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  • The church allows itself to be polluted by the world!
    “big business
    noun
    1
    : an economic group consisting of large profit-making corporations especially with regard to their influence on social or political policy
    2
    : a very profitable enterprise.” Most Scientists and most scholars are saying that religious texts have fairytales in them.
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    1 hr 4 min
  • I have been had, been took, bamboozled, hoodwinked, led astray, and run amok by the Christian church
    “110) Donations to help the poor and needy
    Christians can point to their tax returns and claim that they give more to charity than non-Christians. Based on a study of charitable deductions on 1040 tax returns, this is correct. However, when you look under the hood, a different story emerges.
    The vast majority of the money that Christians donate to their churches never reaches the poor and needy. On the low end of spectrum, out of every $100 that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Mormons) receives, only 70 cents reaches the poor and needy. On the other end of the spectrum, $29 of every $100 that the United Methodist Church receives is so directed. Other churches fall somewhere in between, but tend toward the lower end. Most of the money goes to building costs (capital, operational, maintenance), salaries, staff health care, and proselytizing.
    On the other hand, $92.10 out of every $100 dollars that the Red Cross receives directly goes to the poor and needy.
    http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/528.379571-Religious-Charity-Not-all-its-cracked-up-to-be
    What this means is that although atheists and non-church-goers donate less money as defined by tax laws, on average they actually give more to help disadvantaged people. This is because they don’t give money to churches, but rather to charities that translate their donations much more efficiently to those in need. This does not apply to all Christians, some of whom donate to direct charities as well, but on average the church-going Christians primarily donate to their church.
    Bill Gates, Warren Buffett and Mark Zuckerburg are atheists and donate several billion dollars every year from their own pockets and they organize a charity of billionaire charity donations.
    http://fortune.com/2016/06/01/giving-pledge-new-members-2016/
    The irony of this situation should not be overlooked. The churches that base their entire existence on a man who had a laser focus on helping the poor actually reduce the amount of assistance that otherwise would be available if they didn’t exist.”
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    47 min
  • Logical fallacies in religion and Vatican Scandals
    “Some bishops and priests have been accused of helping high-ranking Nazis escape justice at the end of the Second World War. One such bishop was Alois Hudal. In charge of a priest training college from 1923 to 1952, Hudal openly shared his pro-Nazi views and is believed to have helped dozens of senior Nazis flee. A recently discovered telegram between Hudal and Hitler only incriminates the priest further. A Croatian priest, Krunoslav Draganovic, has also been accused of playing a key role in organizing Nazi escape lines.Recently, Harvard professor Kevin Madigan has argued that the Vatican was aware of Hudal and Draganovic’s actions, even endorsing them as “a sort of papal mercy program for National Socialists and Fascists.” However, other historians, and the Vatican itself, have disputed Madigan’s claims, arguing that Hudal’s pro-Nazi views caused frequent clashes with the Papacy. According to this view, if senior Nazis ever used the Church’s refugee program to escape, it was only by hiding their true identities from Church officials.” Why was there a lack of gender and sexual diversity with the Bible writers, the Trinity, and Biblical angels?
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    56 min
  • The church gained the whole world and lost its soul by selling it to the devil!
    “Intellectual honesty is an applied method of problem solving, characterised by an unbiased, honest attitude, which can be demonstrated in a number of different ways:
    One's personal beliefs or politics do not interfere with the pursuit of truth;
    Relevant facts and information are not purposefully omitted even when such things may contradict one's hypothesis;
    Facts are presented in an unbiased manner, and not twisted to give misleading impressions or to support one view over another;
    References, or earlier work, are acknowledged where possible, and plagiarism is avoided.
    Harvard ethicist Louis M. Guenin describes the "kernel" of intellectual honesty to be "a virtuous disposition to eschew deception when given an incentive for deception".[1]
    Intentionally committed fallacies in debates and reasoning are called intellectual dishonesty.”
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    40 min
  • The Bible is copies of copies of copies of copies!
    “153) Saint Augustine consigns unbaptized babies to Hell
    Saint Augustine (354-430 AD) was a Christian theologian whose writings influenced the early development of Christian theology. He taught that babies who die before being baptized are sentenced to Hell.
    This brings up so many insanities that it’s hard to know where to start. But first, it illuminates the inane bronze age mythological idea of original sin- that the sin of Adam and Eve was impressed on every human, such that every newborn baby is sullied with this sin and deserving of hellfire. Any thinking person must realize that this is complete and total nonsense. It further assumes the accuracy of the Genesis creation story, now thoroughly debunked by science.
    It makes God to be so capricious and arbitrary that a baby’s eternal destiny in either a glorious heaven or a gruesome hell is balanced around whether or not it dies before or after it is sprinkled with water amid a string of holy words.
    The concept of original sin is arguably the worst invention of Christianity. It creates an unnecessarily pessimistic view of the human condition that has led to the idea that the body and its normal functions are sinful in their own right and that only the soul can be in a pure state.
    Saint Augustine has been overruled by subsequent theologians, and most Christians today believe that unbaptized babies go to Heaven. Of course this view presents some problems of its own. It makes baptism an unnecessary rite or sacrament. It also makes abortion, one the greatest taboos of Christians, to be something of an assist to helping a soul get into Heaven.
    No matter how this problem is ‘solved,’ it creates an even bigger problem and shines a radiant light on the illogicality of Christian doctrine.”
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    1 hr 5 min
  • Go to grow, grow to go, go as you grow, and go as you grow!
    “This Jesus drives fancy cars, has palaces and cathedrals, and followers who spare no expense to make his house the best mansion in town. This Jesus loves Rolexes, Lear jets, and expensive suits. This Jesus sees the multitude and turns his back on them, only concerned with those who say and believe “the right things.” It is this Jesus I hate.”
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    1 hr 15 min
  • People with Autism can have yummy sex lives!
    “I am well-balanced, well-rounded, well-adjusted, and well-unified as a fully human being in all areas of life including sex!” Antonio Myers. I live by all of these code of ethics in all areas of my life including sex: “Treat others as you would like others to treat you (positive or directive form).
    Do not treat others in ways that you would not like to be treated (negative or prohibitive form).
    What you wish upon others, you wish upon yourself (empathetic or responsive form).”
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    1 hr 7 min

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Autism is my super blessing! I'm a high-school valedictorian, college graduate, world traveler, disability advocate. I'm a Unitarian Universalist. I'm a Progressive Liberal. I'm about equal rights, human rights, civil & political rights, & economic, social, &cultural rights.