God won"t stop a rape

If I could stop a person from raping a child, I would.

That’s the difference between me and your God

God won"t stop a rape

This Is the Porn That Gets Downloaded in the Vatican

It can get lonely in the Vatican: with a population of just over 800, sometimes it’s inevitable that nobody will want to hang out with you. Which might explain this list, which details the porn that’s been downloaded in the Vatican recently.

Torrent Freak was casually taking a look at the most popular torrents within Vatican City, when it stumbled over some rather mature content. As Torrent Freak explains:

We spotted some downloads to get pulses racing. It seems that while Vatican dwellers aren’t all that interested in Hollywood movies, they do enjoy adult related celluloid… In the interests of science we researched each of the titles (including the curiously named RS77_Episode 01) and discovered that downloaders in the Vatican have one or two unusual ‘niche’ interests.

In the interest of remaining vaguely tasteful, we won’t dive into exactly what those interests are here. But, hey, you have Google. Knock yourselves out. [Torrent Freak via Boing Boing]

This Is the Porn That Gets Downloaded in the Vatican

Religion is an insult to human dignity - Steven Weinberg

Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.

Religion is an insult to human dignity - Steven Weinberg

Two babies stricken with herpes after ritual ultra-orthodox Jewish oral blood sucking circumcision in New York City

 

• Since 2000 13 known cases of herpes have been contracted from the religious practice


• Two deaths and two babies suffering brain damage have resulted


• Department of health warns there being no safe way to perform the ritual that dates back more than 5,000 years

The department of health says one of the latest infants to contract the virus developed a fever and a lesion on its scrotum, seven days after the procedure. The boy later tested positive for HSV-1. That virus differs from HSV-2, the genital herpes, which is contracted during sexual intercourse.

‘A herpes infection in a newborn baby has the risk of leading to severe illness and death,’ Jay Varma, deputy commissioner for disease control at the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene told ABC News.

Two babies stricken with herpes after ritual ultra-orthodox Jewish oral blood sucking circumcision in New York City

Are they all wrong ? Ricky Gervais

Are they all wrong ? Ricky Gervais

Herbert J Muller

Science remains the author of our major problem, in its gift of tremendous power that has been terribly abused; but for the wise use of this power we need more, not less, of the objective dispassionate scientific spirit. For our philosophical purposes we need more of its integrity and its basic humility, its respect at once for the fact and the mystery.

Religion can no longer rest its claims on a dogmatic supernaturalism, because any dogma that is irreconcilable with tested knowledge must be rejected. . . . [One] sentence . . . sums up the dark and deadly pages of Christian history: “If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities.”

 - Herbert J Muller

Herbert J Muller

Charlie Chaplin

There is a fraternity of those who passionately want to know. I was one of them. But my motives were not so pure; I wanted to know, not for the love of knowledge but as a defence against the world’s contempt for the ignorant. So when I had time I browsed around the second-hand bookshops. In Philadelphia, I inadvertently came upon an edition of Robert Ingersoll’s Essays and Lectures. This was an exciting discovery; his atheism confirmed my own belief that the horrific cruelty of the Old Testament was degrading to the human spirit.

Charlie Chaplin