The Hazards of Belief

Dave! wrote: »

GRAPHIC VIDEO FOLLOWS, don't watch if easily offended

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xef384fWFs

Silly b*tch, what was she thinking wearing trousers? :rolleyes: Can't be having that

robindch wrote: »

The latest Gallup poll carried out earlier this month shows that in the last 30 years, belief in creationism has declined to around 40% of the adult population, while belief in unguided evolution has almost doubled, to 16%.

http://www.gallup.com/poll/145286/Four-Americans-Believe-Strict-Creationism.aspx

The poll also showed that belief in creationism is correlated with higher levels of church attendance, membership of the Republican Party and, unsurprisingly, low levels of education.

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GO_Bear wrote: »

Somewhat Relevant I think, Posted in the Mythology forum.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=67144962&postcount=1

Even in conditions that go away naturally, and especially in serious conditions like whooping cough in infants, these kinds of beliefs which arise from hearsay and old wives tales can be dangerous.

The Cure Of The Burn.
My cousin years ago pulled a pot of boiling potatoes down of the cooker and it covered him. his grandfather lived down the road and had the cure of the burn which he got from licking a lizard backwards three times. and licked my cousin from head to toe. It worked! there was one Little spot which he had missed and that sport is still there today. Since them my cousin has grown up and he himself licked a lizard backwards 3 times and now has the cure.

eblistic wrote: »

This can't be serious, surely?

vibe666 wrote: »

i have the cure for gullibility.

please come and see me.

mikhail wrote: »

Pope wrote:

"I cannot remain silent about another attack on the religious freedom of families in certain European countries which mandate obligatory participation in courses of sexual or civic education," the pope said.

Navarre resident Jackie Trebesh said she was flabbergasted and irritated when a Catholic priest denied her and her daughter Holy Communion, and then had a Santa Rosa County deputy pull her over.
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Trebesh said she and her 19-year-old daughter Rachel attended a Friday morning service and were turned away when they approached the priest to take Holy Communion.
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According to Trebesh, she learned the reason she was denied communion was because someone at the church had seen the daughter dispose of the host, as it is called, improperly in the church parking lot.
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“The matter of disposing of the Eucharist in an inappropriate way is a serious matter to us,” Peggy Dekeyser, the communications officer for the diocese of Pensacola-Tallahassee said in confirming Trebesh’s theory.

Trebesh said the only thing she could think of that Kelly or anyone else might have seen her daughter do was “spit out a piece of gum in the parking lot.”
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