SHARIA LAW: 90 lashes for a 13 year old Muslim girl in Saudi Arabia

90 lashes for a Muslim girl in Saudi Arabia for taking phone to school.

Disowning Family Members For Religious Dogma - The Atheist Experience #614

"Disowning Family Members For Religious Dogma". This is a clip from The Atheist Experience #614, "TAM Recap. Matt recaps his visit to The Amazing Meeting 7.", with Matt Dillahunty and Martin Wagner: http://blip.tv/file/2380391

Carl Sagan - Cosmos- Stars - We Are Their Children

Outnumbered - Awkward Questions about Jesus

Young Ben asks the vicar some awkward questions about Jesus -- a couple of short clips from the British comedy show, Outnumbered -- http://rationaldreaming.com

Irish bishop resigns over child sex abuse

VATICAN CITY (AFP) - – Pope Benedict XVI on Thursday accepted the resignation of Limerick Bishop Donal Murray over Ireland's child sex abuse scandal, the Vatican announced.

Murray was named in a report last month that concluded that top prelates concealed clerical abuse and failed to inform police of offences over a period of more than three decades.

The prelate, speaking shortly after the Vatican announcement, "humbly" apologized for his role in the scandal but said even his resignation "cannot undo the pain" of those who suffered.

Other senior church officials, including four archbishops cited in the report, face growing pressure to resign.

One priest admitted to sexually abusing over 100 children, while another confessed that he had abused children on a fortnightly basis over 25 years.

Murray told his congregation in Limerick, southwest Ireland, that he had asked to quit because he believed his "presence will create difficulties for some of the survivors."

According to a statement released by his office, Murray said: "I know full well that my resignation cannot undo the pain that survivors of abuse have suffered in the past and continue to suffer each day. I humbly apologise once again to all who were abused as little children."

He added: "To all survivors of abuse, I repeat that my primary concern is to assist in every way that I can on their journey towards finding closure and serenity.

"A bishop is meant to be a person who seeks to lead and inspire all the people of the diocese in living as a community united in the truth and love of Christ," he told the congregation.

The pope met last week with Ireland's two most senior Roman Catholic churchmen, primate of all-Ireland Cardinal Sean Brady and Dublin Archbishop Diarmuid Martin.

Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi said the participants did not discuss whether any of those implicated in the scandal should resign.

But Martin told reporters afterward: "We will need a very significant reorganization of the Church in Ireland."

The pope apologised for the abuse, saying he "shares the outrage, betrayal and shame felt by so many of the faithful in Ireland (over) these heinous crimes".

The Vatican statement last Friday said the Church "will continue to follow this grave matter with the closest attention in order to understand better how these shameful events came to pass and how best to develop effective and secure strategies to prevent any recurrence."

http://ph.news.yahoo.com/afp/20091217/twl-vatican-pope-ireland-children-abuse-4bdc673.html

The Girl Who Silenced The World For 5 Minutes

Disclose.tv The Girl Who Silenced The World For 5 Minutes Video

Severn Cullis-Suzuki (born November 30, 1979 in Vancouver, Canada) is an environmental activist, speaker, television host and author. Born to writer Tara Elizabeth Cullis and geneticist and environmental activist David Suzuki, she has spoken around the world about environmental issues, urging listeners to define their values, act with the future in mind, and take individual responsibility.

Cullis-Suzuki was born and raised in Vancouver, Canada. While attending Lord Tennyson Elementary School in French Immersion, at the age of nine, she founded the Environmental Children's Organization, a group of children dedicated to learning and teaching other kids about environmental issues. In 1992, at the age of 12, Cullis-Suzuki raised money with members of ECO, to attend the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. Along with group members Michelle Quigg, Vanessa Suttie, and Morgan Geisler, Cullis-Suzuki presented environmental issues from a youth perspective at the summit, where she was applauded for a speech to the delegates. In 1993, she was honoured in the United Nations Environment Programme's Global 500 Roll of Honour. In 1993, Doubleday published her book Tell the World (ISBN 0-385-25422-9), a 32-page book of environmental steps for families.

Cullis-Suzuki graduated from Yale University in 2002 with a B.Sc. in ecology and evolutionary biology. After Yale, Cullis-Suzuki spent two years traveling. Cullis-Suzuki co-hosted Suzuki's Nature Quest, a children's television series that aired on the Discovery Channel in 2002.

In early 2002, she helped launch an Internet-based think tank called The Skyfish Project. As a member of Kofi Annan's Special Advisory Panel, she and members of the Skyfish Project brought their first project, a pledge called the "Recognition of Responsibility", to the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg in August 2002. The Skyfish Project disbanded in 2004 as Cullis-Suzuki turned her focus back to school and enrolled in a graduate program at the University of Victoria to study ethnobotany under Nancy Turner.

Christianity responsible for cannibalizing Muslim children & Catapulting heads during crusades

Christianity RESPONSIBLE for Cannibalizing Muslim Children & Catapulting HEADS during CRUSADES Thus the HATE for CHRISTIAN USA Today 12/12/09

Pissed off Catholic Mom

Brain Washing ( 3 Years old Muslim Girl )

This is very sad...

Parental advice for ex-Christians - The Atheist Experience #631

Robin and her husband from Cartersville, Georgia used to be Sunday school teachers until about two years ago, when they left their church and never went back. She came to the conclusion thet religion was harmful and that everyone would be better off without it, but doesn't know exactly what to tell her young children that were brought op in the church. Robin watched the documentary "Jesus Camp" both before and after her deconversion...

Segment of The Atheist Experience TV Show #631 of November 15, 2009. With Matt Dillahunty and Jeff Dee. Topic: Viewer calls.

This entire episode can be watched on Blip.tv::
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Theme song: "Listen to Reason" by Bryan Steeksma
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Atheist Experience #505: Atheist Humor

Don and Matt give a sampling of atheist humor from the Vatican forgiving molested Children to Kissing Hank's Ass.

Harmful Religious Parents and Arguing with the Hopelessly Convinced - The Atheist Experience #589

Harmful Religious Parents and Arguing with the hopelessly convinced. (The Atheist Experience #589 with Matt Dillahunty & Jennifer Peeples).

To All Religious Teenagers

If ONE person can't persuade you then one BILLION should make no difference. But it does. Why?

The answers to why we do a lot of stupid shit can often be found in evolution. If you are kept from understanding evolution you are kept from understanding yourself and everyone around you, and the world will always be confusing.

Vatican Sex Crimes - Pope Benedict's Obstruction of Justice

Sex crimes and the Vatican

A secret document, Crimen Sollicitationis, which sets out a procedure for dealing with child sex abuse scandals within the Catholic Church is examined by Panorama.

Crimen Sollicitationis was enforced for 20 years by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger before he became the Pope.

It instructs bishops on how to deal with allegations of child abuse against priests and has been seen by few outsiders.

Critics say the document has been used to evade prosecution for sex crimes.

Crimen Sollicitationis was written in 1962 in Latin and given to Catholic bishops worldwide who are ordered to keep it locked away in the church safe.

It instructs them how to deal with priests who solicit sex from the confessional. It also deals with "any obscene external act ... with youths of either sex."

It imposes an oath of secrecy on the child victim, the priest dealing with the allegation and any witnesses.
Breaking that oath means excommunication from the Catholic Church.

The Vatican has refused repeated requests from Panorama to respond to any of the cases shown in the film.

Sex abuse rife in other religions, says Vatican

The Vatican has lashed out at criticism over its handling of its paedophilia crisis by saying the Catholic church was "busy cleaning its own house" and that the problems with clerical sex abuse in other churches were as big, if not bigger.

In a defiant and provocative statement, issued following a meeting of the UN human rights council in Geneva, the Holy See said the majority of Catholic clergy who committed such acts were not paedophiles but homosexuals attracted to sex with adolescent males.

The statement, read out by Archbishop Silvano Tomasi, the Vatican's permanent observer to the UN, defended its record by claiming that "available research" showed that only 1.5%-5% of Catholic clergy were involved in child sex abuse.

He also quoted statistics from the Christian Scientist Monitor newspaper to show that most US churches being hit by child sex abuse allegations were Protestant and that sexual abuse within Jewish communities was common.

He added that sexual abuse was far more likely to be committed by family members, babysitters, friends, relatives or neighbours, and male children were quite often guilty of sexual molestation of other children.

The statement said that rather than pedophilia, it would "be more correct" to speak of ephebophilia, a homosexual attraction to adolescent males.

"Of all priests involved in the abuses, 80 to 90% belong to this sexual orientation minority which is sexually engaged with adolescent boys between the ages of 11 and 17."

The statement concluded: "As the Catholic church has been busy cleaning its own house, it would be good if other institutions and authorities, where the major part of abuses are reported, could do the same and inform the media about it."

The Holy See launched its counter–attack after an international representative of the International Humanist and Ethical Union, Keith Porteous Wood, accused it of covering up child abuse and being in breach of several articles under the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Porteous Wood said the Holy See had not contradicted any of his accusations. "The many thousands of victims of abuse deserve the international community to hold the Vatican to account, something it has been unwilling to do, so far. Both states and children's organisations must unite to pressurise the Vatican to open its files, change its procedures worldwide, and report suspected abusers to civil authorities."

Representatives from other religions were dismayed by the Holy See's attempts to distance itself from controversy by pointing the finger at other faiths.

Rabbi Joseph Potasnik, head of the New York Board of Rabbis, said: "Comparative tragedy is a dangerous path on which to travel. All of us need to look within our own communities. Child abuse is sinful and shameful and we must expel them immediately from our midst."

A spokesman for the US Episcopal Church said measures for the prevention of sexual misconduct and the safeguarding of children had been in place for years.

Of all the world religions, Roman Catholicism has been hardest hit by sex abuse scandals. In the US, churches have paid more than $2bn (£1.25bn) in compensation to victims. In Ireland, reports into clerical sexual abuse have rocked both the Catholic hierarchy and the state.

The Ryan Report, published last May, revealed that beatings and humiliation by nuns and priests were common at institutions that held up to 30,000 children. A nine-year investigation found that Catholic priests and nuns for decades terrorized thousands of boys and girls, while government inspectors failed to stop the abuse.

-from guardian.co.uk

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A child Evangelist, taught from childhood how to become a lying evangelist, reveals the techniques of the trade.

Origin of Faith - Disturbing

A rare documentary insight into how tribal superstition, ritual and ignorance evolved into worship. An elder of a primitive Stone-Age Amazon tribe performs a sacrificial ritual rooted in tradition. A child is unwanted and is burried alive. "He must die! For the good of the tribe!" Could this type of superstition help explain the origin the Judeo-Christian crucifixion/scapegoating myth? Is this ritual, in part, the basis of modern religions?

Here is a story from the UK Telegraph:

Babies born into some Indian tribes in the Amazon are being buried alive, a practice that is being covered up by the Brazilian authorities out of respect for tribal culture. The tradition is based on beliefs that babies with any sort of physical defect have no souls and that others, such as twins or triplets, are also "cursed". Infanticide has claimed the lives of dozens of babies each year, say campaigners fighting to end the practice. Babies who are girls, who have some disability or who have unmarried mothers are all in danger of an early death in a shallow grave in the rainforest. Others are suffocated with leaves, poisoned or simply abandoned in the jungle. According to Dr Marcos Pelegrini, a doctor working in the Yanomami Tribe Health Care District, 98 children were killed by their mothers in 2004 alone. Campaigners say that the true figure is obscured by officials who often record cases of infanticide as simple malnutrition. At the same time, family anguish over infanticide has led to many adult tribal members committing suicide. READ THE COMPLETE STORY!!! http://tinyurl.com/6avgmn


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The video was produced by an organization called Global Voices... "Global Voices is a non-profit global citizens' media project founded at Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet and Society" http://www.globalvoicesonline.org Voice of the Survivor: http://www.hakani.org/en/ This film is directed by a son of a JESUIT missionary and actors ARE used, according to ABC

NEW! Richard Dawkins: An Exclusive Profile

Academic and scientist Richard Dawkins proves a true intellect during this course of interviews and no topic proves too daunting, covering debates on faith and politics.

Atheism for kids

Thoughts for Tots - Playing the devil's advocate, Mr. Taylor reads a booklet for children published by atheist leader Madalyn Murray O'Hair before she was murdered.

The tract is entitled, "Did You Know All the Gods Came from the Same Place?" (The Land of Make Believe Inside Your Head.



Most of this is about Christianity.

Religious Indoctrination Traumatizing Children - A.E. #580

Episode: #580  -  24 November, 2008 

Topic: Religion Inspired Child Abuse. 

Jen explores the implications of teaching children they're inherently evil. 

 

This is a video every God-believing parent should watch. My father is a pastor and I was raised as a Christian. Religion is a curse that has ruined my life beyond repair.