Submitted By: (Gregor Mendel) gbissonette (at) loyola (dot) edu

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I don’t have much more to say except to post this link and bring up this topic. I was speechless when I saw this article. It is brief, but addresses the major question: is it right to raise children with a particular religious background…. and is it right to force beliefs upon people via mutilation as punishment? I say no…

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Professor Richard Lynn, emeritus professor of psychology at Ulster University, said many more members of the “intellectual elite” considered themselves atheists than the national average.

A decline in religious observance over the last century was directly linked to a rise in average intelligence, he claimed.

But the conclusions - in a paper for the academic journal Intelligence - have been branded “simplistic” by critics.
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Professor Lynn, who has provoked controversy in the past with research linking intelligence to race and sex, said university academics were less likely to believe in God than almost anyone else.

A survey of Royal Society fellows found that only 3.3 per cent believed in God - at a time when 68.5 per cent of the general UK population described themselves as believers.

A separate poll in the 90s found only seven per cent of members of the American National Academy of Sciences believed in God.

The opinions expressed in this article are those of the writer, and may not be those of the First Church of Atheism.

SUBMITTED BY: (Jeff ) notes2me1970 (at) yahoo (dot) com

The Truth is the idea held by those with the most influence. The Truth in itself is not what is important because obviously, the Truth can change overnite with a new discovery or advance, or rejection of such previous ideas thought to be the Truth.

What is paramount to the Truth is the motivation of the ones claiming to hold it.

I do not condemn Christians for wanting to save unborn babies. I do not condemn women who want to use abortion as birth control.

Both have the right to think what they want.

Submitted By: (Mike Walker) mikemcmack (at) yahoo (dot) com

Submitted By: Being Human

It is quite reasonable to ask why active atheists are often spending their time just opposing something. Atheists are not bringing any new ideology to replace the religions. They just claim that people can live a fuller and freer life without the reigns of religions.

Why am I spending my precious time writing these words? I could as well leave the whole business and just admit that some people think like me and others do not.

The issue is not so simple, however. This attitude is quite justified if religion is a private matter and it is not on offer every day in daycare, in preschool, school, boy scouts and even in communal care for the elderly as is the case here in Finland, which has a reputation as an extremely secular nation.

A sadist who enjoyed devising new methods of torture to inflict pain on his children has been locked up for nine years.

A judge told the fanatical Christian preacher that his campaign of long-term, calculated cruelty was “almost beyond belief”.

The man’s wife, also a Christian extremist, was jailed for six years.
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Judge Christopher Prince described her as “a strong and forceful personality” who chose to do nothing to protect her two sons from their tyrannical father.

The couple were led to the cells in handcuffs at Bradford Crown Court yesterday.

Both sat impassively in the dock with their arms folded as the judge passed sentence. Neither can be named because of the need to protect the identity of their sons, aged 13 and 11.

During a ten-week trial, the jury heard harrowing evidence from the boys, who were mutilated, bound and beaten at their Bradford home.