Atheists... Your life is pointless

.... a typical rapist may rape 200 times before he is caught ....

I am the Catholic Church worst nightmare.

I think a stronger case for that title could be made for Martin Luther.

Izzy why is that religious cult members throughout history have always felt it was their right to execute others who did not believe as they believed? That has to tell you something about religious cults in general.

Tell me was there any difference between the torturing and burning at the stake of nonbelievers and eugenics? Eugenics is not a product of reason. Criminal actions are never a product of reason but lack of reason.

Following the establishment of the Eugenics Education Society, enthusiasm for eugenics crossed national boundaries and it promoted an international discourse on the relationship between the quality and quantity of population.

Eugenists believed that modern economies encouraged undesirable — ‘dysgenic’ — differential birth rates by facilitating the survival of ‘unfit’ mental and moral defectives, the chronic sick, residual idlers, recidivist criminals, and the unemployable. The productive had to bear ever greater tax burdens in order to support the growing numbers of degenerates, and higher fiscal exactions naturally persuaded the prudent middle classes to go in for practices of family limitation. Declining fertility amongst the professional and middle classes, rising birth rates amongst the working classes, and massive reproductive surges amongst the ‘lumpenproletariat’ — the unemployed and unemployable — had to be corrected in order to avoid race suicide.

The self-appointed mission of eugenics was to protect ‘the unborn’ through a programme of selective breeding. Positive eugenics aimed to achieve racial improvement by encouraging the fit to breed, while the goal of negative eugenics was to prevent breeding amongst the unfit. In Britain, Europe, and the US, eugenic reformers advocated marriage regulation, sequestration of the mentally deficient, and sterilization— voluntary or compulsory — of the unfit. Methods for controlling human reproduction and directing demographic change were applied, however, in different ways in different national contexts.

Before World War I eugenists in Britain concentrated on obtaining the sequestration of the ‘feebleminded’, which included the mentally retarded, alcoholics, and women who had more than one illegitimate pregnancy. British eugenists also advocated voluntary and compulsory sterilization for various social categories, and some flirted with the idea of the ‘lethal chamber’ for ridding society of its unwanted; this idea had its most profound expression in Germany in the inter-war period. In Germany and elsewhere, however, negative eugenics can be seen to have accommodated rather than invented a set of political goals whose origins had a much broader cultural base.

Your attitude shows a typical attitude that religious cults should never be criticzied no matter what happened.

I am the Catholic Church worst nightmare.

Frank do you see any shades of gray in child molestation? If there is something black or white in our society it is child molestation. I for one cannot see any situation where molesting a child would be the right thing to do. Certainly an argument could be made for stealing if your children were starving to death but molesting never.
I am the Catholic Church worst nightmare. I am what they thought would happen if they could not keep all the child molesters safe and protected. By showing the general public that the religious façade is just something they put on like their vestments.

I didn't ask you agree with me -- Takes a snake oil salesperson to know one - as you say your the expert on old bible bollocks .. Also proves that your'e a no 1 in Dawkins scale.. and you don't deny this... seems you outdo me for Morons-manship

I have no idea about what Dawkins' scale is, and I'm not interested in anything that particular bigot has to say about anything.

I'm sorry, but I have no time for evangelicals regardless of their persuasion.

The best thing to do is to promote tolerance between groups, as long as they don't preach hate I don't care what anyone believes.

...and in that respect Dawkins is no different from George W Bush

The best thing to do is to promote tolerance between groups, as long as they don't preach hate I don't care what anyone believes.

complex concatenation of concupiscent conveniences contained and concentrated in the conjunction of a pious and estimable lady of renown and virtue

I agree issy, only I would add other coercive techniques, most certainly the use of guilt through preoccupation with absolute right and wrong behaviors.

We have observed that most of the trouble in the world has been caused by ten to twenty percent of folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus.