The Hazards of Belief

robindch · 23-03-2012 06:16PM

GO_Bear wrote: »

But its so funny !

Messing about with creationists who threaten to kill people is not a good idea:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/australasia/scottish-backpacker-stabbed-to-death-after-creationism-row-765266.html

Independent wrote:

A bizarre row about evolution versus creationism led to an (creationist) English backpacker fatally stabbing a (biologist) Scottish backpacker during a fruit-picking trip to earn money for their travels.

Alexander York, 33, from Essex, was sentenced to a maximum of five years in jail yesterday for the manslaughter of Rudi Boa, 28, a biomedical student from Inverness.

[...]

I'm sticking with Hazards.

Galvasean · 24-03-2012 06:20PM

joseph brand wrote: »

http://community.babycenter.com/post/a2517575/my_neighbor_gave_my_8-year-old_toy_dinosaurs.

I came across a similar question on answers.com a few years ago. Maybe it's a big problem for these fools.

Not letting your kids play with toy dinosaurs because you're a nut-job = child abuse IMO.

Kivaro · 25-03-2012 12:28AM

One dead and 16 injured at a faith healing event in Cape Town.

Maybe it was 'his' will.
Maybe it was a test of their faith.
Maybe it wasn't a good idea to leave the hospital to attend this event.
More here.

Galvasean · 25-03-2012 11:08PM

Riot after soccer match in Jerusalem. Jewish fans terrorize Muslims. Police appear uninterested.
http://storyful.com/stories/23608

CiaranMT · 25-03-2012 11:31PM

Anybody else get the Sunday Times today? Article on the front page about how little help faith healers have been in Irish missing persons cases.. Things behind a paywall though and can't be arsed typing it all out.

Stercus Accidit · 25-03-2012 11:38PM

CiaranMT wrote: »

Anybody else get the Sunday Times today? Article on the front page about how little help faith healers have been in Irish missing persons cases.. Things behind a paywall though and can't be arsed typing it all out.

It's those cheap knock off ju-ju beads they have been using, very shaky premonitions you get off them, very poor spiritual resonance you see from the lower cost materials.

When you want to find a missing person, insist on authentic ju-ju beads and spirit cup to rattle them in, operated by an accredited medium. (small or large just wont cut it)

Delirium · 26-03-2012 12:59PM

MPs try to overturn 'God can heal' ad ban

Last month, a Christian group in Bath were banned from using leaflets that said: "NEED HEALING? GOD CAN HEAL TODAY!... We believe that God loves you and can heal you from any sickness."

The ASA said the claims were misleading and could discourage people from seeking essential medical treatment.

Galvasean · 26-03-2012 01:03PM

koth wrote: »

MPs try to overturn 'God can heal' ad ban

A rare victory for common sense!

Links234 · 26-03-2012 04:43PM

Church stages kidnappings: http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/03/23/2710535/pa-church-conducts-mock-kidnapping.html

A southeastern Pennsylvania church subjected members of a youth group to a mock kidnapping and interrogations without telling them it was staged, and the outraged mother of one 14-year-old girl has filed a complaint with police.

amacachi · 26-03-2012 08:46PM

At first I didn't think it was a big deal til I saw even the parents weren't told :pac:

recedite · 26-03-2012 10:52PM

the focus of the lesson was "the persecuted church" in other countries.

I didn't realise they actually teach it, I thought the persecution complex came naturally.

joseph brand · 30-03-2012 02:51PM

http://coffeelovingskeptic.com/?p=1411

Author Sameem Ali is all too familiar with the trauma of being a child bride – she was only 13 years old when she was taken to Pakistan by her mother on a holiday.

As a teenager she was excited about the trip, but when she arrived at the family’s ancestral village, she discovered she was to be married to a man twice her age, whom she had never met.

“The whole family turned up with an imam and they forced me into this marriage. I didn’t really understand what was happening at the time.

“I was only a child. There was no way I could say no. There was no support there whatsoever.”

Eight months later she returned to the UK after suffering months of violent abuse.

“I was brought back to this country when I was 14 years old and pregnant,” she said.

I've seen programmes on tv where young girls are brought from their homes in English cities, where they enjoy the western culture and all it has to offer, to places in Pakistan, houses in the back arse of nowhere. They are married off to some farmer and they live like servants. Very scary stuff. There are people who work at trying to rescue these young girls.

Talk about sh1te parents? :mad:

joseph brand · 30-03-2012 08:41PM

http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2012/03/28/new-york-city-schools-ban-loaded-words-from-tests/?hpt=hp_c3

Divorce. Dinosaurs, Birthdays. Religion. Halloween. Christmas. Television. These are a few of the 50-plus words and references the New York City Department of Education is hoping to ban from the city’s standardized tests.

"Dinosaur" is among the words New York CIty is looking to ban from tests, apparently over concerns it could bother creationists".

Well, we wouldn't want anyone to be bothered. :mad:

robindch · 02-04-2012 06:02PM

And in news from Austria, a cardinal overturns a priest's blocking of the election of a parish council member who happened to be gay:

https://www.religionnews.com/blogs/david-gibson/cardinal-okays-gay-man-for-parish-council

Not quite sure why a gay man would want to be on the parish council, but there you go.

joseph brand · 03-04-2012 05:53PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-l6_2a-1I4

Eric Hovind's father is in jail, for anyone who didn't already know.

This video displays perfectly the frustration of trying to talk openly and logically with a creationist. The term 'bang your head against a wall' springs to mind.

Thunderf00t is asked the same question around 18 times! He answered it the FIRST time.

fitz0 · 05-04-2012 11:49AM

Time for the annual crucifixions as part of the 'celebration' of such a benevolent religion. Things like this genuinely defy belief. *ahem*

Sonics2k · 07-04-2012 12:29PM

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/philippines/9190345/Filipinos-re-enact-crucifixion-with-real-nails.html

Thousands gather to watch Filipino devotees in Pampanga province re-enact the crucifixion of Jesus Christ on Good Friday, using real nails driven through their hands and feet.

Sarky · 07-04-2012 01:10PM

Hope they got their tetanus shots.

The Mad Hatter · 07-04-2012 04:35PM

A story about a gay teenager in a Christian neighbourhood, that actually has a happy ending. This is very much worth a read (though I'm not sure since Sherlock's b*llocks whether I can quote from it here). Click through and read.

CL7 · 08-04-2012 10:38AM

That story made me cry. Man I'm such a wuss. Brave kid.

robindch · 08-04-2012 12:46PM

Ratzinger says that mankind is "groping in the darkness, unable to distinguish good from evil":

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-17649521

Sonics2k · 08-04-2012 12:54PM

robindch wrote: »

Ratzinger says that mankind is "groping in the darkness, unable to distinguish good from evil":

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-17649521

*makes obvious groping pun*

Sarky · 08-04-2012 01:08PM

Apart perhaps from when he's asleep, that man is never not talking bollocks.

Links234 · 08-04-2012 03:07PM

The Mad Hatter wrote: »

A story about a gay teenager in a Christian neighbourhood, that actually has a happy ending. This is very much worth a read (though I'm not sure since Sherlock's b*llocks whether I can quote from it here). Click through and read.

that was a powerful read

Galvasean · 09-04-2012 12:42PM

joseph brand wrote: »

http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2012/03/28/new-york-city-schools-ban-loaded-words-from-tests/?hpt=hp_c3

Well, we wouldn't want anyone to be bothered. :mad:

Banning dinosaurs?

robindch · 09-04-2012 10:51PM

Mad bishop says that only christianity can protection against Nazism and Communism:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/9193140/Bishop-warns-stripping-Britain-of-religion-leaves-country-vulnerable-to-extremism.html

Some Cleric in the UK wrote:

It has, indeed, been the experience of this past century, as both Blessed John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI have observed how the most poisonous ideologies have arisen within the Christian nations of Europe. Thus Nazism or Communism attempted to discard the Christian inheritance of faith and morality as if it had never existed. They sought either to return to the pagan past or to “re-create” and “redeem” humanity by political will and ideology with terrible consequences. If Christianity is no longer to form the basis and the bedrock of our society then we are, indeed, left at the mercy of passing political projects and perhaps even the most sinister of ideologies.

Galvasean · 10-04-2012 01:06PM

"It has, indeed, been the experience of this past century, as both Blessed John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI have observed how the most poisonous ideologies have arisen within the Christian nations of Europe"

Selective quoting FTW :pac:

robindch · 10-04-2012 02:16PM

Galvasean wrote: »

"It has, indeed, been the experience of this past century, as both Blessed John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI have observed how the most poisonous ideologies have arisen within the Christian nations of Europe"

Ratzinger's observations no doubt helped by his first-hand experience of supporting the Nazi regime.

Selective memory, ftw!

The Mad Hatter · 10-04-2012 02:34PM

Galvasean wrote: »

"It has, indeed, been the experience of this past century, as both Blessed John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI have observed how the most poisonous ideologies have arisen within the Christian nations of Europe"

Selective quoting FTW :pac:

In fairness, I think that's more a case of an absentee comma than a selective quote.

"It has, indeed, been the experience of this past century, as both BJPII and PBXVI have observed, how the most poisonous ideologies have arisen blah blah blah."

(I'm all about punctuation lately. I need better hobbies.)

Penn · 10-04-2012 03:45PM

Not quite religious belief, but belief in homeopathy. This is unbelievable...

http://www.abc.net.au/austory/content/2011/s3260776.htm

The Hazards of Belief

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