bibi was sentenced to death after professing her Christian faith to co-workers.

    The international media focus on Bibi’s case, and the ensuing pressure to drop charges against her, served to provoke extremists in the country -who began a campaign of intimidation against those condemning the law. Earlier this month, one of Pakistan’s most outspoken and liberal politicians, Salman Taseer, was assassinated for defending Bibi, criticising the law and pushing for its abolition.

    Human rights advocates have particularly condemned the use of the law against minorities and minors; Sheppard said: “Until this law is repealed, it will be used to brutalise religious minorities, children, and other vulnerable groups.”

    TheJournal.ie

    If you can read this, you're too close!



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    #944
    Galvasean
    Registered Users Posts: 30,746 ✭✭✭✭Galvasean


    There is no tip-toeing around it, the Muslim world is full of savages.


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    #945
    The Mad Hatter
    Registered Users Posts: 4,718 ✭✭✭The Mad Hatter


    Every time I open this page and see the top two posts, I worry that I've accidentally stumbled into something a lot more serious...
    Barrington wrote: »
    How could the child keep it in her mouth long enough to ge outside? Those things melt in your mouth quicker than Skips
    robindch wrote: »
    Melt? Flesh doesn't melt in your mouth (unless the priest is doing sous-vide?)


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    #946
    Dades
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,558 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dades


    Galvasean wrote: »
    There is no tip-toeing around it, the Muslim world is full of savages.
    They certainly don't have a monopoly on it, though.


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    #947
    biko
    Registered Users Posts: 81,223 ✭✭✭✭biko


    koth wrote: »
    Story from Pakistan of a 17 student who is to being charged with blasphemy and which carries the death penalty if he is convicted.
    Yeah read that too, crazy stuff.

    A case from the '90s was Salamat Masih, a 14 year old Christian boy, that wrote blasphemous stuff on a mosque wall.
    He was sentenced to death but was let out after two years hard labour.
    The judge that let him out, Justice Arif Iqbal Bhatti, was later killed for letting him out.


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    #948
    cavedave
    Registered Users Posts: 2,164 ✭✭✭cavedave


    Pope's organ donor card 'invalid'


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    #949
    Canis Lupus
    Registered Users Posts: 9,893 ✭✭✭Canis Lupus


    14 year old whipped to death For an affair although she claims she was raped.... :(


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    #950
    mikhail
    Registered Users Posts: 3,863 ✭✭✭mikhail


    cavedave wrote: »
    Pope's organ donor card 'invalid'
    That should be in The Funny Side of Religion, assuming an eighty-something's organs are unlikely to be used in a transplant. Perhaps they are though, and this is going to let someone else die for the sake of having a whole corpse to fetishize.


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    #951
    Rev Hellfire
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,346 ✭✭✭Rev Hellfire


    More a hazard for belief :D
    For a group supposedly able to see the future, Romania’s witches did not see this one coming.

    The government is considering a new law that will impose fines or even jail for predictions that do not come true.

    http://www.breakingnews.ie/world/romanian-witches-facing-fines-for-false-predictions-492682.html


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    #952
    robindch
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,401 Mod ✭✭✭✭robindch


    mikhail wrote: »
    cavedave wrote: »
    Pope's organ donor card 'invalid'
    That should be in The Funny Side of Religion, assuming an eighty-something's organs are unlikely to be used in a transplant.
    One guy in work suggested today that they could use Ratzinger's bits for spare parts for future popes.


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    #953
    The Mad Hatter
    Registered Users Posts: 4,718 ✭✭✭The Mad Hatter


    robindch wrote: »
    One guy in work suggested today that they could use Ratzinger's bits for spare parts for future popes.

    His name doesn't begin with "Franken-", does it?


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    #954
    mikhail
    Registered Users Posts: 3,863 ✭✭✭mikhail


    The Mad Hatter wrote: »
    His name doesn't begin with "Franken-", does it?
    As every such thing has been already discussed on the internet, I googled Frankenpope (-"Al Franken" to clear some of the junk). Turns out there's a band called Frankenpope Lobster.

    Yeah, so...
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    #955
    robindch
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,401 Mod ✭✭✭✭robindch


    The Mad Hatter wrote: »
    His name doesn't begin with "Franken-", does it?
    Nope, though since the chap is French, he's therefore cognate with "Franken".

    A Frankenpope or Frankenzinger sounds fun though.


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    #956
    Dave!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,857 ✭✭✭✭Dave!


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyclBRebNW8


    Could this happen without religion?


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    #957
    tonysea
    Registered Users Posts: 130 ✭✭tonysea


    robindch wrote: »
    Anybody think it's worth stickying a cautionary thread? This sad story just in today:

    http://today.reuters.com/news/ArticleNews.aspx?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=2006-06-05T133715Z_01_L05642927_RTRUKOC_0_US-UKRAINE-LION.xml

    Natural selection at its best:D


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    #958
    mikhail
    Registered Users Posts: 3,863 ✭✭✭mikhail


    Right, a few I picked up in the Indo:
    1. Killer dentist Colin Howell injected his lover with drugs to knock her out while they had sex and once feared he had overdosed her, a court heard yesterday.

    Hazel Stewart wanted to be unconscious during intercourse so she would not experience any Christian guilt, another former boyfriend of the mother-of-two told her double-murder trial.
    2. David Quinn: Any vote for the Labour Party is a vote for abortion
    That's the headline. The article was written by David Quinn. David Quinn. Did I mention David Quinn?

    3. Finally, I was bemused to see a letter to the editor, which castigated a previous letter-writter for getting "her 'facts' from the Bible, the greatest work of fiction ever written". So I looked up the letter to which he referred, and am left wondering if this isn't just another hazard of ideologically driven debates about the Middle East.


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    #959
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 48,559 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    god is a fierce prick:
    Polish Catholics have campaigned for Witold’s canonisation since he died in a Mexican village in 1944.

    The 14-year-old boy had prayed to God to take his life rather than that of a village priest who was said to be terminally ill.

    The priest made a full recovery and Witold died.
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1356602/Catholic-priest-charged-body-snatching-remains-child-saint-exhumed.html


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    #960
    tonysea
    Registered Users Posts: 130 ✭✭tonysea


    magicbastarder wrote: »
    god is a fierce prick:

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1356602/Catholic-priest-charged-body-snatching-remains-child-saint-exhumed.html

    Amen to that....;)


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    #961
    robindch
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,401 Mod ✭✭✭✭robindch


    ^^^ Urrrgh!


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