The Hazards of Belief

amacachi

Seems The Irish News is behind a paywall, but on Monday the Catholic Church criticised Peter Robinson for saying that the state should stop paying for Faith schools and that the schools in NI should be desegregated. *sigh* Looks like it's more than a while away yet.

Dades

I suspect Peter Robinson didn't have a clear view of separation of Church and State in mind when he made his comments.

See article here.

It's a mess up there, too.

cavedave

'Hang them': Uganda paper publishes photos of gays

Uganda, a country of 32 million where about 85 percent of people are Christian and 12 percent are Muslim

Hanging gays, how very Christian.

Dades

cavedave wrote: »

Hanging gays, how very Christian.

I like trotting this one out:

Anne Lamott wrote:

You can safely assume that you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.

fuzztone

Eleven hurt 'fleeing from devil'

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/Eleven-Hurt-Fleeing-From-Devil-In-La-Verriere-West-Of-Paris/Article/201010415770569?lpos=World_News_First_Home_Article_Teaser_Region_1&lid=ARTICLE_15770569_Eleven_Hurt_Fleeing_From_Devil_In_La_Verriere%2C_West_Of_Paris

Galvasean

Naked black man = the devil

Dades

^^

*cough* absinthe *cough*

achtungbarry

From Indepenent.ie

Eleven people, including several children, were injured when they jumped from the third-story window of a suburban Paris apartment building, an official said.

It wasn't known if they jumped on purpose or were forced, the judicial official said. There was no emergency in the building at the time, such as a fire.

The victims are of African origin, possibly from Angola, and an initial investigation suggested they jumped after one of the women involved became hysterical and started shouting she'd seen the devil, the official said.

Two members of the group - a 30-year-old man and a man with a criminal record who jumped out of the window holding a two-year-old child - have been taken into police custody, the official said.

All 11 victims were taken to hospital with multiple traumas. No life-threatening injuries were reported, although a four-month-old baby has been admitted to a Paris children's hospital in a serious condition, the official said.

The apartment building is located in the Paris suburb of La Verriere.

http://www.independent.ie/breaking-news/world-news/11-people-jump-from-paris-window-2392138.html

Dades

Ahem... the three posts above yours! :pac:

Mena

fuzztone wrote: »

Eleven hurt 'fleeing from devil'

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/Eleven-Hurt-Fleeing-From-Devil-In-La-Verriere-West-Of-Paris/Article/201010415770569?lpos=World_News_First_Home_Article_Teaser_Region_1&lid=ARTICLE_15770569_Eleven_Hurt_Fleeing_From_Devil_In_La_Verriere%2C_West_Of_Paris

The baby ended up dying...

cavedave

http://davidnorris4president.com/
David Norris is a gay African? I am shocked at this news

David has embraced a lifestyle which is blatantly out-of-line with traditional biblical morality.

1. Denounced in Scripture
2. Denounced in most major religions of the world
3. Is a lifestyle which has particular heath risks

as do creationists who do not believe in evolution so have no reason not to overuse antibiotics.

4. Is a lifestyle which is often associated with sexual promiscuity
5. Is a lifestyle for which there is no genetic evidence

Now we go looking for evidence?

Turtwig

Normally I post these in the funny side thread, but for this year I'm making an exception as it is just too fucking stupid to be funny, it's just plain sad and depressing and show's all too clearly the hazards of creationist bullsh1t.

Still funneh though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UyQs8Q6fuQ

Rev Hellfire

Not so much a hazard of belief but a he said what !

http://richarddawkins.net/articles/539024-arkansas-school-board-member-says-gay-students-should-get-aids-and-die

Turtwig

Well worth a watch, show's how hypocritical some extreme anti abortion activists can be. Despicable really, sickest part is I've heard Sarah Palin and Wendy *Cough* Crea-tor Wright use similiar bloody arguments.:mad:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cS-BzFDOmq0

mohawk

cavedave wrote: »

http://davidnorris4president.com/

:eek::eek:
Does anyone else feel the urge to vote for David Norris if he stands for election just to annoy these people.

I also saw their other site http://www.campaignforconscience.org/index.html which was campaining against the civil partnership bill. Some people have alot of hate in them.

rainbow kirby

mohawk wrote: »

:eek::eek:
Does anyone else feel the urge to vote for David Norris if he stands for election just to annoy these people.

I also saw their other site http://www.campaignforconscience.org/index.html which was campaining against the civil partnership bill. Some people have alot of hate in them.

Methinks the lady doth protest too much.

mikhail

mohawk wrote: »

:eek::eek:
Does anyone else feel the urge to vote for David Norris if he stands for election just to annoy these people.

Yes. It'll beat voting for Bertie all to hell.

Dades

mohawk wrote: »

:eek::eek:
Does anyone else feel the urge to vote for David Norris if he stands for election just to annoy these people.

In a word, yes.

robindch

New Zealand-born Ray Comfort, best known for his "this banana is bent, therefore god exists" argument, runs a religious service provider named Living Waters, based in California. Recently, Comfort ran a postal campaign in whihc he peppered elderly people back in NZ with personally-addressed "appointment cards" which asked them to fill in their date of death. He did this in order to make "people aware of their mortality and to tell people about Jesus":

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10684299

Genghiz Cohen

robindch wrote: »

New Zealand-born Ray Comfort, best known for his "this banana is bent, therefore god exists" argument, runs a religious service provider named Living Waters, based in California. Recently, Comfort ran a postal campaign in whihc he peppered elderly people back in NZ with personally-addressed "appointment cards" which asked them to fill in their date of death. He did this in order to make "people aware of their mortality and to tell people about Jesus":

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10684299

That's the least a-peeling thing I've seen today.

ColmDawson

magicbastarder

possibly an old one.

http://www.newsbiscuit.com/2010/04/20/new-age-terrorists-develop-homeopathic-bomb/

robindch

Looks like another megachurchist is going down the tubes:

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

I was in Young's church in 2005 -- a fascinatingly surreal place if anybody's ever in the Dallas area.

The Mad Hatter

Sensibleness leads to censure: an Irish priest who wrote that homosexuality is “simply a facet of the human condition” has been banned from publishing anything without the permission of the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith.

Story.

magicbastarder

The Equality Tribunal has awarded more than €12,000 to a primary school teacher who was discriminated against because she was not a Catholic.

http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/1116/mckeeverm.html

Dades

^^ More like a "hazard of the wrong belief".

Interesting that State schools can legally pick and choose their pupils based on their (parents) belief, but not their teachers.

The Equality Tribunal has dismissed two explanations given by the school as to why this happened. The explanations were based on breaches of formal procedures.

"Formal procedures" being to ask them what religion the applicant is before offering them the job.


*starting to get Bruce Banner*

robindch

Dades wrote: »

"Formal procedures" being to ask them what religion the applicant is before offering them the job.

Hmm... just what I was thinking too.

Stercus Accidit

magicbastarder wrote: »

http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/1116/mckeeverm.html

Great news, I'm delighted, the less of this 'ethos' crap the better.

D4RK ONION

As a fresh (atheist) graduate of Primary School teaching, this is awesome news, now if only we could get them to hand some of those schools over to the government/Educate Together group ^_^

stevoslice

mohawk wrote: »

:eek::eek:
Does anyone else feel the urge to vote for David Norris if he stands for election just to annoy these people.

I also saw their other site http://www.campaignforconscience.org/index.html which was campaining against the civil partnership bill. Some people have alot of hate in them.

don't agree with that site at all, but no, i don't get any urges when it comes to david norris...

ColmDawson

Brace yourselves for smugness.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIvT5L0AwpY

Dades

ColmDawson wrote: »

Brace yourselves for smugness.

Not so smug now. :pac:

Galvasean

"I can't imagine a president of America whose second name is Obama"
No need to! :P

robindch

ColmDawson wrote: »

Brace yourselves for smugness.

I blame the husband -- he should be quoting Ephesians 5:22:

Ephesia wrote:

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.

robindch

Gruesome "exorcism" of an epileptic turns nasty in Pakistan. Family decides not to prosecute the guy who pulled out the sufferer's nails:

http://tribune.com.pk/story/79517/epilepsy-patient-killed-during-exorcism/

Galvasean

It freaks me out that people still believe in exorcisms in this day and age. what a horrible outcome

mikhail

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101127/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_saudi_women_s_rights

Tyler MacDurden

A judge in an Indiana court cites Craig Scarberry's agnosticism as a determining factor in his decision to restrict his access to his children:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SiQVac---M

robindch

On or around Ratzinger's visit to the UK last September, one of the top referees in the Scottish FA forwarded an email to somebody which showed "a school crossing sign with a silhouette of an adult holding a child's hand and the word "Caution" and some "added text".

The catholic church screamed that the tasteless joke "illuminate[d] the reality of a layer of deep, wide and vicious anti-Catholic hostility" and "the Catholic-baiting of the chattering classes bolster the bigotry of a new generation of vicious thugs" and that it was "totally unprofessional, gratuitously insulting to the Pope, deeply offensive to the Catholic community of Scotland, and an incitement to anti-Catholic sectarianism". And finished up by demanding that the ref should be fired if it turned out to be true.

It was, so he was.

Has anybody seen the full email? Does anybody know what this mysterious "added text" was? From the slightly-over-the-top reaction of spokesman Peter Kearney, I'd have thought the cartoon must have called for the summary torture and execution of every member of the roman catholic church in Scotland! I kinda think it didn't though...

Galvasean

Tyler MacDurden wrote: »

A judge in an Indiana court cites Craig Scarberry's agnosticism as a determining factor in his decision to restrict his access to his children:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SiQVac---M

That's really messed up. I wish the father the best of luck with his appeal and hope that the judge is made explain his decision.

cavedave

Before we start making laws lets have a pray and a bit of a fight. In Hawaii

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4h7ekCD6uE4

Galvasean

I love things that end with, "get that camera!"

Dades

And here is how it all turned out in the end (yay).

The idiots actually pressed charges on the guy they roughed up.

Galvasean

Dades wrote: »

And here is how it all turned out in the end (yay).

The idiots actually pressed charges on the guy they roughed up.

...after they saw him video tape them kicking the crap out of him? Clever.

robindch

Galvasean wrote: »

...after they saw him video tape them kicking the crap out of him?

It's ok. I'm sure they beat the crap out of him in a loving manner.

Galvasean

robindch wrote: »

It's ok. I'm sure they beat the crap out of him in a loving manner.

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

GO_Bear

Galvasean wrote: »

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

LOLOL where do you find this ****

GO_Bear

vibe666 wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVdEMCTGJS4

This is sick

Links234

this might be of interest to you guys - transgender woman changes her name with the DMV, the employee who helped her abused his position and used her personal information to send a threatening and damning letter to her home address, while also passing this information on to his church who sent out a DVD to her home as well.

I kinda know this girl from another website, and it just maddens me to hell :mad:

sensibleken

Links234 wrote: »

this might be of interest to you guys - transgender woman changes her name with the DMV, the employee who helped her abused his position and used her personal information to send a threatening and damning letter to her home address, while also passing this information on to his church who sent out a DVD to her home as well.

I kinda know this girl from another website, and it just maddens me to hell :mad:

its cool links. Hell is where the partys at;)