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noco said:
Perhaps we might see some of Bob Brown's aliens arriving to take us over.
Did he leave the Greens to join up with his aliens to become the World's supreme leader.
Maybe he might be one of the advanced crew.LOL.:D:D:D
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Don't be so silly noco!

We all know that the aliens are way too intelligent to align themselves with pretentious primitives.
 
bellenuit said:
Local Pastor Calls For Death of 'Queers & Homosexuals'
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This pastor obviously sees "Queers" as being a distinctly different group of people than "homosexuals". Hmmm.... The pastor probably doesn't see them as people. *shakes head*. I just can't understand how a person can be like this, no matter how hard I try. As I get older, having hatred for someone who has done no harm to others seems more & more absurd.
 
Jehovah's Witness nutjobs

How about this one????

Judge forces Jehovah's Witness parents to allow transfusion for daughter with cancer

  • Girls parents refused transfusion on religious grounds
  • Girl diagnosed with cancer of blood and bone marrow
  • Without treatment girl will die..."within weeks"

DOCTORS made an urgent plea to the Supreme Court yesterday to help save the life of a Jehovah's Witness girl dying of leukaemia.

Justice Richard White ordered the girl, 4, receive treatment, including a blood transfusion to which her parents had objected on religious grounds.

Paediatric oncologist Dr Petra Ritchie, right, said without treatment the girl "will die . . . I would say in weeks".
Dr Ritchie said that the girl, who was diagnosed with cancer of the blood and bone marrow on Monday, had a 90 per cent chance of survival if she received treatment immediately.

Doctors had this week advised she needed a potentially life-saving blood transfusion but her parents objected on religious grounds.
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The JW's should be made to present their factual evidence along with psychical exhibits in court to substantiate their claims,just like any other individual has to other wise it is just hearsay..
The next problem will be the loving parents shunning the daughter if she survives and she will wonder what religion is all about..
 
Hope they donated his body to science and see how much vacuum he pulled between his ears.
Here in the Philippines 98 % believe in God yet still believe in Faith healers as the TV show said people are crazy
 
bellenuit said:
Why I watched a snake-handling pastor die for his faith

http://richarddawkins.net/articles/646096-why-i-watched-a-snake-handling-pastor-die-for-his-faith
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pity the guy threw away his life just to be right.......at the last moment he realised the simple dumb logic of what he'd done but no cigar

worse still, the voyeuristic LAUREN POND
was.... a professional loss for me.
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a person just died and you had the opportunity to stop that, what's your profession got to do with it?

and

I have been staying at a friend’s house close to.....gradually allowing myself to feel some of the raw emotion that has been percolating for days.
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right, had to build up to it, did you or do you mean soaking up the atmosphere of sadness?

amazing
 
Glen48 said:
Hope they donated his body to science and see how much vacuum he pulled between his ears.
Here in the Philippines 98 % believe in God yet still believe in Faith healers as the TV show said people are crazy
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Didn't Benny Hinn recently go there to regrow an amputee's limb?

 
South Korea surrenders to creationist demands

Wonder if this will happen here one day....

South Korea surrenders to creationist demands

Mention creationism, and many scientists think of the United States, where efforts to limit the teaching of evolution have made headway in a couple of states1. But the successes are modest compared with those in South Korea, where the anti-evolution sentiment seems to be winning its battle with mainstream science.

A petition to remove references to evolution from high-school textbooks claimed victory last month after the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (MEST) revealed that many of the publishers would produce revised editions that exclude examples of the evolution of the horse or of avian ancestor Archaeopteryx. The move has alarmed biologists, who say that they were not consulted. “The ministry just sent the petition out to the publishing companies and let them judge,” says Dayk Jang, an evolutionary scientist at Seoul National University.
The campaign was led by the Society for Textbook Revise (STR), which aims to delete the “error” of evolution from textbooks to “correct” students’ views of the world, according to the society’s website. The society says that its members include professors of biology and high-school science teachers.

The STR is also campaigning to remove content about “the evolution of humans” and “the adaptation of finch beaks based on habitat and mode of sustenance”, a reference to one of the most famous observations in Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species. To back its campaign, the group highlights recent discoveries that Archaeopteryx is one of many feathered dinosaurs, and not necessarily an ancestor of all birds2. Exploiting such debates over the lineage of species “is a typical strategy of creation scientists to attack the teaching of evolution itself”, says Joonghwan Jeon, an evolutionary psychologist at Kyung Hee University in Yongin.
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Just saw this, interesting...


Police bar 3 veiled women from entering France

PARIS (AP) -- A police union says three Saudi women who refused to remove their face veils at Paris' Charles de Gaulle airport have been barred entry to France.

A 2011 French law bans people from wearing Islamic face-covering veils anywhere in public.

An official with the SGP-FO police union said Tuesday that border police asked the women to remove their veils after they arrived Monday on a flight from Doha, Qatar. The official says the women refused, border police refused them entry in France, and they returned to Doha Monday night. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly for the police.

Supporters of the ban say the veil contradicts France's principles of secularism and women's rights. Some Muslim groups say it stigmatizes moderate Muslims.
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Man jailed in Indonesia for atheist Facebook posts

Indonesian Insanity – Non-believer jailed for 2.5 years after writing “God doesn’t exist” on his Facebook page

An Indonesian man arrested after writing “God doesn’t exist” on his Facebook page was jailed for 30 months Thursday for sharing explicit material about the Prophet Mohammed online.
Alexander Aan, 30, was found guilty of “deliberately spreading information inciting religious hatred and animosity,” presiding judge Eka Prasetya Budi Dharma told the Muaro Sijunjung district court in western Sumatra.
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...and here...

Man jailed in Indonesia for atheist Facebook posts
 
You can't make this stuff up.

From Saudi Barbaria, oops, l mean Saudi Arabia. What year is it?


Saudi man executed for 'witchcraft and sorcery'

A Saudi man has been beheaded on charges of sorcery and witchcraft, the state news agency SPA says.

The man, Muree bin Ali bin Issa al-Asiri, was found in possession of books and talismans, SPA said. He had also admitted adultery with two women, it said.

The execution took place in the southern Najran province, SPA reported.

Human rights groups have repeatedly condemned executions for witchcraft in Saudi Arabia.

Last year, there were reports of at least two people being executed for sorcery.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-18503550
 
Debate: Islam is a Religion of Peace

Debate: Islam is a Religion of Peace - University of New York

October 6, 2010

Is the rise of terrorism and violence justifiably traced to the teachings of Islam, or is this call to war a twisted interpretation of the true Muslim faith? Most of the world's 1.5 billion Muslims are moderates who see Islamic terrorism as a violation of their sacred texts. Is it wrong to let a radical minority represent authentic Islam? Has fear blinded us to its lessons of tolerance and peace?



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Good to have some balance in this thread. This is from http://www.medicalobserver.com.au

GPs and other doctors have been revealed to be some of the most generous philanthropists in Australia, with new research showing four medical specialities ranked in the top ten occupations by average charitable giving.

USING Australian Tax Office data for the 2009–10 financial year, researchers at the Australian Centre for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Studies have ranked various professions according to the average and total amounts, as well as percentage of income, donated to charity.

GPs ranked eighth on the list of professions by annual donation, claiming an average of $1719 in charitable tax deductions, ahead of surgeons (ninth, $1706) but behind anaesthetists (second, $2181) and internal medicine specialists ($2133).

Overall 8200 GPs, or almost 46% of the profession, claimed more than $14 million in donations and gave an average of 0.58% of their annual income to charity.

Just over 44% of pharmacists claimed an average charitable deduction of $560, or 0.37% of their annual income for total donation of more than $4 million.

Community Council for Australia CEO David Crosbie said the medical professions “should be very proud” of the figures.

“These figures suggest there are a lot of altruistic people in the health system and the medical professions,” Mr Crosbie said.

“Those professions have always tended to attract that type of individual and this just shows that is still very much the case, which I think is a very good thing.”

CEOs and managing directors were first on the list in terms of the average donations claimed ($3923) and also led the way in terms of the greatest total amount of donations for the year with more than $162 million claimed.

Registered nurses were fourth on the list of total donations (more than $37.5 million) and practice managers were ranked eighth (more than $24.7 million).

But it was ministers of religion who set the best example for helping their fellow Australians by giving almost 2% of their annual income to charity, more than double CEOs and managing directors who ranked fourth with 0.95%.

The rankings were published in a working paper by Professor Myles McGregor-Lowndes and Emma Pelling, who found the total national donations claimed in 2009–10 had dropped to $1.96 billion; down $128 million (or 6%) from the previous year.

The overall percentage of taxpayers who claimed a charitable donation also fell from 37.83% to 35.55%, while the percentage of taxable income donated dropped from 0.42% to 0.34%.

McGregor-Lowndes, Myles and Pelling, Emma (2012) An examination of tax deductible donations made by individual Australian taxpayers in 2009–10.
 
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SCOTLAND'S Loch Ness monster exists. She's a plesiosaur, a living dinosaur, and her existence shows God created the Earth and evolution is bunkum.
That’s what Australian homeschool kids can learn from a US curriculum being distributed here.

Families are using the Accelerated Christian Education curriculum, which has sparked controversy worldwide for using magical imaginary beasts like Nessie to argue that God created the world quite recently and that the Darwinian theory of evolution is wrong.
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Read more: http://www.news.com.au/national/hom...al/story-e6frfkvr-1226411722331#ixzz1z9AIHv2z
 
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