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RE: Damned Protestants...
July 14, 2014 at 7:39 pm
(July 14, 2014 at 7:36 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Welcome to the first century...courtesy of nutty Pat Robertson.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/07/14/pa...-ancestor/
Quote:Instead of recommending that the mother seek medical attention, Robertson said that the boy could be “oppressed or possessed by demons.”
Yes well, if his mother was sane, she would have started with the doctor, not a TV evangelist. At what point is this sort of thing child abuse? Because I can think of a number of rather dangerous options for what that pain might really be.
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RE: Damned Protestants...
July 14, 2014 at 7:40 pm
Sadly....when a jury says "guilty."
And then they blame the mother...not the preacher.
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RE: Damned Protestants...
August 7, 2014 at 4:25 pm
Because bad things only ever happen to bad people, amirite?
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould