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Religion as Social Liability

category international | rights, freedoms and repression | other press author Sunday February 05, 2006 01:30author by finch Report this post to the editors

"..religion is the politics of the mentally deficient.."

The recent religious furore over certain (cartoon) publications in the secular press unambiguously identifies ‘religion’ as little more than cheap politics; or put in simpler more accurate terms; religion is the politics of the mentally deficient. Consider the possibility of an infinite creator/God and the arrogance of those who actually think or imagine they or any other finite being could possibly pollute, insult or deface that God. A characteristic of Godhead is IMMUTABILITY! Rationalists would refer to the basic logic of the inability of the finite to apprehend the infinite (God); the two states are mutually exclusive. But it is obvious that ‘God’ is as far removed from the present issue as day is from night.

Full story:

http://cleaves.zapto.org/clv/newswire.php?story_id=170

Related Link: http://cleaves.zapto.org/
author by pat cpublication date Wed Feb 15, 2006 16:04author address author phone Report this post to the editors

it is good to have such a fan. at last my genius is being appreciated.

author by Big Joepublication date Wed Feb 15, 2006 15:59author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Maybe so, stranger things have happened!! You are full of knowledge and wisdom, fair play all the same...

author by pat cpublication date Wed Feb 15, 2006 15:45author address author phone Report this post to the editors

thanks.

maybe its divine inspiration?

author by Big Joepublication date Wed Feb 15, 2006 15:41author address author phone Report this post to the editors

My God, i have never come across someone with so many opinions..

author by :-)publication date Wed Feb 15, 2006 15:19author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) common era.

was placed under house arrest by the Roman Catholic church from 1633 onwards.
Tortured, Humiliated, Mocked as the Romans had done the Christ
for speaking the Truth.

His eyes lost their sight and he passed on.
Today his is the name of universities,
the €uropean Union geo-stationary satelite positioning system and
is sometimes used by all to say in their own words -

.:. "The cheese doth not move because it is stuck to the toast" © iosaf mac diarmada 2003-2006

whether it moves or not depends on where you're positioned.
whether it moves or not depends on where you're positioned.

Related Link: http://galileo.rice.edu/
author by pat cpublication date Wed Feb 15, 2006 14:56author address author phone Report this post to the editors

and happy birthday to galileo! yes today is his birthday.

opus dei are a sinister bunch. wiill i be hunted by secret operatives if i reveal their secrets and scandals? they recruit catholic intellectuals and place them in positions of power. how far does this web extend?

they're not all that bad though. they only whipnchain themselves and its not a spectator sport so accusations of sm are out of order.

Their founder was Josemaria Escriva.

"Escriva Quote of the day:
Wladimir Felzmann, an ex-opus dei member tells about a talk with Escriva: after he (Escriva) insisted that with Hitler'shelp the Franco government has saved Christianity from the communism he added: ``Hitleragainst the Jews, Hitler against the Slavs, this means Hit ler against communism'' "

You will find more info (pro et con) about Opus Dei at the link below.

Related Link: http://www.mond.at/opus.dei/
author by :-) galileopublication date Wed Feb 15, 2006 14:46author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Yep, it would be nice to see priory of Sion and other groups come out of the shadows tell us all about thier millenial battles for truth, the roles they played in the inquisition, the reformation, the holocaust, the spanish civil war and so on, wouldn't it?
Maybe they could get together pulp fiction books and a movie?

Meanwhile I live in hope that in africa and mid asia, the same process will occur, and "the auld enemy" is taken on _from within_. Opus Dei are a non-democratic, secist, authoritarian and fascist organisation. Mock them PatC. they're all yours. ;-)

author by pat cpublication date Wed Feb 15, 2006 14:42author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Opus Dei are raging at the insults levelled towards their faith and their Saviour in the film The Da Vinci Code. Will there be marchs? Will cinemas be burned? Will elements of the Left come out in support of Opus Dei? If not, why not? How is their case any different from that of the Islamic Fundamentalist rage over the Danish cartoons.

"Group urges Da Vinci film changes

Catholic group Opus Dei wants "references that hurt Catholics" to be removed from the film version of Dan Brown's hit novel The Da Vinci Code. The Da Vinci Code offers a deformed image of the Catholic Church," Opus Dei said in a statement released in Rome. "

Related Link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4715860.stm
author by pat cpublication date Wed Feb 15, 2006 12:02author address author phone Report this post to the editors

The riots continue as a KFC goes up in flames. But its ordinary Muslims who are being killed; the Mullahs who are stirring things up are keeping well out of the firing line. more in the article below. The full text is at the link.

pat

"More die in Pakistan cartoon fury

Three more people have died in Pakistan in continuing protests over the publication in the West of cartoons satirising the Prophet Muhammad. Two deaths were in the city of Peshawar where hundreds of people took to the streets attacking shops and setting fire to a KFC outlet.

In Lahore, one person died when police clashed with Islamic students. Two people died in Lahore on Tuesday. "

Related Link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/4715084.stm
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