Category Archives: Religion

No creationist classes in the UK

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This is excellent news. Government changes Free School model funding agreement to ban creationist schools.

For what it’s worth neither of our daughters are baptised / christened or anything else. We have always told them that they can choose any religion or belief system they wish but that it is their own choice. They need to understand what it is and why it is. They should question critically and satisfy themselves with the answers they are given.

But…. if they were to choose Scientology or anything else that is generally agreed to be a cult then our opinion would be somewhat different. They both know this of course and have no problem with it.

Banning All Religion

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Religion. still crap.

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Former Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Carey has branded a priest who advised needy people to shoplift from large retailers as “misguided and foolish”. … Writing in the News of the World, Lord Carey said: “Of all people, priests ought to know right from wrong.”

So what if they do know right from wrong? Priests in Northern Island forgave the terrorists who killed soldiers, Carey has forgiven those who have mistreated and killed in the name of his religion. So they may know the difference but not only will they do nothing about it they will them forgive the wrongdoer as if nothing had happened.

Father I am sorry for I have sinned?
“And what did you do this time?
I stole lots of food from the store just like you said and then I stole a fridge to keep it in because i know ‘waste not want not’ is important, and then I stole a van to get the fridge home.
“Is that all?”
Yes
“Okay, God forgives you, you are blessed, you can go to heaven”
Will you tell the Police or anyone?
“No”
Even if I say I’m not sorry and I’ll do it again tomorrow and this time I’ll kill the guard?
“No.”

Now, what’s the point in knowing right from wrong if there is no consequence to the wrong? And that afterlife crap is just that, crap.
Religion. Bollocks.

Bash the bishop? Push the pope.

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The Pope has celebrated the traditional Christmas Mass, despite being knocked down by a woman at the start of the service in St Peter’s Basilica.

The woman – who is said to be mentally unstable – jumped the security barriers as Benedict XVI entered the basilica, causing the pontiff to fall. BBC

Bit early to say she’s unstable isn’t it? It was reported she was within minutes of the incident? The pope leads a bunch of others who say that The Lord will Forgive All Their Sins and yet they also molest and sexually abuse young boys – and they are not unstable? But of course they are not – because it’s okay to kiddie fiddle and be blessed by the pope yet if you feel strongly about such matters and were you in the fortunate position of being able to lay one’s hands on the pope (as they say) you would be found mentally unstable?
I don’t care what mental state this woman is or is not found to be in – I am sure there are people like me that see what she did as admirable.
And shouldn’t he have turned the other cheek? Forgiven her?

I dare you to look your priest directly in the eye and say “Have you ever ……” and watch for the flinch.

Merry Christmas. Except to Amazon UK who can fuck right off.

Rowan Williams is an extremist

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The Archbishop of Canterbury has accused the government of treating religious faith as an “eccentricity” practised by “oddities”.

But it is. How can anyone who is capable of independent thought believe in any sort of God?

He said it would not do “any harm” for political leaders to be more open about their religious beliefs.

Yes it would. It would be a bad thing.

Dr Williams said: “A great many Anglo-Catholics have good reason for not being Roman Catholics.
“They don’t believe the Pope is infallible. And that’s why they’re still pressing for a solution in Anglican terms, rather than what many of them see as a theologically rather eccentric option.”

So – the Pope is fallible but he is not? Roman Catholics are wrong but Anglicans are right? That his flavour of worship is sound but any other is “eccentric”? Where is acceptance, forgiveness and all that other junk? How about “The Taliban are right and Rowan Williams is wrong”. If that is not acceptable then why should his statement be? Methods and actions do not come into this, beliefs do.

So Rowan Williams wants religion to increasingly permeate politics, believes that Catholics are wrong and therefore politicians who are catholic must be wrong so only Anglicans should reach the controlling positions in what we call a democracy. How is that not an extremist position?

And if you can read these words why do you believe? Can’t you see that where there is an unknown it is human nature to try to explain that in order to make sense of it – and that the bible is a nonsense.

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More Catholic hypocrisy

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A senior Vatican official on Saturday attacked US President Barack Obama for … “the arrogance of someone who believes they are right, in signing a decree which will open the door to abortion and thus to the destruction of human life,”
Catholics never went to war then? If that isn’t destruction of life then what is?

“What is important is to know how to listen… without locking oneself into ideological visions with the arrogance of a person who, having the power, thinks they can decide on life and death,” he added.
What? This is a Catholic telling someone else that they should know how to listen? Do they seriously not see the massive hypocrisy? Doesn’t the pope decide on life and not death already with his views on contraception? So no-one is allowed a dissenting view?

“The majority of the American population does not take the same position as the president and his team,”
And they did with Bush? And every Catholic hangs on every word uttered by the pope? And what survey did they commission for this statistic of theirs? Obama was elected by many more people than the pope ever was or will be. He has the right to wield that power just as the pope and his corrupt cronies do as they wish.

It is garbage like this that makes me despise the Vatican and leaves me wondering how anyone at all can listen to anything that comes from there. Sexually abuse children for years and you are forgiven all your sins. Pass a law which will help countless women and you get called arrogant?

Stephen Green makes it up

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An atheist campaign claiming “There’s probably no God” has been reported to the advertising regulator. BBC

But Stephen Green, national director of Christian Voice, said: “There is plenty of evidence for God, from people’s personal experience, to the complexity, interdependence, beauty and design of the natural world.

“But there is scant evidence on the other side, so I think the advertisers are really going to struggle to show their claim is not an exaggeration or inaccurate, as the ASA code puts it.”

Mr Stephen Green is brainwashed and talks complete bull.
There is NO evidence for any god at all from any of the world’s religions and what you actually mean is there is only evidence for your god, only your god and nothing else anyone of any other religion could be calling god.
And there is masses of evidence that everything came about without any sort of “spiritual”influence at all.

If you weren’t afraid of atheists you wouldn’t be complaining, would you?

I trust that Mr Green and his god-fearing zealots have also alerted the brewing industry to the claims by Carling that they brew “Probably the best beer in the world” and that they have “Probably the best website in the World“. There must be lots of people say different and this too in a market that relies on money (like your church Mr Green) yet no-one has taken them on.

Mr Green – if I said I was rearing crocodiles in my underwear you would not believe me unless you actually saw it. Even if there was blood gushing down my legs and I was thrashing on the ground wailing like a maniac you would still say you did not believe me because you had not seen it. And to say you believed it without seeing it makes you a liar. So, can I meet your God please?