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FOOD FOR THOUGHT "In the Philippines, the Church’s refusal to condone reliable birth control has burdened parents with offspring that they cannot properly feed, clothe or educate. In Africa, the stigmatization of condoms has led to millions of people, including babies, becoming infected with HIV. In the Americas, hostility towards homosexuality underpins bigotry, violence and murder from Wyoming to Rio de Janeiro." The country of the blind "Creationists can only discredit evolution by arguing that there is a chapter missing in the Bible, where God littered the earth with fossils to mess up our minds. 'Yes,' says the Almighty, 'the evidence points to evolution. But I cheated. And because you relied on intelligence not faith, I’m sentencing you to eternity in hell.' " Evolution for beginners (ii) "Close all synagogues and mosques, award every resident dual citizenship, teach every child both Hebrew and Arabic and have them learn by heart the UN Declaration of Human Rights. Without the bigotry inspired by religion, political and community leaders can focus on the real issues that plague Israel-Palestine – poverty, lack of water and over-population. At that point a single secular state becomes inevitable and the Wall as irrelevant as its Berlin predecessor." Why not Hawaii? "We have a God who does not save us from disaster because he lacks either the compassion or power to do so. And either we have free will and God who is not omniscient, or we have a God who knows everything and our fate is sealed." No, you can't |
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