holy shit, no words. not a good week for children at all…

Lack of decent education and heavy resistance to cultural change result in stupidy which manifests as criminality justified by culture that could have easily been challenged if everybody had a decent education.

Indeed; It’s a bit like burying our children alive in a bankers debt by Voting yes cause the red-head man tells us it will make Ireland better

Excellent comment.

Moggs998: The irony is that the notion of loving others only really makes sense because of religion. It seems natural to us now, but it wasn’t always so.

One of the reasons why Christianity flourished in the Roman Empire (despite the real risk of death and martyrdom) was the revolutionary love of the early Christians. In fact, many women were attracted to Christianity because of how well Christians treated women. Christians also stood out precisely because they didn’t commit infanticide (especially of female babies) as so many others of that era did. In a world of gross inequality in which the strong terrorised the weak, the notion that we should love everyone and even suffer as a result of that love was a complete break from the past.

Many of the values we take for granted are actually part of the Christian legacy – they have permeated society so much that we no longer recognise their revolutionary, Christian origins.

How many wars did the Christians wage in the name of love so? and God?

The vast majority of the world’s people believe in some kind if religion.
Yet, this made the news, which should tell you that this is not a normal aspect of religion.
Chances are, the man who reported them and the people prosecuting them are religious too – this isn’t reflective of religion as a whole

(and that is leaving aside the fact that there are hundreds of religions and these people only believe in one)

There would be no world if there was no god! How do you think we exist?.. A big bang?

Far more evidence of that then there is for a majestical awesome being in the heavens who created everything and sits back and watches it all go to shit.

100% agree, religion does way more harm than good.

No it doesn’t, people do. Just as you say “guns don’t kill people, people do”.

Yes, because human sacrifice is such a mainstream problem.

Plenty of crazy beliefs are local. Anyone for zombie-Jesus flesh Sunday morning?

I somehow missed the bit where this accrued in the EU.

occurred rather