CanOz
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I don't understand why they waste resources and blood on these people...let them go be with their god i say...
CanOz
Good article in today's Sydney telegraph. Page 13. Tim Blair. I'm at work using my mobile, but will try to get a link up when I get home
THE Salesian Catholic order admits it failed to properly supervise its priests, as it revealed it's paid more than $2 million in compensation to victims of sexual abuse in Victoria.
Bishop Connors said Catholic Church Insurance told the diocese in 1975 it would no longer cover compensation payments for Ridsdale, later jailed for child sexual offences, because he had abused so many victims. But Bishop Mulkearns, in charge from 1971 to 1997, took no action until 1988, in which time Ridsdale abused many more victims.
The whereabouts of Moroccan student Imad Eddin Habib, 22, are unknown since yesterday, April 29 in the evening. A few days ago, plainclothes policemen interrogated his father at his workplace. They wanted to know whether Imad was supported by a foreign organization, what his goals and motives were… Yesterday, Apr 29, they broke into an address that is mentioned on the young man’s ID””only to find out that he doesn’t live there anymore. Informed that he was a wanted individual, the Casablanca paramedical student decided to go underground. It will probably not take long before he resurfaces. Yet, that might be long enough for a solidarity campaign to start.
Imad Eddin Habib is not a criminal””at least not under international law and international treaties on freedom of speech and conscience. The reason why the Moroccan police is after him, is that he’s an outspoken atheist.
In the Islamic kingdom of Morocco, atheism itself is not a criminal offense. “Shaking the Muslim’s faith” is. Under this vague designation, anyone openly criticizing Islam or promoting any other religion can be condemned to a prison term ranging from 6 months to 3 years (Christian missionaries are regularly expelled from the kingdom in virtue of this article.) In other words: when you live in Morocco, you can think whatever you want of religion, but you better keep it for yourself.
22 dead as Bangladesh Islamists demand blasphemy law
At least 22 people have been killed in pitched battles between Bangladeshi police and thousands of hardline Islamists in the capital Dhaka.
Police used a water cannon, sound grenades, tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse at least 70,000 Islamists who were camped at a key commercial district in a push for a new blasphemy law.
"We were forced to act after they unlawfully continued their gathering at Motijheel," Dhaka police spokesman Masudur Rahman said.
"They attacked us with bricks, stones, rods and bamboo sticks."
He says the protesters have now dispersed.
Police inspector Mozammel Haq, at Dhaka Medical College Hospital, says 11 bodies were taken to the clinic.
He says the bodies include several who had been hit by bullets, and a policeman who had been hacked in the head by protesters with machetes.
Eleven other bodies were taken to three other clinics, while hospital officials said hundreds of people were injured.
The violence erupted on Sunday afternoon and continued until the early hours of Monday morning.
It came after hundreds of thousands of Islamists demanding a new blasphemy law blocked highways and fought running battles with police on Sunday, leaving 10 people dead and hundreds injured in the Bangladeshi capital.
Chanting "Allahu Akbar!" ("God is greatest!") and "One point, One demand: Atheists must be hanged", activists from the hardline Hefajat-e-Islam marched along at least six highways, blocking transport between Dhaka and other cities.
Police say about 200,000 people marched to central Dhaka, where fierce clashes erupted between thousands of rock-throwing protesters and security officials, with police beating back demonstrators with batons.
There's no gap really. The most advanced scientists and the most advanced spiritualist practitioners are approaching the very same point, one from the East, one from the West. It will be a good day when they meet.
You may enjoy The Fire in the Equations by Kitty Ferguson. She postulates a similar notion with one side or the other climbing the mountain of universal awareness and understanding only to discover the other side relaxing atop the mountain.
The only mountain the religious sit atop is Mt. Delusion. There is a huge difference between evidence based beliefs arrived at by scientific investigation and religious beliefs largely derived from the mythology passed down in iron-age magic books. "Universal awareness" is not what the religious seek, rather its universal conformity and obedience to mythical invisible beings and their commandments as laid down in their magic books and interpreted by their religious leaders. There is no common ground between religion and science, the scientific method is the rational pursuit of knowledge while religion seeks impose static metaphysical dogma (fiction) on the faithful.
This is an incredibly ignorant statement.
You haven't acknowledged the scientific evidence that points to creation.
You haven't considered the historical evidence to determine if events in certain documents are factual.
You haven't acknowledged philosophical reasoning which supports creationism.
The ironic thing is you probably just accept evolution as fact. Whereas evidence (or a lack of) points to it as the biggest bunch of mumbo jumbo ever.
Quite scary...
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