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Religious thinkers/speeches/snippets etc. you like.

  • 09-04-2012 12:40am
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    Turtwig
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    Yep you read that right. I don't know how much of a lifespan this thread will have. The purpose of this thread is for users to post speeches, essays, poems by religious thinkers that you like and heavily agree with. As an example to get us started. This speech by Barrrack Obama is probably one of the best I've heard in support of secularism.

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


    Yep, I realise this thread may seem rather pointless, but I think if it was quite a lengthy thread it would help dispel common prejudices some folks have about the posters here when they post for the first time. Combating the stereotype so to speak. Also serves a reference point for atheists to use to refer to an argument from authority from an influential figure. Yes I realise that's irraitonal but you have to understand if we send someone a Dawkins video that's probably going to be negatively received regardless of how innocuous it actually is. Sending them a speech where (if it were slimly possible) the Pope said the same point, then that stands for a lot of merit in my opinion. :)

    Another example would be the Pope's recent Easter homily.
    This is the liturgy's way of telling us that the creation story is itself a prophecy. It is not information about the external processes by which the cosmos and man himself came into being.

    Stuff like that is a nice firepower to have for Catholics who claim loyalty to the Pope's but don't accept evolution don't you think? :)


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