Monthly Archives: May 2011

Peter Garrett needs to gets off his ass and do something about this

Posted on 30/05/2011 | Leave a comment

Our Federal Minister for Early Childhood and Youth, the Hon. Peter Garrett, can do something honorable right now. And that’s to act swiftly to protect vulnerable children from objectification and traumatisation in Childhood Beauty Pageants. This dangerous rubbish is a powerful and profitable industry in the USA, and it’s headed our way, with a pageant organised by a company called “Universal Royalty Beauty Pageant” scheduled for Melbourne this July. If you haven’t seen what’s going on in those pageants, you need to watch this now.
And then go to this website and sign the petition to the Minister to stop this dangerous and degenerate nonsense.

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No, we’re not, but thanks for asking

Posted on 30/05/2011 | Leave a comment

A creationist called Moshe Averick asks “Seriously, Aren’t Atheists Embarrassed by P.Z. Myers?”
In case you wonder why anyone lacking belief in gods should be concerned about one particular atheist, don’t. It doesn’t make much sense to me either. Nobody’s atheism depends on what PZ Myers says, neither does the fact that there is no evidence for supernatural beings depend on anything he says.
Averick responds somewhat belatedly to a lecture PZ gave in 2009 about the unscientific Creationist nonsense argument of complexity. You know, no Boeing assembled in a junkyard, the bacterial flagellum, or a cell or eye too complex to have just poofed into existence without a designer, a.k.a. god, that kind of thing. These people have no idea about evolution, they start with the conclusion of “goddidit” and work their way backwards from there. Anyway, of course Averick didn’t get PZ’s analogy, which he explains here, and hilarity ensues.
But yeah, thanks for asking Moshe, you see we’re not so much embarrassed by PZ Myers, but more by stupid closeminded Creationist fools like yourself, who eternally confuse spouting dogma with doing actual science to see where the evidence leads.

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Legalize it !

Posted on 30/05/2011 | Leave a comment

Divorces are no fun at all, but sometimes necessary. A divorce is not a “get out of jail free” card, rather a “get out of jail if you found yourself wrongfully or erroneously imprisoned” card. The Catholic Church’s stance on divorce, which is that it’s not allowed, is based on a Bible passage in 1 Corinthians :

10And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:
11But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife.

Interestingly, Judaism and Islam had more common sense in the matter , and divorce in those religions is possible (although in Judaism the husband must allow his wife to get a divorce). The Jewish handling of divorce is based on Deuteronomy 24 :

1When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.
2And when she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man’s wife.
3And if the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorcement, and giveth it in her hand, and sendeth her out of his house; or if the latter husband die, which took her to be his wife;

Most societies have accepted that relationships between 2 persons can fail or break down, and that there is no inherent value, and more harm done than good, in 2 people staying together who do not wish to do so.
Now, as the second-last country on this planet, Malta has come to this conclusion as well, in a recent referendum :

The leader of the “Yes” movement, Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando, of the governing Nationalist Party, said the result was significant.

“It brings Malta into a new era where the state and the Church are separate,” Mr Orlando is quoted as saying by Efe news agency.

Malta is one of only two countries in the world (with the Philippines) to ban divorce – apart from the Vatican.

Chile was the last country to legalise divorce in 2004 after overwhelming public pressure.

Maltese voters were asked whether parliament should introduce a new law that would allow couples to obtain a divorce after four years of separation.

Previously, couples could apply for a legal separation through the courts, or seek a Church annulment – a complex process that can take up to nine years.

You will have guessed by now. Malta is predominantly a Catholic country.

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