Posted on 08/24/2007 12:55:48 PM PDT by SirLinksalot
It’s sad they would feel so threatened by someone else’s faith.
Interesting, they use a picture of a pagan deity (Liberty) as something good, being altered by a cross (symbol of Christianity), which they disapprove of (or of which they disapprove, for those who insist on not ending sentences with a preposition).
I’ve sometimes wondered where the most joyless place on earth is. Looks like you’ve found it.
The above was for the picture with the Statue of Liberty, and not all of the pictures.
Heh. Those scary Christians will probably pray for them.
Heh. Free Thinker Student Society. It never ceases to amaze me how “Free Thinkers” think anyone that the only people thinking freely are the ones that think like them.
Good catch. Giant religious statues are scary. Wonder if the society will ever meet in Rio?
What a rogues gallery. Pray for them. They hate that.
One of the speakers — Peter Singer is the Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University, and laureate professor at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, University of Melbourne.
His main claim to fame is being an advocate of sparing society at large of more pain and suffering and the COST of attending to these by euthanizing babies when we know that they are deformed/retarded/deathly ill/handicapped.
He also advocates allowing older people to die quickly when they are sick and not spend too much money trying to cure or resucitate them when the chances are slim in order to save society from too much cost.
Hence, he states that abortion, painless infanticide and euthanasia can be justified in certain special circumstances, for instance in the case of severely disabled infants whose life would cause suffering both to themselves and to their parents when they grow up.
Singer classifies euthanasia as voluntary, involuntary, or non-voluntary. Given his consequentialist approach, the difference between active and passive euthanasia is not morally significant, for the required act/omission doctrine is untenable; killing and letting die are on a moral par when their consequences are the same.
This is the professor that teaches our most brillant kids who study at Ivy league schools like Princeton nowadays.
Lookie here — I see Alan Dershowitz, Harvard Professor and one time successful defender of OJ Simpson.
Christians should understand the general sentiment (although definitely not equal in degree) with Islam. You wouldn't want to be subject to their religious laws or forced to recognize or validate the existence of their god, would you?
You are confusing faith with government. Look up the history of the Anabaptists. They suffered under government rule because they didn’t belong to the government church. It wasn’tabout faith. It was about control
The big problem is that the atheists have become the oppressors.
Susan Jacoby.....Rush is right, feminism is a way for ugly women to gain access to the mainstream of society.
"Global vote picks Seven Wonders".
On the BBC Have Your Say, at least one commentator basically stated that if a religious monument (a reference to the Brazilian statue) was voted one of the new wonders in 'this modern age' that would be a sign that society was not so advanced.
Just another religion claiming their faith is better than your faith because they call it reason. If you think the world is bad now, wait until you get a load of the misery they are going to bring.
However, would not consider the abolition of abortion for non-life-threatening reasons, and even an acceptance of Creationism as a model for the origins of life and the universe along with Macroevolution and cosmic evolution to be particularly "religious laws."
For the latter, you still have your view in the mainstream, only now there is some competition.
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