Brain washing has turned into Branding. PZ Myer’s, biologist and outspoken Atheist gives his parental perspective on this latest Christian branding trend:
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I always hesitate to post such non-information as this because it just threatens to draw attention to something that deserves none. However, I broke down this time to show you a couple screen shots of the Conservapedia page on Charles Darwin.
The founder of Conservapedia appeared on The Colbert Show last week. Colbert played along and helped Andy Schlafty make a fool of himself as he tried to answer how information was filtered on the site.
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Conservapedia’s page on Charles Darwin reads like a 7th grade book report. The information lacking, opinionated and simplistic. The only informational topics on Darwin is “Biography”, 4+ pages of “Religion” and a bunch of opinionated titles like “Darwin’s Racism” and “Darwin’s Belief in Male Superiority”. Nothing about his life’s work or topic headings on Evolution, the Voyage of the Beagle, or Science related studies. It would be like writing an Encyclopedia page on George Washington without mentioning the Revolutionary War, his presidency or Mt Vernon and instead writing only on how he owned slaves and had children by them.
I seriously hope “conservatives” are not degrading themselves to relying on poor resources with political and religious agendas paraded front and center.
20/20 Investigates: Note that his statistics on the number of believers and non-believers are outdated. The most recent polls show 16% of Americans do not believe in a god or gods.
Last March we heard about a Brazilian child who after being raped by her stepfather conceived twins at the age of 9 years old. 
Obviously she and her family decided to abort the babies considering her age and the danger of childbirth at such a young age, (and the circumstance of rape). Because of this decision, the Catholic church responded by excommunicating the child, her mother and the doctors who conducted the procedure.
Abortion is illegal in Brazil except in cases of rape or when the mother’s life is in danger, both of which apply in this case. (The girl’s immature hips would have made labor dangerous; the Catholic opinion was that she could have had a cesarean section.) (via Time.com)
So much for a compassionate religious group. After living through the trama of being raped by her stepfather, this religious institution expected this young girl to live through childbirth and becoming a mother at a point in her life where she has not even reached the AGE OF REASON. As a naturalist, it matters not to me whether one is “in the catholic club” or not. However, this sort of behaviour demonstrates how out of touch and desperate these magistrates and robe-wearing celibates are with the rest of the world. Now, considering that Brazil is the most Catholic nation in the world, this brash move does not come as a surprise. Recently Brazil’s population has declined from almost 100% Catholic to 74% catholic. This encouraging statistic may have church officials on edge and more willing to “pull out all the stops” when trying to make their religion appear serious and legitimate.
I say we let the catholic leaders continue to don their colorful robes, pointy hats and golden staffs. Let them throw people out of their club and offer pretend blood sacrifices like in the bronze age. Let them dig their own graves. Every superstition fads from fame. Moon worship, Sun worship, Zeus… Jezeus is next.
Khyra, the daughter of a Muslim convert family, has died of starvation at the hand of her mother in Britain.
Khyra was unconscious when paramedics, called to the house in the early hours of last Saturday morning, discovered her and her five brothers and sisters lying on mattresses in a bedroom. Allegedly severely emaciated, she was taken to hospital but died on the way. 1
Evidently the neighbor lady noticed that three of the five children would eat the bread crumbs she spread out in her yard for the birds. Both parents have been arrested on child abuse and the investigation is looking into the religious practice of starvation as a form of exorsism.
Irish Catholic priest Fr. Gannon, a repeat child sex offender is on trial for sexually mollesting an 11 year old boy in the 1960s. Gannon alledgedly assulted the boy 3 times, once in the rectory when the child appeared for altar boy duties. 
He told the youngster that he was giving him an anatomy lesson and not to tell anyone because no one would belive the boy.
Gannon has been previously convicted of sexual assult but only served time for one conviction. Despite the many testimonies agaist him, Gannon refuses to apologize or show remorse for his destructive and offensive behavior.
And he fondled and kissed the boy in the pump room of the local swimming pool in 1969, the court heard.
Asked by police why he took the boy to the secluded bush location and touched his penis, Gannon replied he was explaining the “differences in anatomy”.
“I thought it was less formal rather than inviting him into the presbytery and that’s all,” he told police. 2
Fr. Gannon’s behavior suggests he does not fully understand the severity of his actions. The submissive behavior fostered by the Catholic church provides pedofiles like Gannon a furtile playing field to wreak havoc on the lives of youngsters who are told to trust priests and elders in their parent’s religious cult.
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