Onde Deus estava durante o tiroteio em Aurora? Depois que um pastor publicou um texto explicando “onde Deus estava” durante o tiroteio no cinema em Aurora (basicamente, ele diz que Deus nos deu o “livre arbítrio” – a não ser quando ele decide intervir por algum motivo que jamais compreenderemos), um leitor publicou uma resposta nos comentários que traduzirei aqui. Como de hábito, sintam-se livres para reproduzir a tradução abaixo (mas um link para o blog seria gentil). “Caros cristãos, aqui é Deus. Decidi tirar um tempo para explicar pessoalmente minha ausência no tiroteio em Aurora. E enquanto faço isso, achei que também poderia explicar minha ausência durante cada assassinato, massacre e crime já ocorridos na história do mundo e em toda guerra, todo lugar atacado pela fome, por secas e inundações.
Sabem, é que eu não existo. Então vocês realmente acham que meus milagres periódicos provam minha existência, é? O que estas proclamações interesseiras de intervenção milagrosa sempre ignoram é o lado negativo desses incidentes. Deus” Friendly Atheist. 102 - Meus pecados são perdoados na Santa Missa ou preciso ainda confessá-los? Revista VEJA | Edição 2069 | 16 de julho de 2008. Religião Como Cristo, mas antes dele Uma lápide de pedra indica que a idéia de um messias sofredor que ressuscitou ao terceiro dia já existia no judaísmo É o sonho dourado de todo colecionador: descobrir que o objeto comprado meio que por acaso possui, na verdade, valor incalculável. Essa é a constatação a que vários estudiosos estão chegando a respeito de uma lápide de pedra de menos de 1 metro de altura, com 87 linhas de texto em hebraico, que o suíço David Jeselsohn adquiriu há cerca de uma década.
Por muito tempo, a peça passou despercebida. Há alguns anos, a pesquisadora israelense Ada Yardeni a examinou e ficou boquiaberta: de acordo com ela, a lápide seria um equivalente em pedra de um dos manuscritos do Mar Morto, cujas ligações com as origens do cristianismo são até hoje, sessenta anos após sua descoberta, objeto de acalorados debates. Não é, claro, que a comunidade científica acredite estar diante de uma "profecia". 99 - Uma pessoa aidética pode contrair matrimônio? Note to smug atheists: Yes we win the debates but we have little real power. - Pittsburgh atheism. (Commentary with links.) I remember one person at one of the black atheism Facebook groups I belong to, I can't remember if its Black Free Thinkers or the African American Humanism group, asked what books to read in order to get well read on the new Atheism.
(Just for the record those books are here, here, here and here.) But what I wanted to say but forgot is that he or she could just as easily have looked up Youtube videos from the Big Four (Dawkins, Harris, Dennett, and the late Christopher Hitchens.) and gotten just as much an education on the basics. The best debate (for atheists) is The Intelligence Squared Debate which features the late Hitchens and the actor Stephen Fry destroying one church lady from the Catholic Church--the Churchlady and a Monty Python member in drag all into one--and a black African Bishop who also couldn't defend the Catholic Church's close to evil position on the use of condoms.
However, I think this has made my fellow atheists smug. Pretty horrifying. Evolution. CATHOLIC LIBRARY: Truth Cannot Contradict Truth (1996) Address of Pope John Paul II to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences (October 22, 1996) WITH GREAT PLEASURE I address cordial greeting to you, Mr. President, and to all of you who constitute the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, on the occasion of your plenary assembly. I offer my best wishes in particular to the new academicians, who have come to take part in your work for the first time.
I would also like to remember the academicians who died during the past year, whom I commend to the Lord of life. 1. In celebrating the 60th anniversary of the academy's refoundation, I would like to recall the intentions of my predecessor Pius XI, who wished to surround himself with a select group of scholars, relying on them to inform the Holy See in complete freedom about developments in scientific research, and thereby to assist him in his reflections. He asked those whom he called the Church's "senatus scientificus" to serve the truth. 2. 3. 4. What is the significance of such a theory? 5. 6. 7. Pope John Paul II Declares Evolution to be Fact! Pope John Paul II, on the 23rd of October, 1996, while speaking to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences plenary session at the Vatican, declared the evolutionary theories of Charles Darwin to be fact, tacitly acknowledging that man evolved from the apes, and reducing the biblical account of Genesis to that of mere fable!
The Full Text of John Paul II's comments on evolution online at New Advent, a Roman Catholic web page. (Note that my comments below are keyed to the original official Vatican press release shown above, not this apparently complete translation of the Pope's remarks, which were delivered in French.) I will address just a few key quotes of John Paul II that were mentioned in the above October 23rd, 1996 Vatican Information Service press release, (article N.182). To begin with, in the second paragraph, two sources of "truth" are mentioned, one being the conclusions of modern science, and the other being Revelation of truth from scripture or the church. Nigel Barber: Atheism to Defeat Religion By 2038. Countries with the best standard of living are turning atheist.
That shift offers a glimpse into the world's future. Religious people are annoyed by claims that belief in God will go the way of horse transportation, and for much the same reason, specifically an improved standard of living. The view that religious belief will give way to atheism is known as the secularization thesis. The specific version that I favor (1) is known as the existential security hypothesis. The basic idea is that as people become more affluent, they are less worried about lacking for basic necessities, or dying early from violence or disease. In other words they are secure in their own existence. The notion that improving living conditions are associated with a decline in religion is supported by a mountain of evidence (1,2,3).
That does not prevent some serious scholars, like political scientist Eric Kaufmann (4), from making the opposite case that religious fundamentalists will outbreed the rest of us. Philadelphia Lynn Trial Revives Catholic Church Sex Abuse Scandal. (RNS) Ten years ago, the Roman Catholic sex abuse scandal dominated the headlines with horrific stories of priests preying on vulnerable youths and a church hierarchy more concerned with protecting clergy instead of kids. Now, it's back. A Philadelphia jury is deliberating whether, for the first time, a high-ranking church official will be held criminally accountable.
However the jury rules, the case carries symbolic freight far heavier than the grim details in the trial of Monsignor William Lynn, former secretary for the clergy in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. It revives the breadth and depth of the abuse crisis, its extraordinary costs and unending frustrations. Lynn's trial brings the ugly mess to mind "like it was yesterday," said Mary Jane Doerr, associate director of the U.S. The statistics are staggering: More than 6,100 accused priests since 1950, Doerr said. During Lynn's 10-week trial on charges of child endangerment and conspiracy, prosecutors dialed back to 1994. MSM. Catecismo-Igreja-Catolica. Associação Brasileira de Ateus e Agnósticos. A Bíblia do Cético Comentada.