Spain’s Stolen Babies: 300,000 Children Abducted by Nuns and Sold
BBC is running a story this week on a long-running adoption scam wherein ‘good” nuns and priests stole an estimated 300,000 children from their mothers in order to sell them for adoption. This went on for fifty years, and the scope of it is only now coming to light. Young, unwed mothers were told that their child had died and that no burial services would be performed. The child was them sold off to good, Christian parents how would be able to bring the child up “right”.
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Debunking ‘180’, the movie.
You might actually agree with this idiot on every point, and personally ascribe to a theology that says there’s a God in Heaven who will one day judge humanity for its sins. That doesn’t mean that your God finds this interviewer any less crass, annoying, and condescending than anyone else who watches this video.
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The Myth of Good and Evil: From Hitler to Mother Teresa
The archetypes of good and evil in our society are Mother Teresa and Hitler, respectively. If you start with these two as the paradigms, it becomes pretty easy to figure out what “Good” and Evil” are really all about.
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Our “Christian” Heritage
Today, I ran head-on into what I think is the most persuasive argument that Christians make against atheists: The idea that there is no history or heritage to atheism. To many, atheism is a “new” concept; a remnant of the counter-culture movement of the 1960s. America, they say, was founded on solid Christian ethics. Many [...]
The Theft of “Good”: How Christianity Stole Decency
Every time Christianity finds a human trait or action that is beneficial to society (say, giving food to starving children) they decide that they own the concept. From that time on, the action becomes a “Christian act”, and the non-religious are left out of it. Their logic works like this: Giving food to starving children is a Christian act. Atheists are not Christians. Therefore, Atheists do not give food to starving children.
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