Comments on: Vatican angered by US stem cells decision

By: Morgan-LynnGriggs Lamberth

Morgan-LynnGriggs Lamberth — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:03:18 +0000

Folks, this is why we must mock religion! We must scoourge it. Arguments for the supernatural have no foundation and we must show that more fervently. We new atheists – mean business!
Arthur Caplan, Paul Kurtz and Peter Singer know bio-ethics. Let us see to it that the media call upon them more often.
These perverted Catholic spokemen – idiots alright1
Christinsanity, Moses’s Folly, Mohammed’s Lunacy, the Hindu Illusion, Buddha’s Wrong Path,Shinto Hooliganism, the Dao No Way, Mary’s Christian Nescience, White’s Black Magic, Smith’s Fraud, Nescientology, Jehovah’s Hallucinators- all blashpeme reason!
[nescience- ignorance]
Under the names griggs1947, esceptico griggsy, sceptique griggsy, naturalistgriggsy, rationalist griggsy and skeptic griggsy, I affirm naturalism across the globe, showing up the superstition of religion.
Selah.
Logic is the bane of theists. Religion is mythinformation. Reason saves, not that dead Galilean fanatic cult leader!
Fr. Griggs rests in his Socratic ignorance and humble naturalism. He might be wrong!
Good will and blessings to all! Check out the troll Ferengi@ Amazon religious discussions.
Farvel.

By: Godless not gormless

Godless not gormless — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 23:47:48 +0000

Monsignor Rino Fisichella, described as a â€œtop Vatican official for bioethicsâ€

I guess any of them could have been the top official for Bioethics as all they have to know is to say “we object to this because it is immoral”. They’re never likely to try to make a scientific argument, but giving this numpty a title like Top Official for Bioethics makes it sound like he actually knows a thing or two about it.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 20:11:22 +0000

Wait, the Vatican is talking about

recognizing the equality of all men?

By: valdemar

valdemar — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 14:15:21 +0000

Buffy, you’re right. People who object to this or that line in medical research never (to my knowledge) reject the benefits that spring from it. Which is rather like a vegan accepting a cheeseburger when they feel a bit peckish.

By: Buffy

Buffy — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 23:27:21 +0000

Does that mean they’ll not be partaking of any benefits that come of the research? It would be lovely if they decided to refuse for themselves any medical advances (cures for diseases and the like) because it offended their “deeply held religious beliefs”. Let them for once actually stand for what they claim to believe in rather than merely trying to control others and impede progress.

By: Threefinker

Threefinker — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 22:44:05 +0000

Dr Harwood;
May I point out a flaw in your reasoning?
-The very fact that it is reasoning!

To borrow a quote from House;

“If you could reason with religious people, there would be no religious people.”

By: Dr William Harwood

Dr William Harwood — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:52:14 +0000

If God, being omniscient and therefore unable to plead ignorance, bestowed the office of Head Catholic on the most evil and insane head of state since Adolf Hitler, does it not follow that God is insane and evil? But anyone who has read a bible with his brain in gear already knows that.

By: Stonyground

Stonyground — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:18:47 +0000

Wurble. The Catholic Church opposed vaccination at first but caved in when Catholics were dying like flies from smallpox while protestant were immune.

Newspaniard. Mother Theresa was famous for checking into expensive private hospitals while offering tenth rate medical care to anyone desperate enough to go to one of her clinics for help.

By: Dr William Harwood

Dr William Harwood — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 18:30:03 +0000

for a response to the Vatican’s demand that fairy tales be taught in science classes, see
http://www.michaelshermer.com:.....-a-theory/

By: Helvetica

Helvetica — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 16:44:47 +0000

Surprise, surprise, the Vatican is against stem cell research, so is the Southern Baptist Convention (interesting company, no?). Thankfully, not all religious leaders are living in the dark ages, although some members of congress definitely are. This video has some more content from the flurry of reactions throughout the news media. The best is the juxtaposition of views from Rev. Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite, a United Church of Christ minister and a professor at Chicago Theological Seminary and Republican Congressman Chris Smith.
http://www.newsy.com/videos/st.....an_lifted/