A few days ago, in the state of Veracruz, left wing politician Celestino Rivera Hernandez was caught in the act of sodomizing and raping a 12 year old boy that he had picked up on the street. Celestino is a “respected” pillar of his community, but he had done this before. No less than 5 [...]
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) — Pope Benedict said on Wednesday that the media were “perverse” and harmed children when they exalted violence and trivialized human sexuality in the name of entertainment.The Pope made his comments in a message for the Roman Catholic Church’s World Day of Communications, whose theme this year is “Children and the Media: A Challenge for Education”.While recognizing that many people involved in social communications wanted to do what is right, commercial competitiveness often meant lower standards, he said.“Any trend to produce programs and products — including animated films and video games — which in the name of entertainment exalt violence and portray anti-social behavior or the trivialization of human sexuality is a perversion,” he said.
He said this was “all the more repulsive” when programs were directed at children and adolescents.
“How could one explain this ‘entertainment’ to the countless innocent young people who actually suffer violence, exploitation and abuse?” he said.
Globalization had led to an even more pervasive effect of the media over children and their influence was rivaling those of school, church and home, the Pope said.
“I appeal to the leaders of the media industry to educate and encourage producers to safeguard the common good, to uphold the truth, to protect individual human dignity and promote respect for the needs of the family,” he said.
NOW this is hilarious… I think the most graphic piece of violent media/fiction/entertainment is the Bible itself… Both the Old Testament and the New Testament are littered with extremely violent depictions… Now a quote from the excellent book “The God Delusion” by Richard Dawkins. Please read carefully:
“In the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, the Noah equivalent, chosen to be spared with his family because he was uniquely righteous, was Abraham’s nephew Lot. Two male angels were sent to Sodom to warn Lot to leave the city before the brimstone arrived. Lot hospitably welcomed the angels into his house, whereupon all the men of Sodom gathered around and demanded that Lot should hand the angels over so that they could (what else?) sodomize them: ‘Where are the men which came in to thee this night? Bring them out unto us, that we may know them’ (Genesis 19: 5).
“In the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, the Noah equivalent, chosen to be spared with his family because he was uniquely righteous, was Abraham’s nephew Lot. Two male angels were sent to Sodom to warn Lot to leave the city before the brimstone arrived. Lot hospitably welcomed the angels into his house, whereupon all the men of Sodom gathered around and demanded that Lot should hand the angels over so that they could (what else?) sodomize them: ‘Where are the men which came in to thee this night? Bring them out unto us, that we may know them’ (Genesis 19: 5).Yes, ‘know’ has the Authorized Version’s usual euphemistic meaning, which is very funny in the context. Lot’s gallantry in refusing the demand suggests that God might have been onto something when he singled him out as the only good man in Sodom. But Lot’s halo is tarnished by the terms of his refusal: ‘I pray you, brethren, do not so wickedly. Behold now, I have two daughters which have not known man; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to them as is good in your eyes: only unto these men do nothing; for therefore came they under the shadow of my roof’ (Genesis 19: 7-8).
Whatever else this strange story might mean, it surely tells us something about the respect accorded to women in this intensely religious culture. As it happened, Lot’s bargaining away of his daughters’ virginity proved unnecessary, for the angels succeeded in repelling the marauders by miraculously striking them blind. They then warned Lot to decamp immediately with his family and his animals, because the city was about to be destroyed. The whole household escaped, with the exception of Lot’s unfortunate wife, whom the Lord turned into a pillar of salt because she committed the offence – comparatively mild, one might have thought – of looking over her shoulder at the fireworks display.
Lot’s two daughters make a brief reappearance in the story. After their mother was turned into a pillar of salt, they lived with their father in a cave up a mountain. Starved of male company, they decided to make their father drunk and copulate with him. Lot was beyond noticing when his elder daughter arrived in his bed or when she left, but he was not too drunk to impregnate her. The next night the two daughters agreed it was the younger one’s turn. Again Lot was too drunk to notice, and he impregnated her too (Genesis 19: 31-6). If this dysfunctional family was the best Sodom had to offer by way of morals, some might begin to feel a certain sympathy with God and his judicial brimstone. ”
NEED MORE? Book of Numbers:
31:6 And Moses sent them to the war, a thousand of every tribe, them and Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, to the war, with the holy instruments, and the trumpets to blow in his hand.
31:7 And they warred against the Midianites, as the LORD commanded Moses; and they slew all the males.
“As the Lord commanded Moses, they slew all the males.”
Did the Israelites kill every male in Midian?
31:8 And they slew the kings of Midian, beside the rest of them that were slain; namely, Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, five kings of Midian: Balaam also the son of Beor they slew with the sword.
31:9 And the children of Israel took all the women of Midian captives, and their little ones, and took the spoil of all their cattle, and all their flocks, and all their goods. They took the women and children captives, and burnt all their cities.
31:10 And they burnt all their cities wherein they dwelt, and all their goodly castles, with fire.
31:11 And they took all the spoil, and all the prey, both of men and of beasts.
31:12 And they brought the captives, and the prey, and the spoil, unto Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and unto the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the camp at the plains of Moab, which are by Jordan near Jericho.
31:13 And Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and all the princes of the congregation, went forth to meet them without the camp.
31:14 And Moses was wroth with the officers of the host, with the captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, which came from the battle.
31:15 And Moses said unto them, Have ye saved all the women alive?
31:16 Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the LORD in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of the LORD.
31:17 Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him.
31:18 But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.
“keep alive for yourselves” – sounds pretty eerie.
“How could one explain this ‘entertainment’ to the countless innocent young people who actually suffer violence, exploitation and abuse?” he said!!! Does he mean countless innocent young people that belong to the catholic church and are exploited and abused on a daily basis in the name of GOD?
I think the Pope is way out of line here… check into your own church first… Get rid of child molesters, then talk about abuse and violence elsewhere.
A man was not allowed to board a Quantas flight to London from Australia, because he wore a t-shirt depicting George Bush as “world’s #1 terrorist”. According to Quantas: “Whether made verbally or on a T-shirt, comments with the potential to offend other customers or threaten the security of a Qantas group aircraft will not be tolerated.”
OK. Leaving the security aspect aside – since I think a t-shirt does not “threaten” the security on an airplane, let’s see what really happened here… Who decides what might offend other customers? How many other customers must be offended for Quantas to take action on an issue like this? If someone wears a religious symbol, be it a crucifix or a turban or a burka – should those passengers be asked to step off the plane because someone feels “offended”? I mean, religion might offend even more people than a funny t-shirt showing a senseless/ruthless monkey pretending to be the US President. Where do you draw the line? Quantas – I once had the highest regards for you. Now I don’t.
The whole story can be read [here]
And this is the t-shirt in question:
Just read a great book by Richard Dawkins called “The God Delusion”. It is basically a book that explains why there can’t be a god. Dawkins is a biologist that believes more in Charles Darwin’s evolutionistic discourse than any religious discourse.
He writes in a pretty funny way (he was friends with Douglas Adams, of Hitchhiker’s Guide-fame) and is actually extremely good at convincing one of god’s non-existence. I recommend it dearly to anyone wanting to take a good, critical look at the way we blindly look at supernatural babble and think it is true. I think I wanted to believe in something before reading this book. Now, common sense tells me I shouldn’t believe in anything supernatural. In some strange way, I kind of feel it has made me more conscious and (perhaps?) a better person. Please read it!
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