Comments on: 23rd July 2010

By: steve

steve — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 01:24:22 +0000

blame it on their (mid easterners’) “barbaric”culture.

By: Braathwaat

Braathwaat — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 23:24:25 +0000

Education is a serious problem in the Muslim world as many of the schools (financed by the saudi’s) are teaching the Wahhabi brand of Islam which is radical even by Islamic standards.

By: solomon

solomon — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 23:03:05 +0000

Margaret,
The muslims imam’s or mufti’s did’nt live like the lives of the Pope, in palaces like Kings. When you’re in the wrong religion thats what happens.

By: GodKilla

GodKilla — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 21:41:43 +0000

Margaret, do you live in Australia by any chance? Sorry, off topic

By: GodKilla

GodKilla — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 21:40:59 +0000

Wow! about time admin!

By: Margaret

Margaret — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 15:56:50 +0000

The best investment I ever made was birth control. Yay, contraceptives! Now if I could only find an atheist fellow, Yum.

The Catholic Church lost its marketability when it opposed contraception. Out of touch and irrelevant to anything other than the Dark Ages, a somber period in history during which birth control was not available anyway, life was short and brutal, common people were illiterate, and the Pope was never questioned because people did not have options.

People now are literate and can see facts for themselves. They do not have to stay under the thumb of the Pope. A celibate man in embroidered gowns living in a palace is going to tell me I have to always be “open to the transmission of life”, but he or his church will do nothing to help if I have 17 kids and an abusive religious husband? Insanity. Keep talking, Pope-man, the more people who see how out of touch with reality you are, the more you lose. Move your palace to the moon, for all I care, I’m not listening to you.

By: John

John — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 14:31:30 +0000

I guess that is why the US appears to be becoming more religious; its schools are commandeered more and more by 1950’s era “white” religious teaching in it’s schools, its text books and by the politicians and thus are apparently sliding backwards on the scales compared to European an Asian students.

By: The Heretic

The Heretic — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 13:35:40 +0000

I love that Christians religions are being fraught with skeptisicm – which I find entirely healthy. But, this skepticism needs to permeate other religions as well. There are just too many vacuous followers in the world. And they are responsible for so much evil……

By: Atheist MC

Atheist MC — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 09:16:48 +0000

The more education peole get, the less they are satified with religion. It’s practically self evident. You can almost predict a person’s IQ and standard of education by how religious they are.

By: Admin

Admin — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 07:48:20 +0000

Contributors are kindly reminded to stay on topic – which is always the quote of the day.

Today’s topic is the collapse of traditional Irish Catholicism – something that once seemed impregnable!