Stupid things religious people say

[arewethereyet]

The idea of a 35 year old catholic woman lying to an eleven year old about her sex life is great though.  Was it a nun, was she undressing as she told the tale?

Thanks a lot...there are nuns I had for teachers and don't need that image in my head.  Who is going to rock me to sleep tonight?

[Fake Messiah]

Oh, please do fuck off.  I was raised in the Catholic church in a very, very Catholic part of eastern Iowa.  Your one encounter means jack shit.

Again, I'm not saying that all Catholic women are like this. I am aware there are others who even get pregnant outside of wedlock, but I'm talking about those that take directives from the Catholic Church very seriously.

[The Grand Nudger]

Conservative religious beliefs are a strong indicator of teen pregnancy in the us. Very few american catholics take the directives of the catholic church seriously..especially about sex. Ask the catholic church.

[Sheldon]

Conservative religious beliefs are a strong indicator of teen pregnancy in the us.  Very few american catholics take the directives of the catholic church seriously..especially about sex.  Ask the catholic church.

So it would seem:

"Although the United States spends about $88m (£44m; €65m) a year teaching teenagers to abstain from sex outside marriage, young people in the programmes are just as likely to have sex as those who don't receive counselling, a new study says.


Teenagers who received abstinence education did not delay sexual activity any longer than those in a control group. When they became sexually active they had the same number of partners and were as likely to use condoms or other contraceptives as those who had not been counselled.

Sharon Camp, president and chief executive officer of the Guttmacher Institute, which studies reproductive issues, said, “This rigorous, well designed study adds to and confirms previous research findings that abstinence only education programmes are ineffective and a waste of taxpayer dollars.” She called for more comprehensive programmes that not only teach abstinence but also provide information on contraception and safe sex."

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1857771/

"Federal funding of abstinence programmes was established by the 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act. Individual states provide additional funding. The US has more than 700 programmes."

There's some money Musk could trim from the federal budget. Anyone want to email him?

[Fake Messiah]

The Catholic podcast "Catholic Unscripted" from the UK goes Nazi.

First segment.
Gavin Ashenden, a former Chaplain to the Queen between 2008 and 2017 and former BBC podcaster, performed a Nazi salute in unison with his fellow hosts of the "Catholic Unscripted" podcast. They say: "Our hearts go out to you."

The trio, including Catholic writers Katherine Bennett and Mark Lambert, did the Nazi salute to show support for Calvin Robinson, a priest who was defrocked by the Anglican church after performing the salute at a recent anti-abortion conference in Washington, DC.

Second segment.
Katherine Bennett goes on to argue that Adolf Hitler was not "evil" nor the "embodiment of evil." That by calling Hitler & Nazis evil we shut down any discussion about them because we simplify Hitler.

Third segment.
Gavin Ashenden starts singing "Tomorrow Belongs To Me," a song from the musical "Cabaret" that's sung by a Nazi character and that has become an anthem adopted by neo-Nazi groups.