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If only "atheist" was a meaningful descriptor of how a group acts


Likewise, neither is the word “Catholic” actually a meaningful descriptor for how a group acts.

Maybe we should just take the article on the merits of its content, and not its source.


When evaluating literature, ignoring the context of the literature strips significant meaning from the literature.


Literature? This is a blog post. It’s not like I’m losing a critical piece of the Superbowl advertising zeitgeist by ignoring the identity of the authors. The Superbowl is not a figurative tool to be used as the backdrop for religion in modern advertising. If this was reposted anonymously and still stood on its own, would we have to do this song and dance?

The content of this article stands on its own or it doesn’t. Ignoring it because it was written by someone with different values from your own is puerile. That was my original point.


I mean i was being in tongue in cheek, but it really seems like a "Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?" kind of situation.


Suggesting there is bias? It's pervasive and not unique to the Church. For example this article's sampling is narrow.




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