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 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. Moreover, as religious fundamentalists become economically integrated, young women go to work and produce smaller families, as is currently happening for Utah's Mormons. Sources1.
My Right Word: Even The Stones Laugh At Amos Oz The New York Times' favorite Israeli author, Amos Oz (or is he David Grossman? or, perhaps, AB Yehoshua? no difference, actually, as they are all Leftist and belong to the exclusive "Admor Clique" of Israel 'peace camp', a religiously messianic sect), sat down with Roger Cohen, another type of "favorite" of the NYTimes). “Most Israelis,” he suggested, “would wave goodbye to the West Bank but they don’t want to be suckers, they don’t want the Gaza scenario to repeat itself. Absolutely as for the second part; not so true of the first. Academic-sponsored polls indicate supporters of Judea & Samaria retention, and for sure in major swaths of territories, is above 50% (even this last Knesset vote proved that). Oh, and when do right-of-center and even national camp representatives get interviewed, with or without coffee or lunch by a NYTimes columnist? Oz continues:- True, yes, but now we have Syrian chemical weapons to worry about. And this: Not in the Middle East. Another snippet: He went on...
Jornal Eletrônico - Gente de Opinião 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. 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. If convicted, Lynn, 61, could face a sentence of 10 to 21 years. "No one said to his bishop. Also on HuffPost:
uWall.tv | Listen to a Wall of Music © 2021 - Privacy - Terms Mudança e Divergência Associação Brasileira de Ateus e Agnósticos Google © 2021 - Privacy - Terms notalatina 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.
Israel and Stuff - Israel's Daily News | Innovations and Discoveries |Tourism Information | Aliya and the IDF Olavo de Carvalho - Sapientiam Autem Non Vincit Malitia 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. He asked those whom he called the Church's "senatus scientificus" to serve the truth. 2. 3. In his encyclical Humani Generis (1950), my predecessor Pius XII had already stated that there was no opposition between evolution and the doctrine of the faith about man and his vocation, on condition that one did not lose sight of several indisputable points. 4. What is the significance of such a theory? 5. 6. 7. It is significant that in St.