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Is the Catholic church a force for good in the world?
"It stands up for the oppressed and offers spiritual succour to billions...
Is the Catholic church a force for good in the world?
"It stands up for the oppressed and offers spiritual succour to billions say the Church's supporters. But what about the Church's teachings on condoms, gays and women priests, ask the detractors."
Speaking for the motion, Archbishop John Onaiyekan and Ann Widdecombe MP. Speaking against the motion, Christopher Hitchens and Stephen Fry.
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Unfortunately, it may be more difficult than you think to do so. First, you need to publicly oppose as representatives of a rival organization that has sufficient influence to reverse the Churches' damage. Atheists must band together. It is our only chance if we want to pull our weight.
MAYBE CAPSLOCK CAN HELP YOU READ THIS BETTER SINCE YOU OBVIOUSLY ARE A MORON AND CANNOT STOP YOUR PROPAGANDIZING WAYS... CHINA AND INDIA HAVE MORE PEOPLE THAN THEY KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH. THEY ARE NOT CATHOLIC. YOUR ARGUMENT IS DEAD. JUST DROP IT... JESUS FUCKING CHRIST!
As you can tell, I truly despise you religious automatons who simply cannot stand the thought of themselves as being no less than CHOSEN and SPECIAL... I'm SORRY but the world DOES NOT REVOLVE AROUND YOU.
Ok then. Have at you! I shall return the favor in kind.
Bring back COMMON SENSE - and resist pathetically pedantic pedagoguery, propaganda and Catholicization! Non-secular theocracies are sinking under their own evil! (LOL so true) Beware!
Evolution is a punctuated dynamic process and proceeds at vastly different rates depending on the organism. If my information be correct we are about halfway through our time of existence, the current human species may well be displaced by another. But not in your lifetime - nor mine. Secondly, heaven and hell are but concepts. It would be best not to take them as literally true but as metaphors at best, albeit very unpleasant ones. As Darwin said, 'there is grandeur in this view of life'. GTFO.
Gosh, do you think? Well, thank you for your thrillingly astute observation. It's all so clear now....What is clear is that there are still too many rather unpleasant nutjobs like you in the world, and the sooner the forces of evolution deliver your inevitable extinction, the better for mankind. It's a shame there's not a Hell for you to go to (qv. Hitchens)
Well everything I've said is the honest truth. Everywhere the Catholic Church goes it rapes, trashes and destroys the cultures of any land it has invaded and forcibly converted. It's already raped and trashed Indeginous people of North and South america, its destroyed the aboriginals in Australia, and now it wants to ruin the lives of the Hindus in India and peoples of Africa is shamfully exploits.
@amaqula, I believe we voted you off AtheistMediaBlog already. You sound like a ultra-right wing fanatic. Since when has the Catholic Church done anything good it has not redressd with that which has caused harm? Cool it, brother.
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As you can tell, I truly despise you religious automatons who simply cannot stand the thought of themselves as being no less than CHOSEN and SPECIAL... I'm SORRY but the world DOES NOT REVOLVE AROUND YOU.
PATHETIC.
Ok then. Have at you! I shall return the favor in kind.
Bring back COMMON SENSE - and resist pathetically pedantic pedagoguery, propaganda and Catholicization! Non-secular theocracies are sinking under their own evil! (LOL so true) Beware!
It's already raped and trashed Indeginous people of North and South america, its destroyed the aboriginals in Australia, and now it wants to ruin the lives of the Hindus in India and peoples of Africa is shamfully exploits.