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"Mosque spokesperson in Denmark: Child brides is a part of our culture, you should accept that."
"The debate on child marriage in the Danish asylum centers raging for Metro today could tell that there are several places in the country's brides as young as 14 years old, living with their spouses."
(Translated via google)
https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=da&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2F...
"Mississippi Legislator Introduces Bill to Allow Creationism in Public School Science Classes"
Seriously?!
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2016/02/12/mississippi-legi...
The Vatican: "Catholic bishops not obliged to report clerical child abuse"
"only victims or their families should make the decision to report abuse to police."
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/10/catholic-bishops-not-oblige...
What do you expect?
If they told the bishops to report clerical child abuse there would be no catholic church anymore.
Especially since child molestation was the pastime of the elite cardinals and bishops from the very start of the Catholic church.
It is only thanks to a secular society that those things came to the light since before no one would have dared to oppose the church even if they knew what was going on.
I agree. I just hope people in general start waking up and stop pretending that it's not real.
"New Idaho Bill Would Let Teachers Reference the Bible in Astronomy, Biology, and Geology Class"
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2016/02/17/new-idaho-bill-w...
"Oregon Occupier Countersues U.S. Government for $666,666,666,666.66"
"she claims that the U.S. government is working for the devil..."
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2016/02/18/oregon-occupier-...
"The lawsuit wasn’t signed by a lawyer and her actual lawyer had no comment."
"Pregnant women exposed to the Zika virus and who may be carrying foetuses with serious brain defects should not be permitted to have abortions, the Vatican has said."
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/18/vatican-says-abortion-is-il...
"Desperate Women In Zika-Infected Countries Are Begging For Abortion Pills"
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2016/02/17/3750243/abortion-access-zika/
"Two women share shocking accounts of forced labor and sexual abuse by prominent Christian leader Bill Gothard"
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/women-detail-sex-abuse-allegati...
"As many as 34 women who worked for Gothard claim that he harassed them; four claim that he molested them, and one of the accusers claims that Gothard molested her when she was 16 years old."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gothard#Sexual_harassment_allegations
"Now 18 people — 16 women and two men — are suing the 81-year-old founder of the Institute in Basic Life Principles"
http://www.religionnews.com/2016/02/18/women-sue-home-schooling-guru-sex...
"Two infants in the last three months in New York City's ultra-Orthodox Jewish community have been infected with herpes following a ritual circumcision, according to the health department."
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/herpes-strikes-nyc-babies-ritual-circumcisi...
"A top Hindu priest was decapitated by attackers in northern Bangladesh Sunday and two worshippers wounded, police said, in the latest assault targeting minorities in the Muslim-majority nation."
http://news.yahoo.com/leading-hindu-priest-decapitated-bangladesh-115527...
This is one of the effects that the Christian right and especially Creationism will have, that a lot of people don't seem to understand:
"Tech company to leave Georgia after religious freedom bill passed"
http://m.wsbtv.com/news/news/local/tech-company-leave-georgia-after-reli...
They are leaving because of discriminatory laws. Add to this the long term effects of undermining education...
What do you think the end result of that will be?
Fuken nazi like mentality.
Who comes up with these laws should be sent to prison.
I suspect a community of people who go for this bullshit might not seem a viable labor pool for an industry that requires smart folks.
When will they leave this talented and interesting human being alone. His only crime is writing beautiful and thought provoking books.
Go out and buy a copy of "The Satanic Verses" today!
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/danthropology/2016/02/iran-renews-death-dec...
What a surprise... now that gravitational waves have been measured, the faith junkies try to distort it as "Proof of God" from a "scientific point of view".
Fokks News interviews Jeff Zweerink from Reasons to Believe, a progressive creationist ministry.
http://video.foxnews.com/v/4775389920001/god-and-gravitational-waves/
I love the pause he does when she asks "But isn't it also true that there is no empirical proof for God's existence?".
Then he goes "Well yes and no...", then continues on a bullshit rant and finishes with "...choosing to believe what the evidence points to... ...the most logical outcome of that is to believe that's true and to put our faith in that evidence".
Such dishonesty, on so many levels. People like this makes me feel nauseous.
"Fokks News interviews Jeff Zweerink"
Known evolution denier.
The gaps are getting more narrow everyday. Theists will have to stay skinny to continue squeezing between them.
Unicef: "NEW YORK, 7 March 2013 – Between 2011 and 2020, more than 140 million girls will become child brides, according to United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).
If current levels of child marriages hold, 14.2 million girls annually or 39,000 daily will marry too young.
Furthermore, of the 140 million girls who will marry before the age of 18, 50 million will be under the age of 15.
Despite the physical damage and the persistent discrimination to young girls, little progress has been made toward ending the practice of child marriage. In fact, the problem threatens to increase with the expanding youth population in the developing world."
http://www.unicef.org/media/media_68114.html
From 2011 in Yemen:
"Al-Zindani has strong views on the exclusion of women from senior governmental positions, and other issues pertaining to women, including child marriage. His argument against a law banning child marriage is that it is un-Islamic and a threat to the culture and society of Yemen."
"Women requiring emergency obstetric care may be denied admission to the hospital if they lack the authorization of their male guardians, most often their husbands."
"Marital rape may result in unintended and unwanted pregnancy, sexually-transmitted infections, injuries, and even death. In March 2010, Elham Mahdi Al-Assi, aged 12, died of internal bleeding three days after she was married."
https://www.hrw.org/report/2011/12/07/how-come-you-allow-little-girls-ge...
These are not men, they are cowardly child rapists.
Another wielder of priestcraft is showing off his magical knowledge:
"Saudi Cleric: Women Posting Pictures of Food on Snapchat Are Causing Cancer in Children"
https://midnightwatcher.wordpress.com/2016/02/29/hocus-pocus-saudi-cleri...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCZfpI9oHJE
"Moscow (AFP) - A nanny accused of decapitating a young girl in her care then walking through the street brandishing the head, on Wednesday said "Allah ordered" the killing"
http://news.yahoo.com/allah-ordered-child-beheading-nanny-says-moscow-co...
Isn't it time to shut down the the Vatican?
"One of Pope Francis' top advisers acknowledged that the Catholic Church "has made enormous mistakes" in allowing thousands of children to be raped and molested by priests over centuries as he testified at an extraordinary public hearing of an Australian investigative commission just a few blocks from the Vatican."
"Australian Cardinal George Pell testified via videolink for four hours from Sunday night to early Monday morning from a Rome hotel to the Royal Commission sitting in Sydney. In the front row of the conference room were two dozen Australian abuse survivors and their companions, who had traveled across the globe to witness Pell's testimony, a significant show of accountability in the church's long-running abuse saga."
"Pell asserted at the start: "I'm not here to defend the indefensible. The church has made enormous mistakes and is working to remedy those." He said the church had "mucked things up and let people down" and for too long had dismissed credible abuse allegations "in absolutely scandalous circumstances."
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/8bccd6529c124851b8ab6ac627760f7a/australi...
http://www.news.com.au/national/courts-law/where-cardinal-george-pells-f...
What a hero! Acting decades too late and witnessing via a video link, since he fled the country.
Meanwhile in Lousiana:
"Judge rules priests not required to report alleged wrongdoing if learned during confession"
http://theadvocate.com/news/14993398-184/must-priests-tell-police-of-cri...
They are trying to create a loophole for themselves to continue raping children...
Why isn't the congregations reacting to things like this?
Jehovah's Witnesses and Child Abuse - Is there a problem?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULsWB2AvxVc
Spolier alert: Yes, there is. "the problem is bigger than anyone can fully comprehend."
"Jehovah's Witnesses under fire from former congregants who say child sex abuse was hushed"
"although Oregon law defines clergy as mandatory reporters of child abuse, they don’t need to report the abuse because it was a privileged religious communication."
http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2014/12/jehovahs_witnesses_...
The elder’s manual "Shepherd The Flock of God"
https://thetruthofjehowaswittness.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/jehovas-vi...
Page 72: If the elders cannot establish that there was any wrong doing, it instructs them to "leave matters in Jehovah’s hands"
"Catholic website says colleges aren’t for women: ‘Learn to be a wife and mother’"
http://churchandstate.org.uk/2013/09/catholic-website-says-colleges-aren...
Trial begins for Mormon Anti-vaxxer couple who let their 18-month died of meningitis in 2012.
They tried home remedies such as maple syrup, juice with frozen berries and finally a mixture of apple cider vinegar, horse radish root, hot peppers, mashed onion, garlic and ginger root, instead of taking him to a doctor.
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/03/toddler-died-from-meningitis-after-anti-...
http://globalnews.ca/news/2546555/trial-begins-for-david-and-collet-step...
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2016/02/29/david-stephan-collet-stephan_n_9...
This is another good example of why it's not a good thing to just let people have their beliefs that not based on evidence (or even inspite of evidence).
EDIT:
Correcting my mistake. I mixed up the faith healing couples...
The follow up I posted was about another couple:
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Follow up:
"both convicted of second-degree manslaughter for the death of their son, David, in 2009, and last week a judge rejected their appeal and upheld that conviction."
Poor deluded bastards...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3272728/Faith-healing-couple-pri...
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Here is a follow up on the correct couple:
"Anti-vaxx parents guilty in son’s death after they gave sick boy maple syrup instead of medicine"
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/04/anti-vaxx-parents-guilty-in-sons-death-a...
Hope I got it right this time...
Greeting. I'm new here. First of all, I apologize for bad English below :) I'm still learning.
This topic intrigued me.
I come from a small country, where religion determinant of social status. Where they aren't in the end? But here, in a small group there are three religions, which are in constant conflict, at least not directly, but in the style of the Cold War.
But there was the direct confrontation too. There was a war, which I fortunately survived. Some thought that because of the territory, the degradation of a people. But no, the essence was that, they fought for religion. Whose God is greater. The war had ended, but the indoctrination continued.
To summarize. I was a child, growing up in a Muslim family. And the war was fought between Muslims, Orthodox and Catholics. So, from an early age I was force-fed information that Muslims threatened that the infidels hated us because we are Muslims. They taught me that I hate them because they aren't Muslims. You know that cliché of mutual 'love'.
After the war, indoctrination is continued in a more aggressive form. People came from the East, Arab countries. Wahhabis. They invited people to faith intimidation to hell, literally saying that they will burn if they didn't accept the faith, or get away from the same. That all infidels should be isolated, don't mix with them, to kill them if they attempt to hurt, insult your religion. And more. But dearest to them were new generations. Easier to handle, implemented by their concept of seeing things. The notion of religion and God.
Lucky for me, I have always been a skeptic. True, I was in the faith, but as if I didn't, because I always ask too many questions, which is all around me annoyed. I've always loved astronomy, paleontology, biology, science, art, music and beers :D. I have long been associated with this shit about religion, because of social acceptance, family. But it's never too late. I started to realize more and more that I began to feel like a victim of indoctrination. I realized that I may, and I have a right to believe what I believe. That is not to believe. I began to feel freedom. Feel the power of knowledge. I extended the horizons by reading books about it. Talking with people. I met a girl who was an atheist. I have had discussions with her, even as a believer then. I continued to lead the discussion with a believers. I've read the Koran, the Bible, books about atheism, science, evolution. About everything. I simply picked up and turned everything into consideration. Although I was in the depths of yourself know that it's just the rest of this indoctrination. But as a skeptic, I love to feed the information to make better understand the matter. I have to accept yourself and openly say what I think and what I believe. But I'm not abandoned religion because of people. I am simply investigating the idea of God, and the more I explored, I understood less and less the point of God, more precisely, the more I realize that he is less real. So today I'm proud that I'm not allowed to be eaten by indoctrination. And religion.
So I well understand what it means to this indoctrination. When I first told people that I feel like someone who doesn't believe in God, what qualifies me as an atheist, they didn't believe me from the beginning. But over time, some have become strangers to me. Some hated me. But my family is always with me.
I hope I wasn't boring :D
/cheers
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