Since the Rise of Atheism Conference in Melbourne there has been concerted attack on secularism...
Usual suspects: Sydney Anglican Archbishop Peter Jensen and Sydney Catholic Archbishop Cardinal George Pell.
The new Catholic Bishop of Parramatta, Anthony Fisher, got in on the act in his Good Friday address, and said that godlessness in the 20th Century led to Nazism, Stalinism, abortion and mass murder.
Peter Jensen was a bit more general... he said "Atheists hate God".
(No Pete... they don't believe there is a God, and most of them don't even hate you.)
Jensen further said, in his Easter address at St Andrew's Cathedral on Sunday morning... "I have emphasised human loneliness this Easter because that is what expert observers of our society are saying is a real problem ..." (which experts...? the lonely fuckers with nothing to do but observe?) "This philosophy emphasises the individual and individual rights, it invites us to invent our own lives and it undervalues commitment to other human beings."
So...
What is the alternative to inventing my own life...but to leave it to others to invent it for me?
You would like that, wouldn't you, Pete?
Well I don't want your "commitment". Take your presumption and shove it.
I don't feel the need to attack private faith. Just keep it out of my face... fair?
Man! How the catholic officials have short memories of Church-sponsored atrocities and even more church-supported of the same. Or is it selective memory.
ReplyDelete"We don't condone such behaviors as child molestation by our clergy." No they truly don’t. In fact they become so irate at their fellow men of cloth, they punish them by transferring them to another child-filled diocese for a fresh start.
And the Mormons subjugate women (and at least until 1978 were proud and vocal bigots).
All this aside, history and my own personal life is filled with ignorance created by “teachings of gods,” whatever the religion.
Welcome back to the fray, my friend
Hope the Bunny was good to you Boomer.
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