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The Hazards of Belief

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 39,865 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    3rd post in a row. I'll stop now I promise.

    Dominican school cancels invite to atheist speaker
    Atheist Ireland chairman Michael Nugent was due to speak at St Dominic’s girl’s secondary school in Cabra on Thursday.

    The original invite said: “The school wholly welcomes you and looks forward to hearing about both Atheist Ireland and atheism as a system of non-belief.”

    But in an email received last week, Mr Nugent was told members of the school’s religious education team opted to cancel the invitation on the grounds that they did not “wish to cultivate non-religious belief ” at the school.

    What are they so flipping afraid of?


    ...Must be this!
    The original invitation also said that the concept of non-belief may be mostly new to much of the students, many of whom come from a faith background.

    “As such, terms such as ‘rational’, ‘reason’ and other terms related to the secular experience may not be within their lexicon, and could require explanation,” the email added.

    What kind of a joke of an educational system is this?

    I'm partial to your abracadabra
    I'm raptured by the joy of it all



  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,473 Mod ✭✭✭✭robindch


    The Russian Orthodox church is planning to roll out its own free public wifi network free of "porn, grisly tabloid reports, gay propaganda and dangerous religious sects".
    RT wrote:
    The network will be serviced by a team of specialists who would manually check all data and block potentially-hazardous content.

    https://www.rt.com/politics/321064-holy-wi-fi-russian-church/


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 39,865 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    I pity those poor specialists who are forced to view and assess the internet content deemed too shocking for mere normal Russian citizens to be able to cope with.

    :rolleyes:

    I'm partial to your abracadabra
    I'm raptured by the joy of it all



  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,473 Mod ✭✭✭✭robindch


    The Censorship Committee sits ready.

    367834.jpg


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,105 ✭✭✭Kivaro


    robindch wrote: »
    The Russian Orthodox church is planning to roll out its own free public wifi network free with "porn, grisly tabloid reports, gay propaganda and dangerous religious sects".

    https://www.rt.com/politics/321064-holy-wi-fi-russian-church/

    It's amazing what a small word can do.
    That's how I originally read it ................ and wasn't overly surprised.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,989 ✭✭✭✭recedite


    Pawwed Rig wrote: »
    I would have thought waiting until 18 would be a disaster for a religion. If they did that here the church would disappear in a generation.
    I doubt there are actually any children being brought up in Mormon same-sex parent households. So the new rule only applies to hypothetical people. But it does allow homophobic Mormons to adopt a "holier than thou" attitude towards the wider secular society.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,468 ✭✭✭✭Pawwed Rig




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,853 ✭✭✭✭silverharp


    Mohammed had British values apparently....and no its not The Onion


    http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/the-prophet-mohammed-had-british-values-so-the-only-way-to-combat-extremism-is-to-teach-more-islam-a6717066.html


    The Prophet Mohammed had British values - so the only way to combat extremism is to teach more Islam in schools


    If the last Prophet of Islam, Mohammed was to return to this earth today, what would he make of those who have misconstrued his teachings? This is the question that could begin deconstructing extremism and winning people back who have been tempted into violent interpretations of their faith. Simply put, the way to combat Islamic extremism is to invest in teaching Islamic theology in British schools: teaching that proves the Prophet Mohammed would never have condoned their actions.

    Many reading this will find it difficult to stomach, but the Prophet Mohammed had what we also call "British values". Those values of social responsibility, respect for the rule of law, individual liberty, mutual respect, and tolerance of those of different faiths and beliefs that schools are now required to promote are not exclusively British, and are inherently Islamic. The teachings of the Qur’an are unambiguous on being inclusive, and treating others with justice and equality. There needn’t be a discrepancy between what is British and what is Muslim.....

    A belief in gender identity involves a level of faith as there is nothing tangible to prove its existence which, as something divorced from the physical body, is similar to the idea of a soul. - Colette Colfer



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,192 ✭✭✭✭PopePalpatine


    So I went on the Internet Reddit's front page...and found this:
    BOfrQre.jpg


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,473 Mod ✭✭✭✭robindch


    ^^^ Looks like a top-heavy menage-a-trois, with the woman at the bottom.

    And what's "imput" anyway?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 28,263 ✭✭✭✭Peregrinus


    robindch wrote: »
    And what's "imput" anyway?
    You don't want to know.

    But it's not sinful if done within marriage.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,163 ✭✭✭Shrap


    robindch wrote: »
    ^^^ Looks like a top-heavy menage-a-trois, with the woman at the bottom.

    And what's "imput" anyway?

    Looks seriously kinky. God has some submissive alter-egos going on too. I guess they all switcheroo and "the dominant one" decides which nipple is going to play Holy Spirit with the clamps today and what part of him gets to be the inner child...... :eek:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    robindch wrote: »
    ^^^ Looks like a top-heavy menage-a-trois, with the woman at the bottom.

    And what's "imput" anyway?
    Its "input" that you don't pay any heed to.


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,473 Mod ✭✭✭✭robindch


    VICE News visits a school in Aleppo for khaki-clad boys who want to grow up to be suicide bombers:

    https://news.vice.com/article/in-photos-inside-the-al-nusra-academy-training-the-next-generation-of-jihadis


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,779 ✭✭✭MrPudding


    This is good new:

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-34744858

    I find it ridiculous that the NHS pays for this stuff. Even more ridiculous, my company provided private healthcare also pay for this crap!

    MrP


  • Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 28,863 Mod ✭✭✭✭oscarBravo


    Homeopathic hospitals? Jaysus.



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    MrPudding wrote: »
    This is good new:

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-34744858

    I find it ridiculous that the NHS pays for this stuff. Even more ridiculous, my company provided private healthcare also pay for this crap!

    MrP

    If you put a fellah that's been cured of a disease with medicine beside a guy with the disease who has had no medicine and bang their heads together, will the sick guy get cured or will they both die of head injuries like the others?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 39,865 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    robindch wrote: »
    VICE News visits a school in Aleppo for khaki-clad boys who want to grow up to be suicide bombers

    In that school you're not allowed repeat your Leaving.

    I'm partial to your abracadabra
    I'm raptured by the joy of it all



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 39,865 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    As of tonight, going for a meal out in Paris or a football match makes you a legitimate target.

    I'm partial to your abracadabra
    I'm raptured by the joy of it all



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 39,865 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    Apparently we're all asking to be murdered, because of stuff and things.

    I'm partial to your abracadabra
    I'm raptured by the joy of it all



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  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,473 Mod ✭✭✭✭robindch


    Apparently we're all asking to be murdered, because of stuff and things.
    Here's a list of things which religious fundamentalists find provocative to the point of murder:

    http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/11/paris-attacks-isis/415998/


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    Turn the other cheek to that kind of shite and you'd be left with half a face quick enough.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,192 ✭✭✭✭PopePalpatine


    Stay classy, Paddy.


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,473 Mod ✭✭✭✭robindch


    Stay classy, Paddy.
    Not sure that young Paddy does 'class'.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    Stay classy, Paddy.


    For those as clueless as myself

    "Chaired by Kofi Annan, The Elders is an independent group of global leaders who work together for peace and human rights. They were brought together in 2007 by Nelson Mandela.
    Archbishop Desmond Tutu served for six years as Chair before stepping down in May 2013, and remains an Honorary Elder.
    The Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi was also an Honorary Elder, until her election to the Burmese parliament in April 2012."
    http://theelders.org/about

    "COP21, also known as the 2015 Paris Climate Conference,...."
    http://www.cop21paris.org/about/cop21

    As already noted, Paddy does not do class, and might not recognise it if it smacked him in the gob.


  • Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 28,863 Mod ✭✭✭✭oscarBravo


    Nodin wrote: »
    ...if it smacked him in the gob.

    We can but hope.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,419 ✭✭✭cowboyBuilder


    Stay classy, Paddy.
    :eek:

    what a f*cking twat!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,298 ✭✭✭✭Thargor


    What a cringey title though "The Elders"...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 28,263 ✭✭✭✭Peregrinus


    A wholly-owned subsidiary of the Elders of the Internet, I believe.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,853 ✭✭✭✭silverharp


    Atheist holding his own against Egyptian liberal media :pac:


    A belief in gender identity involves a level of faith as there is nothing tangible to prove its existence which, as something divorced from the physical body, is similar to the idea of a soul. - Colette Colfer



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