The Hazards of Belief

Bannasidhe

bnt wrote: »

Oh, and here's one for the ladies: if you use birth control, did you know that your uterus is lined with little dead babies?
Lovely.

Was there always this much crazy in the world?

Gordon

That is.. there are no.. I'm..

I wonder how she feels about the millions of dead babies in my pants..

Obliq

Bannasidhe wrote: »

Was there always this much crazy in the world?

That's too much crazy. I'm thinking that's dangerously delusional. That person should be sectioned IMO.



That's too many "thats". Sorry about that.

Nodin

bnt wrote: »

Oh, and here's one for the ladies: if you use birth control, did you know that your uterus is lined with little dead babies?
Lovely.

Thats just fucking weird, tbh. Its like a schoolyard story.

Sierra 117

Bannasidhe wrote: »

Was there always this much crazy in the world?

Probably. It's just that the internet had allowed the crazy to reach a wider audience.

Dades

Gordon wrote: »

I wonder how she feels about the millions of dead babies in my pants..

The ones in the wash, I assume. :pac:

robindch

Dades wrote: »

Gordon wrote: »

I wonder how she feels about the millions of dead babies in my pants..

The ones in the wash, I assume. :pac:

Typical atheists.

Just can't stop talking about socks.

Bannasidhe

robindch wrote: »

Typical atheists.

Just can't stop talking about socks.

I have 3 jack russells - therefore I have no socks.

Gordon

They all come out in the wash eventually!

Fortyniner

Refusing to deliver flowers to an atheist will probably prove expensive!

http://www.examiner.com/article/florist-sued-for-refusing-to-deliver-to-atheist-teen

This brave 16-year old has suffered the usual backlash for challenging the religious indoctrination in a US school, but the florist has gone too far.

Nodin

Good news for a change....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RoT5O7l8O8

Hotblack Desiato

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2013/0204/breaking65.html

Priest pleads guilty to sexual assault

Fr Vincent Mercer (66), with an address at the Black Abbey, Kilkenny, pleaded guilty to 15 sample counts from a total of 39 charges when he was arraigned at Cork Circuit Criminal this afternoon.

Judge Seán Ó Donnabháin remanded Mercer, who is out of ministry but remains a member of the Dominican Order, on bail for sentence on February 22nd, 2013.

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2013/0204/1224329605635.html

Priest (74) resigns over alleged harassment from parishioners

A parish curate resigned yesterday in the Gaeltacht area of Co Donegal because, he said, he had been harassed by some of his congregation.

Fr Bill McGeady (74), who is related to Ireland soccer player Aiden McGeady, told parishioners a small number of them objected to how he ran the parish around Glencolmcille.

The priest, whose family originated in Gweedore and who still has a Scots accent from his years in Scotland, said he had been delighted to serve his flock since he arrived from Falkirk to Glencolmcille in 2010.

But he added: “I have been harassed, and verbally and physically abused in the sacristy, in the church and in the street.”

The priest said people had complained about how he ran the parish to the Bishop of Raphoe, Dr Phillip Boyce. This had affected his health and he could not continue with his duties.

FouxDaFaFa

Some good news to balance out the awful. Malala Yousafzai has been formally nominated for the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize.

http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/02/01/16811670-malala-teen-champion-of-girls-rights-nominated-for-nobel-peace-prize

robindch

Bob Larson shows some cracking talent with a woman named Veronica who suffers from the Curse of Bastard and much else besides.

Looks expensive. Bob can be booked here.

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

Penn

ninja900 wrote: »

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2013/0204/1224329605635.html

Has there been any indication on what he was doing that made them verbally and physically abusive towards him?

Besides which, maybe if they didn't let a priest "run the parish" and just made him stick to saying Mass, visit the sick, not f*ck children, be available for funerals etc, there wouldn't have been a problem.

robindch

Islamic fundamentalists start their own experiment to find out if praying away the Polio works by murdering nine medical staff in Nigeria:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-21381773

BBC wrote:

Nine female polio vaccinators have been killed in two shootings at health centres in northern Nigeria, police have told the BBC.

In the first attack in Kano the polio vaccinators were shot dead by gunmen who drove up on a motor tricycle. Thirty minutes later gunmen targeted a clinic outside Kano city as the vaccinators prepared to start work.

Some Nigerian Muslim leaders have previously opposed polio vaccinations, claiming they could cause infertility. On Thursday, a controversial Islamic cleric spoke out against the polio vaccination campaign, telling people that new cases of polio were caused by contaminated medicine.

Some Kano residents told the BBC's Yusuf Yakasai in the city that other people injured in the first attack had been taken to hospital. A health official confirmed to the BBC that those killed in the second attack in Hotoro were female health workers - there were earlier reports that people waiting at the clinic may have been among those shot.

Witnesses in Hotoro told the BBC gunmen also approached the health centre using a motor tricycle. Kano banned motorbikes from carrying passengers after a recent attack on the prominent Muslim leader, the emir of Kano.

Analysts believe the attacks may have been the work of the militant Islamist group Boko Haram but it has not yet commented. The group - whose name translates as "Western education is forbidden" - says it is fighting to overthrow the government and impose Sharia.

It has been blamed for the deaths of some 1,400 people in central and northern Nigeria since 2010.

Nigeria is one of only three countries where polio is still endemic. According to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, there were 121 cases of polio in Nigeria last year, compared to 58 in Pakistan and 37 in Afghanistan.

In the past month, polio workers have also been targeted and killed in Pakistan, where the Taliban have threatened anti-polio efforts - accusing health workers of working as US spies and alleging that the vaccine makes children sterile.

FouxDaFaFa

I have a special, hateful, place in my heart for Boko Haram. Absolute scum.

Nodin

robindch wrote: »

Islamic fundamentalists start their own experiment to find out if praying away the Polio works by murdering nine medical staff in Nigeria:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-21381773

While Western medical staff were always at some risk, it seems that the use of a fake medical programme to get bin laden has led to open season on any such ventures, regardless of who staffs them or how long they've been running. And obviously elements such as boko haram can't really be reasoned with.

Delirium

Sickening stuff. Children were in the crowd that watched her burn :mad:

A mob stripped, tortured and bound a woman accused of witchcraft, then burned her alive in front of hundreds of witnesses in a Papua New Guinea town, police said Friday after one of the highest profile sorcery-related murders in this South Pacific island nation.

Hundreds of bystanders, including many children, watched and some took photographs of Wednesday's brutal slaying. Grisly pictures were published on the front pages of the country's biggest circulating newspapers, The National and Post-Courier, while the prime minister, police and diplomats condemned the killing.

In rural Papua New Guinea, witchcraft is often blamed for unexplained misfortunes. Sorcery has traditionally been countered by sorcery, but retaliations have become increasingly violent in recent years.

Source

recedite

Hmmm.. I know a family who moved out that way a few weeks ago; the husband is working with Denis O'Brien's latest mobile phone venture in Papua New Guinea. But the wife and kids will live in "nearby" Australia because Papua is "too dodgy," with the husband joining them at weekends . Now I see why :eek:

What the fcuk

:eek::mad:

FouxDaFaFa

Awesome news. Boko Haram are embracing equality and are now recruiting women to be psychotic assholes "intelligence gatherers" with them. Don't all rush at once, guys.

Delirium

Teacher Says Gays Have No Purpose In Life, Wants LGBT Kids Banned From Prom

A teacher of special needs children in Indiana is speaking out with other Christian parents and students by demanding LGBT kids be banned from a Sullivan High School prom. When asked, teacher Diana Medley responded to a reporter that she believes gay people have no purpose in life, and agrees that anti-gay parents and students should create a separate, “traditional” prom that would ban gay students from attending. Sullivan High School itself is allowing all students to the official prom, but these militant anti-gay Christians are trying to get students to attend their prom instead of the school’s official prom.

I can't imagine how upsetting it must be for any gay students attending the school hear a teacher say they have no purpose in life :mad:

SebBerkovich

koth wrote: »

Teacher Says Gays Have No Purpose In Life, Wants LGBT Kids Banned From Prom



I can't imagine how upsetting it must be for any gay students attending the school hear a teacher say they have no purpose in life :mad:

They're such hideous people.
Surly someone with such a warped view cannot be allowed near children, let alone attempt to teach them.

Banbh

Israeli police arrest women for wearing male-style prayer shawls

http://www.jpost.com/VideoArticles/Video/Article.aspx?id=302844

Jerusalem police spokesman Shmuel Ben-Ruby confirmed that the women were detained for wearing tallitot, especially what police refer to as "male style" tallitot. Police allow women to wear the colorful tallitot around the shoulders which police refer to as "female tallitot" as opposed to the "male tallitot" which are blue and white or black and white and worn folded across he shoulders. “The moment they put on the other [male] tallit, it’s problematic," Ben-Ruby said

It appears that the women are being detained for questioning.

AngelLight

There are religious zealots everywhere and some of them teach our kids which is more disturbing. For example on of my kids was told by their religion teacher that if they leave their school bags on their desks they'll go to hell!! Same said person had a run in with me but when I stated I don't have a religion but a faith I could've sworn they went a shade paler and if there was rosary beads to hand they would've been reciting hail mary's for all they were worth. I won't name the school in question, but I will not be bullied by any Catholics who have no consideration for other people's Faith's.

Brian Shanahan

Banbh wrote: »

Israeli police arrest women for wearing male-style prayer shawls

http://www.jpost.com/VideoArticles/Video/Article.aspx?id=302844



It appears that the women are being detained for questioning.

And yet we constantly hear that Israel is a secular democracy, instead of the theocracy that it is.

Banbh

Sssshhh! You could be up before the rabbinical court for blasphemy.

SebBerkovich

Banbh wrote: »

Sssshhh! You could be up before the rabbinical court for blasphemy.

We're just so lucky we don't have insane blasphemy laws in Ireland.. oh.. wait.. :rolleyes:

Banbh

Bad as our blasphemy law is, nobody has ever been arrested, much less detained or questioned by the Gardaí.