Religion, what's the point?
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In before "That bishop isn't a true christian or doesnt understand the bible like I do"
The gay pride one I can understand. But the BLM flag brings them out of the fold of Catholicism? WTF?
The gay pride one I can understand. But the BLM flag brings them out of the fold of Catholicism? WTF?
And this just makes it worse:
The school president’s letter about the issue said: “Nativity started flying the pride and Black Lives Matter flags following our students’ (the majority of whom are people of color) call to express support for making our communities more just and inclusive"
https://catholicnews.com/after-flag-dispute-worcester-bishop-says-jesuit-school-no-longer-catholic/
Worth posting here too…
There it is
“I’d have to say, look, there’s always a plan. I believe God always has a plan,” the attorney general replied. “Life is short no matter what it is.”
The lesson of the Book of Job again.
The lesson of the Book of Job again.
"Faith does not give you the answers, it just stops you asking the questions."
Relentlessly gay
Relentlessly gay
Yeah pretty funny but unfortunately it's someone rehashing a probable hoax from 2015.
https://www.snopes.com/news/2015/06/18/relentlessly-gay/
Relentlessly gay
You're just jealous because those Christian's haven't acknowledged your flaming penis collection outside your house.
Damn.
What do you mean outside? The house’s facade is a flaming penis.
Works in a few threads…
Kenneth Copeland is shaking in his rubber skin
Absolutely.
Not god/religion but this is about the supernatural. I wonder if such physical causes (or strictly correlations) were also involved in the formation of gods and religion?
https://www.sciencealert.com/resear...RDmNhQAnnPRRB9TE73s_jL0UmrdvgsCfoPnEog5EmGeE4
https://www.sciencealert.com/resear...RDmNhQAnnPRRB9TE73s_jL0UmrdvgsCfoPnEog5EmGeE4
Even worse, it makes you okay with not asking questions, it also makes you look down on the ones asking questions.
Yeah, American religion is turning me from a passive atheist to a very angry one. I am afraid I will turn into Richard Dawkins twitter angry. Really miss Hitchens right now.
I can't wait till folks start praying to all the gods and the Christians lose their absolute shit.
Barcelona literally have a mini chapel in their tunnel, I don’t really see an issue. Why does he not pray before the match though than after it?
No one is stopping him from praying it's just coercing the other students. If he is so interested why not do it after all kids have left and say "we will have prayer after school if anyone wants to join".
He is a public school representative. Holding prayer (in this case, probably Christian) is both exclusionary & coercing.
Why wouldn’t be do it before to pray nobody gets injured..
It’s hardly coercing, does he physically threaten them to pray?
First thing that came to my mind.
"Who is this Mohammed you are on about there kid?!"
Do they? I've been through the stadium tour and don't remember that.
He's an authority figure at a public school, he doesn't have to physically threaten anyone for it to count as coercion.
If you read the article it's quite clear why there were concerns and coercion doesn't have to include physical threats but I would have thought most would already be aware of that:
One issue in the case was whether the coach’s decision to pray in such a prominent place, on the 50-yard line, amounted to a private moment of giving thanks or a public demonstration of his religious faith that his players may have felt compelled to join.
Kennedy urged the Supreme Court to find that he was acting on his own behalf, expressing his own religious views, not speaking as a mouthpiece for the school. But the school district said the students on the football team looked up to their coach and felt coerced into doing as he did.
"Today’s decision is particularly misguided because it elevates the religious rights of a school official, who voluntarily accepted public employment and the limits that public employment entails, over those of his students, who are required to attend school and who this Court has long recognized are particularly vulnerable and deserving of protection," Sotomayor wrote. "In doing so, the Court sets us further down a perilous path in forcing States to entangle themselves with religion, with all of our rights hanging in the balance."