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RE: Stupid things religious people say
February 14, 2025 at 6:09 pm
Yeah, if that were true, it would be best for people to sleep naked and leave a couple of cameras filming them so that if a demon rapes them, they can give the footage to the Nobel Prize commission and collect money for discovering the supernatural world. Rape would certainly be a small price to pay for the money and fame you would gain.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: Stupid things religious people say
February 14, 2025 at 10:43 pm
(February 14, 2025 at 5:44 pm)zebo-the-fat Wrote: Odd... I have been sleeping naked for at least 50 years, not seen any demons yet, I must be doing it wrong!
It used to be that when I woke my wife was frequently convinced that one appendage of mine has been demonized.
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RE: Stupid things religious people say
February 16, 2025 at 1:04 pm
"One of us!" Catholics are happy that the guy who is incompetent, dangerous and will be responsible for the death of millions got confirmed as the secretary of HHS. You know, the guy who visited Samoa to promote baseless lies about the polio vaccine, resulting in a polio outbreak that killed over 80 children.
This is how they see it:
Quote:Catholics hopeful on abortion, health policy after Kennedy’s confirmation as HHS secretary
Prominent U.S. Catholics are expressing optimism after Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s recent confirmation as Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), following an arduous confirmation process which saw him challenged on several issues key to the Catholic Church.
Kennedy, himself a professed Catholic, took the most heat from Democratic senators for his views on vaccines. But some Catholics have praised Kennedy’s commitment to vaccine safety.
Sister Deidre Byrne, who was denied a religious exemption to the COVID-19 vaccination mandate for health care workers in August of 2021, told CNA that “speaking both as a physician and religious,” she was “thrilled” by Kennedy’s confirmation.
“Medically, I agree with [Kennedy’s] concerns,” Byrne, who is widely known as Sister Dede, said via email. She cited “vaccines and the lack of proper research, and then forcing, for example, the COVID-19 vaccine, which had no scientific basis behind it and [has] injured thousands.”
Byrne expressed gratitude over Kennedy’s pledge to conduct studies on the safety of abortion pills such as mifepristone, which were partially deregulated under the Biden administration.
“Now they are giving this abortion pill online without a physician's evaluation or ultrasound,” she said, describing the practice as “extremely dangerous and malpractice.”
“So I thank God for President Trump and I thank God that [Kennedy] was confirmed to run HHS,” Byrne concluded.
Catholic Medical Association (CMA), echoed Byrne, “The Catholic Medical Association looks forward to working closely with the Trump administration and Secretary Kennedy in a shared mission to promote and protect ethical medicine. CMA is committed to foundational principles of health care: the inherent dignity of every human life from conception to natural death; the biological reality of two sexes; and, the protection of conscience rights and religious freedom for health care professionals.”
“We are anxious to see Secretary Kennedy’s attention to correcting HHS policies that have been in direct conflict with optimal and rational health care methods over the past several years. It is time to return to medicine practiced as it should be, and not directed by ideology.”
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/...-secretary
Yeah, they don't like medicine directed by ideology, but it just so happens that they consider the abortion pill and any kind of assisted dying to be unacceptable.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: Stupid things religious people say
February 16, 2025 at 1:34 pm
(February 16, 2025 at 1:04 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: Yeah, they don't like medicine directed by ideology, but it just so happens that they consider the abortion pill and any kind of assisted dying to be unacceptable.
They have a hard time with the concept of a pluralistic society.
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RE: Stupid things religious people say
February 16, 2025 at 2:11 pm
(This post was last modified: February 16, 2025 at 2:11 pm by brewer.)
(February 16, 2025 at 1:04 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: "One of us!" Catholics are happy that the guy who is incompetent, dangerous and will be responsible for the death of millions got confirmed as the secretary of HHS. You know, the guy who visited Samoa to promote baseless lies about the polio vaccine, resulting in a polio outbreak that killed over 80 children.
This is how they see it:
Quote:Catholics hopeful on abortion, health policy after Kennedy’s confirmation as HHS secretary
Prominent U.S. Catholics are expressing optimism after Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s recent confirmation as Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), following an arduous confirmation process which saw him challenged on several issues key to the Catholic Church.
Kennedy, himself a professed Catholic, took the most heat from Democratic senators for his views on vaccines. But some Catholics have praised Kennedy’s commitment to vaccine safety.
Sister Deidre Byrne, who was denied a religious exemption to the COVID-19 vaccination mandate for health care workers in August of 2021, told CNA that “speaking both as a physician and religious,” she was “thrilled” by Kennedy’s confirmation.
“Medically, I agree with [Kennedy’s] concerns,” Byrne, who is widely known as Sister Dede, said via email. She cited “vaccines and the lack of proper research, and then forcing, for example, the COVID-19 vaccine, which had no scientific basis behind it and [has] injured thousands.”
Byrne expressed gratitude over Kennedy’s pledge to conduct studies on the safety of abortion pills such as mifepristone, which were partially deregulated under the Biden administration.
“Now they are giving this abortion pill online without a physician's evaluation or ultrasound,” she said, describing the practice as “extremely dangerous and malpractice.”
“So I thank God for President Trump and I thank God that [Kennedy] was confirmed to run HHS,” Byrne concluded.
Catholic Medical Association (CMA), echoed Byrne, “The Catholic Medical Association looks forward to working closely with the Trump administration and Secretary Kennedy in a shared mission to promote and protect ethical medicine. CMA is committed to foundational principles of health care: the inherent dignity of every human life from conception to natural death; the biological reality of two sexes; and, the protection of conscience rights and religious freedom for health care professionals.”
“We are anxious to see Secretary Kennedy’s attention to correcting HHS policies that have been in direct conflict with optimal and rational health care methods over the past several years. It is time to return to medicine practiced as it should be, and not directed by ideology.”
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/...-secretary
Yeah, they don't like medicine directed by ideology, but it just so happens that they consider the abortion pill and any kind of assisted dying to be unacceptable.
Deirdre "Dede" Byrne is a Roman Catholic religious sister, missionary, surgeon, and retired U.S. Army Colonel. [1] Touting ivermectin as a cure for COVID-19, Byrne has made claims to have treated over 500 COVID-19 patients early in the disease with nearly 100% success. : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dede_Byrne
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RE: Stupid things religious people say
Yesterday at 3:06 am
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Hmm, there are some things to unpack in this article
Quote:Pope Francis, sensing he is close to death, moves to protect his legacy
The battle to succeed Pope Francis is likely to be highly politicized, particularly given the pontiff’s recent clash with Catholic U.S. Vice President JD Vance.
He hasn't even died and they're already fighting who's going to succeed him.
Quote:Francis has been suffering from intense pain and has privately expressed fears that he won’t make it this time.
Fears? Isn't he supposed to be happy that he's going to heaven to be with Jesus? Don't they always mock that fear is for atheists?
Quote:He is now acting entirely on “doctors’ orders,” said one of them.
Of course, he's expecting doctors to bail him and not prayers.
Quote:The pope initially resisted going to hospital but was told in no uncertain terms that he was at risk of dying if he stayed in his room in the Vatican, the second person added.
You mean "risking of going to Jesus"? Btw, shouldn't he go to Fatima? I've heard that people get cured there.
Quote:Since he became pope in 2013, Francis has aimed to make the Church more inclusive, opening up key roles to women and LGBT+ people. While that has provoked furious reaction from many conservatives, liberals complain that the reforms have been insufficient. Meanwhile, the pope’s efforts to put an end to rampant child abuse by clerics have produced mixed results.
So his legacy ranges from failure to mixed. But let's face it, "mixed" is doing some major heavy lifting and it's actually shit. But we got to preserve it.
Quote:he extended the term of the Italian cardinal Giovanni Battista Re as dean of the College of Cardinals, a role that will oversee some preparations for a potential conclave, intended to ensure that the process plays out according to Francis’s wishes, the people said.
Francis’s wishes? Isn't it supposed to play out according to the holy ghost's wishes who leads cardinals through the conclave on who to pick.
Quote:Earlier this month, he issued an extraordinary rebuke of United States Vice President JD Vance’s characterization of Ordo Amoris, a theological concept relating to love that Vance used to justify President Donald Trump’s migrant policy. The papal pushback triggered fury from the White House, raising the prospect of a highly politicized succession battle should Francis die.
https://www.politico.eu/article/pope-fra...me-health/
Oh, he opposed Trump. What an irreplaceable bravery. If he had any brains and spine, he would have opposed him during the elections. Instead, Catholics when all for him. I mean, why is he "worried"? Is he's a minority in opposing Trump?
How things are going I wouldn't be surprised if they chose Mel Gibson as the next Pope.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: Stupid things religious people say
Yesterday at 6:33 am
Wonder why no xians are praying for the pope to get well?
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