Fucking..... catholics.....

[dyresand]

The catholic church in new york just paid a lobbyist a bunch of money to stop a anti child sex bill....
this is fucking disgusting... they said they are for social justice apparently they fucking aren't...

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyath...m=facebook

By them doing that.. they pretty much gave up their tax exemption status and the church should be taxed to hell
for doing that.

[Silver]

The type of power the catholic church wields....it would take a veritable war to eradicate that scum.

[dyresand]

The type of power the catholic church wields....it would take a veritable war to eradicate that scum.

Honestly at this point... i really believe that the catholic church is just really a front for a pedophile ring 
at this point. Really because why would they honestly care about people and yet at the same time hurt 
them giving them bad advice saying condoms are bad until recently mind you because of Zika then they say
oh shit condoms are good use them. Then they say oh child.. abuse... law that can.... oh we can have that.
Honestly this is why i am happy religion is dying out here in the US. I really hope one day the people of vatican
city get sick of the popes shit and turn irreligious.

[Silver]

It's the power. Power does weird things to people. Power corrupts and all that, but it is very much rooted in reality. The Greeks had it right with their gods. The Greek gods were powerful and they were unstoppable with what they did to humanity at a whim.

The Christians also described their god in their image as well. Take a look around us, what is happening and what has happened. Ever since monotheism took hold, the gods only become crueler, only because man becomes crueler. And man is the creator of god.

[dyresand]

It's the power.  Power does weird things to people.  Power corrupts and all that, but it is very much rooted in reality.  The Greeks had it right with their gods.  The Greek gods were powerful and they were unstoppable with what they did to humanity at a whim.

The Christians also described their god in their image as well.  Take a look around us, what is happening and what has happened.  Ever since monotheism took hold, the gods only become crueler, only because man becomes crueler.  And man is the creator of god.

In all honesty there needed to be a awakening of common sense to prevent the dark ages more or less we would be so better off now without religion in this day and age.
Well with the abrahamic ones anyways we would be better off.

[Silver]

You know the dark ages happened long after the creation of the three Judeo-Christian religions.

[dyresand]

You know the dark ages happened long after the creation of the three Judeo-Christian religions.

More or less the repression of science that shouldn't have happened religion played a role in that.

[Minimalist]

You know the dark ages happened long after the creation of the three Judeo-Christian religions.

But not that long after jesusism was allowed to turn the Roman empire into its own free-fire zone.

The Western Empire traditionally fell in 476 AD but had been on life support long before that.  Emperor Theodosius issued the Edict of Thessalonica which made Nicene jesusism the official creed of the empire in 380.

[Silver]

Even, then, three hundred years is a long time. The dark ages began around 700. It was more an age where it built itself up and then reached its peak and then died out, slowly. It was, unfortunately, a long dark age.

[Minimalist]

It's a term that has been bandied about for a lot of reasons...not all of them good.

Indeed, modern historians no longer use the term because of its negative connotation.

Political correctness run amok!

I, however, am a traditionalist.

Generally, the Dark Ages referred to the period of time ushered in by the fall of the Western Roman Empire. This took place when the last Western emperor, Romulus Augustulus, was deposed by Odoacer, a barbarian. AD 476 was the time of this event.

http://www.allabouthistory.org/the-dark-ages.htm