It’s no secret that Atheism and Skepticism are rising movements. What was once a lose confederation of a lack of belief is more organised and more connected thanks to things like the Internet. Love him or hate him, the Pope is the world’s most influential religious leader. Due to his rank as the head of …
Category Archive: Catholic
Mar 06 2013
A Second Letter – Dear Cardinal O’Brien
Dear Cardinal O’Brien My first letter was extremely harsh. Well to be fair you deserved that harshness. You were utilising a position of power to denigrate and deny the basic right of happiness to a group of people based on prejudices created by a 2000 year old book. There are Gay Priests. There have to …
Mar 06 2013
Repost – Dear Cardinal O’Brien
A Copy of the following Letter has been sent to Archdioscean office and Cardinal’s Residence as a voice of complaint against the letter written and published in the Sunday Telegraph by Cardinal O’Brien. If you wish to voice your complaints as well, please take the time to do so and I urge that there are no active threats. …
Feb 22 2013
Reducing Abortion
Richard M. Doerflinger’s article on Washington Post has me intrigued. How do you reduce abortion? From a medical standpoint? Abortion can be a medical or a surgical procedure, each with specific risks. If we can control and totally reduce unwanted pregnancy we can eliminate these risks.
Jan 16 2013
Oh Noes! Won’t Somebody Think of the Priests!
The priests of the UK have written a letter in opposition of Gay Marriage, So far it has 1000 signatures and says that allowing gays to get married will lead to persecution against Catholics. Repeat after me. No one is going to force priests to get married to each other. No one is going to …
Jan 10 2013
Investigations of Child Abuse Halted In Germany
Well if you haven’t heard already, the current investigation into the abuse of children perpetrated by the Catholic Church in Germany has come to a halt. The reason? Well the lead researcher complained about the level of control the Church wanted over the investigation. According to the Church? According to them it was due to …
Dec 29 2012
Bullying Isn’t So Bad
Our Internet world is filled with tales of tragic teens who die by their own hand. Cruelly tormented daily, these teens feel sufficiently alone and alienated from society that they don’t think that things will get better. They cannot see past their daily torment and feel the need to end it all. One of the …
Dec 28 2012
Christmas Message – Hate and the Meaning of Christmas
Dear Catholics and The Roman Catholic Church… I understand many Catholics do not agree with the RCC on a lot of stances but a fair few do and it is to them who this message is aimed. So what does Christmas mean to you? The Children’s wing of the BBC ran a little quotes page …
Dec 18 2012
Sex? Homosexuality? Masturbation? Y’all Need Jesus
I am going to let you in on a little secret. Sex is Awesome. Okay it’s less of a secret than I thought but you would be surprised how many religious people have hang ups over something as natural as sex. It is either shameful or sinful (because anything that fun must be bad) or …
Nov 15 2012
Kids these Days
With their gangs and their baggy pants and their hophip music and their atheism. So what’s the pope so mad about today? Is it the millions of people doomed to die in Africa if they don’t use condoms? Is it the treatment of homosexuals in Uganda where they are planning to execute gay people? Is …
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