“I went into his office, the door was closed,” he said. “And Father Murphy said, ‘Take your pants down. And so I did… you know, he was always in his black attire with a white collar, and you know … I was questioning why he would ask me to do that. Here he is, a priest, and – I have to obey him. And he proceeded to touch me.”
Category Archive: Humanism
20,000 Protest Pope’s Visit to England
ichard Dawkins’ website has full details and video about the march. Dawkins gave a short speech in response to the Pope’s accusation that Atheists are responsible for Hitler. He also explains why the non theistic community is upset with the Pope’s cover up of the sexual abuse cases
White Self-Pity gaining voice in America
Christopher Hitchens weighs in on the increasing “white minority” syndrome that plagues America:
Christians Fail at Explaining Why they Deny Gays Civil Unions
2) Historically, the USA has already been through a shockingly similar debate about what types of adults have the legal right to civil unions (legal marriage). For the first hundred years of our country’s history, your sex determined your right to vote. Not until 1920, was women’s suffrage granted by the 19th Amendment. Before then, you had to have a penis in order to vote. It reads: “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.”
A Summary of Evidence for Evolution
This is a compilation of the basics of evolution and a broad brush of the sources of evidence for evolution. Prompted by requests from friends and family to procure evidence for evolution, this is the summary of some of the most controversial subtopics of the evidence for evolution. It is meant to be a springboard for those who know little about evolution or have been told that evolution is just a belief like creationism.
EVOLUTION BASICS
In biology, evolution is the change in the inherited traits of a population of organisms through successive generations. Evolution does not explain how life first began, nor is it a science of cosmology, dealing with what occurred before the beginning of the known universe. Evolution is the science of how different organisms have developed and diversified since life first appeared on earth. … continue reading
Pope Benedict Cannot Ride out Scandal in Modern Age
From Time.com
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How do you atone for something terrible, like the Inquisition? Joseph Ratzinger attempted to do just that for the Roman Catholic Church during a grandiose display of Vatican penance — the Day of Pardon on March 12, 2000, a ritual presided over by Pope John Paul II and meant to purify two millenniums of church history.
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Save a life? Get Excommunicated. Rape a Child? Get Cover Up.
The church’s suggestion would be to let both the mother and the fetus die, rather than abort to save the life of the mother. It is a double standard for the church to excommunicate a nun for saving the life of this women and then take no action to excommunicate priests who rape children repeatedly, but rather move them from one parish to another.
Geographic Concentrations of Religion Irrational at Best
Science put religious “upbringings” and convictions to shame.
Richard Dawkins explains: VIDEO
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